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

... or even software that don't support it. However, the skeptics would have us believe that Its days are numbered thanks to new protocols arriving on the market. While such alarmist attitudes are probably ...

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

... have chosen one of the less obvious early '80s synths to emulate. With most of the classic synths already recreated in software form, it's becoming increasingly difficult for software developers to ...

3. 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, ...

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

... excel at absorbing quick peaks. Umiters are known to exhibit extremely unpleasant side effects when over-used, but some definitely sound better than others. Software compressors and limiters have come ...

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

... perfectly fine with decoding these signals if they come from different locations." Surround to the Max Henke is an Ableton Live user, but because the software doesn't have 'proper' surround sound ...

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

... you plenty of range In terms of tempo adjustment, while maintaining the original pitch. The leading software packages are very good at this, but you'll nonetheless find that some material suffers from ...

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

... Lastly, REX is a lossless compressed audio format, which is especially designed for looped passages of audio that are created in Propellerhead's ReCycle software. A REX file will typically contain a looped ...

8. 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 ...

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

... popular: the reverberation of a natural acoustic space, for example, the whooshing jet noise effect of tape flanging, or the nasty distortion of an overdriven amplifier. Today, software plug-ins bring ...

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

... a outstanding multi-instrumentalist who's fully capable of overdubbing everything yourself. you're still going to need a certain amount of hardware and software and some audio engineering basics to get ...

11. 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 ...

12. Vocoders
(Category/Recording Advices)

... effects such as the talkbox and the Sonovox before rounding up some of the hardware and software vocoder options currently available. Mil-spec The vocoder's invention took ...

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

... significantly more friendly. Editing features were still cumbersome at best. The Software Revolution Dedicated MIDI sequencing hardware offered more power than anything the analogue world could ...

14. 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 ...

15. Apple iPad
(Category/Recording Studio Equipment)

... I’ve bought one and I hope the software developers repay my faith in the hardware. I can’t wait to see where the technology goes from here. I love iPad!  ...

16. Audio Metering
(Category/Recording Advices)

Are you dazed by decibels? Struggling with spectrograms? Modern audio gear and software comes loaded with meters to try and give visual indications of signal levels and a host of other information. ...

17. Sampling Techniques
(Category/Recording Advices)

... here should apply to most software and the majority of hardware, so whatever you're using to sample your audio you should be able to put our advice to good use. What should ...

18. Quantization
(Category/Recording Advices)

... Partial Quantize. Groove Templates To add even more human feel and groove to quantized sequences, most MIDI software also now allows you to apply customizable groove templates to patterns. The ...

19. 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 ...

20. 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 ...