Rich Hardesty

Raise your hand if you've spent a considerable amount of time memorizing, or at least creating, your own personalized cheat sheet that catalogs...

I’m a songwriter and musician who composes and records at home. Once in a while, I may bring in another musician buddy with a special skill on a...

Native Instruments-a company whose reputation was built on software as opposed to hardware-just released their Audio Kontrol 1 into a market already...

My wants and needs in an audio interface today are very specific. I work solo 90% of the time, so I rarely ever need more than two analog inputs...

The B4 has been one of my most regularly used and cherished VST plug-ins, so just for the sake of nostalgia, I took a look back in the archive of...

Back in early 2002, while I was reviewing another acoustic drum instrument plug-in, I had what I thought was an epiphany. Why not design the...

E-MU's last product entry for the PC audio-interface market was five years ago. I don't know why they stayed away so long, but they've...

Though no longer as popular a sample format as it was just three years ago, the lowly SoundFont still has a strong legion of users worldwide sharing...

By now you must have heard some rumblings about what may prove to be the best-sounding type of reverb plug-ins: they're termed "impulse...

Now that writable and rewritable DVD's are all the rage right now, not a lot of excitement can be drummed up for new and decidedly better...

As a very regular (and happy) user of Native Instruments simulated Hammond organ, the B4, it was nice to see them release a set of add-on sounds for...

(VST 2.0, MOTU MAS and Digidesign DirectConnect)

I recently had the pleasure of using Native Instrument's Hammond B3 plug-in appropriately dubbed...

Antares Audio Technologies, the software DSP innovator that brought the world the Auto-Tune, has come forth with their latest digital mojo-in-a-box...

One thread that runs quite regularly through the PC-based recording newsgroups I monitor involves mic preamps. Not, so much pertaining to "which...