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

... its arrival in the early 80s. We almost all use it to control synths, get note information into our plug-ins or store patterns in our DAWs and sequencers. However, it's quite possible that you've already ...

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

Avid's Pro Tools, originally developed by Digidesign, looms over the DAW world like a colossus, widely considered to be the industry standard digital recording solution. Digidrums ...

3. The Art of Remixing
(Category/Recording Advices)

... material. Remixes have been around ever since the dawn of recorded music. Early producers and engineers stripped down multitrack recordings, either to transform them from one ...

4. Audio & Sampling
(Category/Recording Advices)

... production, from multitrack audio recording and editing, through to various methods of processing and manipulation. We'll do this in both the software DAW and sampler. the latter being a supremely flexible ...

5. Effects and Plugins - Delay, Reverb, Chorus, Phaser, Flanger
(Category/Recording Utilities)

... Your DAW almost certainly includes a suite of them. So how can you get the most from them? How are you to know what effects should be used and when? We're going to guide you around the most common and ...

6. Free Plugins
(Category/Recording Utilities)

... the walk through, we should point out that Minerva doesn't display the value of its parameters in its GUI. While some DAWs - such as Ableton Live- will give you access to parameter values through t heir ...

7. 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, ...

8. 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 ...

9. Digital Headroom
(Category/Recording Advices)

... and plenty more. There are two major aspects of digital headroom we need to look at: recording and mixing. Recording is straightforward: getting an analogue signal into the DAW ...

10. Vocoders
(Category/Recording Advices)

... lot more options, from the humble microKorg upwards. Hardware vocoders might be the connoisseur's choice, but software provides a cheaper, easier alternative for beginners. Most modern DAWs include ...

11. 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, ...

12. Timecodes
(Category/Recording Advices)

... using the same kind of equipment any more - DAWs have replaced tape machines, software has replaced hardware sequencers, improved MIDI functionality has made triggering remote hardware easier, and many ...

13. Apple iPad
(Category/Recording Studio Equipment)

... our existing technology. The iPad can be anything from a fun hand-held synth to a capable multi-track DAW, but it really comes alive when you’re given the chance to use it with the rest of your studio ...

14. Audio Metering
(Category/Recording Advices)

... to a 24-bit digital format. Leaving this much headroom should minimize the chances of clipping while giving you dynamic range and SNR far in excess of analogue tape. Even when mixing in your DAW, remember ...

15. Sampling Techniques
(Category/Recording Advices)

... most DAWs include some kind of sampler plug-in as part of the package so you can get started without shelling out extra money for another plug-in. Logic's EXS24 and Cubase's HALion are particularly good ...

16. Quantization
(Category/Recording Advices)

... you the most advanced options when it comes to handling complex audio groove adjustment, but similar effects are now possible in most DAWs. Pitch Quantization Finally, there's one more form of quantization ...

17. PreSonus Studio One Pro
(Category/Recording Studio Software)

There is always something interesting about a new arrival in the DAW arena, especially when the manufacturer concerned is better know for hardware than software. This is all the more surprising when the ...

18. Home Audio Mastering
(Category/Recording Advices)

... shareware packages are also available. In addition to this. you'll probably find a reasonable set of mastering plug-ins bundled in with your DAW. Logic 9, for example, offers handy mastering tools in the ...

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

... DAW revolution of the 1990s and although a handful of models are still manufactured by the likes of Korg, Roland, Yamaha and Alesis, the workstation no longer enjoys the market it did 15 years ago. The ...

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

... and Phones level, and a third for determining the monitoring Mix balance between the live inputs and DAW playback. That's basically what you get with the CI1 -alongside the included software, of course ...