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A website for recording enthusiasts and professionals has a review of a new software package put out by a soundtrack company. The package is designed for two types of audio workstations, Live 9 and Maschine. The package has fifteen prepared assignments and 240 samples. It has robust drum sounds. The music style is electronic, or techno pop. A list of the features is supplied. The reviewer gives this software package a rating of eight out of ten. The site has a sampler section available for download.

Read more: Hybrid Techno review by MusicTech Magazine

Digital technology has been around for years with not much changing. But have you wondered how we keep advancing? The answer is easy, it is simply the interfacing used. This article will explain in depth the types of interfacing used, and what we use it for. It can be summed up into two types AES3 format and the ADAT format. Do you know the difference between the two, or how to correctly use them? If not, that’s okay, continue reading to find the answers.

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Getting a home studio right might take extra time and effort, but will be worth it. People now prefer to record from the comfort of a home studio than to go to an expensive studio. The first thing that is needed is a modern computer. Ideally it has at least eight gigabytes of and and a powerful CPU. The microphone you should is should typically be a cardioid microphone. They reject noise and help sound performance in less than perfect environments.

Read more: Home Studio Setup: How to Design & Build Your Dream Studio

Rob Mayzes writes about training one’s ears to be more acute to the subtleties that can be found and enhanced when recording audio or playing music. The author gives tips as to how training one’s ears can commence and how to use the techniques effectively, all the while going in depth and explaining each step, one by one, for the benefit of the reader. The author also writes about frequencies of sound, their importance on recording audio, and how to train one’s ear to hear the difference between sound frequencies (particularly in the sound engineering field).

Read more: Ear Training Exercises: How to Train Your Ears and Become a Better Mixer

Audio engineering and mastering is as important to the vlogging and podcasting community, as it is to the recording industry. And the types of equipment and software used affects the overall end product in a big way.

Reaper plugins in particular are described and reviewed on the Reaper blog by many of their clients. Overall, the opinions seems to be that the Reaper plugins and engineering software is vastly superior and produced a higher quality, more precise sound than it’s third party competitors.
But I do have an issue with one of the items advertised in the headline above, the one that says “normalizing is bad.” OK, if it’s bad, why is there a big fat button (OK, it isn’t really that big or fat :-)) in the Item Properties menu called “Normalize?”
This is one of those situations where a tool used in the wrong way or for the wrong thing can be construed as “bad.” But to say a tool is bad is just silly. That’s like saying “hammering is bad.” Yeah, if you try comb your hair with a hammer, I can see how that would be bad :-P. How about changing a lightbulb by “hammering” it. Yeah…bad. But if you need to push a nail into a piece of wood, good luck NOT hammering. Sheesh.
Normalizing is a tool. It can be overused and it can be used incorrectly – just like a hammer. But when used to hammer in the metaphorical nail, it’s the right tool for the job.
OK, I may have taken my metaphors a bit too far. Just keep this in mind when you read the article below.
Read more: The REAPER Blog Q&A # 22 – Normalizing is bad; favorite plugins; mics for podcasting and more