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Oct 1, 2002,
By Dan Phillips
The exuberant cover of Dance Mega Drum-Kits ($99.95) boasts that it's the ultimative dance drum collection. Linguistic concerns aside, its promise of...
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Jul 1, 2000,
Rob Shirak
Best Service took an uncommon approach when creating the nine-CD Xsample sound library: instead of cramming hundreds of samples into the available space,...
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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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Sep 1, 2005,
By Jim Aikin
Musicians are forever looking for ways to improve the sounds that they create. Many of the methods they use fall under the heading of which can be free-standing...
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Jun 1, 2002,
By David Battino
Imagine trying to play a duet with another musician standing two and a half football fields away. Because sound travels through air at about 1,000 feet...
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May 1, 2006,
By Mike Levine
Imagine spending an entire week working on a critically important music project. You toil day and night orchestrating, programming, and recording. You...
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Oct 1, 2008,
By Mike Levine
Electronic Musician offers tips and advice on reamping guitars, bass, drums, keyboards, and more, from a panel of top producers, engineers and musicians...
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Feb 1, 2004,
By Matt Gallagher
Most of my music is a struggle to reconcile heady, electronic music and popular music, says Brad Derrick of Washington, DC, band Plink. Derrick, a drummer...
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Aug 1, 2003,
By Len Sasso
BIAS Deck 3.5 VST is a multitrack audio editor for Mac OS X that is stable and easy to use...
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Feb 1, 2006,
By Len Sasso
BIAS Peak has a long-standing reputation as the premier sample editor for the Mac, and for quite a while, it was the only one. Although Peak is no longer...
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Jan 1, 2000,
the EM Staff
BIAS PEAK 2.04(Mac; $499)As Alchemy and Sound Designer II faded from the audio software marketplace several years ago, BIAS Peak stepped in to fill the...
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Feb 1, 2000,
Alex Artaud
When Peak made its debut four years ago, the primary stand-alone waveform editors for the Macintosh were Digidesign's Sound Designer II, Passport Designs'...
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Apr 1, 2003,
By Daniel Keller
As an early OS X adopter, BIAS is to be commended for releasing Peak 3.0 right on the heels of OS X's introduction. The popular stereo editing program...
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Jul 1, 2004,
By David Rubin
After a decade of steady evolution, BIAS Peak continues to offer desktop musicians and sound designers one of the most flexible, straight-forward, and feature-packed stereo editing programs for the Mac platform....
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Feb 1, 2004,
By Marty Cutler
BIAS SoundSoap (Mac/Win) is an inexpensive program designed to remove common noises from musical and spoken word material. The applications can be used standalone or as a VST and DirectX plug-in....
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Mar 1, 2005,
By Rusty Cutchin
Audio restoration software, which analyzes a digital file in an attempt to isolate and remove unwanted clicks, pops, and broadband noise such as tape hiss, is one of the little miracles of digital audio. Cleaning up old or flawed recordings, however, is still more art than science, despite the long strides that have been made in the technology of restoration software. (The programs may be miracles, but...
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Nov 1, 1999,
By Alex Artaud
For more than four decades, venerable and quirky ring modulators have been purveyors of blessed angularity to electronic, jazz, and pop music. Valued...
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Mar 1, 2001,
Gino Robair
Moogerfooger CP-251 Control Processor Thanks to their voltage control-capabilities, the effects of Big Briar's Moogerfooger line blur the distinction...
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Dec 1, 2005,
By Doug Eisengrein
Big Fish Audio's Rotation ($99.95) DVD is packed with over 1.5 GB of loops and samples designed for pop and R&B music production. The loops are provided...
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Sep 1, 2006,
By Marty Cutler
Musicians may argue over what constitutes funk, but you can't argue that the most sampled funk tracks ever originated with George Clinton's Parliament/Funkadelic...
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Aug 1, 2006,
By Marty Cutler
Anyone who has attempted to accurately sample, loop, and voice distorted and overdriven electric guitars can attest to the difficulty of the task. Strumming,...
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Jul 1, 2006,
By Marty Cutler
For some musicians, creating music from preordained riffs is antithetical to the very concept of jazz. Nevertheless, even if you don't create improvised...
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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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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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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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