10 years back
Our monthly shake-of-thehead at our earlier selves’ news choices…
Propellerhead Software had its first stab at opening up the Reason Rack back in June 2012, announcing that it would now allow third-parties to develop for the DAW via its new Rack Extension format. It took another five years for the company to bow to the inevitable and implement actual VST support – Propellerhead liked to take its time over things, we recall – but it was a step in the right direction. Baby steps, and all that…
“If a piece of music isn’t on the internet these days, does it really exist?”
Also in 178, we reviewed u-he’s Diva, a vintage-sounding virtual analogue soft synth that remains popular today. In fact, we’d say it’s now a classic in its own right; maybe Behringer would like to make a hardware version?
Elsewhere, we had a guide to getting your music ‘onto the internet’ (if a piece of music isn’t on the internet these days, does it really exist?), and we asked if the iPad 2, with its new A5X chip, was worth buying for music-making (summary: probably). Oh, and our resident sonic adventurer rachMiel donned his big powdered wig and discussed the sonata form – how very highbrow.