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                                                                Sample Magic Deep Tech House 02/14/2010
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                                                                Review of Sample Magic Deep Tech House: the latest release from loop gurus Sample Magic has its focus set on the deeper side of house.

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                                                                Deep Tech House is a library that explores quote "moody and melodic, deep and dirty house grooves" - something that honestly doesn't say much to me. As I've been discussing before, for me products based on genres are just damn confusing, and apart I could correctly say that this library 1) isn't about trance, 2) is not euphoric and 3) has a fundament in electronic music, the rest of my guesses were totally off the map.


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                                                                Drum machine shootout 02/03/2010
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                                                                Review of Audio Damage Tattoo, Audiorealism ADM and Sonic Charge Microtonic. This review compares three software drum machines and how they stand against each other. Three audioguns, twenty one sonic bullets. Two swedes and one american. Drum roll, please...

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                                                                While there are a whole bunch of drum synthesizers on the market and many of them are very competent - my selection ended up with Audio Damage Tattoo, Audiorealism ADM and Sonic Charge Microtonic. My primary criteria was that they should be available for both PC and Mac - and they should be able to create more than one type of overall sound. I chose not to include any of the drum machines from the polish developer D16, as each and every drum machine is locked to a specific model and besides - I don't own licenses for any of them.
                                                                Waldorf Attack is a classic that I seriously considered to include, but decided against as it doesn't contain a sequencer. Also, three products against each other is clear as a german sausage soup. But the Waldorf Attack is a fantastic drum synthesizer, especially for creating weird electronic percussion noises.



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