ALTADENA, CA: Monday morning at 11am is a great time to maneuver around L.A. The freeways leading in and out of the city are abnormally empty, rocketing me from downtown to Pasadena in under 20 minutes. From there it’s about another ten minutes straight up into the hills of Altadena. Read more...
It’s comforting to know there are so many classic pieces of gear still to be emulated.
The latest beloved hardware to go into the box is a classic Abbey Road mastering EQ that migrated into the mix phase for the engineers there – the Waves RS56 Universal Tone Control a.k.a Read more...
PACE launched a new desktop-based version of their industry-leading license manager late Sunday night. Unfortunately, the new release left some iLok users with a bit more than “Zero Downtime.”
Professionals know to expect some degree of hiccups and incompatibility issues with almost any type of new software launch these days, Read more...
Ableton’s Push is many things, but at its very essence it’s an instrument that’s been created for the electronic musician. Not to say that it can’t be used by a traditional musician or instrumentalist, but it most definitely is an innovative and hugely powerful weapon on the front lines of Read more...
Sample Logic is a company who’s aims to develop “cutting-edge virtual instruments that ‘blur the line between music and sound design.'”
They have clearly met their own expectations with the release of Thunder Springs, which features the distinctive sound of spring drums and thunder tubes, in myriad variations (see full Read more...
