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Mar 1, 2002,
By Rob Shrock
One of the biggest disadvantages of using stereo drum loops is the difficulty of processing or changing the mix of the individual sounds. Discrete Drums...
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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 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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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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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 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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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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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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