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New Products - January 4, 2013 2012 PAR Excellence Awards: The Winners » Cakewalk SONAR X2 Essential: Free X2a Upgrade » Focusrite Scarlett Studio » Fostex PM0.3 Studio Monitor System » sE Electronics Reflexion Filter Series: Awarded US Patent » Today's Product Review Cakewalk SONAR X1 Producer Digital Audio Workstation By Dan Wothke "X1 Producer offers even-better creative tools and workflow over previous versions, thus making it a no-brainer to SONAR champions and most compelling to potential new users, too. I have been a SONAR user since Version 3 and gained firsthand experience with the upgrades during this time. At $399 street, SONAR X1 Producer is the next big step in this DAW's innovation with a sleek new layout and some very well thought-out features. For this review, I was running SONAR X1 Producer via Core 2 Duo 3 GHz processor with 2 GB of RAM: certainly not the latest in processing power, yet for my purposes — post-production, scoring and multitracking applications — it has served me well. My PC was just above the recommended specs to run X1, so I kept that in mind as I ran X1 through the paces. Needless to say, more RAM is on the horizon for me." More » Today's Blog Film Review: Produced By George Martin by Clive Young "There’s a quote by Degas where he says, ‘Drawing is not what one sees, but what one must make others see.’ And in a way, that’s what we do in sound. The recording is not what one hears, but what one must make others hear. That knowing observation comes early in the 2012 feature-length documentary, Produced By George Martin, now out on DVD and Blu-Ray. Having worked over the years with everyone from Elton John to Burt Bacharach to the four lads from Liverpool, the film's charming subject comes to the forefront as he's interviewed by the likes of Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Michael Palin and his own son/protégé, Giles Martin. While the elder Martin made his mark on pop music through his work with the Beatles, the film traces his entire career, ably showing how his background paved the way not only for his and the band's success, but for his ability to make the most of their music as it quickly evolved." More »

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