With each new release, the program now known as FL Studio has become incrementally more powerful. It started life as a modest pattern sequencer with a...
When Apple updated iLife in January 2004, it introduced GarageBand, an audio sequencer and software instrument collection at no extra charge. Immediately,...
With the release of Digital Performer (DP) 4.5 and the subsequent updates of 4.51 and 4.52, MOTU has once again upped the ante in the supercompetitive...
With version 7, Logic has been fully folded into the Apple product line, with a new look and feel, lots of operational enhancements, and a greatly expanded...
With its new digital audio sequencer, Kinetic ($119), Cakewalk has set foot squarely in the land of the prosumer in terms of price but don't let that...
GarageBand is a versatile digital audio sequencer that’s bundled into iLife ’04, Apple Computer’s creativity suite. It includes software instruments, dozens of effects, and an extensive library of loops....
Brian Smithers reviews Apple Computer’s flagship digital audio sequencer, Emagic Logic Pro 6. Logic Pro incorporates many new features and includes all the audio instrument plug-ins that were previously sold separately....
Electronic Musician’s review of MOTU’s Digital Performer 4.11, digital audio sequencer. The review evaluates the significant new features introduced starting with version 4.0. ...
Cubase SX 1.0.6 takes advantage of two major system upgrades—Windows XP and Mac OS X—to revitalize its Cubase line of sequencers. The result is a must-have upgrade for Cubase users and a worthy contender in the field of full-featured digital-audio sequencing software....
People who have been using Image-Line Software's Fruityloops for a while tend to be fanatics about it and with good reason. From its humble beginnings...
In the early 1980s, with the introduction of drum machines from Oberheim, Linn, E-mu, Sequential, and Roland, combining step sequencing with a synthesis...
Compared to previous versions, Emagic Logic 5 is a big leap forward in terms of features, power, and ease of use. With version 5.5, Logic now runs under...
With the release of Reason version 2.0, Propellerhead Software has fulfilled a number of feature requests and added two excellent sound modules to their...
Joining the likes of Image-Line Software FruityLoops, Propellerhead Reason, Arturia Storm, and VirSyn TERA, Synapse Audio Software's Orion is one of the...
Having experienced many years of unflagging popularity, Finale remains an industry standard in the realm of notation software. Not content simply to rest...
Bitshift Audio brings beat slicing into your digital audio work environment with Phatmatik Pro ($99), available in VSTi format for Windows and Mac OS...
FruityLoops is one of the oldest contenders in the growing field of loop-oriented, all-in-one studio software. Unlike programs such as Sonic Foundry Acid,...
