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Arturia has had great success with their “V” line of soft synths that look and sound like the classic cars of the synth world: the Moog Modular and Minimoog, Yamaha CS-80, Roland Jupiter-8, Sequential Circuits Prophet-5 and Prophet ...

As a DJ who routinely tests new remixes-in-progress at my gigs, having a top-notch mastering tool isn’t just a “would be nice” but an absolute essential. Izotope Ozone 4 is a

Upright Done Right

by Geoff Grace

Remember the Roland VS-880? By putting a multitrack hard disk recorder and mixer inside a compact and relatively affordable box, Roland had a huge hit. The first product of Roland’s partnership with Cakewalk inherits the V-Studio legacy, ...

In the immortal words of Han Solo, “She may not look like much, but she’s got it where it counts, kid.” My initial reaction to the MicroKorg XL was a little like Luke Skywalker’s after his first look at the Millennium Falcon. All the ...

Have you seen those Gorillaz-ish cartoon people on Mackie’s U420 web page? The eyebrows on the “internet video producer” make me wonder just what kind of videos he’s producing. If you’re reading this magazine, you’re probably closest ...

Why record through a direct box, let alone an $875 one, when you could just run a cable between your keyboard’s outs and the line-level ins on your audio interface? In the case of the Manley Tube Direct, the answer is that your keyboard ...

The original Nord Electro and Electro 2 (reviewed Dec. ’01 and Nov. ’03, respectively) brought keyboardists a new concept: a focused batch of vintage keyboards in an incredibly small, light, fireengine red package. ...