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

... card slots. Announced in 1979 and released the following year, the alphaSyntauri setup offered 16-note polyphony, patch memory and velocity sensitivity, while later software updates would also add 16-track ...

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

... were groundbreaking, but the move to multi-track recording with the release of the Pro Tools system was a logical progression for Digidesign. Released in 1991, the first version of Pro Tools was based ...

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

... stage seems especially misguided, since some styles are generally louder than others due to the ways in which they're produced. It's silly to expect an intimate, acoustic guitar-based track to match or ...

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

We've all heard tracks that just beg to be taken further. A haunting vocal that cries out to be paired with a filthy wobble bass; a tune t hat would work so much better if it was playing over a more inventive ...

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

... the amplitude of the signal at any given moment. A higher bit-depth enables us to track smaller fluctuations in the incoming signal, and, as there's a greater range of values between the highest and lowest ...

6. Audio & Sampling
(Category/Recording Advices)

... tape would incur a degree of degradation over time. In analog recording terms, this meant that almost any decision to edit, bounce or process an audio track had to be weighed ...

7. 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 ...

8. Free Plugins
(Category/Recording Utilities)

... anything like you expect it to. Tweakbench Minerva When you find that the sample· based approach to creating rhythm tracks just isn't cutting it. synthesis is the way to go. And if you really ...

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

... we'll deal with the live recording scenario and assume that we need 16 simultaneous inputs to record the whole band. If you're tracking one instrument at a time, you can get away with one or two great ...

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

... you should have the option to send MIDI tracks from it to your external MIDI hardware. A single MIDI input or output can send and receive note data over 16 MIDI channels. Which MIDI channel your hardware ...

11. Digital Headroom
(Category/Recording Advices)

... as a digital recording. Mixing, in this case, doesn't just refer to the final mixdown process after composing and producing our track. Most Electronic producers mix as they go to some extent, so if we're ...

12. Vocoders
(Category/Recording Advices)

... 10-band prototype unit developed in conjunction with synth pioneer Walter Carlos (check it out on the soundtrack to A Clockwork Orange) and various other custom· made units from American, German and Japanese ...

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

... of CV/gate data became possible in the late 1970s. Roland's MC-8 sequencer offered eight tracks of sequencing capacity but with its fiendishly difficult programming system and priced at nearly $8,000 in ...

14. Limiters
(Category/Recording Advices)

... can amplify any signal until its loudest peak just hits 0 dB, but depending on the headroom between this peak and the rest of the signal, the track still might not seem loud. Maximizing with a limiter ...

15. Timecodes
(Category/Recording Advices)

At its most basic level, a clock or timecode is used to transmit information about the tempo or position of your track. From an audio perspective, we're mainly interested in synchronizing pieces of audio ...

16. Apple iPad
(Category/Recording Studio Equipment)

... the multi-touch easily tracks ten separate finger gestures at once (in fact, the iPad actually responds to eleven simultaneous gestures). The accelerometer ensures that the screen remains upright, but ...

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

... the weight imparted by subsonic frequencies plays a major part in how we feel music. To get an idea of how this works, try taking a heavy track with lots of sub-bass that you know well. Listen to it ...

18. Sampling Techniques
(Category/Recording Advices)

... synthesis process and the filter can be used to shape the sound to fit your track just as you'd use a filter in a synth to create a sound. Most samplers will allow the filter to be controlled via an envelope, ...

19. Quantization
(Category/Recording Advices)

... for the best results It's also possible to use the same theory behind MIDI groove templates to adjust the swing and groove of your audio tracks. Want to steal the groove of a particularly funky drum loop ...

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

... throughout the creative process appears to extend from song setup on the Start page to the Project window where you can analyze and master your final track (or tracks) and burn a CD or create a 'Digital ...