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FEBRUARY/MARCH 2006 - VOL. 2 NO. 1

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Editor

go back to this column in our first issue last July. In it I

acknowledged a lot of people who made it possible to

launch this magazine—our talented core staff, our team of

the very best and most experienced writers around…and I

managed to leave out a very important person in the histo-

ry of this magazine: Paul Gilreath.

Paul called one day while doing research for the third

edition of his incredibly comprehensive book “The Guide

to MIDI Orchestration” (which Doyle Donehoo reviews in

this issue). We were talking about “the new sampling” and

how—along with virtual instruments—it had become a

whole new musical medium.

At the time, a lot of people who were augmenting or

even replacing their hardware-based rigs with computer-

based set-ups had been contacting me with questions.

How many computers would they need? What software

did it involve? And so on. I mentioned to Paul that I’d

actually considered writing a book about all this, but the

technology moves so fast that it would be hopelessly out

of date before I finished writing it.

That naturally led to the idea of a newsletter (it was

probably Paul’s idea, I don’t remember). The seed had

been planted, and the project took on a life of its own.

Since we were (and still are) in the midst of a serious

revolution, it was obvious that this was much too big for a

newsletter; the way to do it properly was to launch a real

magazine. The timing was just right—even a year before

would have been too early—and there was an obvious

need for it. Given my enthusiasm for the medium and my

decade of experience editing another magazine

(Recording) I felt like the right person to spearhead it.

Between a busy career and his family, Paul was way too

busy to continue with this project as it had ballooned. A

newsletter was one thing; this was a full-time undertaking.

But the rest is history. I then spent the next months put-

ting together a company to launch the magazine you have

in your hands. You wouldn’t be reading it if Paul

hadn’t called that day.

On a more mundane note, I’d like to apologize for the

extremely disheartening non-delivery problems that

plagued our first two issues. Hopefully the new postal

delivery service we’re using for this and the previous issue

will have solved the problem once and for all. Please let us

know if any of you subscribers aren’t receiving your issues

on time, and we’ll do some shouting on your behalf.

And please write to let us know what you think, what

you’d like to see, what the problems with your rig are or

aren’t, or anything else that’s on your mind. -NB

Editor/publisher : Nick Batzdorf

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Contributors : Jim Aikin, Peter Buick, David Das, Doyle Donehoo, David

Govett, Chris Meyer, Ashif “King Idiot” Hakik, Dave Moulton, Frederick

Russ, Bruce Richardson, Craig Sharmat, Lee Sherman.

Publishing consultant : Ross Garnick

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