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Tech Page: DIY Resurgence 

By Scott Wilkinson

EM's first issues were published in 1985, but for ten years before that, the magazine was called Polyphony. Published by PAiA (paia.com), Polyphony presented...

Tech Page: What Goes Around Comes Around 

By Scott Wilkinson

Roland has introduced a new synthesis technology called SuperNatural, which is an outgrowth of its Structured Adaptive synthesis from 20 years ago. SuperNatural sounds are capable of much greater expression than conventional sample-based programs....

Tech Page: Hello Blackbird 

By Scott Wilkinson

As an electronic musician, you spend countless hours tweaking your recordings and perhaps even your music videos to perfection. But what happens once...

Tech Page: UI: TNG 

By Scott Wilkinson

When I was studying music at California State University, Northridge, I served as the technical director of the school's computer-music lab, which had...

Tech Page: Let There Be LET 

By Scott Wilkinson

Transducers devices that convert one form of energy into another are among the most mature technologies in the electronic musician's toolbox. ...

Tech Page: Listen and Learn 

By Scott Wilkinson

Audio technology has come a long way since the days of vacuum tubes, though some still believe that tubes produce the best sound. In most applications,...

Tech Page: Think Small 

By Scott Wilkinson

Every electronic musician knows that digital technology decreases in size as it increases in power. ...

Look Ma, No Wires! 

By Scott Wilkinson

It seems that everything is going wireless these days. Cell phones, Wi-Fi local area networks, even citywide networks like WiMAX all cut the cords that...

TECH PAGE: What Was Old Is New Again 

By Scott Wilkinson

Wireless microphone systems have been a mainstay of performing musicians, offering much more freedom to prance around the stage than their wired counterparts....

Mind Control 

By Scott Wilkinson

Brain Actuated Technologies offers a product called Brainfingers that detects facial muscle movement and brain waves and converts them into control signals that can be used to affect musical playback....

Thanks for the Memories 

By Scott Wilkinson

As electronic musicians, we have insatiable appetites for digital storage; no matter how much we have, we always need more. Hard disks and solid-state...

Polarization Express 

By Scott Wilkinson

Electronic Musician discusses photonics, which carries and processes information using light instead of electric current....

Air-Guitar Hero 

By Scott Wilkinson

Textile-based sensors bring the air guitar to life....

Light Mic 

By Scott Wilkinson

Microphones are among the most mature devices in the electronic musician's toolbox, and they all work according to the same principle: sound waves impinge...

Gather Round the reacTable 

By Scott Wilkinson

Most musical instruments, electronic or otherwise, are designed to be played by one person. If you bring several individuals and their instruments together,...

2 Will Get You 7.1 

By Scott Wilkinson

Surround sound is one of the biggest advances to have been made in audio reproduction for quite some time. But what about all the existing 2-channel content?...

QuIET Please 

By Scott Wilkinson

As most tech-savvy folks know, the ongoing shrinkage of electronic components cannot continue forever. At some point, conventional transistors will succumb...

Mind Reader 

By Scott Wilkinson

Mobile music players such as the Apple iPod have changed the face of our industry for good or ill, depending on who you talk to. But one thing's for sure...

Protein Storage 

By Scott Wilkinson

You might be aware of the war now raging in consumer electronics between the HD DVD and Blu-ray formats to become the next-generation optical disc for...

Speed Demon 

By Scott Wilkinson

With microprocessor clock speeds now in excess of 3 GHz, what can we expect in the future? Once again, IBM is leading the way. In collaboration with the Georgia Institute of Technology, the company has demonstrated a prototype silicon-germanium (SiGe) heterojunction bipolar transistor...

Spiked Punch 

By Scott Wilkinson

Data compression is a huge boon to the audio industry. MP3, for example, revolutionized music distribution, and Dolby Digital and DTS allowed 5.1-channel...

Insane in the Membrane 

By Scott Wilkinson

Speakers haven't changed much over the past few decades, and speaker technology is one of the most mature and stable technologies available to the electronic...

Nanoprocessors 

By Scott Wilkinson

It is well known that to make integrated circuits faster and more powerful, the individual elements within them must be made smaller, leading Intel cofounder...

Catching the Sun 

By Scott Wilkinson

No matter what type of technology they use, all electronic musicians depend on one thing: electric power. That power comes mostly from burning fossil...

Synesthis 

By Scott Wilkinson

One of the most fascinating anomalies of human perception is a phenomenon called synesthesia, a word derived from the Greek for joined sensation. For...

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