If you like dropping different effects in and out of a mix, Glitch is a wonderful tool for song creation and live performance.If you like sound-mangling plug-ins, they don't get much more creative than Kieran Foster's Glitch ( ). None of the minor new features (Network Access Protection compatibility, the Kernel Mode Cryptographics Module, Black Hole router detection algorithm and Product Key-less install option) are likely to be of much interest to musicians, although some may find it helpful that the final item in that list lets you create a 'slipstream' Windows XP CD-ROM with Service Pack 3 included, which you can install without having to enter a product key, as you can with Vista. However, in a departure from previous policy, it doesn't contain any of the Service Pack 1 fixes, so you need to have already installed SP1. SP3 even removes some minor Windows XP features, such as the taskbar Address option. While it does contain a few new minor features, it's essentially a collection of bug fixes released since SP2, and also includes all the hundreds of previously released updates, security improvements and hotfixes from Service Pack 2, so installing it ensures you have the very latest versions of every Windows XP system file. It is already downloadable from a few third-party sites, such as Major Geeks ( Service Pack 3 is an update for Windows XP Home, Professional, Tablet PC and Media Center Editions (but not Windows XP Professional 圆4), and at 316MB it will be a hefty download, so those with slower Internet connections will perhaps find it less stressful to wait for it to arrive on PC magazine freebie CD-ROMs. It was released to manufacturing on April 21st and downloadable via Windows Update () and Download Center ( from April 29th.

Are there any implications for the thousands of XP-using musicians out there?Īs I write this, Microsoft are poised to unleash the long-awaited Windows XP Service Pack 3. The newly released Service Pack 3 will be the last one ever issued for Windows XP - and XP itself is due to go 'off the market' at the end of June.

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