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Tech Page: Thin Is In 

Dec 1, 2009,

By Scott Wilkinson

Speaker technology has changed very little in nearly a century. Most speakers today have one or more cone-shaped diaphragms attached to a coil of wire...

Tech Page: D.I.Y. FYI 

Nov 1, 2009,

By Scott Wilkinson

Have you ever wanted to participate in cutting-edge computer-music research? Well, here's your chance, and it's free. Several scientists in Switzerland...

Tech Page: Holostorage  

Oct 1, 2009,

By Scott Wilkinson

Electronic musicians and other media mavens have an insatiable appetite for data storage. Digital audio consumes more and more as sampling rates and bit...

Tech Page: Easy Does It 

Jun 1, 2009,

By Scott Wilkinson

Digital Audio Networking Tips and Techniques Discussed in June 2009 EM Tech Page...

Tech Page: K-Bow Bull's-Eye 

May 1, 2009,

By Scott Wilkinson

Keith McMillen Instruments K-Bow Discussed in May 2009 EM Tech Page...

Tech Page: Touchy-Feely 

Apr 1, 2009,

By Scott Wilkinson

Roland V-Piano Synthesis Technology Discussed in April 2009 EM Tech Page...

Soundfield Simulators Tech Page 

Mar 1, 2009,

By Scott Wilkinson

Soundfield Simulators Used and Discussed in March 2009 EM Tech Page...

Tech Page: Becoming Neurotic 

Feb 1, 2009,

By Scott Wilkinson

Read February 2009 Electronic Musician Tech Page Where Scott Wilkinson Explains Using Neural Networks Bring New Sounds to Synthesis for Music Production...

Tech Page: Let There Be Light 

Jan 1, 2009,

By Scott Wilkinson

Electronic technology is reaching its limit of speed and storage, so what can take its place as electronic musicians look for ever-faster tools? Photonics is a likely successor, using light instead of electrons to represent information...

Tech Page: Spontaneous Playback 

Dec 1, 2008,

By Scott Wilkinson

French company Musinaut is developing a new audio format that allows recorded music to sound different each time it is played, bringing it closer to a live performance....

Tech Page: One for All 

Nov 1, 2008,

By Scott Wilkinson

Fraunhofer IIS, the organization that brought us MP3, has come up with a new scalable audio codec that encodes audio losslessly and allows it to be played at a variety of bit rates, from lossless to lossy, depending on the capabilities of the player...

Tech Page: Getting Directions 

Oct 1, 2008,

By Scott Wilkinson

In most situations, electronic musicians want speakers to radiate sound evenly throughout a listening area, delivering a similar sonic experience to everyone...

Option-Click: The Closet Vocalist 

Sep 1, 2008,

By David Battino

Read EM Tips on Getting Better Vocals for Podcast Productions...

Tech Page: Got Modes? 

Sep 1, 2008,

By Scott Wilkinson

Read about Solving Room-Based Audio Production Distortion in the September 2008 Tech Page...

Tech Page: Sweet Space  

Aug 1, 2008,

By Scott Wilkinson

The transition from monaural to 2-channel stereo in the 1930s is undoubtedly one of the most important innovations in the history of recorded and reproduced...

Tech Page: Lord of the Ringing 

Jul 1, 2008,

By Scott Wilkinson

Among the maladies to which electronic musicians are especially susceptible, hearing damage caused by prolonged exposure to loud sounds is perhaps the...

Tech Page: Credit Where Credit Is Due 

Jun 1, 2008,

By Scott Wilkinson

The Tech Page column usually focuses on emerging technologies that might be applied to music and audio in the future. This month, however, I'd like to...

Tech Page: DIY Resurgence 

May 1, 2008,

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 

Apr 1, 2008,

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 

Mar 1, 2008,

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 

Feb 1, 2008,

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 

Jan 1, 2008,

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 

Dec 1, 2007,

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 

Nov 1, 2007,

By Scott Wilkinson

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

Look Ma, No Wires! 

Oct 1, 2007,

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...

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