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Voltage Control by Michael Marans
Let's make some noise, part A-tapping into your synth's noise generator to build a drum kit. The third in our groundup series on programming synths.

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Very Deep Clinic: SoundFlower Nursery
by Orren Merton
Some fertile applications for this free utility from Cycling '74.

Very Deep Clinic: Effective Sound Effects
by Chris Meyers
Using sound effects libraries to add spice to your music - as well as to cover up problems.

52MIDI Mockup Microscope: composer Colin O’Malley
by Frederick Russ
The fourth in our series of interviews with composers about how they did what they did. Download the music from www.VirtualInstrumentsMag.com and follow along.

Trends: Do you use Mac or PC?
All current Macs use Intel chips and can run Windows. What does this mean for musicians?

Random Tips
Building EXS24 keyswitch programs

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Digidesign Strike ultimate virtual drummer
by Nick Batzdorf
The drum machine reaches new heightsr

Sample Logic Ambience Impacts Rhythms
by Nick Batzdorf
A media composer’s or sound designer’s toolkit

Reason Pianos
by Nick Batzdorf
The popular music production instrument gets its own first-rate sampled grand piano.

Big Fish Laid Back Music Construction Kits
by Chris Meyer
Chill Downtempo Loops & Beats, Acid Jazz City, and Funk Quartet

Big Fish Brain: One Stroke Done
by Chris Meyer
Clean, muscular, tight: a collection of well-recorded drum loops from Bryan "Brain" Mantia

Submersible Music DrumCore 2
by Lee Sherman
This powerful loop librarian-browser/ player-randomizer-module adds more A-List drummers to its formidable collection and gains some welcome features.

Waves SSL 4000
by Jason Scott Alexander
After a year of collaboration with the people at SSL, this is the result: a modeled collection of the famous EQ and dynamics in those mile-long consoles.

 

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