Many beginning home recordists get confused between recording to a mono or stereo audio track. Isn’t stereo better and wider? So why record to a mono track? What usually happens is they try to record to a stereo track, but find that their vocal is only playing through one speaker. If the DAW lets them, [...]
Here’s a great new tool for those of you who have great drum samples but aren’t necessarily the greatest drummers. Instead of scrolling through thousands of MIDI grooves or trying to build a pattern yourself, you can use this tool to dynamically create a pattern similar to what a real drummer would do.
The movie ‘Field of Dreams’ has etched this quote in all of our hearts forever, “If you build it, they will come” but does it work for the recording studio business. Not usually. The recording studio business is very unique. Usual marketing and business practices don’t really work the same. You can’t simply build a studio, register in the yellow pages or on the Internet, post some ads and start getting business. They simply won’t come.
Have you ever heard a song where somebody sounds like they are talking on the phone? How do they do that? Do they put a mic on the phone and have somebody call and record what comes out of the phone? I guess they could do it that way, but it’s actually a really simple effect done with EQ.
People are always looking for a way to download Pro Tools and they are often fooled by free downloads. The thing to realize is that downloading Pro Tools is one issue, but the authorization is an even bigger one.
Pro Tools Free was a trimmed down version of Pro Tools LE 5 that let you record up to 8 tracks of audio with any interface you wanted (It came out in 2000).
An Internet DAW can be used to create music without installing any hardware on your computer. Web based DAWs allow you to access your project wherever you go. Many are free, but all are simple and easy to use.
Some people think that it is difficult to work with loops in Pro Tools. It’s really quite simple if you know what you are doing and make sure to have the right buttons clicked. Check out the videos below to see how easy it really is.
Checkout this list of nearly 20 different professional DAWs with links to individual reviews and discussions of the good, bad and history of each.
Deciding which DAW is the best really depends on who is making the decision. Which is best for you really depends on what you are planning to work on, how you like to work, where you will work and who you are going to work with.