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Sound on Sound Magazine
July 2004
Words by Debbie Poyser.

Sometimes hi-tech music can be pretty hard work. Creating a studio is expensive and time consuming — choosing the gear from a confusing array on the market, getting the necessary money together, fitting out a suitable space, head-scratching over wiring and setup, then spending possibly months becoming properly familiar with hardware that's sometimes inscrutable and software that's nearly always deep. And all this before you can get down to serious music production......

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COMPUTER MUSIC REVIEW
Issue 62, August 2003 – p.10 – Drive Time…

The Bruthas Chunc
To start, a note from The Bruthas; "Our choices were mainly based on there accessibility with screen reading software. We use Jaws For Windows, which in our opinion is one the best out there at the moment for music software."

CAKEWALK SONAR
Are main recording platform, it incorporates the best parts of Cakewalk Pro Audio 9 and has totally improved its file management capability, but.. upgrading from PA9 has caused serious headaches for the blind user. All in all, though, the boys at Twelve Tone Systems deserve knighthoods for coming to our rescue and at least giving us the opportunity to work at the same standard as all other producers. Thumbs up: bring it on!

SONIC FOUNDRY SOND FORGE
The ultimate "accessible mastering software" – and we’ve tried a few. It has all the tools necessary when preparing a .wav for CD. It supports virtually every file format you’d ever need, and the Auto Region feature well handy.

WAVES GOLD BUNDLE
Great presets, but unfortunately, like many plug-ins, it has still has virtually no real access for screen readers.

ARBORETUM HYPERPRISM
This funky package of plug-ins has your typical chorus, delay, etc, as well as some fantastically creative plugs for sending it all off West and out East.

NERO
The emperor of CD copying. What an archaeological find this program was. Simple but affective, and it doesn’t aggravate any other aspect of your machine. So what have the Romans ever done for us? This!