Mackie's Spike powered recording system brings together all the essential add-ons for a basic computer-based recording environment: USB audio-MIDI interface...
Ableton has once again knocked the ball out of the park, this time with its Live 4.0 digital audio sequencer. The big news with Live 4.0 is the addition...
MOTU has introduced the Traveler (Mac/Win; $895), a bus-powered FireWire audio interface featuring 20 inputs and 22 outputs, and support for 192 kHz recording....
Twenty-five years after the introduction of its original Portastudio, Tascam has unveiled the 2488 Digital Portastudio, the latest and most complete incarnation...
Cakewalk has updated its Guitar Tracks Pro software to version 3, creating a real contender in the audio-only multitrack wars. Version 3 boasts a new...
Choosing a digital audio workstation requires careful preparation. Electronic Musician walks you step-by-step through the process of choosing the right computer and software. ...
Digidesign Pro Tools 6.1 is a significant upgrade that includes a redesigned GUI, new features such as the Digibase database system, and the migration to OS X on the Mac platform....
M-Audio's Sonica Theater ($119.95) offers a versatile and inexpensive solution for getting surround audio from your computer into your monitoring system....
The flagship of Roland’s line of Sampling Grooveboxes, the MC-909 is aimed straight at the dance/R&B/hip-hop market. Its mouth-watering array of features includes full-featured sampling, a 16-track pattern/song sequencer, a turntable emulation slider, twin D-Beam (infrared sensor) hands-free controllers, versatile effects, a USB port for archiving your sonic creations on a computer, and a whole lot more....
We’ve scoured the Web for the past few months, checking out all sorts of freeware and shareware that creative programmers have made available for little or no money. We’ll focus primarily on newer software, though a few of our old favorites have received major facelifts recently, and we’ll include them as well....
We’ve scoured the Web for the past few months, checking out all sorts of freeware and shareware that creative programmers have made available for little or no money. We’ll focus primarily on newer software, though a few of our old favorites have received major facelifts recently, and we’ll include them as well....
The Yamaha AW2816 is a digital audio workstation that provides 16-track recording, automated mixing, 28 inputs, 9 motorized faders, two onboard effects processors, and a CD burner....
Edirol has introduced a number of inexpensive USB audio interfaces during the past several years, making the dream of an affordable high-quality laptop...
Digidesign has dominated professional music and post production with their TDM-based Pro Tools hardware and software. They have also made strong inroads into the project-studio market with the Digi 001 and Mbox products. With the introduction of the Digi 002, Digidesign creates a high resolution, portable host-based Pro Tools system with robust, flexible I/O and a comprehensive integrated control surface....
Mother Nature offers a world of sounds that can only be heard through a microphone and headphones. To get the best results, you need quiet clothing, a little time and patience, and the right equipment. EM asks the pros how they capture these elusive sounds and bring them to life on CD....
Ego Systems has upped the ante for makers of computer audio interfaces. The company's ever-widening product line now includes the WaMi Rack 192X, which...
As the currency of musicians, CD-Rs replaced the analog cassette tape long ago, not only because of sound quality but because the price of CD recorders...
When I got my new Apple Titanium PowerBook G4, my goal was to put together a portable multitrack recording rig that would run on battery power, weigh...
As Zoom and Korg launched their digital ministudio recorders, one manufacturer remained notably absent from the marketplace. At long last Tascam, the...
Mark of the Unicorn (MOTU) has an enviable position among manufacturers of computer audio interfaces. The 828 FireWire interface (reviewed in the November...
