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Oct 26, 2009,
By Marty Cutler
One of the beauties of Stylus RMX is its ability to convert any file in Propellerhead’s REX file format (.rx2, .rex or .rcy extension) into proprietary RMX files. Consequently, any AIFF, WAV or SDII file you can load into Propellerhead Recycle is fair game....
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Sep 30, 2009,
By Eli Crews
The following is quoted from Korg’s article entitled “The 1-Bit Advantage—Future Proof Recording”:
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Sep 30, 2009,
By Marty Cutler
At one pole, Krishna Synth can create contemporary-sounding, complex electronic timbres with plenty of motion. At the other, it can sound like a DX7 with a hairball. I hasten to add that I don’t mean that in a bad way; beauty is not always pretty.
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Sep 30, 2009,
By Paul D. Lehrman
"I was always curious to see how good a musical instrument could be made with technology," says Paul Henry Smith a few days after the Fauxharmonic Orchestra’s premiere performance, "whether it would be expressive, flexible and simple enough to play the repertoire I was in love with. But looking around in the early 1990s, I concluded it wasn't going to happen in my lifetime."...
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Sep 30, 2009,
By Sam Pryor
Though AIR’s music bears all the trademarks of classic electronica—heavily layered synths, artificial-sounding vocals and cut-up beats—their production process is actually as old-school as the proverbial hills.
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Sep 2, 2009,
By Michael Cooper
A new dawn for virtual sampler-based production has arrived with the release of Native Instruments' Kontakt 3.5. Its completely rewritten sampler engine gives a huge performance boost and lets you gain access to 32 GB of RAM.
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Sep 1, 2009,
By Babz
Although it sports the name “Juno”—a classic synth series from the vintage analog era—the Juno-Stage has little in common with the vintage-era Junos other than the name and retro-style graphics. Its sound-generating engine derives largely from Roland’s Fantom-X Series and Sonic Cell module, which contain many of the same Patches and much of the same raw waveform data.
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Sep 1, 2009,
By Nick Peck
Jacob Rosenberg of SeeAbove Sound and Music has been involved in live sound and music production for more than a decade. He has a weekly sound reinforcement gig providing front of house for jazz and rock bands at the City Center Plaza in Oakland, Calif. He used the StudioLive as his mixing desk for five of these concerts...
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Sep 1, 2009,
By Len Sasso
MainStage is a virtual instrument and effects plug-in host designed, as the name suggests, for live performance. The upgrade to Version 2 brings several very useful enhancements. ...
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Aug 31, 2009,
By Michael Cooper
One of the most important aspects of mixing close-miked drums is adding reverb to the snare and toms. Follow these simple guidelines and you can’t go wrong.
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Aug 3, 2009
Duvdev and Erez of Infected Mushroom show you around their studio, which features PCs running Cubase 5 and lots of synths and outboard gear. (Part 2 of 2)...
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Aug 3, 2009
Duvdev and Erez of Infected Mushroom show you around their studio, which features PCs running Cubase 5 and lots of synths and outboard gear. (Part 1 of 2)...
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Aug 3, 2009
Amit "Duvdev" Duvedevani and Erez Eisen, aka Infected Mushroom, talk about the production methods they used on their new CD, Legend of the Black Shawarma....
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Jul 30, 2009,
By Geary Yelton
When you power up the V-Piano (which takes about 20 seconds), the Voice screen displays the current preset and three or four parameters you can edit quickly. By default, these are Tuning, Hammer and Resonance, but you can assign any parameter to the display. ...
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Jul 29, 2009,
By Marty Cutler
I’ve often lamented that playing some modern software samplers expressively requires the skills of a helicopter pilot due to the number of MIDI-control gestures required to bring the extra articulations to life. Cubase 5 takes some big steps to return musical context to a task that often feels more like muse-crushing data entry.
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Jul 29, 2009,
By Myles Boisen
Nine bayonet-mount capsules are available in the Blue Bottle Microphone Capsule Series. These capsules retail for $599.99 each or $3,995.99 for the entire set in a deluxe ATA flight case.
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Jul 8, 2009,
By Matt Boudreau
Two new hardware offerings, the CC121 USB control surface and the MR816 CSX FireWire interface, are designed to complement Steinberg’s flagship DAW software, Cubase. The CC121 mirrors many of the GUI functions found in Cubase....
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Jun 30, 2009,
By Marty Cutler
Browsing through the categories in Alchemy’s banks of factory patches, you might think there is a preponderance of conventional instruments; the pull-down menu reveals guitars, woodwinds, mallets and drums among the choices. But because a who’s who of some of my favorite programmers created the presets, including the late Tim Conrardy, John Lehmkuhl, Biomechanoid, Richard Devine and Ian Boddy, most of these are conventional in name only....
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Jun 30, 2009,
By Brian Smithers
With a bit of thought, you could get even more out of the already well-integrated V-Studio 700. Press Shift-Sel on a channel strip to lock it and prevent it from scrolling with the other faders. Command-Sel toggles locked status on and off. Press Alt-Sel to enter Channel Branch mode, in which a track is focused on fader 1 while its sends are laid out across the remaining faders. ...
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Jun 30, 2009,
By Gino Robair
Producer/engineer/percussionist John McEntire is well known for his sophisticated use of analog synthesizers for audio processing with bands such as Tortoise, Stereolab and the Fiery Furnaces. (Read his EM feature interview.)
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Jun 4, 2009,
By Larry the O
Eric Persing is the founder and creative director of Spectrasonics, one of the leading virtual instrument developers, and producer of popular sample libraries such as Distorted Reality. Persing's experience in programming goes back 10 years before the founding of Spectrasonics...
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Jun 3, 2009,
By Jason Scott Alexander
Even before its release, Maschine caught the attention of serious beat producers for its promise of delivering MPC-like hardware control of a fresh new groove application. The aim was two-fold: to bridge the programming and editing gap that exists between traditional drum module plug-ins and host sequencers; and to give live performers an instrument of unprecedented flexibility through the boundless sonic resources of a well-stocked laptop. For such a setup to be successful, however, the integration of both hardware and software components must be tight and highly intuitive—an area in which Native Instruments has recently excelled.
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Jun 3, 2009,
By Len Sasso
Warping in Live has been completely redesigned and greatly improved with automatic transient detection and Warp markers now attached to the waveform rather than Live's time ruler....
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Jun 3, 2009,
By Nick Peck
Gigging with vintage keyboards is a mixed blessing. A well-maintained electromechanical beast of yesteryear is a thing of beauty; it feels and sounds terrific, and it looks great onstage to boot....
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Jun 3, 2009,
By Geary Yelton
My rig is kind of an octopus-like hybrid of old and new, analog and digital. It’s basically a massive Pro Tools HD3 with five [Digidesign] 192 I/O interfaces. ...
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Master Class: Any Way You Slice It (Bonus Material)
Korg MR-2000S Review (Bonus Material)
Devine Machine Krishna Synth 1.5 Review (Bonus Material)
Fauxharmonic Orchestra | The Ultimate One-Man Band (Bonus Material)
AIR | Studio Symmetry (Bonus Material)
Native Instruments Kontakt 3.5 (Mac/Win) Review
Roland Juno-Stage Review (Bonus Material)
PreSonus StudioLive 16.4.2 (Bonus Material)
Apple Logic Studio (Mac) Review (Bonus Material)
Beefing Up the Beat (Bonus Material)
Infected Mushroom Studio Tour (Part 2)
Infected Mushroom: Producing Legend of the Black Shawarma
Roland V-Piano (Bonus Material)
Steinberg Cubase 5.01 Review (Bonus Material)
Blue Microphones Bottle Rocket Stage One/Stage Two Review (Bonus Material)
Online Exclusive Review: Steinberg CC121 and MR816 CSX (Mac/Win) 
Camel Audio Alchemy 1.09 Review (Bonus Material)
Cakewalk SONAR V-Studio 700 Review (Bonus Material)
Make Mine Modular (Bonus Material)
Going Beyond Presets (Bonus Material)
Native Instruments Maschine Review (Bonus Material)
Ableton Live 8 Review (Bonus Material)
Clavia Nord Electro 3 Review (Bonus Material)
Hassell and Freeman in the Studio (Bonus Material)