interviews Archive

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

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When Drum Machines Hit The Tape: An Interview With Goldbaby

Fab | October 30, 2008

Hugo Tichborne is the man behind Goldbaby Productions (or simply Goldbaby), and his mission was and still is quite simple: to create the best vintage drum machine samples

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Off-the-record: Soundtoys

Fab | September 17, 2008

At Soundtoys they do work hard, no doubts. Their (may I add “awesome sounding”?) plug-ins, originally available for PT users only, were released in 2007 in the AU

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New life for historic instruments: realsamples

Fab | June 16, 2008

Some years ago I was in a musical instruments museum, and while it was good to see all those old, rare and incredibly beautiful harpsichord and pianos, I

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Howard Scarr: a sound scientist

Fab | May 30, 2008

In the interview with Urs Heckmann from u-he, we mentioned the fact that Zebra 2 has been extensively used in the upcoming Batman – The Dark Knight. And

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Off-the-record: Urs Heckmann (u-he)

Fab | May 29, 2008

Since a long time we wanted to ask some questions to Urs Heckmann, the man behind Zebra, Filterscape, MFM. If you’re into software instruments, you probably already have