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Jul 1, 2005,
By Roger Adler
Apple's GarageBand audio recording application has recently been upgraded to version 2, and the program offers several welcome improvements. GarageBand...
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Jul 1, 2005,
By Jim Aikin
Music is always changing. Even in the most repetitious groove, the individual sounds change from moment to moment. Some of the changes come in the form...
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Jul 1, 2005,
By rachMiel
Extreme forms of audio and MIDI editing can pull listeners in, and the resulting techniques often become a vital part of the ongoing evolution of electronic...
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Jun 1, 2005,
By Geary Yelton
The Internet has done more to advance the spread of information than any technological advance since the invention of the printing press. Electronic musicians...
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Jun 1, 2005,
By Maureen Droney
There's an old Los Angeles joke that goes like this: What's the fastest way to the Valley? The answer: Marry a musician! The joke refers to the San Fernando...
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Jun 1, 2005,
By Dave Darlington
Because most desktop audio applications offer an unlimited number of virtual tracks, recordists can keep every take of an artist's performance. All the...
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Jun 1, 2005,
By Orren Merton
A growing number of software synthesizers offer audio inputs, which opens up entire new vistas for effects processing. Here, I'll discuss using virtual-instrument...
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Jun 1, 2005,
By Mark Ballora
Mastering has become a critical step in producing a CD or DVD almost as important as tracking and mixing. Much of this final step involves tweaking various...
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May 1, 2005,
By Strother Bullins
In today's increasingly communicative world, there is no shortage of ways to distribute audio-based intellectual property. As a result, there is an overabundance...
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May 1, 2005,
By Mike Levine
In the recording studio, time has always been the enemy. In commercial studios, the ever-present ticking clock motivates musicians, producers, and engineers...
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May 1, 2005,
By Maureen Droney
Producer and engineer Matt Wallace isn't one to waste time; he thinks fast, talks fast, and moves fast. One result of this seemingly boundless energy...
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May 1, 2005,
By Jim Aikin
When it comes to editing MIDI tracks, logical edit utilities are often used as a last resort. Because logical edit utilities are harder to understand...
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May 1, 2005,
By rachMiel
Microsurgical editing can enhance the musicality and groove quotient of your loops. All you need is an audio editor with a few standard effects (EQ, filtering,...
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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...
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Apr 1, 2005,
By Orren Merton
When you see an audio plug-in running on a computer, it's natural to assume that the processing is being handled by the computer. The digital signal processing...
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Apr 1, 2005,
By Gino Robair
Digidesign Pro Tools has an extensive feature set that may seem endless to everyone except the most experienced user. But even power users might not know...
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Apr 1, 2005,
By Rusty Cutchin
Now that musicians can find a loop to fit any style, and have access to programs that can break down loops to their component parts for endless manipulation,...
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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...
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Apr 1, 2005,
By John Duesenberry
Convolution reverb imposes the characteristics of a real-world reverberant space on an input signal. To create convolution reverb, an impulse response...
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Apr 1, 2005,
By Lory Kohn
Most project studios have the firepower to produce radio-ready tracks. But why is it that some studios stay consistently booked while others stagnate?...
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