Chachi Jones
Gear Review
Trigger Finger drum control surface
Jan 16, 2006
Made for people like me who hate playing drum parts or triggering events on a MIDI keyboard, the Trigger Finger gives you sixteen velocity and...
Gear Review
Inspire 1394 audio interface
Jan 16, 2006
Here is the box that makes good on the promise Digidesign's Mbox never did. The Inspire 1394 is a truly affordable, great sounding, easy to use...
Gear Review
Live 5
Sep 16, 2005
Long held as an irreplaceable tool for electronic musicians to compose and perform their music, Ableton Live is increasingly gaining favor with the...
Gear Review
Live 4
Mar 16, 2005
When the first version of Ableton Live hit the shelves in 2001, it instantly found a hardcore audience of music makers desperate for a flexible...
Gear Review
Evolution UC-33e USB MIDI control surface
Mar 16, 2004
The Evolution UC-33e is the latest in what is sure to be a bonanza of budget-minded MIDI control surfaces. Compared to bigger brothers like the...
Gear Review
Live 2 Real-Time Audio Sequencing Instrument
May 16, 2003
Sometimes the best way to make a new song is to just mess around, dive-in headlong, and improvise until something you like starts to take shape. In...
Gear Review
Live Music Software
May 16, 2002
For over 5 years I've struggled with a dilemma common among electronic music producers - how do you take compositions that took weeks to...
Gear Review
Reaktor 3.0 software
Nov 16, 2001
A year ago Reaktor 2.3 came into my life a like a software messiah (read my review in issue #21). The program has so many mind-blowing features and...
Gear Review
Reaktor Software
Jan 15, 2001
If any of you are bedroom producers whose tastes lean towards the experimental or electronic, then here is your holy grail. Reaktor is an industrial...