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.

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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...