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Making Friends With A Drum Machine
Norman Weinberg gives us a dozen ideas for making a drum machine into the most flexible metronome you've ever seen, and quite a useful tool.
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Do-It-Yourself Drum Triggers
Gino Robair gives us a project that provides a cheap and easy way to amplify sounds and allow us to process subtle harmonics.
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A Drummer’s Studio Sampling Guide
Sampling, or recording an instrument at various pitches and volumes in order to use it later, is a vital skill for recording. Here’s how to do it.
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USB MIDI Controller Punchout
We compare two new boxes side-by-side that offer tons of possibilities for rhythm making: the M-Audio Trigger Finger and the Korg padKONTROL.
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Buying Guide: The Best iPhone Music Apps
iPhone users are annoying. Look at them with their shiny black status symbols, absent-mindedly ignoring the world around them (pay attention to us normals!). As they smugly text a witty line that only those of privileged pedigree would enjoy, one begins to wonder if the user is in fact the biggest flaw of the iPhone. So momentarily suspend any anti iPhone hang-ups (pun intended) and check out the practicality of the vast array of iPhone music applications before Apple trademarks the letter “i” and takes over the world.
Gear
Alesis Makes Mobile Music With Pro Track Recording Kit
Alesis' ProTrack Mobile Recording Kit, which combines the ProTrack handheld recorder for iPod with Alesis’ AM2 Stereo Microphone Set, is now shipping.
