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

... allowing just 128 values (0-127) for parameters such as velocity, note value, pitch bend, modulation and so on. Send a MIDI controller value to a synth's filler cutoff frequency or oscillator pitch, gradually ...

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

... by adding together partials sine wave harmonics of the fundamental frequency - in order to build up the sound. Phosphor's uncluttered interface belies its extremely flexible sound engine. In comparison ...

3. Loudness Tips and Tricks
(Category/Recording Advices)

... how loud the overall mix can be, and a quiet breakdown creates Impact when everything else comes back in. Fill out the frequency spectrum to keep it from sounding too weedy. USE SILENCE Ironically, ...

4. Digital Audio File Formats
(Category/Recording Advices)

... signal can be perfectly reconstructed when the sample rate is twice as high as the highest frequency being sampled. So if the highest frequency of an audio signal Is 1 kHz, sampling it at 2 kHz should ...

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

... (which is, fundamentally, an EQ) is used to remove much of the frequency content, leaving the loop with a highly stylized sonic signature. Then there’s the familiar "telephone effect" that's frequently ...

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

... alternatives Because condenser mics are sensitive and have a wide frequency response, they can be unflattering and unforgiving In certain recording environments. So, what are the alternatives? Dynamic ...

7. Preamplifiers
(Category/Recording Advices)

... neutral preamp doesn't exist, so there will always be some level of coloration, from mild distortion to noise, inaccurate reproduction of transients, uneven frequency response or waveshaping and mild compression ...

8. Vocoders
(Category/Recording Advices)

... and FM synthesis. Like frequency modulation synthesis, vocoding works using two signals: the modulator and the carrier. First, the modulator signal is fed into a series of bandpass filters in order ...

9. Limiters
(Category/Recording Advices)

... single-band equivalents but use filters to split the signal into a series of contiguous frequency ranges before processing each one individually. The signals from each band are then summed back together. ...

10. Audio Metering
(Category/Recording Advices)

... most common way of doing this is to measure frequency. For example, a spectrum analyzer displays the individual levels of a number of frequency bands in order to show their relative amplitudes. Oscilloscopes ...

11. The Science of Psychoacoustics
(Category/Recording Advices)

... and a number of psychoacoustic phenomena can dramatically affect the way we respond to the sounds we hear. Now we'll take a brief look at three very important characteristics of audio-frequency, volume ...

12. Sampling Techniques
(Category/Recording Advices)

... the cutoff frequency of the filter will appear to be pitched up and down with the note itself. The result is a seriously easy method of creating a key-tracking filter effect. Similar effects can be ...

13. Quantization
(Category/Recording Advices)

... sounds by pitch, moving them up or down the frequency range to the nearest pre-defined value. In MIDI terms, this is a relatively easy process. Each note which doesn't fit into your selected scale simply ...

14. Home Audio Mastering
(Category/Recording Advices)

... consequences of getting it wrong. Poor quality monitors are likely to suffer from an uneven frequency response and if your room is badly treated (or worse, untreated) then this problem could be exacerbated ...

15. Mastering
(Category/Recording Advices)

... will sound good on any playback system, will be loud while retaining dynamic range, will have a good balance between all parts of the frequency range and will sound, for want of a better word, finished. ...

16. Drum Synthesis
(Category/Recording Advices)

... tuning and a fundamental frequency, the fundamental frequency of a drum hit is often less important than the non-pitched percussive element of the sound. A large part of this percussive element can ...

17. The Science of Stereo - Mixing
(Category/Recording Advices)

... frequencies closer to the middle of the stereo image, only getting more heavy-handed with the pan pot as you approach the upper-midrange and high frequency elements. This is also, to some extent, a throwback ...

18. Harmonic Distortion
(Category/Recording Advices)

... dedicated distortion effects). EQ and Enhancers EQs are static with regard to frequency and create linear harmonic distortion by cutting boosting the amplitude of a fixed frequency ...

19. The Science of Distortion
(Category/Recording Advices)

... sine, sawtooth and so on) contain different patterns of harmonics. A square wave, for example, contains the fundamental frequency and all odd-numbered integer harmonics. Therefore, as we clip the waveform ...

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

... outputs with individual level controls to allow easy collaboration. This new addition to M-Audio’s strong line of mobile recording solutions also features impressive audio specs, such as a frequency ...