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Mar 1, 2005
If human evolution is defined by increasing levels of complexity as time passes, Stylus RMX shows just how far people have come since banging bones on...
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Feb 1, 2005
Despite the blinding speed of technological progress, 21 years after its birth, the MIDI standard is still heavily in use a testament to its strength...
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Feb 1, 2005
A couple of years ago, when the word came in that Apple had purchased Emagic, the reactions were very mixed. Many PC users were certainly put into a tight...
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Feb 1, 2005
Cakewalk is one of the great success stories in the music-software business. With so much talk about Steinberg Cubase and Apple Logic these days, it's...
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Feb 1, 2005
In the mid-1900s, flange effects were first made possible chiefly as a side effect of tape players' design and operation. With two tapes simultaneously...
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Feb 1, 2005
In the late '90s, a small company called Nemesys debuted a revolutionary product that pioneered the concept of streaming samples off a PC's hard drive....
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Jan 1, 2005
There was a time only a few short years ago that digital vinyl was fresh, cutting-edge science. Stanton's FinalScratch was the trailblazer, the progenitor...
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Jan 1, 2005
In the world of recording, a sharp divide still exists between the recording engineers and the many traditional musicians (guitar and bass players among...
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Jan 1, 2005
One of the most common questions that people ask is, What sequencer should I use? The next is usually, Should I get a Mac or a PC? These days, the answers...
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Jan 1, 2005
Well, regardless of what the pundits have to say about the health of the economy, the deluge of products that Remix received for review this year seems...
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Dec 1, 2004
The past few years have seen an insane increase in the amount of processing power afforded by the latest generation of CPUs. And, finally, the nearly...
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Dec 1, 2004
It's no secret that the laptop is quickly becoming the preferred performance tool and production notepad for many musicians and producers. With the increasing...
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Nov 1, 2004
It's been only a few years since Ableton burst onto the scene with the first version of Live, and in that short time, there's no denying that this program...
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Nov 1, 2004
Aside from a solid sequencer and a fast computer, one of the most important things in any production arsenal is a good collection of realistic-sounding...
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Nov 1, 2004
Throughout the years, computers have changed the art of sampling Once upon a time, professional digital samplers were obese, beefy boxes that required...
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Oct 1, 2004
Once upon a time, DJs' crates were full of acoustic music with no sequenced beats in sight. As synthesizers, drum machines and samplers showed up on the...
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Oct 1, 2004
It's official: There are now more digital audio workstations than you can shake a stick at. And they come in myriad colors, shapes, sizes and flavors...
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Sep 1, 2004
The audio industry loves to foster that whole fish-out-of-water feeling as often as possible. And only at the annual Summer NAMM convention in Nashville...
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Sep 1, 2004
DIGIDESIGN COMMAND|8 CONTROL SURFACE FOR PRO TOOLS Digidesign has joined the small-format DAW-control-surface fray with its new Command|8 ($1,295), a...
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Sep 1, 2004
The human voice is arguably the most important form of communication in the world. People gravitate to it instinctively, almost involuntarily. Producers...
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Aug 1, 2004
Simply mention the words stutter or glitch among DJ and remixing circles, and you're sure to conjure a discussion revolving around artists such as BT,...
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Aug 1, 2004
MIDI, short for Musical Instrument Digital Interface, is a common interface protocol originally developed to allow two or more synthesizers to to each...
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Aug 1, 2004
NATIVE INSTRUMENTS ELEKTRIK PIANO SOFTWARE INSTRUMENT (MAC/PC) Software emulations of classic instruments seem to be all the rage these days, but few...
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Jul 1, 2004
Few musicians would argue that one of the most popular and most mythologized analog synthesizers is the Moog Minimoog Model D. When it hit the streets...
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Jul 1, 2004
About a year ago, Remix examined the idea of building three project studios on some very strict budgets (Another Bit in the Wall, May 2003). That article...
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