I remember in 2003, or so, when EAX was touted to reduce the load on the CPU in demanding gaming. The sound cards would have a DSP to take care of all that sound stuff. The Xbox and Soundstorm ...

A blind listening experiment during Synth Week 2026 compared vintage hardware synthesizers with their modern software recreations and found minimal audible differences. The results question ...

Its because the hardware is only as good as the drivers so when it comes down to it, everything depends on software. Highly optimized software routines have the potential to outperform hardware with ...

Over the past year, the importance of crystal-clear audio has become readily apparent on our computing devices. The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in many institutions implementing work/learn ...

This week on MusicRadar, we're stacking up hardware synths against their software counterparts as part of the Great Synth Showdown. In our second round, we're pitting the Roland JV-1080 sound module ...

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For years many of us used MP3 players for music, portable DVD players or tablets for video, and dedicated portable units for gaming. Today, the smartphone serves as the central computing device for ...

A blind listening test by MusicRadar comparing vintage hardware synthesizers with modern software emulations found minimal sonic differences, challenging the belief that analog gear inherently sounds ...