Reaper, the incredibly awesome recording software (DAW - digital audio workstation), just released a major update in version 4.5 yesterday, Sep 2nd. If you are not aware already, you don't pay for for this update if you already have Reaper. This is … [Continue reading] about Reaper 4.5 Has Awesome MIDI Improvements
A Brief About Cakewalk Sonar
Cakewalk Sonar is music-making software that grew from its humble beginnings as simply "Cakewalk" in the 1980s. Like many other recording programs, Cakewalk developed from just being MIDI software into Sonar, which is a full-fledged digital audio … [Continue reading] about A Brief About Cakewalk Sonar
Mixing With Headphones
When doing multi-track music recording, you obviously must mix all the instruments and voices together at the end so that everything is heard and plays well together. The challenge in mixing is to make sure many different sounds are audible in the … [Continue reading] about Mixing With Headphones
Auxiliary Sends For Effects
I wrote about this topic once before in the post - Using Auxiliary Sends For Effects In Pro Tools. That article references a video from Wink Sound showing you how to use auxiliary sends in Pro Tools to process effects on a bass guitar track - as … [Continue reading] about Auxiliary Sends For Effects
Bit-Crushing: Distorting Digital Audio On Purpose
Usually when I talk about digital audio and things like bit-depth (see our post - 16-Bit Audio Recording – What The Heck Does It Mean?) and Sampling Frequency (see our post - What Is Sampling Frequency?), The presumed goal is that you want your audio … [Continue reading] about Bit-Crushing: Distorting Digital Audio On Purpose