Rain Recording

Making music for video games presents unique challenges to composers and producers, challenges that Rain Recording has addressed with the new Rain Solstice Dragon Edition Audio + Gaming Workstation computer. This beast can handle demanding 3d gaming graphics while simultaneously providing a stable digital audio production platform. It's a wonder they didn't call it the Double Dragon Edition.  

Like the Honda Element, the Rain Recording Element Core i7 Workstation is boxy, functional without looking too utilitarian and full of storage space. Unlike the Honda Element, the Rain Recording Element Core i7 Workstation is actually powerful, too.  

How much power is too much power? Until now, this was just a rhetorical question, the grist of academics and philosophers, but with the advent of the Rain Recording Quad-Core LiveBook, this question takes on a new and immediate consideration. God save us all.  

Never to be outdone in the world of portable audio computing, Rain LiveBook has been outfitted with Intel Core2 Duo processors and up to 8GB of RAM. If you need to capture the baleful bleating of Kenny G in his native habitat (the Gobi), this is your laptop.  

Rain Recording proudly presents the ION 64. It's a dual quad core audio workstation that handles plugin processing like Chuck Norris and Jonathan Brandis handled a large horde of ninjas during a daydream sequence in the 1992 action thriller Sidekicks.  

"In the 1870's, pioneering geologist Bill Paschick was data mining in the Blue Ridge Mountains when he came across a vein of raw-audio-processing-power. From this rare ore was crafted the first of Rain Recording's flagship DAWs: The Element."

I took that text directly from Rain's Website.

 

Rain Recording's Solstice is the first computer of its kind to utilize AMD Dual and Quad-Core engines. In addition, its rock-star good looks will make you go crazy thinking that perhaps your spouse is cheating on you with your computer workstation.  

Rain Recording releases the LiveBook Zephyr, a mobile computer recording workstation. It comes with an optional ZPAK which gets songwriters started conveniently with no extra accessories to buy.  

The specs on the Rain Recording LiveBook Diablo are so powerful for a notebook that it could be perceived as a desktop by numbers alone. It's available with a 2.93 GHz Core 2 Extreme processor and up to 3 GB of RAM all...  

So it looks a little like a Wii on steroids, but that might not be far from the truth: Rain Recording UK has released the "most sophisticated, quiet, and powerful audio workstation to date," the Nimbus Pro.

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As the recent Rain Recording newsletter so eloquently put it, "...put down that Sunday ad from the local big box retailer. A mail-in rebate and a free printer will not give you a pro-quality digital audio computer, but...  

Rain Recording, makers of audio-optmized PCs and laptops have published a web resource called VistaWatch that helps outline the slow crawl Vista is making into the audio world. Check out the chart here and notice a few...  

If you look closely, you can see the lines of heat radiating off the picture. (Okay, maybe you can't.) Rain Recording has pulled out all the stops and rolled out a very serious box for very serious audio work - meet the...  

I knew it would come to this. It's my karma, after all. I laughed, I poked fun, I gave Vista the business. Column after column here, mocking the early adopters. Lemmings, I called them. Lemmings rushing headlong off the cliff...  

Everyone who reads this column knows I've been skeptical of early adoption of Windows Vista. I've been a naysayer, a skeptic, a downright bore about the notion of early adoption.

The problem is, Vista is here to stay,...  

Rain Recording's Element is a rack-mountable tower computer optimized for studio recording. Element has plenty of studio-friendly features, including silent technology that allows you to record with the computer right there...  

Rain Recording's Bill Paschick has much to say about Microsoft's XP Pro 64-bit platform, especially in light of recent developments at Microsoft. The Vista operating system, currently scheduled for general release at the...  

Rain Recording's Bill Paschick talks about the mission of Rain, rubbing elbows with with "fifth Beatle" Sir George Martin, and why Rain is so picky about its computer products. Paschick says computers may be the most important...  

Rain Recording president Bill Paschick says digital recording is more exciting than ever, thanks to incredible advances in computer technology. Those advances include the ability to record directly to RAM. That's no misprint,...