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“Salsa music could be compared to the gears in a watch.”

That observation comes from a man who should know. Mario Duque has been playing salsa and other styles of Latin music for more than 20 years. “There are so many moving ...

When you think of cities with a big market for live reggae music, Wisconsin may not be the first place that comes to mind — unless you’ve spoken with Gerald Witherspoon. He says his Milwaukee-based band, In Black ’N White, has no difficulty ...

Packed with over 2,100 sounds, MPCsounds.com releases the ''Vintage Machinez 2'' drum library for the Akai MPC500/1000/2000/2500/3000/4000 featuring Hip Hop style designs of drum machine classics! The library comes as 3 separate MPC ...

I guess most of us have recorded a full rock band. Maybe we’ve also recorded a good orchestra with brass, horns, and some percussion. But what happens when a touring band asks you to record them while visiting another city — and being ...

Creating music without borders is Fareed Haque’s specialty. His core desire is to seamlessly weave South Asian classical music—including Indian and Pakistani influences—with jazz, rock, and Western classical forms. His latest album, ...

These days it seems every sound developer has at least one high-caliber, comprehensive orchestral library comprising each of the four instrument families: strings, brass, woodwinds, and percussion. In 2002, Sonic Implants released Symphonic ...

ModernBeats'' releases "Vintage Machinez 2", the sequel to its Vintage Machinez Sample Library, offering users a 21st century design of all old drum machine classics divided into 3 major categories for quick loading and ease of use. ...

This bundle of stage- and studio-ready drum mics consists of one KM212 kick drum mic, whose capsule design specializes in capturing high SPL sources with frequencies extending below 100Hz; two TM211 dynamic mics designed for toms, ...

Everyone is looking for great sounding, versatile mics that don’t break the bank or cost so much that you’re afraid to use them in certain applications. The SE Electronics line of mics may be the answer.

I got a number of SE Electronics ...

M-Audio, a leading provider of creative tools for computer-centric musicians, is proud to announce its new ProSessions™ Producer series of professional instrument libraries. Co-produced by Sonic Implants in EXS24, HALion, Kontakt, MachFive ...