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April 1, 2007

Features

Phone Tag Apr 1, 2007 12:00 PM, By Steve Ouimette Writing music for cell-phone games is a specialized skill. Though it may seem simple on the surface, the process is more complex than just dropping an...

The Direct Connection Apr 1, 2007 12:00 PM, By Gino Robair Thanks in part to the popularity of Podcasting and of consumer-friendly recording applications, a number of manufacturers have added USB microphones to...

From Talking Heads to Production Whiz Apr 1, 2007 12:00 PM, By Paul Tingen Former Talking Head member Jerry Harrison has established himself as a successful producer. Electronic Musician talks to him about his production philosophy, gear choices and his advice for personal-studio owners....

Columns

Air-Guitar Hero Apr 1, 2007 12:00 PM, By Scott Wilkinson Textile-based sensors bring the air guitar to life....

Slice, Move, and Glue Apr 1, 2007 12:00 PM, By Mitchell Sigman The advent of digital audio sequencers has made quantized drums a fact of life. Here’s how to chop up multitrack audio drum parts and quantize them perfectly in Apple Logic Pro....

Machine Tools Apr 1, 2007 12:00 PM, By Len Sasso SFX Machine Pro, winner of an EM 2007 Editors' Choice Award, takes a novel and somewhat quirky approach to effects design. One of the best ways to learn...

How Your DAW Does Math Apr 1, 2007 12:00 PM, By Brian Smithers Much of the number crunching that occurs within your audio software remains a mystery; does your DAW treat audio as floating-point numbers or as fixed-point numbers? What’s the difference, and should you really care?...

Q&A: Michael Petricone Apr 1, 2007 12:00 PM, By Mike Levine Electronic Musician's interview with Michael Petricone, VP of the Consumer Electronics Association, who tells why he thinks the major record labels are stifling technologies that could help independent musicians....

Sonic Sculptor Apr 1, 2007 12:00 PM, By Diane Gershuny Electronic Musician's Pro/File of Monsieur Leroc, who's latest CD, I'm Not Young But I Need the Money, was put together without a lot of gear, but with a lot of creativity....

Product Reviews

NEUMANN USA TLM 49 Apr 1, 2007 12:00 PM, By Myles Boisen While its competitors try to duplicate its most famous creations, Neumann is maintaining a steady balancing act of affordability, quality, and innovation...

STEINBERG HALion Symphonic Orchestra Apr 1, 2007 12:00 PM, By Geary Yelton For at least as long as synths and samplers have existed, musicians have aspired to putting an orchestra on their desktops. Achieving that goal has been...

KORG D888 Apr 1, 2007 12:00 PM, By Mark Nelson Korg’s D888 is an unassuming digital recorder designed to record eight tracks of audio from mics or line sources while feeding a front-of-house mixer. This eliminates the need for a splitter box—in fact, the D888 can even serve as your main mixer....

ROGER NICHOLS DIGITAL Pro Bundle (Mac/Win) Apr 1, 2007 12:00 PM, By Mike Levine Electronic Musician's review of the Roger Nichols Digital Pro Bundle, which contains Uniquel-izer, Frequal-izer, Finis, and Dynam-izer....

EVENTIDE H7600 Ultra-Harmonizer Apr 1, 2007 12:00 PM, ByBabz The H7600 is the latest edition of the Ultra-Harmonizer multi-effects processor from Eventide. It boasts greater processing power, expanded effects building blocks, increased user-memory storage, and a new operating system that includes a search engine....

CROWLEY AND TRIPP Naked Eye Apr 1, 2007 12:00 PM, By Nick Peck Each side of the Crowley and Tripp Naked Eye ribbon microphone is voiced differently. The front of the mic has a darker sound than the rear, giving you two timbral choices in one unit....

Quick Picks

MOJAVE AUDIO MA-200 Apr 1, 2007 12:00 PM, By Eli Crews The Mojave Audio MA-200 is a large-diaphragm tube condenser microphone designed by David Royer....

AROBAS MUSIC Guitar Pro 5.1 Apr 1, 2007 12:00 PM, By Marty Cutler Arobas Music Guitar Pro 5.1 is a fretted-instrument transcription program that lets you create, edit, and play back tablature and traditional music notation....

EOWAVE Persephone Apr 1, 2007 12:00 PM, By Gino Robair The Eowave Persephone is a handmade, ribbon controlled analog synthesizer that offers MIDI I/O and CV output....

PROPELLERHEAD SOFTWARE Reason Pianos Apr 1, 2007 12:00 PM, By Len Sasso Reason Pianos is a sampled-piano refill for Propellerhead Reason. Two concert grands and an upright have been meticulously sampled for this relatively compact 16- and 24-bit library....

EDIROL UA-4FX Apr 1, 2007 12:00 PM, By Vijith Assar In a world of me-too stereo USB audio interfaces, the Edirol UA-4FX does stand out from the crowd. It's moderately priced, has a full complement of inputs and outputs, and includes built-in effects....

WARPIV TECHNOLOGIES Screaming Trumpet Apr 1, 2007 12:00 PM, By Marty Cutler The WarpIV Screaming Trumpet sample library features trumpeter Wayne Bergeron and is available as WAV files and in the Tascam GigaStudio 2 and 3, Native Instruments Kontakt 2, Propellerhead Reason NN-XT, and Apple Logic EXS24 mk II formats...

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WHAT'S NEW Apr 1, 2007 12:00 PM, By Geary Yelton What's New in Electronic Musician Magazine for April 2007 includes Mojave Audio MA-100, Edirol M-16DX, Yamaha MM6 and more...

Download of the Month: FreeG Apr 1, 2007 12:00 PM, By Len Sasso FreeG (free) is a channel strip plug-in with extensive metering and customization options. It is intended for use as a track insert effect and is available...