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Feb 1, 2002,
By Zack Price
Performed and produced by Danish bassist Thomas Hansen Skarbye, Tascam's Scarbee J-Slap Bass CD ($149) is designed to capture all the nuances of electric...
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Feb 1, 2002,
By Zack Price
The three CD-ROMs in Quantum Leap Rare Instruments ($499.95) contain samples of 16 ethnic instruments from Europe, India, the Far East, and the Middle...
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Feb 1, 2002,
By David Rubin
Even with the most carefully recorded string-ensemble samples, producing runs and phrases that sound as though a real orchestra performed them can be...
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Jan 1, 2002,
By Zack Price
Sonic Implants' String Boxes: Mellotron and ARP String Ensemble CD-ROM library ($69.95) brings together string sounds from two classic keyboards: the...
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Jan 1, 2002,
By Jeff Obee
Having played various forms of Middle Eastern music over the years, I am well acquainted with the richness and depth of those powerful and captivating...
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Oct 1, 2001,
By Jeff Obee
Big Fish Audio's Off the Hook ($99.95; two-CD set) is all about contemporary R&B and hip-hop dressed to the nines in a silk suit. The collection is presented...
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Oct 1, 2001,
By David Rubin
Samplers have been the traditional tools of choice for rendering the complexities of woodwind sounds. But hardware samplers are frequently hobbled by...
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Aug 1, 2001,
By Marty Cutler
FORWARDINOUTBACK The Didgeridoo Sample CD, vol. 1 ($49; CD-ROM), is a collection of processed and natural didgeridoo samples played on a variety of homemade...
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Aug 1, 2001,
By Julian Colbeck
What is a classic synth? The Sequential Circuits Prophet-5, Moog Minimoog, Oberheim OBX, and Roland Jupiter-8 come to mind. Sound Burst alludes to those...
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Aug 1, 2001,
By Zack Price
Peter Ewers's Symphonic Organ Samples ($179) re-creates the historic sound of the grand pipe organ built by Aristide Cavaill-Coll in 1846 for the Saint...
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Jul 1, 2001,
By David Rubin
Born in the brothels and squalid backstreet bars of Buenos Aires, the Argentine tango first appeared more than a century ago as a musical expression of...
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Jul 1, 2001,
By Len Sasso
Tubes, Tines, and Transistors 1.0 ($199) is an extensive collection of vintage keyboard sounds on CD-ROM in BitHeadz Unity DS-1 format. It emphasizes...
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Jul 1, 2001,
By Zack Price
Jim Corrigan's Nashville High-Strung Guitars ($149) re-creates an accompaniment sound that has become a Nashville recording-scene staple in recent years....
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Jun 1, 2001,
By Jeff Obee
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Jun 1, 2001,
By Jeff Obee
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Apr 1, 2001,
By Jeff Obee
Big Fish Audio's Things That Go Bump in the Night, vol. 2 (audio or WAV/Acid files, $99.95; Akai CD-ROM, $199.95), is a two-CD set bursting with versatile...
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Mar 1, 2001,
Dan Phillips
Helter Skelter Big Fish Audio markets its Helter Skelter audio sampling CD ($99.95) by proclaiming its contents to be "the hardest sounds around" and...
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Feb 1, 2001,
Dan Phillips
Building a better groove with creative sound design, sliced loops, and MIDI.Skippy's Big Bad Beats and Retro Funk (from Ilio Entertainments and Spectrasonics,...
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Feb 1, 2001,
Dan Phillips
Xperts of Techno It's 1:30 a.m., and the party is just getting started. A subsonic, four-on-the-floor beat pounds straight through your chest, synth riffs...
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Feb 1, 2001,
Dan Phillips
I've always loved the smooth, open timbres of mallet percussion. The moment I learned Sampleheads was coming out with a CD-ROM of marimba and vibraphone...
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