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Mar 1, 2006,
By Brian Heller
When we think of stereo recording, left/right stereo typically comes to mind: two independent channels of audio, one carrying information from the left...
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Mar 1, 2006,
By Eli Krantzberg
Your mouse and keyboard provide a great degree of precision, control, and accuracy for interfacing with your DAW. Hardware control surfaces, with their...
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Mar 1, 2006,
By Brian Smithers
As a saxophonist, the first time I heard a keyboardist use LFO vibrato I almost choked. That was a long time ago, but in most synth patches, the LFO is...
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Feb 1, 2006,
By Lorne Hammond
In the late '80s and early '90s, rap music and hip-hop culture were slowly working their way into the fabric of mainstream America. With acts like Jazzy...
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Feb 1, 2006,
By Len Sasso
In Ableton Live, each audio or MIDI clip that you place in a Session view slot contains a list of options that dictate what will happen after the clip...
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Feb 1, 2006,
By Len Sasso
Most DAWs have two kinds of automation: time based and clip based. Time-based automation is tied to the DAW's timeline, whereas clip-based automation...
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Jan 1, 2006,
By Jonathan Segel
In its original incarnation, which featured the now-familiar H. R. Giger-esque interface and sophisticated envelope programmability, Absynth was a shoe-in...
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Jan 1, 2006,
By Matt Donner
In today's desktop environment, musicians often need to integrate sound emanating from a wide variety of sources. Although working entirely on a computer...
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Jan 1, 2006,
By Orren Merton
Guitarists with home studios constantly face the problem of recording the sound of their amplifiers while maintaining the peace. Keeping the neighbors...
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Jan 1, 2006,
By Len Sasso
Apple Loops are Apple's answer to Acidized WAV files. As you might expect, only Apple products can take advantage of Apple Loops' special features, such...
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Jan 1, 2006,
By Len Sasso
Envelope is not a four-letter word. If you've been limiting yourself to simple ADSR envelopes in your synth programming, you're missing out. A variety...
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Dec 1, 2005,
By Erik Hawkins
Using Beat Detective to slice up a loop into a series of individual beats is so simple that one hardly need glance at the Pro Tools manual. But there's...
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Dec 1, 2005,
By Babz
The use of multiple computers has become common in studios today, because the power required for multiple tasks such as multitrack recording, signal processing,...
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Dec 1, 2005,
By Peter Schwartz
Although recording engineers view noise as something to avoid, it has great creative potential for the synthesist and sound designer. Wind, thunder, surf,...
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Dec 1, 2005,
By David Battino
Just when it seemed that commercial radio couldn't possibly become more corrupt or boring, along came podcasting Internet radio by and for the people....
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Dec 1, 2005,
By Maureen Droney
Most people go to great lengths to ensure that their recording studios are quiet. But not so with composer Jesper Kyd. Sirens, car alarms, and traffic...
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Dec 1, 2005,
By Jim Aikin
All musical instruments give musicians some types of control, including control over which notes are played as well as what sounds the instrument produces....
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Dec 1, 2005,
By Jeffrey P. Fisher
There's more to transitioning from personal to project studio than just opening the doors and collecting the cash. Embarking down this road means setting...
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Nov 1, 2005,
By Thad Brown
In the days before digital audio, you could create auto mated mixes, as long as you had an expensive analog mixing console. As you moved the console's...
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Nov 1, 2005,
By Garth Hjelte
Let's say that one day you are leafing through the pages of the latest issue of EM, and you come across an ad for a new sample library of Central Malaysian...
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