The recent trend toward pocket-size stereo recorders has accelerated dramatically, with more than a few major manufacturers getting into the act. What...
Victor Wooten is a musician's musician. Best known for his electric-bass work in the acoustic jazz fusion group Bla Fleck and the Flecktones, he is one...
Long gone are the days when professional composers would need a wall of fully loaded hardware samplers just to provide a few hundred megabytes of memory...
The Tech Page column usually focuses on emerging technologies that might be applied to music and audio in the future. This month, however, I'd like to...
What is it about dither that inspires so much trepidation among digital musicians? The mere mention of the word brings looks of disquietude normally reserved...
If anyone has been privy to all the nuances of the word rebirth, it is Steve Reid. A drummer since age 16, he first made his mark in Motown on the Martha...
Science for Girls is the brainchild of New York-based producer, bassist, and composer Darren Solomon. Though the band name may conjure images of young...
I've long been fond of speech synthesizers; somehow their robotic sound heightens the humanity of the rest of a song. When mixed in more subtly, synthetic...
For fifty or a hundred dollars, you can buy a CD or DVD that's packed with great-sounding, professionally designed drum loops. But sometimes a beat needs...
In the contracted state of today's major-label record industry, having compelling music is no longer enough to convince a record company to invest in...
Okay, I get it. Surround music is on life support. Why won't listeners embrace this technology? For me, surround provides a more compelling way to hear...
Although it looks rather like a futuristic Etch A Sketch, the Tenori-on is a bleeding-edge musical performance instrument that combines sample-playback...
Starr Labs has been building distinctive, guitarlike MIDI controllers for many years. Company owner Harvey Starr may not be a household name, but the...
Down in the mad scientist hall of the 2007 NAMM show, I stumbled across fascinating new MIDI controllers and lo-fi audio processors from a small Belgian...
The original Zendrum (now called the Zendrum ZX) first appeared in 1994 in the hands of Manu Katche on the Australian leg of Peter Gabriel's Secret World...
Samplebase places high-quality sampled instruments and loops within reach of those with more-modest budgets. The vehicles for these sounds are Satellite...
Euphonix is well known in the world of high-end digital consoles and other hardware, including the MC Pro and System 5-MC control surfaces, but the MC...
Overloud Breverb ($399) is an algorithmic reverb plug-in designed to emulate high-end hardware processors of the past. Like many of the models it emulates,...
The Violet Design Amethyst microphone is a high-quality true condenser with a somewhat unconventional look. According to the manufacturer, the isolated...
Among the major DAWs, Digidesign Pro Tools LE/M-Powered is alone in not offering surround sound. That function has been reserved for the high-end hardware-based...
There are numerous reasons why you record, and probably an equal number of ways. Whether you collect industrial sounds for a drum library, capture sound...
Bebe Barron, the last of the great pioneers of early electronic music, died on April 20, 2008, at the age of 82. She and her first husband, Louis Barron,...
Got an extra computer audio interface lying around? If you're running Mac OS X 10.4 or later, you can aggregate the interface with other audio devices...
1963Series 100 Electronic Music System A discrete modular analog instrument, originally designed for the San Francisco Tape Music Center 1970Series 200...
These albums encompass a diverse range of styles and composition methods. Dr.Ox: Dr.Ox (c74) Man Man: Rabbit Habits (Anti) Dosh: Wolves and Wishes (Anticon)...
Gleetchlab 2.3 (Mac) Gleetchlab (donationware) from Milanese software developer Tobor Experiment is a standalone application created in Cycling '74 Max/MSP....
Electro-Music.com has announced Electro-Music 2008, a conference and music festival to be held in Kingsport, Tennessee, from August 14 to 16. The event...
ACCESS MUSIC VIRUS TI SNOW TIME TO CHILL The much-anticipated Virus TI Snow ($1,350 [MSRP]) is out. This tabletop addition to Access Music's (access-music.de)...
