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Mar 01, 2010
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Denon DJ DN-HP500
What Professional headphones
Why Produce clean audio while withstanding the highvolume
demands of today’s DJs.
How 1,300mW input power, 40mm driver, 40 Ohms
impedance, 103dB output, 10Hz–28kHz frequency
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Mar 01, 2010
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This issue, we’re going for gadgets galore—with a bunch of inexpensive,
tried-and-tested groovy goodies for solving pernicious problems.
Fellowes CD Storage Boxes ($18 street,
www.fellowes.com). Problem: You have a
zillion
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Mar 01, 2010
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( www.yellowtools.com , free)
Fig. 3. Within this Spartan interface, Independence
Free allows for a great deal of editing options—
and there are several other pages, too.
Independence 2.5 comes in four versions,
from
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Mar 01, 2010
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( www.soundsonline.com , free)
Fig. 4. The Play engine offers several
editable parameters for sculpting sounds.
Independence Free isn’t the only “Are
You Serious? This is Free?” virtual
instrument: Meet EastWest Quantum
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Mar 01, 2010
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( www.spectrasonics.net , $279 street)
Fig. 5. Trilian’s main page covers the basics,
but other pages let you drill deep into the
STEAM audio engine.
Spectrasonics started the trend to huge
libraries; their Trilogy bass
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Mar 01, 2010
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( www.vir2.com , $399.95 street)
Fig. 6. The popular Kontakt Player includes
sophisticated scripting options and effects.
Percussion samples tend to be short,
so do the math: There’s 19GB of content,
representing over
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Mar 01, 2010
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( www.garritan.com , $149.95 download)
Fig. 7. Garritan’s Aria engine has an intuitive,
friendly interface that belies the program’s power.
GPO4 uses Garritan’s Aria Player (Figure
7, VST RTAS AU standalone); the sample
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Mar 01, 2010
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( www.ueberschall.com , $99.95 street)
Fig. 8. Ueberschall’s Elastik engine is ideal for loops.
This library isn’t gigantic—1.5GB—but
Ueberschall has a unique approach
that weds loop libraries with virtual
instruments.
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Mar 01, 2010
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In the old days, organizing sounds in
the studio was easy: The Hammond B3
and or piano sat in one corner, the
drum set in another, and if there was a
synth, you organized sounds within the
synth itself.
But then came
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Feb 01, 2010
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REALLY COOL TOOLS FOR AUDIO-TO-GO
From mics to monitoring to multitrack recording, we’ve unearthed some great
goodies for mobile audio.
Shure X2u XLR-to-USB Adapter($130
MSRP, $99 street; www.shure.com )
Got XLR mic?
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Feb 01, 2010
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BETTER PLUG-INS, AUTOMATIC MIXING,
COMBO CONTROL SURFACES—THE RULES
OF THE MIXING GAME ARE CHANGING
Mixing is the penultimate part of the
recording process, just before you
entrust your music to mastering. But
we’ve come
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Feb 01, 2010
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Cakewalk’s V-Studio 100 wears many hats, but one says “mixing machine.” Yes, we’ve figured out that the state of
the economy is even more annoying
these days than a late-night celebrity
gossip TV show. So we like to review
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Feb 01, 2010
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This cost-effective software suite offers four groovy plug-ins. You want plug-ins that go beyond the
freebies included in your DAW, but
don’t want to bust your budget—meet
Scarlett (VST AU RTAS). You get
dynamics, EQ,
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Feb 01, 2010
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Roland SP-404SX
What Linear wave sampler
Why Offers 44.1kHz 16-bit sound quality, improved DSP effects, a more
versatile pattern sequencer, and easier data management.
How Includes 29 DSP effects (filter, delay, unique
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Jan 01, 2010
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Samson Tech Zoom R16What USB and battery-powered recording device.Why Three production tools in one device: a multitrack recorder, audio interface, and control surface.These provide all the tools necessary to create
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