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Puremagnetik Metalsphere offers sounds, textural elements, sound environments for Ableton Live 7, Apple Logic 8, Native Instruments Kontakt 3, and other DAWs.
Modartt's physically modeled Grimaldi harpsichord virtual instrument has a transparent tone, which is ideal for playing basso continuo or 17th and 18th century Italian and German solo repertoire.
EastWest/Quantum Leap Symphonic Orchestra Play editions are software instruments featuring a custom user interface; an "intelligent" performance section with portamento, repetition, and legato; onscreen mic position mixing; and more.
Total Workstation Rack combines Muse Research?s Receptor hardware plug-in player with IK Multimedia's Total Workstation line of ?Powered By SampleTank? instruments. Total Workstation Rack includes the sounds and instruments for making music.
Sibelius First, a new notation and composition tool, features a simple user interface; composition and arrangement tools for up to 12 staves of music; input via MIDI keyboard, MIDI guitar, computer keyboard; and more.
TC-Helicon's Harmony4 plug-in for Digidesign Pro Tools | HD and TC?s PowerCore platform features doubling presets, overdub sounds, octave doubling, and more, for music production in the home studio.
It?s easy to overlook the more creative uses for pitch- and time-shifting plug-ins. You can do a lot with imaginative misuse of a pitch processor. I'll show you how.
Electronic Musician's interview with Alan Friedman, a music-industry CPA, in which he offers advice to musicians on setting up their businesses.
EM Profiles Seven Pro Studio Headphones That Cost Under $220
Check out July 2008 EM Tutorial on Running Windows music and audio-related programming and applications on a Macintosh computer.
Electronic Musician's interview with mastering engineer Bob Katz, in which he discusses mastering techniques, the root causes of the race to louder and louder-sounding CDs, and how artists can prepare for a mastering session.
Tinnitus, or "ringing in the ears," afflicts 12 million Americans, and electronic musicians as especially at risk thanks to high levels of amplification. Neuromonics, an Australian company, has developed a new treatment for tinnitus that shows great promise.
Electronic Musician's look at the recording of Dan Sindel's EP Marching In, which features the music of John Phillip Sousa played primarily by layers of electric guitars.
Digidesign Pro Tools | HD, Pro Tools LE, and Pro Tools M-Powered software are compatible with Apple Macs running Leopard.
Neumann's new TLM 67 microphone, based on the U 67, offers omnidirectional, cardioid, and figure-8 polar patterns, a highpass filter, and more.
Submersible Music adds DrumCore Rock drum software to its collection of drumming sounds. DrumCore Rock offers audio loops, fills, variations, and drum kit sounds.
Applied Acoustics Systems Strum Acoustic GS-1 is an acoustic-guitar software synthesizer. This physically modeled soft synth comes with a collection of steel and nylon acoustic guitars, a voicing module, and more.
M-Audio Fast Track Ultra 8R features a rugged 1U rackmountable metal chassis, an 8 x 8 audio MIDI interface, USB 2.0 connectivity, the MX Core DSP mixer, and 8 preamps with Octane technology.
MOTU's 896mk3 FireWire audio interface features 8 XLR/TRS combo-style analog inputs with preamps, high-impedance guitar inputs, 28 inputs and 32 outputs, 192 kHz analog operation, signal overload protection, a 32-bit floating point DSP for digital mixing and effects processing, and more.
PreSonus Audio Electronics' FireStudio Lightpipe is a 24-bit, 96 kHz lightpipe to FireWire computer recording system with 32 inputs and 32 outputs. Convert up to 32 channels of ADAT or SMUX optical lightpipe I/O via FireWire.
HowAudio.com's tutorial on Cubase 4 teaches you about integrating external audio and MIDI hardware, real multichannel surround sound, VST3 instruments and effects, Cubase?s Universal Sound Manager and Score Editor, notation and score printing, and more.
Vienna Symphonic Library's Chamber Strings II virtual instrument collection features the muted sections of mall strings ensembles.
Native Instruments' SoundPack, Deep Transformations, includes multi-effects and Kore 2 and Kore Player's integrated Absynth, FM8, Guitar Rig, and Reaktor engines.
The ZED-R16 combines an analog recording mixer with a FireWire soundcard, MIDI controls, and "home-studio" routing. Use ZED-R16 as a standard analog mixer while recording multitrack via FireWire or ADAT or as a MIDI controller via switchable channel faders.
Neutrik's ConvertCon is a unisex 3-pin XLR connector, which allows you to connect with either a male or female 3-pin XLR.
Get FutzBox Native, a distortion and noise generator plug-in, at a discounted price. It supports RTAS and AudioSuite formats, operates on Digidesign Pro Tools HD, LE, M-Powered.
IK Multimedia's StompIO upgrade is a reduced price, hardware version of the StompIO USB floor controller, audio interface.
Zero-G's SoundSense Series includes hip-hop sounds, acoustic-drum loops, beats, old-school house samples, rhythmic beats, and more.
HowAudio.com's online video tutorial explains how to use M-Audio MicroTrack II for mobile recording.
PreSonus Audio Electronics' FireStudio Tube 16 x 10 recording system features DSP mixer/router, digital converters, ProPak Software Suite, and more.
Max/MSP object provides Western music notation in Max/MSP environment. Use MaxScore to score, play, notate, perform music.
Kong Audio updates ChineeGuzheng plug-in, providing improved soundbank, recorded Guzheng sound samples.
Puremagnetik AmpPak and Model-C Micropaks feature amplifier effects, speaker effects, electric piano sounds for music production software.
EM reviews the Yamaha Tenori-On, a unique mobile performance instrument that combines sample playback with analog-style step sequencing.
Neyrinck Audio has released Mix 51 ($189), an RTAS surround panner that brings every bit of the 5.1 panning capabilities of Pro Tools HD to LE and M-Powered users.
Mix 51 actually comprises three separate plug-ins: a surround mixer, a surround panner, and an LFE send.
The Starr Labs Ztar Z7S Guitar/Fingerboard controller is a guitar-like alternative MIDI instrument.
EM reviews the Percussa AudioCubes, glowing, battery-powered USB MIDI controllers and audio processors that communicate and sense environmental changes by means of infrared light.
EM June 2008 Master Class on Using Four Virtual Orchestral Libraries
Read EM Article on Youth Record Producers
Read an EM interview with Shel Talmy record producer
PowerCore X8 Sonnox Edition is comprised of a PowerCore X8 bundled with the Sonnox Oxford EQ and Oxford Dynamics plug-ins.
Reason Electric Bass includes numerous Combinator patches for Reason 4, along with samples of eight classic electric bass guitars.
Waves and Ableton have joined forces to offer two software collections—Waves Gold Native and Ableton Live 7—in one package.
Bark offers critical band equalization and an independent compression algorithm for each of its 27 bands.
Bag End has announced that its Infrasub Series of professional and home subwoofers now incorporates the new P-500 digital 500W power module.
From Electronic Musician: Hear Web Clips, audio clips, audio examples, get PDFs, and other downloads outlined in the June 2008 issue of the magazine.
Read Bonus Material for June 2008 EM Review of Yamaha Tenori-On
Read Bonus Material for June 2008 Percussa AudioCubes June 2008 Review
EM associate editor Geary Yelton reports from EtherMusic Festival 2008, an international gathering of theremin players held April 24 through 27 in Asheville, North Carolina.
Magix has released Music Maker 14, the latest version of the software program for loop-based music production. This new version includes virtual MIDI instruments for authentic e-guitars and orchestral sounds, as well more than 1,500 audio loops for creating all kinds of music. According to Magix, Music Maker 14 is ideal for making music in rock, hip-hop, R&B, Latin, and other mainstream pop genres.
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