[Feature Article] A Demo of Native Instruments' Innovat… - Video: Komplete Kontrol S Series Keyboards
We recently visited Native Instruments' Los Angeles office, an impressive place where you can see the famous “Hollywood” sign when you look out the window. Though the view was dramatic, we were more …
[Feature Article] A Video Demo of the New Apogee Thunde… - A Visit to Apogee's HQ in Los Angeles
Apogee just released the newly redesigned Ensemble audio interface for Mac, a 30x34 unit featuring Thunderbolt 2 connectivity. We visited Apogee HQ in Los Angeles on the day it was released to video …
[Feature Article] Sound synthesis, sound design and aud… - Swing It!
Today we'll begin our exploration of the different elements that constitute a synthesizer. "It's about time!," I hear some of you say... And it's true, but it's important to have a theoretical backgr…
[Feature Article] A noise-removal tutorial with the Spe… - A Unique Tool for Cleaning Up Audio Glitches
There’s no such thing as magic, but after using some of today’s amazingly powerful DSP software, it sometimes seems like there is. One product that definitely has the magic touch is iZotope RX, an au…
[Feature Article] Talking to BT about his upcoming thro… - BT Goes Back to the '80s
There are few musicians who are as skilled with technology and as articulate about it as BT. For his latest project, a band called All Hail The Silence, BT and Christian Burns produced an album as if…
[Feature Article] An Interview With Producer, Engineer … - Production Insights from a Metal Master
Over the last 15 years, Eyal Levi has become a highly respected producer, engineer and musician in the world of metal music. He’s worked on 40 albums that have made it to the Billboard Top 200 chart,…
[Feature Article] Sound Synthesis, Sound Design and Aud… - What's the Frequency?
As we saw in the previous article of this series, if a waveform is recurrent, it is called a periodic wave. From a theoretical point of view, for example, musical notes are all based on a periodic wa…
[Feature Article] Surviving as a Hired Gun in the Studio - Advice on How to be Successful as a Studio Musician
Between the proliferation of home studios, digital music technology, the Internet, and the development of music genres that are programmed rather than played, the amount of session work available, as…
[Feature Article] Wave's Anatomy - Sound Synthesis, Sound Design and Audio Processing - Part 2
In the previous article we saw that sound is made of waves. Like many things in life, they can be simple or complex. You can't find an absolutely "pure" sound in nature. The closest to that is the s…
[Feature Article] Classic Gear Spotlight: The Vox AC30 - The Amp That Armed the British Invasion
In today’s digitally dominated world of music gear, one way to tell how highly a guitar amp is regarded is whether it’s been emulated in major amp-modeling software packages. One of the amps you'll f…