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A review of 2013 uncovered one of the most important aspects of Scope and that is longevity. PCI cards are well proven in this respect with many cards over a decade old still in use. But even with the XITE users are impressed with durability, with many of them being used in a live environment. A musical highlight for me in 2013 was Group of Light's 'Dubstar from Heaven' track and 'making of' video, both fine examples of what could be achieved using Scope and reminding one that there is a twilight world between studio and live. Combining semi-automation with live mixing and performing is a big trend in electronic dance music and a niche that Scope handles admirably.

Back to the past (1985) and our Time Machine series brings us an interview with Karlheinz Stockhausen and demos of the Oberheim Matrix, Yamaha QX7, Yamaha CX5M (which I used to own) and some commentary from NAMM New Orleans, a place better known for it's Jazz than electronic music.

Simplicity often wins when trying to win the workflow battle, so we take a look at the S|C Compressor and Gate, which (for convenience) can be used separately or both together in a single combo device. DSP developer John Amolochitis gives us some great illustrated XITE DSP placement and phase tips and tricks including a clever sub-mixing technique. And dNa comes to the party for those that wish to sub mix natively with their Summer of 82 summing mixer. Using Summer of 82 I was able to streamline my workflow using Reason. Both Summer of 82 and Reason feature in separate articles with some crossover content in the Reason article showing how to set up 8 Reason busses routed to the new dNa Summer.

This time last year, BC Modular débuted a host of new modules for the Scope Modular IV. We take a look with founder Sharc at the latest developments and how the project has become a community development with more developers joining in.



2013 was a great year for Scope users with plenty of new devices and some personal revelations along the way as well.	A year ago Sharc released the most comprehensive update to Modular control ever seen. We check progress since then.	Following on from last issue we travel back to the past gaining appreciation of what we have now compared to what we had then.	Back in issue #04 we looked at Reason integration. But Reason has now come of age with new implications for Scope users.



Tips on XITE-1 DSP placement are always handy so this month developer John from Sur-Audio Lab helps out with his insights.	Shay Dan from Group Of Light shows us his studio and techniques with a couple of informative videos and commentary.	Even after using some hi-end third party devices, Scope stock devices can yield some simplification and pleasing results.	It's not summer in every part of the world, so lets find out why one of dNa's latest (and bundled) device is called 'Summer of 82'.