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Making Waves  Jun 1, 2009, By Peter Hamlin Everyone who works with digital audio soon encounters a wide variety of sound-file formats: WAV, AIFF, SND, Sound Designer I and II, and MP3, to name just a few. In most cases, the different formats present few problems. Software simply opens, plays, edits, and saves the audio files, sparing you from knowing the details of exactly how each format is constructed. But how does a program know what type of data the file contains? And what exactly is in an audio file?...

Square One: Open Sound Control  Nov 1, 2008, By Mark Ballora OSC is a protocol that controls networked sound modules and multimedia devices. Typically, OSC is transmitted between devices via Ethernet cables, which are more commonly used to connect computers to the Internet, although in a simple configuration one piece of software can control another on the same computer...

Square One: eSATA Hard Drives  Oct 1, 2008, By Brian Smithers The current trend in mobile storage is eSATA, the external version of the SATA (Serial AT Attachment) standard. As the name suggests, this standard is related to the ATA/IDE specification under which most internal drives have operated since the late 1980s. SATA drives are increasingly popular in PCs and have been standard in Mac desktops since the first G5s...

Square One: Into the Ether  Sep 1, 2008, By Brian Smithers Read EM September 2008 Square One column on using Ethernet and OSC to improve your MIDI audio production workflow...

Square One: RSS 2.0 Feed Basics  Jul 1, 2008, By Jack Herrington As every musician knows, Podcasting provides a great way to get your music out to the public and let people know what's coming out of your studio. With...

Sawing Logs  Oct 1, 2007, By Brian Smithers Logarithm is a term that appears in many digital audio settings logarithmic taper, logarithmic Velocity curve but what does it really mean? It turns out...

GET THE PICTURE  May 1, 2007, By Brian Smithers In this article, we will look at video basics from formats to standards to codecs....

New Tricks for an Old Dog  Oct 1, 2006, By Mark Ballora For more than 20 years, the main purpose of MIDI has remained much the same: triggering sounds on a synth or sampler. Yet MIDI's modest-bandwidth, straightforward...

What's in a Word?  May 1, 2005, By Mark Ballora Before digital signal processing (DSP) became the norm in music production, adding delay effects or compression meant running the audio through a hardware...

Get with the Program  Apr 1, 2005, By Mark Ballora Have you ever wondered what's under the hood of your digital audio sequencer? Your favorite program more than likely has hundreds of thousands of lines...

Better Latent? Never!  Jun 1, 2002, By David Battino Imagine trying to play a duet with another musician standing two and a half football fields away. Because sound travels through air at about 1,000 feet...

What's in a Web Page?  Mar 1, 2001, Alan Gary Campbell If you've ever wondered how Web pages work, here's your answer.As an electronic musician, you may consider the Web to be part of your tool kit. Perhaps...

Downloadable Sounds  May 1, 2000, Jennifer Hruska None of us want our hardware to become obsolete. So what do you do when you've tired of your sound card's ROM presets or you can't stomach another General...

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