Review: Adobe Audition 3.0 (Win)  

By Allan Metts

With its suite of products for graphic design, photography, document creation, and video production, Adobe is no stranger to the pursuit of creativity....

Review: Digidesign Pro Tools LE 7.4 (Mac/Win) 

By Brian Smithers

Having significantly leveled the MIDI playing field with the introduction of Pro Tools 7.0, Digidesign has since turned its attention to the needs of...

Download of the Month: U-he MFM2 (Mac/Win) 

By Len Sasso

MFM2 ($79) is a reincarnation of Urs Heckmann's first VST plug-in, More Feedback Machine. It could be subtitled Everything you always wanted from a delay...

Review: Cockos Reaper 2.0 (Win) 

By Allan Metts

I had never heard of Cockos Reaper when EM asked me to review it. Reaper's developers don't pay for big advertisements, and the program hasn't been around...

Quick Pick: Notion Music Progression (Mac/Win) 

By Jon Chappell

Notion Music has released an entry-level program called Progression ($99) that's designed primarily for notating guitar and bass scores with standard...

Quick Pick: Synaptricity Flashback 1.0 (Mac) 

By David E. Weiss

Synaptricity Flashback 1.0 ($199) is a Digidesign Pro Tools plug-in (RTAS and AudioSuite) that runs in the background, recording everything you do into...

Quick Pick: MusicLab RealStrat 1.0 (Mac/Win) 

By Marty Cutler

Most guitar sample libraries are multiple-instrument collections, and by virtue of their broad-scope nature, they rarely mine the wealth of tonal variety...

Cycling ’74 Releases Max/MSP Version 5 

Cycling ’74 has released version 5.0 of Max/MSP. ...

BIAS Ships Peak LE 6 

Peak LE 6 is the light edition of the company's Peak Pro audio editing, processing, and mastering application....

Native Instruments Releases Guitar Rig 3.1 

With this free software update, the digital guitar studio now offers improved modeling, better sound quality, and various user enhancements....

Antares Audio Technologies Harmony Engine 1.0 (Mac/Win) and Zplane.Development Vielklang 1.1.2 (Mac/Win) 

By Len Sasso

Antares Harmony Engine 1.0 and Zplane Vielklang 1.1.2 apply different strategies to perform the same musical task: generating harmony parts from solo...

Native Instruments Guitar Rig 3 

By Babz

Guitar Rig 3 is the latest version of Native Instruments' guitar amp- and effects-modeling software. Like its predecessors, it comes with the latest model...

Steinberg Groove Agent 3.01 (Mac/Win)  

By David E. Weiss

Unless you have the luxury of bringing in a session drummer every time you need a drum track recorded, you might want to consider a more practical alternative:...

What's New 

By Len Sasso

IK MULTIMEDIA STOMPIO-1 MORE ON THE FLOOR IK Multimedia (www.ikmultimedia.com) has put the power of its acclaimed AmpliTube software at your feet. The...

Download of the Month: Antoine Missout SonicBirth 1.3 (Mac) 

By Len Sasso

SonicBirth (free) began as a student project at cole Polytechnique de Montral by Antoine Missout. It is a tool for creating virtual instrument and effects...

iZotope Releases iDrum For PC 

iDrum virtual drum machine software is now compatible with Windows XP/Vista....

Waves Announces GTR Solo 

GTR Solo is guitar-modeling software that features modeled amps, cabinets, and stompboxes....

Musicrow Releases Modular Dreams Soundbank for Moog Modular V 

Musicrow's new soundbank, Modular Dreams, is a collection of 200 presets for Arturia's Moog Modular V....

Celemony Announces Direct Note Access for Melodyne 

Direct Note Access allows you to edit individual notes within recordings of polyphonic works....

BIAS Ships Peak Pro 6 

BIAS is shipping Peak Pro 6 audio editing, processing, mastering, and delivery software....