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PC Magazine
November 25, 2003 |
Make Beautiful Music You've probably heard this refrain: Those newfangled musicians don't play like the old masters. With today's desktop tools, though, you don't need a lot of training to make satisfying music.   |
Macworld
August 2000
Jim Heid |
Make Some Noise Turn Your Mac Into a Recording Studio (Without Going Broke) |
Macworld
January 23, 2007
Christopher Breen |
Live 6 Loop-based sequencer improvement over traditional digital audio workstations. |
Macworld
June 2001
Christopher Breen |
Cubase VST/32 Audio workstation supports higher bit rate, easier collaboration... |
Macworld
May 31, 2005
Peter Kirn |
Reason 3 Electronic musicians should love Propellerhead Software's Reason 3 for OS X 10.3 or 10.4. There's simply nothing else on the market that offers this kind of simple, powerful routing and hardware-style control, or that packs this many instruments into one box at this price. |
Popular Mechanics
February 2010
Glenn Derene |
How to Set Up the Ultimate Desktop Recording Studio With the right software and a few plug-in instruments, anyone can be a rock star in his own home. Here's how to use a MIDI keyboard and software like M-Powered Essential and GarageBand to become the next Beck. |
Macworld
January 2005
Peter Kirn |
Live 4 When it comes to real-time music creation, Ableton's Live is in a category all its own. |
Macworld
March 2003
Christopher Breen |
Cubase SX 1.0 OS X-native version of venerable music-production application needs a minor tune-up |
Macworld
July 23, 2007
Lee Sherman |
Sequel 1.0.1 Entry-level loop-based music program playing to GarageBand's audience. |
Macworld
July 19, 2005
Peter Kirn |
Soundtrack Pro An all-purpose sound tool cuts drudgery out of audio editing and design, Soundtrack Pro strikes a good balance between the needs of musicians, video editors, audio editors, and multimedia pros. |
Macworld
November 9, 2007
Peter Kirn |
Logic Studio This all-in-one music creation package is easier to use and more playable. |
Macworld
January 2002
Jim Heid |
Sequencer Gets Face-lift and Multiprocessor Support Mark of the Unicorn's Digital Performer 3.0.1 is a sublimely usable program whose elegance is enriched by excellent documentation. If you don't need native support for VST plug-ins, Digital Performer is the sequencer for you... |
Macworld
September 2000
David Ferris |
Trends: The Music Revolution It's now possible to make music on your Mac for less money than ever before. |
Macworld
September 2001
David Ferris |
Pro File: The Digital Drummer Omar Hakim has gone from banging on a toy drum as a child to mastering a Roland V-Drums kit in his adulthood, never missing a beat. How has the jazz and pop percussionist kept on top of things as the music world has gone increasingly digital? |
PC Magazine
June 5, 2006
Bill Machrone |
M-Audio Session Beginners looking to create music on their PCs should consider M-Audio Session. |
Macworld
December 12, 2007
Christopher Breen |
WireTap Studio 1.0.1 Intuitive audio-capture tool delivers non-destructive editing. |
Wired
May 2002 |
Six Machines That Changed The Music World Pop musicians and producers have turned happy accidents into great records for more than 50 years. But the history of house and techno, in particular, is underpinned with fits of serendipity and creative perversions of recording technology... |
PC World
July 19, 2007
Kirk Steers |
Record Better Audio Teach your PC to be a good listener. The more accurately your system captures audio, the better you'll sound. |
Macworld
April 14, 2005
Peter Kirn |
Logic Pro 7.01 If you can adapt to its sometimes-idiosyncratic way of working, Logic's gorgeous-looking and great-sounding set of sound tools and toys can be irresistible. There's simply no better value in all-around audio bundles. |
Macworld
July 2003
Christopher Breen |
Live 2.0 and Phrazer 2.0 These two Mac apps represent the highs and lows of loop-based sequencing |
Linux Journal
September 30, 2006
Matthew Geddes |
A Basic Text-Based Recording Studio Shrink-wrapped audio gear too expensive? Too inflexible? Perhaps not geeky enough? Why not use a Linux box as the main workhorse in your studio? Here is a simple method, which may be built upon, for recording layered, multitrack recordings. |
Macworld
July 2004
David Leishman |
Virtual Rhythm Sections Spectrasonics' Trilogy bass module and FXpansion's BFD drum kits are examples of sampling done right; they offer an amazing array of sound-customization tools. |
PC Magazine
December 20, 2006 |
A Laptop for Home Audio Recording The suggested laptop specifications and peripherals you'll need to create your own home recording studio. |
The Motley Fool
September 12, 2007
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Apple Rocks Apple arms musicians, again, with a software upgrade, Logic Studio. Between professional studio effects, a library of instrument samples, and slick post-production functionality, it's a complete package. |
PC Magazine
February 3, 2004
Emile Menasche |
Make Music like a Pro The Digidesign M-Box with Pro Tools LE 6.1.1 is a winner. Pro Tools LE is a multitrack audio and MIDI recording and mixing environment for musicians and producers. |
Macworld
December 7, 2006
Christopher Breen |
Fission 1.1 Easy-does-it audio editor seeks gaps, splits files. |
Home Theater
March 28, 2005 |
Coming Attractions Soundations's new F Series support furniture technology... WireWorld's new Rainbow 5.1 analog cable package... |
Popular Mechanics
February 2010
Glenn Derene |
The Cable Guide: Know Your Computer and TV Wires The different wires that are needed for your home entertainment equipment are listed here. |
Macworld
February 2003
David Leishman |
Deck 3.5 Midrange music-production tool moves to OS X: Deck 3.5.1 is a fine choice for musicians who want a reasonably priced application for audio recording and production. |
PC World
October 2004
Chris Manners |
Save Radio Programs on Your PC Designed to act as a radio recorder, this $69 unit proved to be easy to install and fun to use ... with one significant limitation. |
PC Magazine
November 30, 2004
Troy Dreier |
Streaming-Audio Capture Tools These six tools let you capture live audio streams to listen to whenever and wherever you want. |
PC Magazine
October 11, 2006 |
Converting Audio in Audiovisual Files Conversion of analog videotape to digital format to be stored as a file in on a computer using analog 8mm video camera and a capture device to the PC. Video converts, but audio does not. |
Linux Journal
May 2, 2002
Tom Poe |
Community-Based Recording Studios: A Look into the Future A proposal to build free recording studios within communities as a way to increase the Public Domain and circumvent the recording industry. |
Wired
May 2002
Erik Davis |
Songs in the Key of F12 First software turned the laptop into a musical instrument. Now who's in control: the machine or the musician? |
PC World
November 2004
Patrick Norton |
Rip Your Records Yearn to hear your old albums again? Here's everything you need to digitize them and then play them anywhere you can play an MP3. |
Macworld
June 25, 2007
Peter Kirn |
Soundtrack Pro 2 Improved editing and new features help you sync audio with video. |
Home Toys
August 2004
Michael N. Marcus |
For Convenience and Coolness, Put Your Home Entertainment Components in a Rack. Today, the home audio-video rack is popular again, probably influenced by the huge amount of rackable data equipment, such as patch panels, hubs, switches and servers. |
Audiophilia
September 2003
Roy Harris |
Channel Islands Audio D/A Converter and Vac-1 Power Supply The VDA-1 DAC and VAC-1 power supply may be a cost effective way to achieve a highly resolved, grain free and dimensional presentation. However, there is a possibility that one may experience some extra energy in the upper midrange and lower treble. |
Macworld
August 2003
Rick Lepage |
Care for Your Mac Cocktail performs 20 system tasks and interface adjustments, arranged in five basic categories: Disks, System, Files, Network, and Interface. |
Popular Mechanics
June 2008 |
3 Expert Sound Improvements for Your Road Trip Recommendations for updating your car audio systems. |
PC World
February 6, 2001
Eric Dahl |
Hercules Game Theater XP: A Powerful, Versatile Sound Station Make DVDs sound better with this sound card and rack combo... |
Home Toys
February 2004
Nick Colleran |
Tales from the Input Side A recording engineer talks about how room acoustics can cause bass to get "lost" -- and how you can remedy the problem. |
Home Theater
August 22, 2005
Darryl Wilkinson |
A Panel with Power A system that moves audio digitally from one location to another over new or existing audio, CAT5, or A-Bus wiring using just two component devices: Can multiroom audio really be this cool and this simple? |
PC World
January 2005
Rebecca Freed |
Quick Takes: A PC in Your Mac Microsoft's Virtual PC 7 enables Macs running OS X and the G5 processor to handle Windows-only applications. |
PC Magazine
November 2, 2004
Emile Menasche |
Your Music The emergence of legal download services, dedicated network audio receivers and obscenely inexpensive hard drives have made a computer the next must-have component for your home entertainment system. |
Macworld
May 17, 2005
Robert Ellis |
Guest PC 1.2 Guest PC 1.2 lets you run a virtual Windows computer on your Mac. At almost half the price of Virtual PC 7 (which costs $129 in a similar configuration), some users will find it a money-saving way to run the occasional Windows program. |
PC World
March 2004
Josh Taylor |
Digital Audio Hi-Fi These devices let you play digital audio through your stereo system, and the only finger you have to lift is the one on your remote control. |
Macworld
January 2005
Robert Ellis |
Virtual PC 7 Virtual PC creates a virtual Windows machine inside your Mac. You can copy and paste---and even drag and drop---files from Windows to your Mac, and vice versa. You can display a Windows Start menu, as well as the icons of your running Windows applications, in your OS X Dock. |
IDB America
August 2001
Roger Hamilton |
Music from the other side of time Pre-Columbian instruments remain, but the music is gone forever... |
