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

... the protocol for transmitting data. Software support is slightly less widespread for the time being, although OSC has been adopted by Native Instruments (for their Traktor OJ package and Reaktor modular ...

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

... of sample-based instruments such as the Fairlight and Synclavier were expensive for all but the most wealthy musicians. The Syntauri Corporation's alphaSyntauri offered a much more affordable alternative ...

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

... Mac-based sample editing system for the Emulator II keyboard. Released in 1985 at a price of $995, Sound Designer brought the visual editing features of exotic instruments like the Synclavier and Fairlight ...

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

... enthusiasts and divulged by the original musicians. Try to find out specifically what instruments were used in the original production. Hunt help down If you're low on resources, you might find ...

5. Audio & Sampling
(Category/Recording Advices)

... files to be played back as MIDI instruments. A single bass note sample can be mapped across a MIDI keyboard, then played much like a synthesizer. It will respond to pitch changes by either slowing down ...

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

... loops. You've got all of the instruments: samplers, synths, drum machines abound. You've got the songwriting and performance chops. Yet there’s something missing. The tracks lack a sense of space. They ...

7. Free Plugins
(Category/Recording Utilities)

Plug-ins come in all shapes and sizes these days. Among the mind-boggling array of instruments available for free online, you'll find synthesisers, drum machines, samplers, sound modules and step sequencers. ...

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

... "real" sound of 'real' instruments. And by the looks of the charts, the good old music-buying public are clearly down with the sounds of a group of folk belting out good, honest songs that you could actually ...

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

... moving into a new house. Break it down Reliability is another thing to consider. While there are synthesizers and EQs from the 70s that still work perfectly, some instruments and effects tend to ...

10. Preamplifiers
(Category/Recording Advices)

... high output impedance of these instruments means that connecting directly to a preamp input is likely to result in a highly undesirable uneven frequency response. A DI (direct injection/input/interface) ...

11. Timecodes
(Category/Recording Advices)

... each MIDI part to tape and using up valuable space, all MIDI instruments could be synchronized to the SMPTE signal and played back live along with the other tracks on the tape. Typically, MIDI equipment ...

12. Sampling Techniques
(Category/Recording Advices)

... for software sampling are too numerous to mention in full here. The most successful (and arguably most powerful) software sampler is probably Native Instruments' all-conquering Kontakt package, but ...

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

... also be detached from the main display and shown as a separate window. Finally, 'Browse' allows you to access Instruments, Effects, Sounds, Files and the Pool (audio currently in use), from a resizable ...

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

... there was still a demand for similar instruments before the advent of digital recording. The solution was the tape-replay keyboard, whose keys triggered the playback of strips of tape, creating sounds, ...

15. Drum Synthesis
(Category/Recording Advices)

... of subtractive synthesis, then consider the approach that you'd need to take if you wanted to use the same techniques to create drum sounds rather than melodic instruments. Although many drums have a pitch ...

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

... carving out space for guitars, synth parts and other instruments as you go. The second rule of thumb is simply that extreme panning should be avoided unless you have a very good reason to do it. Whenever ...

17. Harmonic Distortion
(Category/Recording Advices)

... most instruments the initial onset of a note, i.e. it's attack or transient portion, is critical to how we perceive its character or timbre. The faster the attack setting on a compressor or limiter, the ...

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

... to create tracks to jam along to. CI1 is, simply put, the ideal low-cost audio interface for any Cubase owner who needs to record vocals, instruments, keyboards, percussion or any other audio source. With ...

19. Recording Software Plugins
(Category/Recording Utilities)

... want to use. Most DAWs come with a perfectly usable selection of basic instruments and effects, but plugins allow us to add features to suit our needs. With thousands of plugins available, your expansion ...

20. Ableton Live
(Category/Recording Studio Software)

... tempos, file formats, sample rates or bit depth—Live takes care of it all in real time. Drag and Drop Effects and Instruments Effects and instruments are also drag and drop, just like your files. ...