Reviews

April 2009 - Like many hip-hop/R&B producers, I've relied on the trusty Akai MPC-series of drum samplers to get me through many productions....

January 2009 - For those of us who have ever spent time in a studio situation attempting to give a vocalist a crash course in harmonies, or...

December 2008 - Well, lucky me! I've just finished installing all 40GB (yes, that's gigabytes, not megabytes) of Omnisphere, Spectrasonics' long...

September 2008 - MOTU is a company that has an uncanny ability to jam pack every single audio-visual in/out you can think of into a neat little...

September 2008 - A good mix. In today's audio world, it's not just something nice to have. It's a MUST. If you want to make a good mix of either...

July 2008 - Remember the days of mix tapes? I do. These tapes were the cherished soundtracks of our lives. I'm sure most of you have made or...

June 2008 - Breverb claims to model some of the industry's most acclaimed classic reverb hardware, and though they do not mention what exact...

June 2008 - Wavelab has a long and honorable history going back to the mid-90s, when I first was introduced to it. At that time, there was...

May 2008 - Speakerphone is an impulse-response based speaker emulator, convolution reverb and sample player rolled into one VST, RTAS, MAS...

March 2008 - Wave Arts has released the Master Restoration Suite, a suite of plug-ins dedicated to the audio restoration and cleaning. The...

March 2008 - Guitarists constitute an important basis of the home studio market. These excellent consumers do not hesitate to sacrifice a big...

March 2008 - IZotope has already released plug-ins for various sound domains, such as distortion(Trash), mastering (Ozone), time stretch and...

February 2008 - It's hard to believe, but Live 7 is already there. The miracle software from Berlin-based Company Ableton, both a tracker and a...

February 2008 - Since the release of the UAD-1 DSP card in 2001 (in tandem with Mackie at that time), Universal Audio has added plugs on a...

January 2008 - The new Pro Tools 7.4 introduces a concept named Elastic Time or Elastic Audio (ET/EA, from now on in this review) reminiscent of ...

January 2008 - As a newcomer in the little world of drum samplers and to distance itself from BFD, Battery, DFH, EZDrummer, Groove Agent, Strike ...

January 2008 - Around 2000, software synthesizers were starting to sound good, and computers were getting powerful enough to run them. While...

January 2008 - Even if Sugar Bytes hasn't a long history in audio software, the company has made its mark with a few products, such as...

December 2007 - Let's go back a few years... It was primary education time, and on your day off, you had gather the pressure-cooker, pan lids,...

December 2007 - When the tone Gods came down from the heavens and laid their hands upon Jimi Hendrix, guitarists from all over the world were...

December 2007 - There's now several software trying to build up a clientele among DJs producers, and in this market, great things are expected of ...

December 2007 - As the director of a Mac-based digital audio program for teens, I get asked often about software comparable to Garage Band,...

November 2007 - URS is a company that prides it self on recreating vintage hardware emulations with a classic hardware look and feel while...

May 2005 - Ableton's Live 4 best seller software is a fantastic application that radically changed the way musicians perform and/or create...

September 2003 - Translation by Bonatoc.

June 2009 - The Axiom Pro 49 is an hardware MIDI controller with the benefit of automatically mapping DAW and virtual instrument controls. (Currently compatible with Pro Tools, Reason, Cubase, Live and Logic.)

October 2008 - Within the last decade, computer-based plug-in synths have gradually overtaken hardware as the primary weapon in keyboardists'...

May 2007 - A review of AEON, a 2-way active nearfield monitor with a very wide frequency response (30 Hz to 30 kHz).

March 2007 - A review of the new USB controller-interface Novation ReMOTE 25 SL.

February 2006

June 2005 - Here's a fine review of Presonus FireBox, by our friend Doug Edge from audioMIDI.