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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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Expetri software synthesizer that grows sound cells in a petri dish

11.03

Expetri has introduced a new software synthesizer that grows sound cells in a petri dish. The cells drift, divide and blend their waveforms, and users shape the sound by stirring the dish, adding…

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