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...

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 - Sometimes, you may have to quickly record audio on your Mac, no matter if it comes from an external audio card, from some...

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...

November 2006 - Here is a review of Cakewalk Dimension Pro written by Stan Dudinsky & Brent Hoover.

September 2005 - A review of Apple's Soundtrack pro by our friend Jay Shaeffer from

July 2005 - Bias Peak is one of the most famous audio editing software. Our fellows Doug Edge and Richard Zvonar from AudioMidi review this...

June 2005 - A review of Melodyne Uno by

June 2005 - IDrum is an easy to use drum machine software, it can be used as a standalone program or as an AudioUnit plug-in.

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

September 2004 - Description of the mini moog.

December 2003

September 2003 - Translation by Bonatoc.

August 2003 - Arturia brings out its last Moog Modular V software. It's a soft emulation of the famous and mythical Moog 55. All the control...

July 2000 - The virtual sampler from

February 2000 - The midi and audio sequencer from Mark of The Unicorn :

April 1999 - On the way to Cecilia, a graphic interface for C-Sound... This little talk has for object to introduce you to Cecilia, a great...

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'...

June 2008 - Apogee has long been known for its high quality converters and more recently for working closely with Apple to make some of the...

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.

April 2006 - Review of Digidesign Mbox2

February 2006

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