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

... of the newly released Macintosh computer, they set about creating basic digital audio recording and editing software for their own use. Despite their primary interest in making their own lives easter, ...

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

... from our existing hardware. or to experience it in a live context? Perhaps the biggest reason surround sound has failed to capture the public's imagination is that audiences have been busy with other technology ...

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

... chord structure; a metal track that could live a new life as an old·school rave anthem. This desire to appropriate the music of others and take it to new places isn't a new thing: even early classical ...

4. Audio & Sampling
(Category/Recording Advices)

... for an audio clip in Ableton Live, which merely tells the software the point from which it should start playing the clip, without having to alter the audio file at all. For convenience, and sometimes ...

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

... other. Granular effects fall Into this category, as do "elastic audio" programs like Acid and Live. Distortion effects are entirely different, relying on various different processes to distort the original ...

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)

... and a laptop running Ableton Live aren't going to cut it when it comes to recording a fully acoustic band, especially if said group all want to play and record live and all at the same time! Even if you're ...

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

... power supplies, dust covers where appropriate, and don't leave things switched on day and night. Also, if you intend to use your hardware for live gigs, or in a busy studio environment where it's likely ...

9. Digital Headroom
(Category/Recording Advices)

... exception is when playing live: a clean, neutral limiter on the output can be a useful safety net in this case. To sum up The summing stage of your DAW is where things get slightly more complex, ...

10. Preamplifiers
(Category/Recording Advices)

... recorded, mixed or processed. Whether you're recording or just mixing a couple of m;cs for a live PA, preamps are specifically designed to amplify the low level output, bringing it up to line level. At ...

11. Vocoders
(Category/Recording Advices)

... Hits such as Joe Walsh's Life's Been Good (1973) and Peter Frampton's Show Me The Way (1975) prominently featured the device, and Frampton's 1976 album Frampton Comes Alive! would remain the most well ...

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

... as the late 1990s, hardware sequencers still enjoyed a small but significant market share. For live performance in particular, the stability of a dedicated hardware sequencer made it a viable option. Manufacturers ...

13. 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 ...

14. Apple iPad
(Category/Recording Studio Equipment)

... in the beer-soaked, reckless arena of live performance, so no conclusions can be drawn as yet. Apps like TouchOSC rely on WiFi connections and having heard reports from the US of cripplingly unreliable ...

15. Quantization
(Category/Recording Advices)

... inaccuracies and shifts the drum hits onto the beat is quantizing for you. Note that quantization only really applies to recorded sequences rather than live performance, for obvious reasons. Real-time ...

16. 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 ...

17. Mastering
(Category/Recording Advices)

... should be capable of delivering a neutral, uncolored reproduction of the full frequency range. In these digital days, D/A conversion is also crucially Important so that the monitors are fed with a high ...

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

... to create an accurate representation of a stereo source, so they're most commonly employed for live recordings of acoustic instruments or for capturing the stereo field produced by an ensemble. However, ...

19. 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 ...

20. Steinberg Nuendo
(Category/Recording Studio Software)

... have also added a live recording spin to their marketing of Nuendo by including a large Remaining Recording lime display, global track record arming/disarming and, most importantly, a Lock Record function ...