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Jul 1, 2000,
Jeff Burger
Digidesign is one of the pioneers in digital hard disk recording. As its products have increased in sophistication, it has gone from merely replacing...
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Feb 1, 2007,
By Jim Aikin
Electronic Musician's review of Digidesign's Strike plug-in, which offers users an array of drum sounds and patterns....
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Jul 1, 2000,
Brian Smithers
With Digigram's VXpocket PC Card, recordists who use notebook computers can now have 24-bit recording capabilities without carrying around anything extra....
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Jan 1, 2000,
the EM Staff
APOGEE PSX-100 24-BIT A/D/A($2,995)The audio quality of your digital recorder is only as good as your converters. Use a flimsy converter, and the sounds...
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Nov 1, 1999,
Allan Metts
Remember DOS? In this era of window-based, multitasking operating systems, it's hard to imagine that anyone would write a DOS-based application. But someone...
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Feb 1, 2001,
ELECTRONIC MUSICIAN STAFF
Mark of the Unicorn Digital Performer 2.7 Boy, do we hate this category - it's always so hard to pick a winner. A good sequencer is the heart and soul...
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Jan 1, 2000,
the EM Staff
EMAGIC LOGIC AUDIO PLATINUM 4.04(Mac/Win; $799)MARK OF THE UNICORN DIGITAL PERFORMER 2.6(Mac; $795)Although the feud between our editors over the Digital...
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Jan 1, 2000,
the EM Staff
TASCAM DA-45HR($2,165)Admittedly, there weren't a lot of new DAT recorders introduced this year, but Tascam's DA-45HR would have been a winner in any...
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Jan 1, 2000,
the EM Staff
DIGIDESIGN PRO TOOLS/24 MIXPLUS(Mac/Win; $7,995)How do you improve on one of the audio industry's favorite digital audio workstations? Triple the processing...
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Jul 1, 2000,
Scott Wilkinson
One of the most vexing problems plaguing studios everywhere is the mass of techno spaghetti needed to get various signals from point A to point B. Each...
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Apr 1, 2006,
By Larry the O
Saloon keepers loved the advent of digital audio because debating whether digital or analog is better is thirsty work. The debate rages on, but instead...
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Mar 1, 2006,
By Rob Shrock
The DigiTech DF-7 Distortion Factory ($149.95) is a stompbox that models seven popular guitar distortion pedals: the Ibanez TS-9 Tube Screamer, the DOD...
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Jun 1, 2002,
By Myles Boisen
The old art-school adage Less is more has had its day, but it's clearly out-of-date when the topic of guitar processors comes up. For today's guitar slinger...
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Nov 1, 2005,
By Mike Levine
When I first heard about DigiTech's GNX4 Guitar Workstation a modeling and multi-effects processor that's also a pedalboard, a standalone 8-track digital...
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Nov 1, 2001,
By Michael Cooper
In 1980, James Demeter was thumbing through a tube-electronics book when he stumbled upon the schematic for a cathode follower circuit. That circuit would...
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Dec 1, 2006,
By Mike Levine
Electronic Musician’s feature on direct guitar recording looks at DI options, modeling processors and plug-ins, strategies for getting the best sound, and more....
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Dec 1, 2000,
Matt Gallagher
Spring Heel Jack builds a drum 'n' bass empire inside a shoe box.Acclaimed drum 'n' bass duo Spring Heel Jack is John Coxon (a DJ and pop-music producer)...
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Jul 1, 2005,
By Len Sasso
DiscoDSP's line of Windows VST plug-ins consists of three synthesizers ($99 each), a sampler ($99), and a mastering effects collection called FX ($99)....
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Sep 1, 2000,
Julian Colbeck
Infinite Sound: Ambient Atmospheres
Infinite Sound: Ambient Atmospheres, indeed. J. Arif Verner has a good ear not only for sample-CD titles, but also for his music, which twists, turns,...
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Oct 1, 2000,
Gerry Bassermann
The Legend of China Discovery Firm's The Legend of China (audio CD; $99.95) is a two-disc set of Chinese instrument and vocal samples, including idiomatic...
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Apr 1, 2004,
By Marty Cutler
Elements of Brazilian music permeate much of our jazz and pop landscape. Many of us instinctively equate Brazilian music with the samba, but Brazil is...
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Aug 1, 2004,
By David Rubin
Discovery Firm’s popular Flamenco—Made in Spain CD offered desktop musicians a chance to add flamenco’s unique excitement and exotic rhythms to their musical mixes. The Japanese company has now reissued the content from the earlier CD as a new two-disc Alma Flamenco library ($55) that combines Red Book audio tracks with matching Acidized WAV and REX2 files....
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Feb 1, 2001,
Jeff Obee
Discovery Firm's World Groove ($39.95) focuses on esoteric and exotic sounds from Asia, South America, Africa, and the Middle East. The grooves are tight,...
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Dec 1, 2005,
By Mike Levine
Loop libraries from Discrete Drums are known for being creative, well-recorded, and well-played. The company's latest product, Heavy Mental Drums a collection...
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May 1, 2005,
By Mike Levine
When listening to the loops in Discrete Percussion: the Eric Darken Collection ($129), you quickly realize that percussionist Eric Darken is a master...
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