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By now you’ve all probably seen that excellent video of Kid Beyond illustrating his usage of Ableton Live. Pretty cool, right? If one had such a system, you could loop yourself playing guitar, beatboxing, etc., all perfectly in sync with programmed drum/MIDI tracks and other performers.

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Ready to test your ears? In a brand-new Computer music (mag) Special (vol. 25: Guitar Power!), they pit £7k of real amps and hardware recording outboard against two sub-£300 digitally-modelled solutions to see if traditional guitarists – and you - can hear the difference. Try it out for youself on read more »
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French DJ/producer Richard Grey has been a fixture on his country’s house scene for over a decade now, and he’s worked as a remixer and producer with names as massive as Junior Jack, Armand Van Helden, Harry ´choo choo´ Romero, Ron Carroll, Paul Johnson, Robbie Rivera, Ralphi Rosario and the big ma read more »
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I always knew that Daft Punk were arch samplists and nickers of beats, riffs and such-like from a wide variety of source material.

I didn't realise quite how much of their material was pilfered, though.

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Introduced in 2007, the Kenton Killamix Mini is a new solution for those DJs and live performers looking for a small, but flexible controller to pair with their computers. The unit itself is almost the exact same width of an Apple MacBook, so it will likely fit in well with any DJ set up, especial read more »
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You dream about tone, you practice relentlessly, you dedicate yourself to mastering your instrument read more »
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Computers are endlessly flexible for music — but how do they function as actual, playable instruments? As computer software matures, finding a way to make these tools more fun to play is increasingly the aim. Native Instruments’ first crack at a “super instrument” with KORE 1 had some fans, but was read more »
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Gibson Guitar has announced the world’s first self tuning guitar with what the guitar manufacturers claims is “robotic technology.” It is even calling the self-tuner, the Gibson Robot Guitar (Yeesh! Nothing makes you want to run out to your local guitar store with a name like that! —Ed.).



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In today’s over-saturated virtual instrument market there are plenty of powerful samplers out there vying for the attention (and green) of your average music software consumer. This is much more apparent on the PC end of things where there are dozens upon dozens of alternatives both in plug-in (Kon read more »
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he debate over copy protection in music software and anti-piracy tactics continues to heat up. Now Adam Schabtach of Audio Damage, the popular plug-in developer, has fired off a call for a boycott of products that use PACE and the iLok hardware dongle. And that means that Waves is again a target, i read more »
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