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1. your Sweetwater sales engineer today TUBE GEAR IS HOT ts 5 47 UBA ose Page 7 was designed by the legendary New York studio in Staller Greg Hanks It is a very cool retro looking piece which includes emulations of many of the most popular compressors i e SOL Neve etc It includes 48V phantom power and fully balanced ins and outs at a list price of 2999 95 which is very reasonable given the sophistication of this unit The company s patent pending methods of tube control give the 16501 exceptional perfor mance that has until now been unattainable using conven tional technology yet at the same time provides the pleasant tube sound everyone seems to be looking for without un necessary audio tradeoffs We ve actually mentioned the Aphex Dual Channel Thermionic Mic Preamp Model 107 in a previous issue of Sweet Notes you do save your back issues don t you and at the time we praised the unit for its sound as well as its affordability just 595 retail Boasting a revolutionary new tube circuit called Tubessence the Model 107 delivers the sonic characteristics of tubes without the ex tremely high voltages heat fragility and Short life span of traditional tube circuitry And now there s also the Aphex 661 Expressor which combines the company s Jubessence mic preamp circuit with its Easyrider compressor limiter in a single channel tube processor that offers unparalleled audio perfor mance and flex2. Audio Electronics a dynamics processor specifically designed to enhance your console with features that yesterday only the big boys could afford To be precise the DCP 8 is an eight channel digitally controlled analog dynamics processor Plug the DCP 8 into your insert points before or after your multitrack and youll have a com pressor limiter on every channel a noise gate on every channel automated faders and mutes plus snapshot mix automation Built in software in the DCP 8 allows assignment of up to four subgroups stereo linking up to four pairs full MIDI control pro to line level conversion solo on any channel as well as naming loading and storing of 100 audio scenes All at a retail of just 999 95 Presonus also offers the eight channelACP 8 Compressor Gate for those of you who don t want or need all the features of the DCP 8 at a list price of just 699 95 that s less than 88 per channel To find out more about these exceptional dynamics processors from Presonus give your Sweetwater sales engineer a call today They ll be glad to fill you in on all the details we don t have room to include here plus they ll be happy to give you your special low pricing on the PreSonus of your choice J The CSX S2 Series from Community was designed to grow with your per formance needs and is performance and value engineered to meet the demands of today s working musicians Every single CSX S2 speaker syst
3. Dithered Digital 1 0 connectors are even more astounding at it s retail cost of under 2000 6 S 7 j Still not a be liever Well up until two months ago neither was I But here s a suggestion if you haven t already gotten your hands on a copy of Roland s exceptionally well produced audio CD which effectively demos the VG 8 s sound I d suggest you call your Sweetwater sales engineer imme diately It will make a convert out of you My guess is that Roland will unveil an upgrade for the VG 8 at the Winter NAMM Show Editors note they did but for those of you lucky enough to have one of these killer boxes already here s a patch I created that I believe really nails the sound of a Les Paul through an overdriven Soldano tube amp First off select the LP for Les Paul configuration from the PICKUP mode under the INSTRUMENT Menu For now let s use the FRONT neck pickup though you can edit this later to access the REAR bridge or BOTH pickups Set TONE to a value of 5 and LEVEL to 100 PITCH SHIFT should be normal AMP should be set to Classic Stack with OUTPUT set to 50 VOLUME at 59 IN BALANCE at 41 and MASTER at 100 On Page two of the AMP menu set PRESENCE to 20 BASS to 70 MIDDLE to 93 and TREBLE at 50 Under MIC and SPEAKER set the SPEAKER TYPE to 1x12 MIC on large dynamic and POSITION to off cabinet In the EQ page set the Mid freq to 1007 and Mid Q at 1 0 Lo Gain should be at 2 9 Mid ga
4. Studio Vision compensates for this problem by expanding or compressing time at the same time it performs its trans posing duties Therefore your file remains the same length whether you transpose up or down Cool Ever find a couple of audio drum loops that you thought would sound great together only to find out they were at different tempos Time Scale is the feature for you Time Scale could in a way be considered the op posite of Pitch Shift With this feature you are able to expand or compress a file s length without changing its pitch In the Time Scale dialog box you are given the Start time end time and duration of the selected audio event You can view this information as measures and beats or in SMPTE time hr min sec frm and can then change the end time or duration to stretch or compress the file to the desired length You also have the option of setting a scale factor from 5 to 2 0 in increments of 0 001 Handy just in case you want to exactly double or halve the length of the audio but you re not a mathema tician Um let s see Two seconds and 23 frames times two equals Hmm In the example above you could change either drum loop to match the other or you could change both loops to a different common length I ve seen people spend an entire afternoon in the studio doing this procedure us ing a sampler In Studio Vision Pro 3 0 you could do it accurately in a matter of minutes After making them both the
5. then runs that signal from its 1 4 output to the RCA input of the Audiomedia card With this connection he puts down all his vocals a Saxophone solo by his Berklee grad buddy Res and a oompah tuba part to make every one really wonder The Jaz drive is very cool and helpful for this German recording date Because he did everything on his computer TJ can save all that information on his Jaz drive and on the day of the session if Andreus has the same or similar computer set up most studios do he can take just one disk with him as his backing band for the day With the studio computer doubling his own all he has to do is overdub his vocal through the studios incredible Neumann mic that will be TJ s first purchase when his al bum hits gold status No hauling instruments no crack ing under the pressure of snowballing dollar signs and clock revolutions just singing the lead over tracks he created Thus ends the session and TJ walks home a happy com poser just like you can There are many pluses to combining the powers of MIDI and computers some of which we ve seen here Other pos sibilities are using your computer as a digital signal pro cessor as an editor librarian for your synth s or as a means of bringing automation to your mixer The bottom line on these possibilities You save time and you save money Your Sweetwater rep is well aware of how to help you save both and is only a phone call away So do yours
6. went by the Mark Of The Unicom booth it was packed Industry legend Don Muro was astounding the audiences with his killer demo of Digital Performer even saw Phil Ramones jaw drop Opcode announced OMS 2 0for the Mac and Vision 2 5 for Windows with more impressive new features than ever Last year Clavia DMI made a big splash with theNord Lead Virtual Analog Synthesizer Now with Software ROM Update 2 0 your Nord Lead can have from 10 to 30 Analog Drum Kits with as many as 8 zones each plus 100 more Fac tory Performances a new Notch Filter and many addi tional MIDI features The retail price was also lowered If F i youivealready got 12 voices and want 12 more get ready a forthe Nord 12 Voice Expander price to be announced Panasonic showed us their new SV 3800 Pro fessional DAT Recorder 1695 retail which fea tures new 20 bit resolution DACs together with the same type of 1 bit 64 times oversampling A D converter em ployed in the SV 3700 Rode has brought back a classic sound to re cordings with the Classic Valve Mic 1799 list It uses the rare and costly 6072 tube which produces plenty of warmth and richness and it even comes with a cus tom flight case to keep it safe between sessions The body is hand crafted from solid brass textured with fine glass bead blasting plus a nickel finish The huge Roland booth showed a lot of new products Their breakthrough VS 880 Digital Studio Workstation is a co
7. 9 There will even be a Trinity Pro X with all the features of the other Trinity models plus an 88 note fully weighted action key board digital I O and hard disk recording for 6999 Of course you know by now that we would never let you pay retail price for any product so we d suggest that you call your Sweetwa ter sales engineer for complete information availability and special pricing on the Trinity of your choice Page 2 truly affordable synth to offer the latest physical modeling syn thesis technology which has its own totally unique sound Heres a little trivia for you You might note that the name Prophecy is a bit reminiscent of the old Sequential Circuits Prophet 5 synthesizer Actually back in the mid 1980s when sequential fell on hard times it was purchased by Korg and many of the engineers and product designers from the origi nal Sequential team were retained by the company which also took posession of the proprietary Sequential technology hence came the popular Korg Wavestation which was developed from a product originally designed by Sequential the Prophet VS So it s rather appropriate that this new instrument s name is very much like that of the legendary Prophet 5 which ina complete turnaround of technology was actually the first commercially available polyphonic synth All that history aside this is an instrument that caused Keyboard magazines Jim Aiken to write If you consider the amount of s
8. A IE MUIN KEINER thousands of customers And we enjoy nothing more than de lighting our customers particularly since without them wed be just another music store And during the last year we intro duced our exclusive Line of Credit account see bottom of page and expanded our leasing programs making it easier than ever before to get the equipment you want and need In 1995 we were honored to be the first choice for audio equipment for the soundware departments of a number of ma jor manufacturers and developers including E mu Systems Game just to name a few We also helped Science Cen tral Museum design and install a one of a kind laser triggering sys tem on their main stairway which was used to trigger several Alesis D4 percussion modules and Roland MS1 samplers which would play various sounds as people walked up and down the stairs Finally we might also men tion that thanks to the support of we experienced our biggest year ever in 1995 meaning that Sweet est growing music technology re tailer in the country that s the third year in a row There s no way we can possibly express our thanks except by saying there will be plenty of surprises ahead We will be adding many new products from some of the very best and most prestigious manufacturers in the music business giv ing everyone more choices of exceptional products in more price ranges than ever before We will never stop trying to de velop exc
9. OM blocks It carries a suggested list price of 3495 and it should be shipping right about now Own a K2000 Great then you still have a killer machine that can be upgraded with both ROM blocks the sampling op tion and sample RAM up to 64 megs PRAM and more all of which we have in stock right now In fact we even have new software de veloped exclusively for K2000 owners by our Soundware Development Facility that will essentially make your K2000 sound very much like a new K2500 with new programs and effects for only 189 We also have the most extensive collection of samples anywhere for both the K2500 and the K2000 including our own five disc CD ROM library with more on the way So call your Sweetwater sales en gineer today for more information and pricing on the K2500 or K2000 of your choice as well as all the many options and accessories we stock Sweet Notes Winter 1996 In case you haven t noticed vacuum tubes are making a comeback and in a big way Seems that while many people love the clarity and accuracy of digital audio who wouldn t they miss the warmth no pun intended really and overall beefiness of analog And what could possibly be more analog than tubes So some engineers started experi menting with the concept of using one tube driven device within the digital audio chain to restore the rich ness typically associated with analog And it worked The Saturator from RSP Techn
10. THE NEW KORG TRINITY hat does a company like Korg do to follow up on the incredible success of its best selling M1 01 W and i and X Series instruments Simple they just go out and design a brand new instrument that literally redefines the concept of the digital audio work Station With the introduction of the awesome new Korg Trinity the company has set a high standard that is sure to have the competition scrambling to catch up So what s the big deal about Trinity Well this amaz ing machine starts off with 24 megabytes of on board PCM samples which is the equivalent of 48 megs thanks to Korg s new 2 1 data compression method with 375 wave forms 259 percussion sounds in 12 kits 256 presets and 206 combinations plus 32 note polyphony and an op tional 8 megabytes of flash RAM storage more on that later You can even add a plug in card that effectively adds the new Korg Prophecy Synth to Trinity giving you total access to all the new synthesis capabilities of that instrument See page two for more on Prophecy Then theres Trinity s new touch sensitive screen a very cool feature that s sure to be an immediate sensa tion All you have to do is reach out and touch the large nicely backlit display to step through sounds or edit your programs and effects All sorts of graphical icons appear on the screen to help you change parameters making edit ing not just painless but almost fun Want a synth sound Easy You just p
11. a On Line Origin Systems and Boss our thousands of loyal customers water Sound is once again the fast Page 5 Q In my studio want to put one type of reverb on my drums and another multi effect setting with reverb chorus and delay on vocals My QuadraVerb 2 is a multi effects unit so shouldn t be able to do this A Yes Many multi effects units while being able to have several effects active at once cannot process independent sig nals because their internal routing isn t flexible enough Fortu nately with the Q2 you can do this A whole clinic on all of the programing options in the Q2 is beyond the scope of this fo rum but here are some basic ideas that will help The Q2 does have very flexible routing schemes The effects modules up to eight can be set up in any order and just about any output can be routed to any input anywhere in the device So here s basically what you do Start with a blank patch or clear a patch completely Figure out exactly what effects you want to have and create those modules in the Q2 You have two inputs available L amp R so you need to make a decision as to which one will be used for the drum reverb and which will be used for the vocal multi effect For now lets say the left input of the Q2 is for the drum reverb and right is for the multi effect Next you need to create a routing that sends the left input of the Q2 to the reverb module you created The reverb has a st
12. alog sounding timbres yet with the inherent stability and flexibility of a digital machine And since it s a Korg product there s a lot more horsepower under the hood Like seven synthesis algorithms including physi cal modeling of plucked string brass and reed instruments plus ring modulation and VPM essentially two op FM syn thesis capabilities along with hard sync pulse width modu lation and comb filtering You also get dual oscillators with four LFOs six envelope generators plus Korg s own pro prietary waveshaping dual multimode filters and effects like distortion auto wah panning parametric EQ and chorus re Continued from page one a Program or Combination so you can edit to your heart s content without worrying about losing the original effect There s also aS you might expect a DOS compatible high density disk drive onboard plus full SCSI capabilities An optical for connection to your Alesis ADAT XT as well as an S PDIF digital interface is available as is a 4 track hard disk recorder did these guys think of everything or what Modulation routings on the Trinity are almost limitless A function called Alternative Modulation Source enables just about any parameter or controller to modulate another mak ing for some very impressive real time sonic possibilities You can control the level or amount of the modulation via the pitch mod stick or from Korg s touch sensitive ribbon con troller a feature we p
13. ank just like the original making it rug ged and dependable in even the most demanding applications Of course there are four mono mic line channels with true studio grade mic preamps and 48V phan tom power plus four stereo line channels The 1202VLZ also features two aux sends per chan nel and two stereo aux returns plus an Aux 1 master level and pre post switch But what is prob ably going to interest many of you is the fact that this new mixer now has a full 3 band EQ just like the Mackie Ck1604 and LM3204 with integral Low Cut filter centered at 75 Hz which is great for cleaning up muddiness in recordings or live sound work There are now balanced XLR outputs along with Sweet Notes Page 6 MACKIE DESIGNS MS12027 the original balanced 1 4 TRS output jacks as well as an RCA tape loop interface As on the 1604 pressing the Mute switch on every channel unassigns it from the main L R bus and reassigns it to the Alt 3 4 outs allowing you to create two ste reo pairs bounce multiple tracks onto two more tracks or preview a source not yet in the main mix Space as usual prevents us from telling you more about the 1202VLZ but your Sweetwater sales engineer has all the info you need plus your special pricing so call today The incredible new K2500 Series is Kurzweil s most powerful sampling synthesizer to date Up until now however it s only been available in a rackmount version But for
14. articularly like We promised to mention Trinity s flash RAM capability and heres where things really get interesting First of all like the built in ROM sounds the flash RAM uses 2 1 data com verb There s even a built in arpeggiator Can you name any analog synth that has even a fraction of that sonic power Oh but you want to know what it actually sounds like Well that s really the best part It sounds fantastic Yeah we know you hear the same thing about every synth or sampler that comes along but the Prophecy is indeed in a Class of its own It s the only true monophonic synth designed specifi cally for soloing so you get exclusive new controllers for incredibly expressive real time control of pitch bends modu lation brightness volume and more Plus this is the only pression meaning you get the equivalent of 16 megs of RAM This is incredible With flash RAM installed you can load in sounds from any Korg or Akai library then use that data ei ther by itself or along with internal sounds to create just about any sound you can imagine The possibilities are endless As you might expect theres a ton of stuff we just dont have room to tell you about here But we know you re wonder ing what such a powerful machine might cost As expected its not cheap but such innovative instruments rarely are List price for the basic 61 note Trinity is 3599 while the Trinity Plus with on board Prophecy synth retails for 399
15. back ground harmonies and of course the all im portant lead vocal Four tracks of real time high quality digital audio are offered with this card which provides two RCA inputs to get the sound in Mixing Console Audio Cable gt MIDI Cable lt Mac serial cable ing scheduled with Andreus a three hour slot one week from that mild winter Monday TJ goes off to work out the basic piano part on his MIDI keyboard He uses a popular synth with an excellent on board piano sound since it gives him loads of other usable sounds plus 64 note polyphony and 76 keys all of which are important to him He has the synth sitting right next to his Macintosh com puter which is loaded up with sequencing and hard disk recording software Digidesign s Audiomedia Il hard ware card and of course a MIDI interface As a bonus he also uses an lomega external Jaz Drive that gives him a full gigabyte of memory per storage disc Why these items Well recognize that the brand names arent the important thing There are lots of companies with lots of products What really matters is your particular ap plication and getting what is appropriate to it This is where consulting your Sweetwater rep is so beneficial we do the work of studying the various pieces of gear so you dont Because of this TJ uses his mixing con sole to accept the signal from his high qual ity studio microphone which uses an XLR cable and needs phantom power and
16. ectacular guitar whether it s a brand new flame top Paul Reed Smith or a 60s western orange Gretsch Nashville After all these things don t grow on trees But we re talking about tone here and it s 1996 not 1966 and realistically who wants Continued from page 3 affordably with suggested retail prices starting at 4299 for the 16 channel version TASCAM introduces the 424 MKII Portastudio for the musician looking to take the next step up in multitrack recording Superior audio quality balanced XLR inputs enhanced equal ization and big studio style AUX section make this the ultimate compact 4 track Portastudio It has to be the best Portastudio ever made particularly at 599 A new Power Amplifier the PA 150 rated at 150W sounds great and delivers the power you need at a list price of 400 Tascam also showed two new prod ucts the DA38 8 Track Recorder designed specifically for musicians and a MiniDisk based 564 4 Track Portastudio due late summer Watch for more details later T C Electonic introduced their new Wizard M2000 digi tal studio signal processor With the heritage of the incredibly popular M5000 behind it the M2000 is bound to be a big hit tt has super quality effects a brilliant user interface and includes their new C O R E Co efficient Optimized Room Emulator Re verb plus seamless Morphing during preset changes and dy namic real time control I s generous 250 factory presets 250 user presets and
17. elf a favor stop being disappointed with what you cantdo at a session and let us walk you through what you can do Who knows maybe I ll see you on the Autobahn one day soon Sweet Notes Wouldn t it be cool if for your next recording session you could line up a selection of the world s best sounding guitars Like a 1959 Les Paul a 57 Strat maybe a 62 Tele and a 67 12 String Rickenbacker Of course if you had access to all those classic axes you d want some very cool amps to plug into Like maybe a tweed 59 Fender Bassman a full Marshall stack and one of those versatile Mesa Boogie amps Carlos Santana plays through As long as youre wishing you might as well add a selection of cabi nets from a single 12 inch speaker up to a full 4x12 stack and a wide range of exceptional mics to capture the killer tones you ll be producing by this time Oh you say you can t afford all that great sounding gear That you d have to spend about a year s salary on just one of those vintage guitars and a single amp Well that may have been n true a year ago but that was before Roland in troduced their VG 8 V Guitar System Now for about the cost of just one really great guitar you can have access to the sound of dozens as well as countless amps to match and all with out having to lift a single speaker cabinet or spending the hours Winter 1996 Page 9 to take such a valuable instrument to gigs anyway Not me So
18. em is built to be highly portable and roadworthy The individual driver components in each speaker are carefully cho sen to offer unbeatable fidelity along with maximum protection against the dreaded driver fail ure which can ruin a gig faster than having your drummer ex plode right in the middle of your big number Exclusive Powersense cir cuitry continually checks the power levels coming into each speaker In the event that the continuous power input ex ceeds a safe level the Power Sense circuit automatically switches in a network of resis tors to safely dissipate the excess power which means you won t be spending ridiculously huge amounts of time and money replacing fried drivers Prices for CSX speakers start at just 399 each but for complete information and special pricing give your Sweetwater sales engineer a call today They can help you select from over a dozen configurations to meet every performance need By Jim Miller The other day one of my neighbors invited me over to see and hear his new surround sound home theater setup He pointed out all seven of the speakers located strategically around his living room then fired up the system to give me a demo I didn t have the heart to tell him I was not exactly impressed Seems he forgot one of the most important elements in a great sound sys tem the bass And without room shaking bass no home theater system will provide the kind of experience you get at a go
19. er died not too long ago I considered buying a replacement but my friends at Sweetwater convinced me that removable storage was my best option since my external 540 meg hard drive was functioning just fine So again on their advice I got one of the new Iomega Zip Drives with the 100 meg cartridges These things cost just 219 95 and additional cartridges are only 16 50 so you can af ford plenty of extra cartridges to do your backups on you are backing up all your files aren t you True they re just a bit slower than a fixed drive but their size convenience and amazing affordability far outweigh any speed considerations I might have had And now Iomega has begun shipping the one gigabyte yes that s gigabyte a thousand megs removable Jaz Drive at just 659 95 One gig cartridges cost just 139 Even a year ago a one gig drive would have set you back about a grand Imagine being able to store your entire sample library one just one disk or having back ups at last of all your computer data on one cartridge that s smaller than your average paperback novel Check these things out You ll never again put off doing important backups or avoid saving files you think you might never need again but are sure to wish you had as soon as you write over them Give Sweetwater a call and find out how painless adding an lomega drive to your sampler or computer can be One final quick note I just received a Crown CM 700 Micropho
20. ereo Output so just go ahead and route its left output to the left out on the Q2 and the right to the right output on the Q2 So now you can send a signal from one of the aux outs on your mixer to the left input of the Q2 and get a stereo reverb at its output Next create a routing from the right input on the Q2 to the first effect in the multi effect chain you want to create Then go ahead and do all of your routings in the multi effect chain you are building and take its final out the output of the last effect in the chain to the left and right outputs in the Q2 just like you did with the reverb patch Now you can set up a second aux send on your mixer to feed this right input of the Q2 and a stereo multi effect will be present at the Q25 left and right outputs So one aux on your mixer feeds the left input and generates a Stereo reverb and a second aux feeds the right input and gen erates the multi effect patch you created in the unit Both the reverb effect and the multi effect will be present together at the left and right outputs of the Q2 where they get returned to your mixer So if both of these effects are returning to the same pair of channels in the mixer how do you independently control the relative levels of these two effects Every routing you make in the Q2 has a programmable level associated with it so you can pretty easily set up the relative levels right in the Q2 If you need real time access to these just Set it up so that t
21. eries II mi crophones C419 Wind Instrument Mic C420 Headset Mic C418 Drum and Percussion Mic C411 Acoustic Pickup DB1 Double Bass Bridge Pickup all very cool Alesis made price point history with their new QS8 64 Voice 88 Key Expandable Master Synthesizer retailing at only 1 999 This roadworthy unit has 16 Sea megs of ROM and 640 Programs expandable via two m card slots You can even load your own samples via their Sound Bridge 2 0 for Mac and PC The keyboard action feels incredible Also new theATK Integrated Drum Trigger System with DM5 Drum Module 7 E Pads High Hat and Kick Trigger for under 2 000 Audio Technica showed its new 1100 Series True Diversity Wireless Microphone System comprised of the ATW 112 UniPak transmitter sys tem the ATW 1128 handheld dynamic and the ATW 1129 handheld condenser microphone system Com petitively priced in the 499 to 900 range All three systems feature true diversity reception with two inde pendent RF sections for superior reliability and a se lection of 20 VHF frequencies for minimum interference The com pany has also expanded its 40 Series mics with the AT4041 a pressure gradient capacitor mic with uniform cardioid polar pat tern designed for professional recording and critical broadcast applications Retail price is just 395 Coda Music Technology recently reduced the suggested retail price of Finale now 545 and Allegro 199 music no tation software Recent upg
22. hat new tempo But there s another even more powerful option in this dialog box It s called New Tempo wer PTT Yio ete Map peered j Ti 3 He Music is rarely without tempo changes whether they be slight variances or very noticeable re tards and accele randos This op tion lets you create a file from your existing audio that will follow any tempo changes you have made in your sequence For instance in Studio Vision s strip chart you can draw a new tempo map with any number of useful tools or in the event list editor you can numeri cally make any tempo changes you wish The Adjust Audio Tempo option faithfully adjusts the audio files so that they follow any and all tempo changes you ve made in one easy procedure Audio To MIDI is the second most publicized feature of Studio Vision 3 0 It is unique in the fact that it does not just look at the audio file and create a bunch of MIDI notes that approximate the pitch content of the audio It actually analyzes all aspects of the file and converts that information to MIDI notes velocity MIDI volume and pitch bend Almost every nuance is retained to the point Page 4 where you can play both the audio and the converted MIDI back simultaneously and they will track in perfect unison no matter how intricate the original audio file may be There s even an option that allows you to convert brightness to a MIDI controller typically Controller 74 on most sy
23. he MR900 Series Sound Reinforcement Speakers based on the popular SR800 Series with even better sound quality and protection with new features including sonicGuard Circuitry redesigned crossovers Neutrik Connectors HF Compression Driver SHG cast frame woofer and more These Speakers are built for the road and are available in eight configura tions Also on JBLs menu is the new TR Series JBL wanted to make a more affordable speaker but without compromising qual ity The TR Series has features from their high end concert touring and live performance systems like SonicGuard and liquid cooled compression drivers made with titanium Available this spring Starting at 549 retail The Korg booth was packed with people waiting to see Joe Zawinul push the ae a Trinity keyboards to o their full potential There was also a once a day preview of the long awaited OASYS keyboard which all of us cant wait to play On the record ing end Korg was showing their SoundLink DRS which is a col lection of recording components designed to work together as a complete system These include the 168RC Digital Recording Console about 3 500 an affordable fully digital 8 bus auto mated recording console It has a 16x8x2 configuration with a to tal of 24 input and 22 output interfaces in a combination of analog ADAT Optical and S PDIF formats The new RM8 Reference Monitors were engineered and manufactured as a team effort with Boston Acoustics to create
24. hey can be controlled with a MIDI controller its easy to do this check your users manual You can also make changes by how much signal you feed to each of the in puts In other words if the reverb is too loud compared to the multi effect patch simply turn down the left input so not as much signal gets to the reverb Too extreme a setting will com promise your signal to noise ratio but for fine adjustments this is the easiest way to accomplish it There are many many more things you can do with the QuadraVerb 2 so hopefully this will serve as a starting point for continued experimentation Got a question Well we ve got answers Simply mail your question to Sweetwater at 5335 Bass Rd Ft Wayne IN 46808 or send e mail to tech_support sweetwater com Winter 1996 Everyone knows that Mackie s MS1202 Mixer is probably the best selling portable 12 channel audio mixer in history With performance that ri valled units costing many times as much there was a good reason for its success Now almost five years later Mackie Designs has unveiled the next generation MS1202VLZ Mixer At 429 retail does it live up to or even exceed the perfor mance of the original Let s take a p closer look The new 1202VLZ uses a new Very Low Impedence circuit design that Mackie initially developed for their 8 Bus consoles This circuit reduces thermal noise and seri ously cuts down on crosstalk This new board is also built like a t
25. ibility at the surprisingly low list price of just 749 You get three compression curves hard knee soft knee and no knee plus automatic Easyrider or manual Expressor operation each selectable from the single rackspace unit s front panel From Summit Audio comes the Model DCL 200 Dual Compressor Limiter Based on a proprietary hybrid design the DCL 200 is a two channel compressor limiter that com bines selected 12AX7 vacuum tubes with highly reliable 990 op amps in a transformerless signal path to give you the un mistakable warmth of tubes plus the dependability of a solid State device Features include continuously variable attack and release times adjustable A C threshold variable slope dual meters with peak overload indica tors stereo link switch plus balanced or unbalanced out puts Suggested retail price for the DCL 200 is 2950 Finally from Britain comes the sophisticated Drawmer 1960 Mic Preamp Vacuum Tube Com pressor a dual channel processor which harnesses the life and warmth of eight count em active tube stages Two ul tra low noise tube mic preamps with switchable 48V phan tom power capture every subtlety your mic can deliver The dual channel vacuum tube soft knee compressors offer vari able Threshold control plus switchable attack and release times Other controls include bass and treble EQ switchable HF and Gain boost The aux preamp section can be routed to one or both com
26. in at 2 0 and Hi gain at 2 5 On Page two of the EQ menu set Low freq to 125 Hi freq at 7999 and Hi type at peak Your P MASTER final volume should be adjusted to taste as should your effects You should now have a very accurate overdriven Les Paul tone Play and enjoy If enough of you VG 8 users like this patch call or send an e mail to your Sweetwater sales engineer and I ll try to include a few more next issue or maybe we ll post some on our Web site For those of you who don t own a VG 8 call for Sweetwater s special pricing and or a copy of the demo CD You ll wonder why you waited so long David Trevor 7 a ie A eas LEL oF fs a te a lia r E L tal A m N ee a tae ee tea L he a a i i J i Sweet Notes Winter 1996 Page 10 Wouldn t it be great if someone invented a sme MI TPO Ne Wi A ZAOU TAAI space rackmount processor NIi ININ A NN MNN that offered eight compres SC Jt HAJ DINE T TAL D sors elght gates eight au i tomated fader channels eight limiters and eight mutes all under digital con trol That would be pretty cool wouldn t it Oh and as long as we re wishing we might as well make this ultimate dynamics processor affordable too Would it surprise you to find out that such a processor already exists And that it is actually under 125 per channel list price of course Introducing the DCP 8 from PreSonus
27. it didn t believe it either Combine all this with TDM implementation com pletely new faders support for all of Digidesign s hard iF Fre e ware including Pro Tools 3 and an award winning MIDI sequencer and you have one of the most powerful mu sic tools ever created Oh and just in case you re wondering what other people think about Studio Vision 3 0 e Mix magazine TEC award 1995 e Electronic Musician Editor s Choice 1995 e Keyboard magazine 20th Anniversary Readers Poll Winner 1995 e MacUser magazine Editors Choice Award Eddy 1995 e AES Show Pic 1995 EQ magazine e New Media magazine Editors Choice Hyper Award 1996 Buzz buzz buzz Visit the Opcode Web site at http www opcode com Winter 1996 Sweet Notes A BRAND NEW YEAR By Chuck and Brenda Surack Owners Sweetwater Sound It s hard to believe it s 1996 already Seems like we just got used to writing 1995 on our checks Maybe that s be cause so much has been happening here at Sweetwater over the last 365 days Actually we hope all our customers have enjoyed the many new products and services we ve introduced during this past year And of course none has been more exciting or better received than our World Wide Web site So far more than 25 000 people have checked out our home page maybe you were among them We hope so because it s really a labor of love for everyone involved wi
28. iting new services that will help all our customers gain access to valuable information and more importantly make it easier and more fun to make music And before we forget as we re running out of room spe cial thanks to Roger Nichols the man behind the console for all of Steely Dan s incredible recordings for presenting a won derful seminar to our midwest customers last fall and for men tioning in his December EQ magazine column that one of the things he wanted for Christmas was a one hour shopping spree at Sweetwater Sound in Ft Wayne Indiana Oh and check out Roger s Recording Guide on our Web Site too Thanks Roger and thank you all for a wonderful 1995 The best is yet to come in 1996 and beyond YOU MAY BE PRE APPROVED FOR A 10 000 LINE OF CREDIT Sweetwater Sound has just introduced the music industry s first Line of Credit Account Need a new digital multitrack Or how about that killer microphone you ve always wanted for your studio A new Godin MIDI Guitar A set of state of the art bi amplified studio monitors A K2500 Pick from thousands of items To find out if you are already approved just pick up the phone and call your Sweetwater sales engineer at 219 432 8176 We can give you a quote on whatever equip ment you need or want with absolutely no obligation ACT NOW AND WITHIN DAYS YOU CAN BE MAKING MUSIC WITH BRAND NEW EQUIPMENT THANKS TO THIS EXCLUSIVE NEW PLAN a Young Chang R amp D SEGA Sierr
29. m pletely self contained digital recorder editor with a integral mixer optional onboard effects and removable or fixed storage media It stole the show with a list price of only 2 495 including an internal 540MB hard drive 2 895 with a Jazz Drive On a smaller scale is the PMA 5 Personal Music Assistant 595 list a palm held workstation with a 306 tone GM GS sound source 8 track sequencer Intelligent Arranger and serial port all operated with a custom LCD touch panel The amazing VG 8 can now go even further with the new user installable VG 8 Expansion Board 195 which adds four new instrument models including the long awaited hollow body for acoustic and electro acoustic sounds There are also seven new pickup models three new amp models and even new effects including pitch Shifting and wah wah Soundcraft unveiled a new professional recording console called the Ghost It offers 4 band equalization with two fully para metric mids 10 aux busses a MIDI muting system time code sync machine transport control and 4 MIDI data faders Prices start at just 3 950 for the 16 channel version Spirit showed off the Spirit 8 Live Console available in four frame sizes 16 24 32 and 40 channels with up to 64 inputs available on the 40 channel version Spirit Live 8 mixes 8 buses Continued on page 9 Sweet Notes Winter 1996 OPCODE S STUDIO VISION PRO 3 0 by Mac McCormick Opcode Systems It s called the Buzz N
30. ne for evaluation and frankly after try ing it out I couldn t believe that this mic actually car ries a list price of just 289 It s a versatile performer that really stands up to the high sound pressure levels produced when close miking a drum yet it s still detailed enough for miking acoustic instruments or even vocal work If you need an extra quality mic in your studio and who doesn t this might be the perfect choice Have a great 1996 and TIl see you all next issue hy rites i Leilani a ak
31. nths This in itself is amazing as you can now double any Single audio line with a MIDI instrument or convert your audio to music notation But if you notice in the DSP menu there is also a MIDI To Audio command What How could convert MIDI information to an audio file and why would want to Well imagine you have say a vocal line you ve recorded into Studio Vision Imagine converting that to MIDI Now that it s MIDI you have individual editing con trol over many musical parameters mean MIDI is real easy to edit right So just fix the pitch of a flat note by re draw ing some of the pitch bend information change another note just by dragging that MIDI note event to a different pitch in the graphic editing window That s the note you really wanted to sing anyhow but you couldn t quite reach it Also you wanted to crescendo that long note you held at the end so you just draw in some MIDI volume information And now you guessed it you can take that new ed ited MIDI information and convert it back to digital audio with all your edits intact What we have done is in a way given you the ability to break your audio perfor mance out into many of its component parts and allow you to individually edit those parts in a very easy and graphical manner You can then convert that informa tion back to affect the original performance In essence MIDI becomes a tool for editing digital audio When first heard about
32. od movie theater I don t know about you but I can never get enough tight accurate bass I love to put on a great recording of Saint Saens Symphony No 3 such as the Telarc re cording by Eugene Ormandy and the Philadelphia Or chestra and listen to the massive organ pedal tones shake the walls That kind of bass is almost never going to come from your average stereo speakers I used to own a set of Altec Voice of the Theater speak ers with 15 inch woofers n and those things could re ally produce some heavy duty bass but over the years I found that smaller speakers along with a quality subwoofer would actually produce more bass particularly in that last octave below 60 Hz and more accurate mids and highs than just hav inga set of giant speakers The first time I heard such a system with a subwoofer I was amazed at how much sound was being produced from the small satellite speakers Most of you probably know by now it s deep bass that eats up most of your amp s power while the mids and highs need a relatively modest amount of wattage to play loud In my own home studio I have a small pair of speak ers plus a powered subwoofer meaning I don t need hundreds of watts to hear a great mix In fact my main power amp is just 40 watts per side and it s L 0 U D If F Ta Aes you have been considering upgrading the speakers in your studio or your own home theater but don t have the b
33. ologies is a 2U rackmount device that exists only to add warmth to digital tracks thanks to its two 12AX7 tubes Insert it between the recording consoles stereo bus and a DAT machine or hard disk or CD recorder and voila instant analog The unit can also be routed through a mixers insert points to process individual tracks Controls are minimal just Drive and Output but combined with the unit s proprietary circuitry they can actually create the clas Sic saturation curves of hot signal level analog recordings yet your final product will retain all the sonic benefits of digi tal technology List price for the Saturator is 699 From dbx comes the 1650T Compressor Limiter a world class microphone preamp with a dynamic range of 154 dB which is actually beyond the range of human hearing combined with dbx s legendary dynamics processing The unit RODE NT 2 seems like the selection of affordable ultra high quality microphones is grow ing every day Case in point the Rode NT 2 from Australian based Freeman Electronics Carrying a retail price tag of just 749 the NT 2 comes standard with features usually found on much pricier mics like a large capsule with gold plated membrane dual polar pat terns high pass filter 10 dB pad low noise transformerless circuitry gold plated output connector and internal head pins and exceptional frequency re sponse Plus it even looks cool For more on this great sounding mic call
34. ow buzz may just be a word but as software developers we love it when we have it and there is a ot of buzz going on right now about Opcode System s Studio Vision Pro 3 0 Buzz can be generated by many things including marketing and word of mouth but there is no buzz like the buzz that is gen erated by the product itself may be biased well okay ambiased but feel that the Studio Vision 3 0 buzz exists because the product has new audio features that no one else in the industry has What s more these knockout features are implemented in a musical way yes musicians can actually use them and to top it all off they actually work in credibly well In this article will try and explain these new features and hopefully give you some ideas as to how you might use them in the real world In Studio Vision s updated DSP menu you will see a plethora of new commands am going to concentrate on the five most talked about Pitch Shift Time Scale Ad just Audio Tempo Audio to MIDI and MIDI to Audio yes it says MIDI to Au dio Pitch Shift is in principal a very Simple concept You want to transpose that guitar part you just recorded into a different key The problem is that when you usually transpose audio up or down it plays faster or slower So after trans posing the guitar part in question is out of sync with the rest of your recorded parts I ve played with some bad guitar players before but
35. pressors to provide two channels of output for creating stereo effects from mono sources The 1960 can even be slightly overdriven to produce the classic oversatu rated tube sound so popular with percussion as well as elec tric guitars basses and electric pianos Retail price for the Drawmer 1960 is 2699 As you can see there are many options already available for adding back the popular tube sound to digital recordings and there will probably be more available by the time you read this Which one is right for you Good question and one which your Sweetwater sales engineer is eminently qualified to answer So give us a Call today for more information and your special pric ing on the hottest literally new gear on the market AVAL Pro Audio for Windows Want to record vocals guitar leads horns or any other audio track right along with your MIDI sequences With Cakewalk s new Pro Audio Software 249 retail and Windows you get the power and flexibility of an award winning MIDI sequencer along with true multitrack digital audio recording It s a new standard for music software for PCs running on the Windows operating system Use Cakewalk s new audio tools to edit your waveforms right on your computer screen Perform graphic and parametric EQ crossfades mixdowns time extractions and other editing functions on multiple tracks simulta neously You can even use audio tracks to Groove Quantize other tracks Cakewalk s new T
36. rades have made these industry stan dard award winning applications even easier to use Crown displayed their CM 700 Cardioid among other great mics for semi pro and pro studio recording and sound reinforce ment with bass rolloff cutoff switch 289 retail We have them in Stock now and have been selling a ton of them Digitech showed their new VIP 1 Tube Preamp under 1 000 list which incorporates a vacuum tube mic preamp tube line amp flexible EQ section and a digital output plus a 18 bit A D converter all in an attractive 2U chassis Its fantastic for warming vocal tracks as well as running synths guitars and basses directly into a recording device It looks very retro and knowing Digitech l m sure it sounds incredible The Emulator 4 Keyboard from E mu Systems had large crowds trying to get their turn to play It s basically the E IV rack 128 notes plus room for 128 MB of RAM with a 76 note velocity and pressure sensitive keyboard plus 4 Slider Controllers an 18 bit effects board and standard MIDI sequencer It comes equipped with a 270 MB internal hard drive loaded with more than 150 MB EGAL WINTER NAMMIRE enone new sounds The SoundSprint feature allows you to quickly browse through the hard drive as if it were a virtual ROM Bank Very impressive There are two versions a 128 voice version 4 895 list and a 64 voice version 3 995 list which can be updated with an option board Wow JBL introduced t
37. ress the screen under SELECT CATEGORY choose SYNTH and the Trinity lists all the available synth type programs for you mak ing the process nearly effortless The whole concept is pretty fantastic and quite addic tive we might add Of course with an instrument of this so phistication you get a full featured 16 track Sequencer with a whopping 60 000 note memory And did we mention the 110 effects There are 28 Level One effects such as EQ and amp simulations 52 Complex Modula tor effects chorus doppler etc plus 19 pitch shifters and delay lines You can even chain together any combination of effects just as long as you dont exceed eight total effects You even get two sets of master effects such as reverbs delays and chorusing to use in addition to the other ef fects at the main outs plus a separate EQ section Of course Trinity s large touch sensitive screen makes editing effects a breeze What s more all effects edits can be stored within Continued on page 2 Sweet Notes Winter 1996 The new Korg Prophecy wails like an authentic mono phonic analog synth Heck with its 37 note keyboard it even looks like an analog synth one you re meant to really cut loose on for soaring leads lines or subwoofer challenging bass But there s more to this hot little synth than you might at first suspect from its outward appearance First of all it was designed by Korg s engineering team to produce the most accurate an
38. same length a neat trick is to figure out the number of measures in your drum loops this is very easy just listen to them and count no computer needed then select them go to the DO menu and Seale Time This is a different command from the audio Time Scale There you just tell Studio Vision aal l ma an a aa mi eR cel that your audio events are four bars if that is what you counted and the program will Stet the tempo of your drum parts making them fit exactly 4 bars After that just loop those suckers and you re on your way While it may not be the most widely publicized Stu dio Vision feature feel that this next item is one of the most powerful and musically useful features in any digital audio program It s called Adjust Audio Tempo In short it lets you change an audio region s duration not by think ing of it as a static length of measures beats or min utes seconds but as a dynamic ever changing tempo In its simplest form this feature lets you change your On JET eae a B al Pd i laos ole Polini Dali iS i Elge Mila hein BEE Nr II te Bom song to a new tempo after you ve recorded the audio This is the New Tempo option Is your song too fast at 120 bpm Slow it down to 116 bpm if you want All SV 3 0 asks for is the initial tempo which it defaults to anyway a nice feature You then just type in the tempo you want and bingo Studio Vision adjusts the file to fit t
39. tely felt under the gun Despite the time restraints and doing everything live put the song down satisfactorily in two takes and got away with a cassette and just enough time to get Andreus lunch while he set up the next session That was the last we ever touched that song Time went on we both got busy Other songs were recorded in much the same way with a minimum of instrumentation and with a wish always a wish that we could have done more Now until decide to go ahead and re record it on my own stu dio equipment whenever it s played think of the strings that should have gone here and the brush drum grooves that should have been there Sound familiar Okay so let s build a better mousetrap It doesn t matter Digidesign AudioMedia II Card what country you re in the song remains the same nod to Britain Using a modicum of today s technology you can do extensive pre production on any song before you go into the studio Recording the rhythm section perfecting the groove arranging the parts all this can be done ahead of time and you can walk away with a completed production without pawning a guitar or even using one The method MIDI coupled with the power and memory of a computer So let s see how and now you could have gotten all wanted from those three studio hours and been more effective with time and money The story if it were to happen today would instead go something like this Hav MACINTOSH wi
40. th Sequencer Software Page 8 have to Articles like this one show you what is available to you as a working musician and we inform you of the intri cacies during your consultation calls The sequencing software enables TJ to play his primary piano part into the computers memory then record new tracks over it such as drums bass percussion strings or whatever other sound on the Quadrasynth he wants to use These are stored not as sounds but as MIDI commands In other words the computer remembers what keys are struck how hard they are struck what sound was used etc and then later these musical lines are reproduced by the com puter telling the Quadrasynth or other MIDI keyboard Okay want you to play these notes this fast this hard using this sound and so on In this way TJ produces a fully arranged background for him to sing against next week Whats more he can actually print out the various parts in standard music notation or if he decides he wants to change any keyboard patch note duration in fact anything having to do with any of the parts he can go in and edit that MIDI event and in a matter of seconds its changed Try doing that with a taped recording The Audiomedia Il card is present in case you actually want to record sounds live onto your computer s hard disk This comes in handy when you want to record real acoustic instruments over your sequenced arrange ments things like bass acoustic guitar
41. th this project We believe it s the way most people will get their information in the future so we ve put a lot of effort into making it a fun place to visit as well as being timely and in formative We ve even recently redesigned the home page see photo to make it easier to ac cess the information you re looking for whether it s back issues of Sweet Notes catalogs on line late breaking news or any of the other areas available at our Web site There will always be something of interest for all our cus tomers here and as the Internet grows and it s going to con tinue to grow at a phenomenal pace so too will our Web site Just access http www sweetwater com via any Internet service provider and take a look at all the information avail able right on your computer screen just by hitting a few keys During the last few months of the year we added free Internet mailing lists like our brand new Trading Post TradingPost liststarsweetwatercom a great place to sell equipment you re no longer using or to find certain gear you might be searching for There s also EFlash for new prod uct announcements EFlash liststarsweet water com and MusicalNotes MusicalNotes liststar sweet water com where subscribers can discuss any topic relat ing to MIDI and recording technology Certainly 1995 will always be remembered as the year when Sweet Notes went full color much to the delight of our EUCL
42. the product designers and engineers at Roland took a long hard look at what makes for a really incred ible guitar sound took that sound apart piece by piece and using the very latest physical electronic and mag netic modeling technology came up with a way to accu rately reproduce the sound of just about any guitar amp i speaker mic combination No its not magic just the culmination of years of intensive research and development on koland s part And take it from me the proud new owner of a VG 8 it really and truly works By adding a GK 2A pickup to any guitar you want mine happens to sit on a pretty nice though remarkably inexpensive Peavey Tele copy you can dial up any guitar sound you ve ever heard including basses and 12 strings from the built in presets or create your own using the EDIT mode One of the coolest things about this thing is that you can find an inex pensive new or used guitar that plays well add a GK 2A and youre in business Thanks to the VG 8 your tone will always be killer it usually takes to set up a mic to capture a killer tone to tape or hard disk Okay if you re a guitar player you probably figure this is all a lot of hype right No electronic gizmo could possi bly give you the sound you re after I mean people are willing to spend like 10 000 bucks on a vintage Les Paul 50 let s take a moment here to separate fact from fiction True there s nothing like owning a sp
43. the ultimate in very low distortion and accurate sonic reproduction for under 500 These gorgeous speak ers were designed to be driven by the new RMA 240 Monitor Amplifier a 120 watt per side amp which uses a minimal com ponent count so the sound quality is very open and detailed Kurzweil is now shipping the K2500 76 note semi weighted 4 720 list and K2500X 88 note fully weighted keyboards 5 250 list They also announced their newest 61 note K2vx 3 495 and K2Svx with Sampling 4 195 keyboards They both have 24 MB of ROM on board plus PRAM and 600 Factory Programs 300 Setups and over 80 QA Banks There will be an upgrade for existing K2000s later this spring Lexicon demonstrated the new PEM 90 Digital Re verberator which offers Lexicon s highest quality reverbs in a compact single space affordable package 2 995 list The PCM Page 3 PORT 90 can create realistic revetbs rom large canyons down T spaces like phone booths and drum rooms These can be con trolled in real time by preset or custom controllers Mackie has once again dropped the jaws of all who passed by with their new MS1202 VLZ MS1402 VLZ and CR1604 VLZ 429 599 and 1199 respectively which all feature new circuitry that keeps these mixers as quiet as humanly possible They also gave a sneak peek at their newSR40e8 a large format center master section style 40 4x8 mixing console with an unbe lievable price point under 10 000 Every time
44. those of you who have been eagerly awaiting the arrival of the 76 note semi weighted and 88 note fully weighted ver sions the wait is over These units are shipping in limited numbers even as you read this The K2500 features a brand new soundset of 200 programs and 100 setups accessing 8 megs of Kurz weil s most spec tacular sounds it also ships with a disk con taining more than 1 000 addi tional programs By adding the op tional sound blocks Orchestral and Contemporary ROM plus a brand new stereo Grand Piano the K2500 expands to 28 megabytes of internal ROM samples Both the keyboard and rackmount versions offer 48 note po lyphony up to 1 25 megs of program memory and up to an unbelievable 128 megs of sample RAM via easy to find SIMMs which Sweetwater stocks of course Of course you get features like a 32 track se quencer with full event editing comprehensive digi tal and analog interfacing two ribbon controllers and eight sliders all of which are fully assignable You also get an operating system that s totally user K2500 KEYBOARDS NOW SHIPPING upgradable And all at a list price of 4720 for the 76 note version or 5250 for the 88 note K2500x But that s not the only news from Kurzweil The company has also released their latest version of the incredible K2000 Series Its dubbed the K2vx and it s basically a K2000 with all the bells and whistles installed like expanded PRAM and both optional R
45. ucks for bi or tri amplified monitors or even if you do may I suggest that you consider getting your self a powered subwoofer to handle the sonics below around 80 Hz A perfect choice might be the new KRK RoK BOTTOM plus a pair of smaller KRK speakers like the matching K RoK Close Field Monitors I recently had the opportunity to audition this par ticular system and I can say without hesitation that you ll never again find yourself wishing you had better bass response With its beefy 250 watt built in ampli fier this 2 1 cubic foot puppy can crank out the bass via its long stroke 12 inch poly glass woofer There s also an unpowered 8 ohm version for those of you with amps to spare I think you ll be im pressed with this speaker as you will be with the entire KRK line of superb studio monitors So if bass is what you crave give your Sweetwater sales engineer a call and audition a RoK Bottom in your own studio today Like many of you who own computers and samplers I m constantly wishing I had more hard disk storage space What s funny is that my first hard drive was 20 megabytes and I wondered at the time why anyone would need more than that Heck these days a high resolution color Photoshop file can occupy almost 20 megs by itself And I have some sample files that run a full 16 megabytes so I find that I now need huge amounts of disk storage it J ai afte When the internal hard drive on my comput
46. urbo Mixer technology maximizes the number of recordable tracks available with your sound card and supports variable audio sampling rates from 11 to 44 1 kHz CD quality Of course with Cakewalk Pro Audio you also get all the standard MIDI sequencing functions you could ever want like high quality notation realtime step overwrite sound on sound loop and auto punch record modes powerful editing like cut copy paste drag drop pitch transpose and more Listing all the features of this great new software package would take far more space than we have available so call your Sweetwater sales engineer for complete information and your special pricing today Winter 1996 LESSON TWO MUSICAL FAHRVERGNUGEN Sweet Notes CRUISING THE MIDI AND sy screner COMPUTER AUTOBAHN Sweetwater Sales Engineer Germany 1988 Deep in the Schw bisch hush of the Black Forest ina little two road village nestled among green ancient hills sixty kilometers southwest of Stuttgart On a chill night in late December from a large modern building now dark in the winter shadows comes the sound of a pi ano and the struggle for perfection in a writer s hands No its not a John LeCarr novel or even the story of how Silent Night was written This issue Sweetwater gives you a real world glimpse into the ways modern music tech nology can transport you into other lands of swift effec tive and progressive music recording and ultimately ho
47. w a serious musician like yourself can save serious cash by making a relatively small investment We look specifically today at the merits of MIDI and the benefits of linking it with the ubiquitous one eyed servant so many of us have hired on the personal computer Our story which as luck would have it is my own begins this way remained a guest in Altensteig for three months primarily work ing on new material and waiting for colleagues in Switzerland to secure my work visa so could return and head up a local theater and music group In the interim met Andreus a German engineer who single handedly ran the recording studio there and who also enjoyed my music enough to want to record it On the night in question was practicing a new song called Along The Way kind of an Al Jarreau meets Elton John vibe It was near midnight and after a week was still hav ing trouble playing it The chords were mostly jazz tonal clusters that I d never used before and though they fit my melody wonderfully my hands fumbled over the voicings as if they d just tried The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway for the first time The next morning at ten reported to the Studio to lay the tune down my vocal going through a Neumann U87 and the piano part performed on a beautiful black Bosendorfer talk about Fahrvergn gen could drive that piano all night only had until 1 30 that afternoon when another session started and defini
48. ynthesis power in the box the Prophecy is a steal at 1599 list if ever there was a time for a rebirth of synth lead playing the time is now High praise indeed If you re looking for an instrument to use for accompani ment like for lush strings or thick analog pads you d best look elsewhere like maybe at Korg s Trinity Nope this is Strictly a solo synth and a truly impressive one it is So if solo synth is your thing now s the time to call your Sweetwa ter Sales engineer for more information and your special pric ing on the fabulous new Korg Prophecy Sweet Notes Winter 1996 several of us from Sweetwater Sound att tended the 1996 NAMM International Music Marketwhich was held January 18 21 1996 at the Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim Cali fornia This amazing 4 day show featured over 1 000 exhibitors and was attended by over 50 000 registered attendees who excit edly swarmed over the 410 000 sq feet of exhibit space The extra added day was a blessing as there was just foo much new gear and software to see in only three days And to think we almost didn t make it due to some nasty winter weather Space doesn t permit us to tell you about everything we saw so if you want to read more about Winter NAMM check out our World Wide Web Site for an in depth report with some exclusive photos and check out our next issue of Sweet Notesfor more on these new products AKG showed for the first time their MicroMic S
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