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Essential Toolkit for Windows - Part 2
In Part 2 of his series on Windows utilities Peter Kirn covers cool music software for the power user. Read article

Music Publishing 101
Music Office CEO, Greg Forest offers advise on music publishing and how to copyright your songs. Read article

Building Your Voice-Over Studio
Voice Actor Dave Courvoisier covers the basics of setting up your own private voice-over studio. Read article

The Performing Laptop
Craig Anderton walks us through his laptop-based live system with guitar, samples and loops and how it all comes together. Read article

RAM Recording and the Solid State Disk Drive
As USB memory sticks increase in capacity, the option of recording to RAM opens up possibilities. Read article

The New Voice Acting Paradigm
Voice Actor Dave Courvoisier gives an overview of the Voice-Over industry past and present Read article

Essential Toolkit for Windows - Part 1
Peter Kirn of Create Digital Music explores an impressive set of utilities for making your PC DAW run more smoothly. Read article

Making Music with Vista - Part 1
Part one of a series, Robin Vincent offers advise on making music in Windows Vista operating system Read article

In The Garageband
This article is a guide to free or cheap audio software for the PC. Krystal, Reaper, Wavosaur and others are covered. Read article

Turn Your Old Computer into a Plug-in Slave using FX Teleport
A look at turning your old computer into a plug-in slave with FX Teleport. Read article

Putting U in a ST_DIO
This article takes a look at some things to consider when choosing a recording studio. Read article

Choose Your Weapon: Microphones
Justin Matley takes a look at a few great studio mics and some theory on how to use them. Read article

Microphone Techniques for Stereo Recording
An overview of stereo recording microphone techniques. Covers a variety of stereo techniques. Read article

Computer Music Setups
Robin Vincent takes a look at some computer music setups for the home studio Read article