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...
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....
As an electronic musician, you spend countless hours tweaking your recordings and perhaps even your music videos to perfection. But what happens once...
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...
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,...
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...
Wireless microphone systems have been a mainstay of performing musicians, offering much more freedom to prance around the stage than their wired counterparts....
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....
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...
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...
Most musical instruments, electronic or otherwise, are designed to be played by one person. If you bring several individuals and their instruments together,...
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?...
As most tech-savvy folks know, the ongoing shrinkage of electronic components cannot continue forever. At some point, conventional transistors will succumb...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
No matter what type of technology they use, all electronic musicians depend on one thing: electric power. That power comes mostly from burning fossil...
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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