The most recent Audio Recording, Editing & Mixing articles from Computeract!ve

DPC Latency Checker

Tim Smith — 2008-05-16T16:43:00.000Z

Tim Smith, Computeract!ve, Friday 16 May 2008 at 16:43:00

Assess the audio performance of a computer

The greatest problem when moving to a computer from analogue recording devices is that of latency. Latency is the inevitable delay between the computer receiving audio information and then playing...

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Lingot: Musical Tuner

Tim Smith — 2008-04-08T00:00:00.000Z

Tim Smith, Computeract!ve, Tuesday 8 April 2008 at 00:00:00

A simple utility for staying in tune

This is the software publishers description: LINGOT is a musical instrument tuner. It's accurate, easy to use, and highly configurable....

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Ableton Live 7

Tim Smith — 2008-02-26T00:00:00.000Z

Tim Smith, Computeract!ve, Tuesday 26 February 2008 at 00:00:00

Make music on your computer

Ableton Live is designed for creating audio tracks and performances. It can use audio recorded from instruments and sounds from its own samples and synthesisers....

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ASIO4ALL

Tim Smith — 2008-02-04T00:00:00.000Z

Tim Smith, Computeract!ve, Monday 4 February 2008 at 00:00:00

Improve audio performance on your computer

Not all sound cards are created equal and while this may not be a problem for playing an email alert, recording and editing audio has much more demanding requirements....

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Studio Devil BVC: Guitar amp modelling

Tim Smith — 2007-11-30T00:00:00.000Z

Tim Smith, Computeract!ve, Friday 30 November 2007 at 00:00:00

Add a guitar amp to your computer

When recording a guitar with a computer it is often easier to plug the instrument into an audio interface directly rather than using a microphone....

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mda ePiano: VST instrument

Tim Smith — 2007-11-26T00:00:00.000Z

Tim Smith, Computeract!ve, Monday 26 November 2007 at 00:00:00

Add some classic electric piano sounds to your computer

This is the software publisher's description: The mda ePiano VSTi is one of the best free electronic piano instruments currently available....

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Noteworthy Composer: Notation software

Tim Smith — 2007-07-24T00:00:00.000Z

Tim Smith, Computeract!ve, Tuesday 24 July 2007 at 00:00:00

Excellent value music score editing software

This is the software publishers description: NoteWorthy Composer, our notation authoring tool, is a software music composition and notation processor for Windows....

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Ardour: Digital Audio Workstation

Tim Smith — 2007-05-23T00:00:00.000Z

Tim Smith, Computeract!ve, Wednesday 23 May 2007 at 00:00:00

Record and edit audio on a Mac or Linux

This is the Software Publishers description: Ardour is a digital audio workstation. You can use it to record, edit and mix multi-track audio. You can produce your own CDs, mix video soundtracks, or just experiment with new ideas about music and sound. Ardour capabilities include: multichannel recording, non-destructive editing with unlimited undo/redo, full automation support, a powerful mixer, unlimited tracks/busses/plugins, timecode synchronization, and hardware control from surfaces like the Mackie Control Universal. If you've been looking for a tool similar to ProTools, Nuendo, Pyramix, or Sequoia, you might have found it. Above all, Ardour strives to meet the needs of professional users. This means implementing all the "hard stuff" that other DAWs ( even some leading commercial apps ) handle incorrectly or not at all. Ardour has a completely flexible " anything to anywhere" routing system, and will allow as many physical I/O ports as your system allows. Ardour supports a wide range of audio-for-video features such as video-synced playback and pullup/pulldown sample rates. You will also find powerful features such as "persistent undo", multi-language support, and destructive track punching modes that aren't available on other platforms. The Linux version can be downloaded from the main Ardour download page. Although Ardour is available for download and use without cost, the makers request that people make a donation to help support their work. This is the Software Publishers description: Ardour is a digital audio workstation. You can use it to record, edit and mix multi-track audio....

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Tux-Guitar 0.9

Tim Smith — 2007-05-11T00:00:00.000Z

Tim Smith, Computeract!ve, Friday 11 May 2007 at 00:00:00

Create and print guitar music and tablature

Tux-Guitar is a complete composition tool for guitarists that can be used to create tablature from ordinary notation. As well as recording and printing music, Tux-Guitar can be used as...

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Snapkast: Podcasting software

Tim Smith — 2007-03-28T00:00:00.000Z

Tim Smith, Computeract!ve, Wednesday 28 March 2007 at 00:00:00

Create professional podcasts

This is the software publishers description: Record: Capture Your Presentation. Get your microphone ready and start your recording session. Present and capture your voice, slides, whiteboard, and annotations in a very natural environment. Format: Create Your Audio and Video Files Simply select a recorded session and in a snap you have formatted to create your audio and video files. Play: Review and Share Your Session Launches your favorite media player to playback and review the formatted session. Once you are happy with the results, you can simply drag-and-drop the media file to share it with others. For example, you might drag an audio (mp3) or video (mp4) file to an email attachment or to a web site. Podcast: Create Your RSS Feed and Publish Generate all the files required to podcast one or multiple sessions. Simple drag-and-drop publish your podcast folder to your web server and it's ready to go. This is the software publishers description: Record: Capture Your Presentation. Get your microphone ready and start your recording session....

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Riffworks

Tim Smith — 2007-03-16T00:00:00.000Z

Tim Smith, Computeract!ve, Friday 16 March 2007 at 00:00:00

Quickly record musical ideas on guitar

This is the software publishers description: Intuitive Recording Interface, InstantDrummer, Effects, Online Jamming & Instant Podcasting RiffWorks has been updated to version 2.1....

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Waveknife: Audio Utility

Tim Smith — 2007-03-07T00:00:00.000Z

Tim Smith, Computeract!ve, Wednesday 7 March 2007 at 00:00:00

Useful utility when recording music

Ripping CDs onto a computer is simple with Windows Media Player or CDEX as these automatically save separate tracks. Recording from tape or vinyl record often ends up as one...

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GNU Solfege: Music Trainer

Tim Smith — 2007-03-06T00:00:00.000Z

Tim Smith, Computeract!ve, Tuesday 6 March 2007 at 00:00:00

Train your ears to recognise scales and musical intervals

Perfect pitch, the ability to identify notes simply by listening to them, is something of a holy grail for musicians....

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Podcaster

Tim Smith — 2007-01-23T00:00:00.000Z

Tim Smith, Computeract!ve, Tuesday 23 January 2007 at 00:00:00

An easy way to create and upload podcasts for Mac

Podcasting is becoming increasingly popular and Podcaster is a tool for creating and distributing podcasts using a Mac computer. It takes care of recording the podcast and there are several...

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Hydrogen: Drum machine

Tim Smith — 2006-11-02T00:00:00.000Z

Tim Smith, Computeract!ve, Thursday 2 November 2006 at 00:00:00

Create groovy drum tracks for musical projects

Recording a good drum track is key to making music track but recording real drums is beyond the means of most hobbyist musicians....

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