Jake Weston

If your dream is to be a music artist or to mix music, you may be tempted to buy the biggest and newest tape mixing system. However, you do not need a lot of fancy gadgets to get the job done. There are some things that you will want to have or upgrade on your system to maximize your capabilities though. First, you will want to max out your RAM to keep the system operating smoothly. Then, you will want to get an external hard drive to record to and use solid state drives for better performance.

Key Takeaways:

• In the “old” days of DAWs – how much RAM you had really didn’t’ matter. This was because the operating systems and DAWs weren’t 64 bit, and they could only allot a certain amount of RAM (memory) to any one program at a given time
• Do not record to or mix from your internal system drive, the same hard drive that has your operating system and DAW installed on it.
• If you want your DAW to have as much power as possible, then for goodness sakes, please close all other programs and applications when recording and mixing!

“The short answer is: no. The computer you already have is probably fine.In fact, as of this writing I’m still rocking a 6 year old Mac Mini in my studio. I did, however, just do some upgrades to it that have helped a lot.”

http://therecordingrevolution.com/optimize-computer-recording-mixing/

Steinberg has released some new instruments. One of them is a sound creation system and another is a VST sampler. The package, which includes another item as well, will be announced this year at an event called NAMM. The sound creation system is called the HALion 6, which offers a lot of inspiration for people to create their own instruments.

Key Takeaways:

• HALion 6 takes the flexibility and freedom that HALion has offered to the next level. Tailored to contemporary composers and sound designers, it delivers a detail-layered sound design environment that covers the full process of crafting custom instrument libraries.
• The advantages of HALion Sonic lie with its simplicity and pristine audio quality, making it a true alternative to heavyweight hardware workstations. 16 instrument slots alongside easily created keyboard splits and its dedicated performer mode.
• The HALion Sonic 3 VST workstation adds over 25 GB of high-quality samples to the sound library with four new acoustic instruments, including strings, brass and two grand pianos, plus two new synthesis-heavy instruments making use of the brand-new wavetable and granular synthesizers.

“HALion 6 offers endless inspiration for creating own instruments”

http://www.musictech.net/2017/01/new-steinberg-vst-instruments-have-arrived/