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The magazine is named after the cable: the microphone in the booth, the line to the desk, the DMX run that fires the lights. Studio, stage and rig share the same cable. Most magazines pick one of the three. This one covers all of it, because the people we read do too — the engineer mixing a record on Tuesday is on front of house by Saturday.

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AKAI MPC Sample Review: The Sample Is Going Open Source

10.28

Fancy a chiptune synth on your MPC Sample? How about a wavetable one? That and much more will be possible when AKAI makes it open source. But when will this happen?

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