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Try out a Variax guitar at a participating European store before the end of February and you and a friend could be on your way to Line 6 HQ in California
Until December the 31st 2005, you can pick up East West/Quantum Leap's Colossus, Symphonic Choirs or Ra virtual instruments at participating dealers in the UK for only £349 each.
Ultimate Sound Bank have permanently reduced the prices of their X-treme FX, Ultra Focus and Charlie sample-based virtual instruments.
Allen & Heath have upgraded the Mix Wizard WZ20S and re-named it the WZ³20S, bringing the mixer up to speed with the rest of the range.
Chrissy is a free PC VST plug-in designed for adding lo-fi distortion and aliasing effects to vocals, though it can also be used on guitars, synths and drum beats.
In a surprise move, MOTU have unveiled a new version of their 828 MkII MIDI + Audio interface which uses the high-speed USB 2.0 connection protocol.
The Virus TI promises to bridge the divide between hardware and software instruments, and create a world of Total Integration, while still offering the classic Virus sound. Is it a hard reality, or have Access gone totally soft?
If you want to make money as a songwriter, composer or lyricist, the obvious answer is to find yourself a publisher. But what do music publishers actually do for their clients? Why do you need one, and how can you find the right one?
Christmas came slightly early this year for Mac enthusiasts, with significant product announcements, including new dual-core, dual-processor Power Mac G5s. But just what do the new high-spec computers mean for musicians?
The new version 5 sees Cakewalk's Sonar becoming a more complete production package than ever, with the addition of new synths, a convolution reverb, 64-bit support and Roland's celebrated Variphrase vocal processing technology.
With their oblique, short and often brutally noisy songs, The Pixies reinvented rock music at the turn of the '90s, and influenced almost everyone who picked up a guitar in the following decade. Producer and engineer Gil Norton helped them to shape their breakthrough single.
We take a look at building tempo maps for writing to picture in Cubase, using Markers, Time Warping and the Process Tempo command.
These new pedals model celebrated guitar tones, including those of Eric Clapton and Jimi Hendrix, in unprecedented detail.
Firewire and USB 2 interfaces have their advantages, but if you need serious channel counts at high sample rates, the PCI card still rules, and ESI's heavyweight recording system caters for a huge range of input and output formats at up to 192kHz.
Despite their diminutive size, these new nearfield monitors still share the Genelec family sound.
Harry Gregson-Williams's drive to explore original ideas and sounds has made him one of Hollywood's leading composers, scoring everything from romantic comedies to spy thrillers and historical dramas.
Granular synthesis is the core technology behind the latest time-stretching and pitch-shifting algorithms, but it can also be used to generate extraordinary evolving soundscapes. We explain how the process works and show you how to get the best from the software that uses it.
There are dedicated (and expensive) control surfaces for Logic, Pro Tools and Cubase... so why not an affordable one for Apple's semi-free entry-level application Garage Band? M-Audio must have thought exactly the same thing...
Is the modern sequencer/DAW user interface now crying out to be streamlined?