SOUND ON SOUND
Studio One’s unique Project page lets you move seamlessly between mixing and mastering.
Everyone agrees that when you’re tracking drums, the room makes a difference — but with so many other variables in play, identifying its specific contribution can be tricky. Enter producer Tommaso Colliva, drummer Alex Reeves, and a unique experiment...
Run your plug-ins at higher sample rates in Sonar.
Frustrated by I/O limitations in Pro Tools? Here’s how it all works.
The hottest Broadway show for decades has spawned a smash hit album. But, as engineers Derik Lee and Tim Lathan explain, Hamilton is not your average ‘original cast recording’.
Cubase’s Channel Settings Panel lets you see what’s going on under the hood of the Mix Console.
We get to grips with Reason 9’s new Player modules.
We round up some of the most useful Max For Live devices that can make your work with Live easier and, hopefully, more musical.
Audio files to accompany a selection of this issue's articles.
What you don’t like about Reaper, you can probably change!
The Silent Majority: sometimes the best way to improve a mix is to take a break from it.
Samplitude’s Elastic Audio editor can be used for pitch correction, harmony generation, and more besides!
Reinvented by a little-known Norwegian production team, a song about not being famous any more made Mike Posner more famous than ever...
The Don Camillo Chor: Our engineer records a choir singing in their practice room, and tries to make it sound like it was captured in a church!
Easily play and write in any key with Logic Pro’s MIDI tools.
Give your musicians the right cue mixes in Studio One, and you’ll make a huge difference to their performances.
Even at high sample rates, standard PCM audio ‘smears’ important timing information. A new digital format, MQA, promises vastly improved time-domain accuracy — without the huge file sizes.
We look at the different ways in which you can animate parameters in Ableton Live.
We clear up some of the issues surrounding cloud collaboration in Pro Tools 12.5.
Cubase’s Groove Agent SE4 isn’t the most intuitive drum machine, but it’s well worth getting to grips with.