GarageBand '08 is part of Apple's iLife '08 bundle ($79, or free with any new Mac). Based on Logic's technology, it includes plenty of editable software...
With the release of Live 7, Ableton implements numerous user requests, improves audio and MIDI performance, and introduces a powerful new rack variation...
With the release of Live 7, Ableton implements numerous user requests, improves audio and MIDI performance, and introduces a powerful new rack variation called Drum Racks. Three instruments—Analog, Electric, and Tension—join Operator and Sampler as premium add-ons to Live....
Electronic Musician's review of Mackie Tracktion 3, digital audio sequencer, which includes a host of new features, and comes in two different bundles featuring plug-ins, loop content, and more....
Apple has taken a bold leap forward with the release of Logic Studio. The package bundles Logic Pro 8 with Soundtrack Pro 2 audio postproduction software...
Propellerhead Reason 4 software virtual instrument rack and sequencer brings you a new synth, improved sequencing, additional pattern-based tools, and a bunch of smaller enhancements to make audio production easier....
Digital audio sequencers have become increasingly complex, replicating most recording-studio components in virtual form. First, audio recording found...
Ableton Live 6 - A stellar upgrade to a topnotch sequencer | Video support, new Sampler instrument, plug-in Racks featured in Ableton Live 6 upgrade...
Learn How to Master Steinberg's Cubase 4 with this single-issue magazine featuring a bonus DVD. Mastering Cubase 4 will focus on getting up to speed quickly with tutorials on Steinberg's powerful cross-platform digital audio sequencer. ...
When MOTU previewed Digital Performer 5 at Winter NAMM this year, most of the buzz was about its new suite of six virtual instruments. Although these...
Every manufacturer of high-profile music software is on the upgrade treadmill: each new release of a respected product has to ratchet up the feature list...
Apple Computer's GarageBand is revolutionary. Never has it been easier or less expensive to record, mix, and master studio-quality audio. Though GarageBand...
CamelPhat 3.15 and CamelSpace 1.15 are multi-effects plug-ins from U.K.-based Camel Audio. CamelPhat is designed to add warmth, edge, growl, and in-your-face...
Sibelius 4 is the latest incarnation of Sibelius Software's well-respected notation program. This upgrade retains the comprehensive feature set and intuitive...
In Ableton Live, each audio or MIDI clip that you place in a Session view slot contains a list of options that dictate what will happen after the clip...
Live users have come to expect fingertip access to essential performance and tracking tools, but a few areas have long needed streamlining. Although Live...
By Dennis Miller, Brian Smithers, and Geary Yelton
A digital audio sequencer is the core of almost every computer-based recording studio. More than any other type of software, sequencers have made the...
Whenever a major corporation acquires a music software company, there's always some uncertainty about what the future holds. When EM reviewed Acid Pro...
Apple GarageBand ’08
Ableton Live 7 (Mac/Win)
Ableton Live 7 (Bonus)
Mackie Tracktion 3.03 (Mac/Win)
APPLE Logic Studio (Mac)
PROPELLERHEAD SOFTWARE Reason 4 (Mac/Win)
Propellerhead Software Reason 4 (Bonus)
STEINBERG Cubase 4.0.1 (Mac/Win)
MAKEMUSIC Finale 2007 (Mac/Win)
ABLETON Live 6.0.1 (Mac/Win)
MOTU Digital Performer 5.1 (Mac)
SONY Acid Pro 6.0b (Win)
A Workshop in the Garage
SIBELIUS SOFTWARE Sibelius 4 (Mac/Win)
(Not Quite) Random Notes
