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Image Line Software announces Edison

Image Line Software has announced that Edison has matured into a fully featured sample editing and recording tool, deserving of a unique position i...

FourTrack IPhone App updated to v1.2

FourTrack has been updated to v1.2. FourTrack users can now import tracks, complete with pan and gain settings, directly into RiffWorks recording s...

RiffWorks guitar recording and collaboration software updated

Sonoma Wire Works has released a free update for RiffWorks Standard recording software (Windows and Mac). RiffWorks Standard v2.5 is now the ideal ...

Koblo relaunches NexSyn

Koblo has announced the re-release of the NexSyn software synthesizer. NexSyn is now offered at the low price of $49.99 US via Koblo's online s...

Image Line Software presents Gross Beat with Xmas Sale

Image Line Software has announced its latest VST and FL Studio effect – Gross Beat. Gross Beat is a time manipulation effect designed for repetit...

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» Audio Ease releases Altiverb v6.3 16.12.2008

» Blue Cat Audio updates Analysis Pack and launches Winter special offers 16.12.2008

» G-Sonique releases Pultronic EQ-110P 16.12.2008

» Vienna Symphonic Library releases Solo Strings II 16.12.2008

» Muse Research announces RECEPTOR 2 PRO and RECEPTOR 2 PRO MAX 16.12.2008

» Victor Cerullo releases Max Magic Microtuner 2.0 16.12.2008

Features

Weekly Editor's Choice Award - Aria Maestosa v1.2b3

Aria Maestosa is an open-source MIDI tracker/editor. It lets you compose, edit and play midi files with a few clicks in a user-friendly interface o...

Tom's Music Thing - Ten awesome homemade guitars

J chot writes: HEY GUESS WHAT!!! I spent the entire day at work searching the words "made guitar" and "built guitar"! Here are the most interesting...

December Shootout: 7 Pro Audio Software Products Rated

Digital Music Doctor announces the release of a new analysis which compares seven of the most popular Digital Audio Workstation software products f...

Weekly Editor's Choice Award - Analog Box v2.39

Analog Box is a low level, circuit based, modular software synthesizer. You put sound objects on the screen, connect them together, listen and adju...

Tom's Music Thing - Johnny Marr in "The Story of the Guitar"

Alan Yentob's 3 hour series The Story of The Guitar has been simultaneously fascinating and irritating. Fascinating because there are plenty of...

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» Weekly Editor's Choice Award - Strum Acoustic Session v1.0 21.11.2008

» Weekly Editor's Choice Award - Sonic Charge Synplant v1.0 14.11.2008

» Tom's Music Thing - Tom Bugs teaches DIY synth building in four hours 14.11.2008

» Weekly Editor's Choice Award - Numerology v2.0 beta 29 07.11.2008

» Tom's Music Thing - Review: Arturia Origin 07.11.2008

» Weekly Editor's Choice Award - Livid Union v2.5.2 31.10.2008

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Music Blog

Oldest known recordings of computer generated music unveiled

A scratchy recording of Baa Baa Black Sheep and a truncated version of In the Mood are thought to be the oldest known recordings of computer genera...

The 100 most cliched cliches in pop song titles

Andy Baio has been writing about The Whitburn Project - a vast spreadsheet with data about the 37,000 songs that have been hits on the Billboard Ch...