Master Class: Mastering With Peak Performance (Bonus Material) 

By Larry the O

Review: Image Line FL Studio XXL (Bonus Material) 

By Allan Metts

Review: Access Music Virus TI Snow (Bonus Material) 

By Jon Margulies

Modular Moods 

By Gino Robair

I didn’t really give up the guitar. It stopped inspiring me,” explains Alessandro Cortini on a warm spring day at his home in Los Angeles. “I got more into the song itself, as opposed to just the guitar.” ...

Review: Roland MV-8800 (Bonus Material) 

I wanted to see just how “all in one” the MV-8800 was, so I first connected only the stereo output to my monitor speakers. I could connect digital audio using coaxial or optical connectors, or stereo analog audio using the ¼-inch TRS jacks. ...

Noises Off (Bonus Material) 

Sometimes law-enforcement authorities will utilize broadband-noise reduction to make intelligible a recording of a witness, a suspect, or even a confession that’s obscured. In these so-called forensic audio situations, intelligibility is much more important than pristine sound quality, so more-extreme noise-reduction settings can be used....

Arturia Analog Factory Experience (Bonus Material) 

Analog Factory delivers a single software instrument with a simplified, one-size-fits-all user interface. The synth manages to harbor most of the modeling capabilities of Arturia’s entire line of vintage instrument emulations while providing a huge number of representative presets....

Windows on the World (Bonus Material) 

By Dennis Miller

If you need to move data between a 32-bit version of Windows and the Mac OS, consider adding an external drive to your system formatted as FAT32, which both operating systems can read and write to...

[Online Bonus Material--goes with July 2008 PreSonus review] 

By Rusty Cutchin

I was impressed but not surprised by how easily both of the FireStudios communicated with my dual 2 GHz Power Mac G5. ...

Expansion Kits 

By Peter Hamlin

Notion’s included symphonic sound library contains the standard orchestral instruments (including piano), and Sound Expansion Kits featuring new instruments and/or new performance techniques have been available for some time....

Mix and Match  

By Michael Cooper

Plugging a cable into BoB’s output 3-G automatically takes the unit out of 2x3 mode and puts it into Hex mode (enabling a separate output for each string). ...

Power Up 

By Babz

All the power that BFD2 provides comes at a price. Though memory and storage requirements are comparable to those of BFD, BFD2 can demand substantially more CPU—easily two or three times more. ...

Which Side Are You On? 

One of the most difficult design decisions must have been where to position the Tenori-on’s connections to the outside world...

Dressing Up a Square 

AudioCubes’ smooth symmetry makes them sleek and futuristic, but it also makes it tough to remember what each face is programmed to do. ...

Review: Pro Tools LE 7.4 (Bonus) 

By Brian Smithers

Electronic Musician's review of Digidesign Pro Tools LE 7.4 | Bonus material from EM review of Digidesign Pro Tools LE 7.4 ...

Review: Cakewalk SONAR 7 Producer Edition (Bonus) 

By Brian Smithers

Although Sonar 7 includes plenty of new and improved features, in a perfect world there would be several things that worked better than they do now. In the interest of giving Cakewalk some food for thought and Sonar users some constructive work-arounds, here’s my wish list....

Review: Adobe Audition 3.0 (Bonus) 

By Allan Metts

In previous versions of Audition, Adobe provided the ability to edit audio in the Spectral Frequency view, and this has been one of my favorite features ever since. A chair squeak or a cough during a performance may not be particularly visible in a standard waveform display, but it sticks out like a sore thumb when you view a frequency spectrum. You then select that artifact and zap it out of existence....

Review: Cockos Reaper (Bonus) 

By Allan Metts

Reaper’s flexible routing can be a bit difficult to grasp, so an example will help clarify. Let’s say that you have five tracks and would like to add some reverb to all of them. ...

Review: Sony PCM-D50 (Bonus) 

By Rudy Trubitt

Once you’ve made a recording on your D50, you can play it, delete it, or delete just part of it (by first dividing the file and then deleting the unwanted segment). ...

Waves GTR3 (Bonus) 

By Orren Merton

GTR3 is the most recent version of Waves’ guitar amp and effects modeling software; is preamp hardware is now optional....

Self-Control (Bonus) 

By Michael Cooper

Starting a music publishing company isn't rocket science, but it requires a lot of work. In Self Control, we show you how to begin and maintain your own publishing company....

Dave Smith Instruments Prophet ’08 (Bonus) 

By Geary Yelton

The Dave Smith Instruments Prophet ’08 is a polyphonic analog synthesizer that blends a vintage sound with modern programmability. ...

Audio Alchemy (Bonus) 

By Dennis Miller

Convolution is a powerful technique that multiplies the spectra of two files—one called the source (or “carrier”) and the other called the impulse response (IR)—to produce a vast range of effects....

ART TubeFire 8 (Bonus) 

By Rich Wells

The ART TubeFire 8 is a single-rackspace 8-channel preamp and FireWire audio interface....

Antares Harmony Engine and Zplane Vielklang (Bonus) 

By Len Sasso

Antares Harmony Engine and Zplane Vielklang apply different strategies to perform the same musical task: generating harmony parts from solo leads....