1. OSC - Open Sound Control Protocol
(Category/Recording Studio Equipment)

... rather than being restricted to the more esoteric programming environments like MaX/MSP and SuperCollider. The great news is that it's unlikely to make your existing equipment obsolete - your music computer ...

2. Audio Damage Phosphor
(Category/Recording Studio Software)

... to the astronomically-priced exotica. Rather than developing a fully custom hardware processing unit, the company instead chose to turn to the recently released Apple II Plus computer and its eight expansion ...

3. A Brief History of Pro Tools
(Category/Recording Studio Software)

... and Peter Gotcher, high school buddies and University of California graduates with a shared interest in music, recording, electronic engineering and computer programming. After consulting E-mu for details ...

4. Audio & Sampling
(Category/Recording Advices)

... The earliest digital audio devices were simple two-channel stereo recorders. However, as computer technology has progressed, the scope to do more within the digital realm has significantly broadened. Nowadays, ...

5. How To Record, Mix And Master An Acoustic Band
(Category/Recording Advices)

... decent audio interface) and a DAW (Digital Audio Workstation - the recording software on your computer). We'll look at specific mics for specific applications as they come up. As for everything else, ...

6. Vintage Synthesizers - Digital Audio Workstation Integration
(Category/Recording Advices)

The evolution of the digital audio workstation (DAW) has revolutionized the way most of us compose and record music. As computers - and the software they run - become more powerful, the need for hardware ...

7. The History of Sequencers
(Category/Recording Studio Equipment)

These days, the sequencer is almost synonymous with the digital audio workstation (DAW), but its history goes back way beyond the computer era. From modular synths to '70s drum machines and '80s home computers, ...

8. Timecodes
(Category/Recording Advices)

... was accompanied by an increasing reliance on the synchronization of multiple pieces of equipment, from drum machines to sequencers, computers and tape machines to synths. A number of basic synchronization ...

9. Sampling Techniques
(Category/Recording Advices)

... different sound. There are many reasons why resampling can be useful, whether for creating unique sounds or simply for practical purposes such as using your computer efficiently. For example, if have a ...

10. A History of Sampling
(Category/Recording Advices)

...  The first generation of digital samplers were huge systems built around early personal computers and, although they were massively important in the development of mass market sampling technology, these ...

11. Drum Synthesis
(Category/Recording Advices)

... drums. Roger Linn, creator of the legendary Linn LM-1 Drum Computer and the later LinnDrum, led the race to develop drum machine technology based on digital sampling rather than analog synthesis. The ...

12. Steinberg CI1 and CI2+
(Category/Recording Studio Equipment)

... chosen computer, be it a PC or a Mac. The fact that it was bundled with Cubase AI5 (a reduced feature-set version of Cubase 5) clearly indicated that Steinberg saw the need for a complete good-value studio-in-a-box ...

13. Recording Software Plugins
(Category/Recording Utilities)

  Plugins have become so essential that you probably use them every day. But do you really know how they work? Plugins are such a standard part of any modern computer-based production setup that most ...

14. Ableton Live
(Category/Recording Studio Software)

... free to improvise and the computer actually becomes a musical instrument—an expressive and creative tool, perfectly at home on stage or in the studio. Browsing Ideas Live's drag-and-drop interface ...

15. Acoustica Mixcraft
(Category/Recording Studio Software)

With Mixcraft Virtual Instrument support and unbelievable professional instrument collection, you can turn your computer into an entire music production facility with the addition of a simple, inexpensive ...

16. M-Audio FireWire 410
(Category/Recording Studio Equipment)

... and playback on all ins and outs, additionally offering high-resolution 192kHz stereo outputs. The product’s ten outputs allow computer-based recording systems to behave more like traditional analog ...

17. Propellerhead Reason
(Category/Recording Studio Software)

Making music should be as easy as powering up a computer, loading up a powerful piece of music software, and getting down to business. And it is. Reason is a virtual studio rack with all the tools and ...

18. MIDI Instruments and MIDI Software
(Category/Recording Studio Equipment)

Almost every recording studio has some instruments. And almost every modern electronic instrument has MIDI interface. This is the interface you will use to connect your instruments with computer. You will ...

19. Recording Studio Design Requirements
(Category/Recording Studio Design)

... recording studio software running on the fastest computer around is worth nothng if the whole chain is not suitable for quality recordings. Studios should also be well ventilated, with good stability of ...

20. Pro Tools M-Powered
(Category/Recording Studio Software)

... Windows Vista–, XP– and Mac OS X–based computers. What's more, sessions created with Pro Tools M-Powered software will open on Pro Tools|HD and LE systems, giving users instant compatibility with countless ...