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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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Jan 1, 2001,
Jeff Obee
Wall of Vinyl 3 Rap and hip-hop artists often construct tunes with samples from vinyl LPs. The appeal of this process comes in part from the characteristic...
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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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Jan 1, 2001,
Chris Gill
Big Beat: Megaton Bomb, vol. 4 The ultratrendy, flavor-of-the-month elite declares the big beat genre dead. Its leading acts, such as the Chemical Brothers...
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Dec 1, 2003,
By Marty Cutler
The Big Fish Brush Artistry is a percussion sample library that focuses on drums played with brushes. The collection covers a number of jazz and Latin styles....
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Nov 1, 2005,
By Marty Cutler
First Call Horns ($299.95) from Big Fish Audio is a sampled horn collection designed for Jazz, Latin, and Pop projects. The package's single DVD holds...
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Feb 1, 2004,
By Marty Cutler
Big Fish Audio’s LA Drum Sessions ($99.95) consists of three CD-ROMs packed with acidized WAV-file grooves that you can easily arrange into a variety of song forms....
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Sep 1, 2003,
By Gino Robair
A Quick Pick review of Big Fish Audio’s sample collection Phat Beats from the Box, which features the vocal-percussion sounds of four well-known New York City artists: Kenny Mohammed, the Human Orchestra; Omri Anghel, the Human Beat; Baba; and Hesher....
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Mar 1, 2006,
By Doug Eisengrein
Rock Bass ($49.95) is a genre-specific loop and sample collection of rock- and funk-inspired bass licks. It comes on CD and contains 660 MB of loops and...
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Nov 1, 2006,
By Marty Cutler
Big Fish Audio's Roots of South America, vol. 2 ($99.95), is a generous assortment of traditional Latin American rhythms that are adapted to meld with...
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Feb 1, 2006,
By Doug Eisengrein
Big Fish Audio's Rotation DVD ($99.95) is packed with more than 1.5 GB of loops and samples designed for pop and R&B music production. The loops are provided...
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Nov 1, 2003,
By Marty Cutler
Tower of Power may very well be the textbook purveyor of funk, and David Garibaldi provides the heartbeat for the band's energetic and propulsive style. Tower of Funk by David Garibaldi ($99.95) from Big Fish Audio offers Garibaldi's unique drumming in a CD-ROM of 16-bit, 44.1 kHz WAV files with an accompanying audio CD....
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Jul 1, 2002,
By Jeff Obee
Drum loops are as common as ants at a picnic, and for good reason. They provide a basic rhythmic template for songwriting, they're the foundation of contemporary...
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Sep 1, 2002,
Steve Oppenheimer
Apple Computer's recent purchase of Emagic sent shockwaves through the recording industry. The acquisition was surprising enough, but Apple's decision...
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Dec 1, 2004,
By David Rubin
The solo saxophone is notoriously difficult to sample effectively because of the wide range of idiomatic sounds that the instrument can produce. Early...
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Nov 1, 2000,
Marty Cutler
More than 300 MB of vintage organs, analog synths, Mellotrons, and electric pianos are gathered for your delectation in BitHeadz's Tubes, Tines & Transistors...
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May 1, 2000,
Brian Smithers
As more and more sound cards support digital audio transfers, it's important to understand what various audio interfaces may (or may not) do to your carefully...
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Dec 1, 2000,
Dan Phillips
Osmosis 1.12 (Mac/Win) The past decade has seen a great deal of standardization in MIDI software, audio connectivity, plug-ins, and more. Unfortunately,...
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Jun 1, 2001,
By Jeff Burger
A full descriptive review of Bitheadz Phrazer 1.0.1, a standalone loop-based arranger that supports all the popular Macintosh audio I/O options, including ASIO, Sound Manager, DirectIO, DirectConnect, ReWire, and MAS....
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Dec 1, 2000,
Marty Cutler and Gino Robair
Getting sampled grooves to match an ideal tempo can be problematic. To solve this, BitHeadz has created Tempo Tantrum ($199), which lets you alter the...
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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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Feb 1, 2003,
By Jeffrey Paul Burger
BitHeadz created quite a stir several years ago when it introduced its versatile Retro AS-1 software synthesizer and its powerful Unity DS-1 software...
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May 1, 2000,
Erik Hawkins
Over the past several years, BitHeadz has gained a reputation for cooking up some great products that magically turn the common personal computer into...
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Dec 1, 2002,
By Len Sasso
Bitshift Audio brings beat slicing into your digital audio work environment with Phatmatik Pro ($99), available in VSTi format for Windows and Mac OS...
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Jan 1, 2006,
By Scott Wilkinson
As the saying goes, anyone who can remember the '60s probably wasn't there. I don't remember much from that era (which means I must have been there!),...
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