Comment / Opinion

Music software companies have warned us about the effects of piracy since the dawn of history; but are we now starting to see the results as smaller companies become absorbed into larger corporations?

More words of wisdom proferred by SOS Editor-in-Chief Paul White.

When it comes to digital rights management, downloading music illegally isn't really the problem — it's our obsession with it.

Digital data can't actually be considered 'real' unless it exists in at least two different places...

The combined might of the record industry is currently behind the attempt to persuade us that surround is the next big thing - but many of us still remain to be convinced...

Isn't it time that the convergence of user interface design amongst the virtual instrument market began to happen on hardware recorders?

Like authenticity, inspiration can't be bought and sold. Instead, it hides in all sorts of strange places and the only way to find it is to look...

You can please some of the people all of the time, or all of the people some of the time; but striking the best balance between the two becomes increasingly difficult as recording technology becomes more fragmented.

It's always the music industry that gets blamed when people bemoan the state of music today; but maybe they shouldn't be so eager to point the finger...

When we first came up with the idea for Studio SOS, we didn't quite know what to expect. To our knowledge, no other recording magazine had attempted to solve readers' problems actually in their own studios...

Copyright law may be very rigid these days, but in the context of creativity, who actually 'owns' a sample?

Despite rumours that Apple was on the lookout for a major audio company, Apple's buyout of German developers Emagic took us all by surprise...

Web sites are one of the greatest revolutions of the information age; but is their purpose being undermined by bad design?

Before we've learned half the capabilities of a synth or a piece of software, it's been replaced, upgraded or discontinued...

From triumphant moptops to dismal flops: charting the spectacular fall from grace of British music in the US.

While listening to Classic FM on the way home from the SOS offices recently, I heard something that set me solidly into rant mode...

Is the work of media composers writing original music being undermined by people using unprocessed material from sample CDs, and passing it off as their own work?

Even in the simplest of studios, cables breed like rabbits on Viagra. If the whole thing isn't to descend into 'cable anarchy', you have to impose some kind of order...

The Chairman of the UK Music Producers' Guild argues that producers should be paid performance royalties for their studio contributions, even if they don't actually play.

Is Surround Sound and the DVD-Audio format all a plot to 'take the means of production away from the workers'?

Not being one to let the dust settle after having 'done the business', Big George provides an update on his crusade.