Music Software
Which DAW should you actually use? We've argued about it here more than once. Plus pitch correction, softsynths, Max/MSP builds, and what sample rate and bit depth are really doing.
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Which DAW is better – Logic, Pro Tools, FL, Ableton or Cubase?
When I very first started in the early-nineties, we all used Atari STs with a whole 512k of Ram for sequencing MIDI and not much else. All the audio was dealt with using 24 track 2" tape, with up to 3 slaved together synchronised using lynx synchronisers. Back then for sampling, we had the classic A
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Creative Uses for Melodyne
Celemony's Melodyne is a highly sophisticated pitch analysis and correction software suite known mainly for its use in tuning vocals. As effective as it is in this capacity, Melodyne's capabilities allow for a range of other creative uses outside of simply correcting mistakes in performance. In this
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Camel Audio’s Alchemy, NI’s Absynth and Propellerhead’s Malstrom
Additive Synthesis: breaks sound down into its harmonics, creating timbre by adding sine waves together Granular Synthesis: creating sounds by playing waveforms and/or samples through a synthesis engine that operates like a sampler on the microsound time scale So, what can you achieve by running som
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Antares Autotune pitch correction software on Xfactor shows
Antares Autotune pitch correction software on Xfactor shows: I had a chap called Will Payne from the Sunday Mirror contact me and ask if I could spot any Antares Auto-tune pitch correction software on Susan Boyle's pre-recorded audition performance of 'I Dreamed a Dream' on Britain's Got Talent, whi
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Apple Logic Pro with Avid Pro Tools HD DAW Systems
Apple Logic Pro with Avid Pro Tools HD DAW Systems: I heard here that Apple (Logic) are to stop support for Avid's Digidesign products (Pro Tools). This is a massive kick in the teeth for Avid who I here are struggling a bit at the moment. Neither rumor surprises me; I cashed in my (digital signal p
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Logic Pro training: Zoom tool and using loops with regions
Logic Pro training: Zoom tool and using loops with regions: I made a video at my studio about zooming for Logic Pro Training. I don't know how I managed to talk about zooming for over 6 1/2 minutes but I love it. The first 4 minutes can get a bit tedious if you're familiar with all the weird and won
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Sound Design with Macro Variations in Live 11
By Heinrich Zwahlen The ability to store the state of Macro Controls as preset variations in Racks has drastically increased the functionality of these already...
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Sampling Frequencies & Bit Rates: 96 v 44.1Khz & 24 v 16bit
Sampling Frequencies & Bit Rates: 96 v 44.1Khz & 24 v 16bit by Stephen Powell I had a conversation recently with a guy who described himself as a “glitch-dubstep-lo-fi composer” He went on to describe a couple of his tracks which turned out to be pretty much what you might expect from such a descrip
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Which DAW is best? – Logic, Pro Tools, Ableton or Cubase?
- Al Riley My first multitrack workstation was my 4-track Portastudio (not a DAW, an AAW I suppose?), which gave me the novel luxury of changing the volume and panning different instruments after recording them! I could even use insert effects (a guitar pedal) and punch-in recording to fix questiona
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Build a synthesizer | THINK, MAKE, PLAY | Max/MSP
Build a synthesizer | THINK, MAKE, PLAY | Max/MSP. article by Mr Steve Powell What’s the first thing you do when starting a new track or build a synthesizer on your computer? Fire up Logic or Max/MSP? Warm-up the TB808? Sit on top of a hill and hope musical inspiration hits you whilst pondering the
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Approaches to electronic music production (EMP) in Max/MSP
New Approaches: Max/MSP Digital Synthesiser Building in electronic music production (EMP) by our course designer and instructor Steve Powell: 11/1/11 Everyone has different ways of writing music whether you sit down with your guitar, play and hum until you get something you like, or draw out some be
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Celemony Melodyne DNA pitch correction software
Celemony Melodyne DNA pitch correction software: Celemony Melodyne DNA pitch correction music studio software. But what's it for? 10 years ago the standard way to correct pitch in vocals was Autotune. To correct bits manually, you'd have to use graphical mode. It was very fiddly, you'd have to load
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