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Noteheads Igor Engraver 1.6 - Music Notation Software Review 

Aug 1, 2002,

By Brian Smithers

Igor Engraver from NoteHeads is a recent entry in the field of high-end music-notation software. In price and in its feature set, it takes direct aim...

Sound Quest Infinity 2.05 

Aug 1, 2002,

By Len Sasso

The rapid rise in desktop computing power has spawned a number of programming environments dedicated to music. Languages such as Csound and Cycling '74's...

Cool Breeze Systems - Cool School Interactus 

Aug 1, 2002,

By Marty Cutler

Mark of the Unicorn's (MOTU's) Digital Performer digital audio sequencer has always provided an elegant user interface and thorough, well-written manuals....

Csound SoftSynth Explored 

Jul 1, 2002,

By Dennis Miller

Csound is the latest in a long line of synthesis languages that have roots that go back to Bell Labs in the late 1950s. The language provides an almost...

Musitek SmartScore Pro 2.0.2 

Jul 1, 2002,

By Allan Metts

Printed notation is alive and well as a musical communications medium, even in today's world of MIDI sequencers and digital audio workstations. Whether...

IMS IntelliScore Polyphonic 4.0 

Jun 1, 2002,

By Steve Gotler

Are you tired of trying to pick out the notes in songs you want to cover? You can purchase software to play audio files e-x-t-r-e-m-e-l-y slowly, but...

Steinberg Halion 1.1 Review 

Apr 1, 2002,

By Len Sasso

Steinberg's Halion is a multitimbral, multioutput software sampler that features direct-from-disk streaming of samples. Disk streaming lets you use large...

Cycling '74 Max 4.0/MSP 2.0 Review 

Apr 1, 2002,

By Thomas Wells with Dennis Miller

Since its introduction in 1998, Max/MSP has quickly become one of the premier development tools for sound design and music composition. Max is a powerful,...

Chicken Systems Translator Review 

Apr 1, 2002,

By David Rubin

Thanks to MIDI, samplers can easily talk to one another, but that doesn't mean they speak the same language. For myriad reasons, a universal sample format...

Virtual Bandmates 

Feb 1, 2002,

By Marty Cutler

Modern MIDI sequencers are unquestionably powerful tools for composing. But when inspiration strikes, it can take a lot of time and effort to develop...

Emagic Soundiver 3.04 

Jan 1, 2002,

By Marty Cutler

Since the review of Emagic's SoundDiver 1.5 in the July 1995 issue, the program has undergone several updates. Many new features consist of cosmetic overhauls,...

Soft Sampling 

Oct 1, 2001,

By Dennis Miller & Geary Yelton

With the enormous power residing in today's computers, much of the workload of traditional hardware devices has shifted to the desktop. One of the most...

Special Delivery 

Sep 1, 2001,

by Eric and Haren Bell

It's time to deliver your music to that huge online audience you know is out there...in cyberspace....

Adept Nightingale 4.0 Review 

Sep 1, 2001,

By Thomas Wells

Which music-notation program to use is a question musicians frequently ask. The answer varies from what it was five or six years ago. Differences in the...

RISING SOFTWARE 

Aug 1, 2001,

By Thomas Wells

Musition ($119; single user) is a companion to Australia-based Rising Software's computer-assisted ear-training software, Auralia. Like Auralia, Musition...

Allegroassai Opus 2.6 Review 

May 1, 2001,

By Brian Smithers

Allegroassai (formerly Sincrosoft) is making a play for the hearts and minds of well-connected 21st-century musicians. The Italian software company has...

Apogee Session Tools 2.0 Review 

Apr 1, 2001,

By Peter Freeman

With the help of Bob Clearmountain and Ryan Freeland, Apogee has released Session Tools 2.0 ($349), a FileMaker-based database program that addresses...

STEINBERG RECYCLE 1.7 (MAC/WIN) 

Dec 1, 1999,

Erik Hawkins

First introduced in 1994, Steinberg's ReCycle software has been on the sampling-and-looping scene for some time. Touted as "the ultimate tool for sampled...

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