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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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This programme turns the Sony PlayStation 2 into a real-time experimental noise synthesiser

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Independent artist and developer Tomohiro Ogawa, working as studio vivi, has released PULSE MODS v1.4, an experimental noise synthesizer that runs on original Sony Playstation 2 hardware and turns…

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