Meena Shamaly takes a look at Stormdrum 3 – the latest edition of the Stormdrum percussion series and the  first East West sample library to use Play 4. The video review is 2 hours in length and you can be watched below: Stormdrum 3 is the first virtual instrument to include

This product review comes from the fantastic Daniel James of HybridTwo. Daniel takes a look at Quantum Leap Spaces, and how it fares up as a software reverb.

Do you have any formal musical training? I studied composition with a privet instructor in Israel. I also learned jazz guitar at high school and I graduated from the musician’s Institute in Hollywood with an associate degree in performance. Do you think this influences your compositions in any way (positively

Do you have any formal musical training? Yes. I studied Jazz Bass Performance in college. I’ve also received private music instruction for most my life on a variety of instruments, mainly the piano (you can thank my mom for that, lol). Do you think this influences your compositions in any

Do you have any formal musical training? Carnegie Mellon University on the east coast. Do you think this influences your compositions in any way (positively or negatively?) First learn the rules. Then learn to break them. ( I forget who said that! But its true!) Can you expand a little

Do you have any formal musical training? Not really. I started taking piano lessons when I was four, and in high school I studied jazz music with a college orchestration professor who really helped me get started in my writing. Music was always just a hobby for me though, and

Do you have any formal musical training? I began studying music formally when I was still in grade school – when I was about seven years old. I studied percussion privately with two amazing instructors, Ron Leach and Randall Larson, and learned to read and write music at that time.