ASK Video Ships Cubase 4 Level 1 Training DVD 

The training course provides more than 30 videos covering everything from basic setup and tools to audio and MIDI recording, editing, and mixing....

Pro/File: Modular Odyssey Web Clip 1 

A gallery of photos taken in Bakis Sirros's studio, by Antonis Chaniotis....

Grooveboxmusic.com Announces Music Production with Reason 4 

Grooveboxmusic.com has announced its new Music Production with Reason 4, which is now available for pre-order....

Music Without Borders 

By Debbie Galante Block

The music on Balkan Beat Box's (BBB) latest CD, Nu Med (JDub, 2007), is an original blend of Middle Eastern folk influences and electronica. The band...

The World Is Your Workstation 

By Marty Cutler

Almost ten years ago, I produced a MIDI project for PG Music called The Bluegrass Band. The work flow started with recording basic rhythm tracks with...

Chamber Made 

By Dave Simons

These days even the most basic processors offer a wide variety of reverb options at the touch of a button. Years ago, however, the vast majority of recording...

Thomas Dolby Goes Remote 

Mike Levine

Among the musicians involved with online collaboration is synth-pop and music-technology icon Thomas Dolby. This fall Dolby is touring the U.S. and U.K.,...

Sawing Logs 

By Brian Smithers

Logarithm is a term that appears in many digital audio settings logarithmic taper, logarithmic Velocity curve but what does it really mean? It turns out...

Going Remote 

By Mike Levine

Web Clip 1 for Electronic Musician's feature on online collaborative-music sites...

Magic Smoke Electronics Reissues DIY "Cookbook" Series 

Magic Smoke Electronics has announced the reissue of Thomas Henry's legendary synthesizer DIY "Cookbook" series....

SQUARE ONE: Add It Up 

By Jim Aikin

Additive synthesis may be the ultimate synthesis technique. Any conceivable sound can be generated using additive synthesis, at least in theory. Two factors...

Build a Personal Studio on Any Budget 

By the EM Staff

Just as actors and musicians field autograph requests wherever they go, EM's editors are continually asked for gear recommendations. But a question as...

The Budget Podcast Studio 

Terra Digital Audio Gives Free Obedia Package with Purchase 

Terra Digital Audio is offering a free 65-minute Obedia service package with each new Terra Digital M6-R Core 2 Duo and MX2 Quad Core computer system sold....

AudioMIDI.com Launches Digital Performer Series 

AudioMIDI.com has launched DP Corner, a new tutorial series for MOTU Digital Performer users....

The Killer Podcast Studio 

With Special Guests 

By Mike Levine

Electronic Musician's Pro/File of Strange Angel, whose debut CD features a roster of guest stars, who are friends with the band's guitarist, Bryan Bell, a former studio tech....

Sonic Mayhem 

By Brian Smithers

Simply put, distortion is any change to a signal other than a simple gain change or delay. Given that definition, one could reasonably look at compression and equalization as forms of distortion, but it’s probably more useful to take them at face value and look for any unintended consequences as distortion. For example, many EQ circuits change the phase of filtered frequencies relative to unfiltered frequencies—linear phase equalizers are designed to avoid this phase distortion....

Q&A: Daryl Friedman 

By Mike Levine

In the April 2007 issue of EM, this column featured an interview with Michael Petricone of the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA), a trade group that...

Timing Is Everything (Bonus) 

By Larry the O

Larry the O explains the principles of clocking in the digital studio and offers solutions to common synchronization problems....