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- Roland MV-8800
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Many producers of groove-based music prefer to work on a hardware music production system like the new Roland MV-8800…
In the late 1980s and early 1990s hip-hop, house and electronic dance music was often sequenced using Atari computers and software such as Notator/Creator (later to become Logic). The combination of rock-solid […] - ART Tube MP
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ART have transformed their popular TUBE MP Project Series valve preamp into an easy-to-use USB audio interface…
When the original TUBE MP appeared, over a decade ago, it sold like hot cakes. And to date, more than 100,000 of these very affordable microphone preamps have been sold. ART have been refining them […] - MindPrint TRIO USB
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MindPrint TRIO USB has all the essentials for recording, analogue sound shaping and studio monitoring in one box plus a USB interface…
If you’re a young musician into home recording, the chances are that you work with a DAW of some kind. You may never have experienced the efficiency of a classic […] - Presonus FireStudio
Based on their popular FirePod, Foscurite’s new FireStudio audio interface boasts 26 in/26 out and flexible control console routing…
For some time now the term ‘music technology’ has mainly been associated with electronica, samples, loops, MIDI keyboards and one-man project studios. There’s nothing wrong with that, but at long last we’re seeing a resurgence of rock […] - MOTU 8pre
What would you like sir – a multiple-mic audio interface or an analogue-to-digital converter for your existing recording setup?
Mark of the Unicorn (MOTU) is one of the oldest and most well respected music software developers and manufacturer of audio recording products around today. They developed Performer, one of the first MIDI sequencers for the […] - Konnekt 24D
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With built-in effects from their PowerCore platform, TC’s new mid-priced audio interface looks like one heck of a bargain…
Compact audio interfaces are selling well at the moment. Consequently, increasing numbers of manufacturers not always associated with this type of product are focusing their attention in this area. For example, by adding […] - Fostex CR500
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The Fostex CR500 is a next generation CD mastering recorder and playback machine offering pro-quality features to the project studio owner…
Not so long ago, owning a project studio was a relatively expensive business and almost entirely hardware based, apart from MIDI sequencing software. Quality mixers and multi-track machines didn’t come cheap. […] - Boss BR-699
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Smaller than most notebook computers, can an 8-track digital recorder this small really deliver the goods?
The costs of laptop recording are dropping all the time. But for many young strapped-for-cash guitarists, quality mobile recording remains frustratingly out of reach. Recently, though, several well known Japanese companies have begun manufacturing portable […] - Alesis io/26
FireWire audio interfaces with eight preamps are appearing at such a rate these days that we can hardly keep up with them. But apart from the obvious similarities, once you look closer it’s surprising how much variation on a theme there really is with these devices.
Take the Alesis io/26, for example. Whereas most interfaces in […] - Recording Formats
The R and D teams in the audio industry have provided us with many different ways to capture sound over the years. Keith Gemmell examines the different formats used for recording, from wax, through analouge tape to digital hard disk.
Recording sound was actually underway as early as 1806 when Thomas Young, an English physician recorded […]