interviews Archive

The art of presets: Soundsdivine

Fab | February 18, 2010

Don’t kill me: I love presets. I’ve always thought a bunch of well-designed presets can really bring a good product to a higher level (and also help as

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Novation Launchpad 2/3: an artist’s perspective

Fab | January 6, 2010

Our previous article focused on the hacking side of the Launchpad. This time we’d like to offer a different point of view, the performer’s one. Madedeleine Bloom is

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Novation Launchpad 1/3: a hacker’s perspective

Fab | January 5, 2010

Novation’s Launchpad has caused quit a stir since its launch: it’s a compact, light, functional grid-based controller for Ableton Live, with a hard-to-beat price tag (yes, it’s made

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Sampling pureness: an interview with Bolder Sounds

Fab | December 7, 2009

I remember the first time I heard of Bolder Sounds. A friend introduced me to one of their sample libraries, it was the Hammered Dulcimer Trilogy, and after

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Softube: the rock’n’roll scientists

Fab | January 7, 2009

They describe themselves as a trio (the hacker, the guitar player, and the professor) and if we were a tabloid (?!?) we could easily say that Softube is

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SPL Transient Designer plug-in: some words with Dirk Ulrich

Fab | December 16, 2008

A couple of months ago, SPL, the well-known German manufacturer of analog hardware processors, has introduced their first software plug-ins: the Transient Designer and a set of three

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Synplant: synth in the time of sustainability – Q&A with Magnus Lidström

Fab | December 11, 2008

As you probably remember, at the end of our last year’s interview with Magnus Lidström, he gave some hints about the “close” relationship between the environment and his

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More saturation: VariSaturator – An interview with Voxengo

Fab | November 20, 2008

There’s never too much saturation available, isn’t it? We were glad some time ago to find a new tool for such tasks, from Voxengo, called VariSaturator. The name