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

... bandwidth data interfaces are now commonplace - everything from USB and FireWire to home wireless networks and broadband internet connections. As a result, the potential for a high bandwidth musical instrument ...

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

... market, targeted directly at home users. Bundled with Pro Tools LE, the 2-in/2-out, 24-bit Mbox boasted Focusrite-designed preamps and 48V phantom power. 2005's Mbox 2 added MIDI In/Out, while the Pro ...

3. Is Stereo Enough?
(Category/Recording Advices)

... climate isn't really conducive to the widespread adoption of true surround listening. Goodbye to the Hi-Fi "In part, the whole notion of the home hi-fi system for audio listening is gone." explains ...

4. Audio & Sampling
(Category/Recording Advices)

... a modem home computer can effectively play the role of an entire recording studio - mixing dozens of tracks together, enabling virtually unlimited processing and giving engineers the ability to edit tracks ...

5. Free Plugins
(Category/Recording Utilities)

... enhance the simulation of organic forms. These include note velocity, key scaling, LFOs, envelopes and the mod wheel. At first, Fauna can be quite overwhelming - it's home to a number of parameters ...

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

... if you do your homework and know exactly what you need and why you need it. That's where we come in! Do your homework In this tutorial. we'll show you how to record an expanded acoustic band, centered ...

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

... of course, portability that would have been inconceivable in the past. And yet hardware still has a place in many home and professional studios. Whether it's familiarity, that ...

8. Vocoders
(Category/Recording Advices)

... The story of the vocoder itself starts in 1928, when Bell Labs engineer Homer W Dudley began working on techniques that allowed sounds to be reproduced using basic forms of spectral resynthesis.  ...

9. 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, ...

10. Timecodes
(Category/Recording Advices)

... the simplicity and convenience of more modern approaches. I would hazard a guess that fewer than one in a thousand of us even considers SMPTE as part of a home project studio setup. Nevertheless, the ...

11. Quantization
(Category/Recording Advices)

... over the last decade mean that it's now well within the reach of most home producers to quantize audio as well as MIDI data. lime stretching technology allows notes which are out of time to be pushed and ...

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

... window to the right of the main interface. There's nothing radical here, but all the elements are easily accessible and clearly laid out. As a Cubase, Logic, Pro Tools and Live user, I felt at home. In ...

13. Home Audio Mastering
(Category/Recording Advices)

... results at home if you put a bit of time into training your ears and learning the tools of the trade. We'll focus mainly on software since it makes sense that most beginners to DIY mastering will choose ...

14. Mastering
(Category/Recording Advices)

... can try mastering at home.  ...

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

... reasons for checking your mix in mono was to make sure it would sound good on the single-speaker record players, radios and televisions it would be heard on. These days, the majority of home listeners ...

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

... weighty, which means that they are well-suited to desktop use in more modest home studios. They should stand up well to the usual sonic abuse to be expected in any self-respecting recording studio scenario. ...

17. Steinberg Nuendo
(Category/Recording Studio Software)

... but why? Firstly, it commands the highest license-only price for a DAW, taking it out of the reach of many home studio or even semi-pro budgets. Secondly, it's tailored for audio-to-picture work in TV/film/video ...

18. 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 ...

19. Acoustica Mixcraft
(Category/Recording Studio Software)

... killer songs the first night. They can be all yours, or all theirs. This package is exactly what the normal home musician needs. It replaces thousands of dollars worth of hardware. My 16 track Akai HD ...

20. Recording Studio Sound Isolation
(Category/Recording Studio Design)

... an isolation booth in a professional recording studio, or trying to prevent sound from leaking into or out of your home studio, sound isolation is key.  ...