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By Craig Anderton ⋅ Published: 12/01/2017

With the restraining order from last year’s Anderton Awards still in effect (but c’mon—no one actually died from the food), this year the world’s...

By Craig Anderton ⋅ Published: 11/13/2017

Guitars are more likely to be associated with tubes and retro technology than cutting-edge software, but that’s changing in everything from recording...

By Craig Anderton ⋅ Published: 10/17/2017

If you look at “new product” introductions at trade shows, often they’re more about reminding people of what was a new product a...

By Craig Anderton ⋅ Published: 09/21/2017

Recently, I ran across a family photo that was taken in 1890, affixed to a cardboard backing—and was as good as the day...

By Craig Anderton ⋅ Published: 08/14/2017

Two recent events underscore changes in the world of digital audio. The first is the end of licensing for MP3 data compression (or more...

By Craig Anderton ⋅ Published: 07/17/2017

Last month’s column covered the Windows Creators update, and although there was a fair amount of detail on the Surface Dial, I mentioned Pen...

By Craig Anderton ⋅ Published: 06/23/2017

Although concerns about Apple’s commitment to pro-level creators are likely overblown—Apple probably has a few tricks up its sleeve for 2018—Microsoft is doing a...

By Craig Anderton ⋅ Published: 05/17/2017

Since its introduction, the Mac’s share of the pro audio market has been hugely disproportionate to its general market share. It upended the Amiga—at...

By Craig Anderton ⋅ Published: 04/08/2017

Although Apple wasn’t at NAMM, it chose that time slot to introduce Logic Pro X 10.3. And in typical Apple fashion, it embodied three...

By Craig Anderton ⋅ Published: 03/10/2017

NAMM has been making an effort to get pro audio more involved in the show, and the 2017 NAMM convention had more bait than...

By Craig Anderton ⋅ Published: 02/14/2017

When plugins first appeared, the goal was often to provide virtual equivalents of hardware devices—similarly to how CGI originally reproduced reality less expensively. But...

By Craig Anderton ⋅ Published: 01/12/2017

Let’s salute the unsung hero of modern recording software: test and measurement. In the days of tape, your test gear was VU meters that...

By Craig Anderton ⋅ Published: 12/14/2016

Here’s an interesting workforce statistic: Far more jobs are lost to robots than to companies sending jobs overseas. But of course, as recording engineers,...

By Craig Anderton ⋅ Published: 11/01/2016

It’s been said the only survivors of a nuclear war would be cockroaches and Cher’s career…but then there’s the Anderton Awards, "honoring" the...

By Craig Anderton ⋅ Published: 09/01/2016

With a few exceptions, most recent DAW changes have been incremental: We haven’t seen huge breakthroughs like when Opcode’s Vision merged hard disk audio...

By Craig Anderton ⋅ Published: 08/12/2016

When multitrack tape recording progressed beyond a few tracks, a new phrase was added to the recording lexicon: “Fix it in the mix,��...

By PSN Staff ⋅ Published: 06/15/2015

Every year for two days, Sweetwater GearFest turns Fort Wayne, Indiana, into the center of the musical instrument and pro audio world. People travel...