Digital Music Reviews

Overview Powered by the same technology behind many of today's greatest hits, Avid® Recording Studio instantly transforms your Mac or PC into a full-featured studio. Capture guitars, instruments, and vocals in pristine, 24-bit/48 kHz quality with the included Pro Tools® SE recording software and M-Audio® Fast Track® audio interface. Then fatten your guitar sound, deepen the groove, and get clean, pristine tones with Pro Tools SE. You can also add backing tracks with loops from the huge included library, then polish your songs and share them with the world. Avid Recording Studio makes it easy to create stunning audio projects—even if you've never recorded before.

Superior Drummer® 2.0 Superior Drummer 2.0 is the professional drum sampler flagship from Toontrack Music. With its excellent sounding sample-engine, its phenomenal realistic room sounds and its unrivaled extensive feature-list, it truly sets the industry standard in contemporary digital drum production. 20 GB of excellent drum sounds for professional music-production. Recorded with extensive and adjustable microphone-bleed and the unique room sound of legendary recording studio Avatar New York. Mixer presets by top producer Neil Dorfsman (Sting, Bruce Springsteen, Dire Straits, Kiss, Joss Stone, Genesis, John Mayer and Chris Cornell).

Tone control like an amp. No pointing, no clicking. POD HD delivers hands-on control of your tone. Just like on your amp, you can reach out and grab what you need: Drive, Bass, Mid, Treble, Presence, Channel Volume, Master Volume, Tap Tempo, Channel buttons and more. Take an in-depth look at the top panel

Edit faster with less clicks Drum editing deluxe Developed in conjunction with recording professionals and top-flight studio drummers, Cubase 6 raises the bar for multitrack drum editing tasks on all levels. Incorporating an entire new transient and tempo detection, phase stable audio quantization and drum replacement functions, Cubase 6 offers a complete toolset to perfect the rhythm, feel and flavor of live-recorded drum tracks. Whether it is about non-destructively correct timing issues or changing the tempo of a drum performance seamlessly — a tight groove is just a few clicks away. A new transient detection — to slice them all

Pro Tools Recording Systems Designed Specifically for Guitar Players Overview Eleven Rack is a revolutionary new guitar recording and effects processing system designed to eliminate the challenges guitarists have faced in the studio and on stage. Say goodbye to the lackluster guitar amp “models” of yesteryear: Eleven Rack utilizes a unique tone cloning design and one-of-a-kind, custom-designed True-Z input to re-create the experience of playing through a full guitar rig. By combining studio-standard Pro Tools® software with a DSP-accelerated high-resolution interface, Eleven Rack puts professional recording into the hands of every guitar player. Whether you’re tracking in the studio or playing on stage, Eleven Rack delivers fresh, mind-blowing, hyper-realistic guitar amp and effects tones that will inspire your best performances.

The only MIDI interface for Apple iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Together with an Apple iPhone, iP ad, or iPod touch, and the free MIDI Memo Recorder app, MIDI Mobilizer can play, record, and backup MIDI information any time, any place. Whether you want to capture a quick musi cal idea or back up the settings of all your MIDI gear , MIDI Mobilizer is the most simple and compact solution for everything MIDI. MIDI Mobilizer is compatible with all models of iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. MIDI Memo Recorder app. Free at the Apple App Store, MIDI Memo Recorder is a simple application that records and plays any MIDI data. Its streamlined interface makes it easy to store, find, recall and even share all your synth sounds, POD® pa tches, musical inspirations, and more. Record and play MIDI. Recording and playing MIDI Memos couldn't be easier. Three simple controls – a slider and two buttons – are all you need to record, play, pause, a

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