I only skimmed this thread, but I'll reiterate a lot of what has already been said and maybe add some omitted things. High-gain provides limiting...
Geometry. Rhetorical: Why do kids draw circles all the time but very rarely nonagons or dodecagons? Same idea.
In my experience, Celemony Capstan tends to add more problems than it fixes, unless you do lots of manual hand-holding which is not worth the...
So ignorance is inflating hardware prices? I'm sure ignorance plays a large part in marketing, so I can't say I disagree. But I see hardware...
It seems that way until you get the hardware. And then you realize all the pitfalls that come with it. Spinning a trackball around a few degrees...
I know some people have given more elaborate answers, but I'm going to keep it stupidly simple and phrase it like this: Its function is the same...
Aside from maybe a couple tactile controllers, stay away from synth/sampler/keyboard hardware. It's a pointless, stupid trap. All your time goes...
In general, yes. It is my belief that composition is more important than timbre or engineering. Humming a melody is a universal thing where...
CopperLAN?
If you mean Scream Tracker, Impulse Tracker, FastTracker, et al. then yes. But a more elaborate question will be needed to expound upon the topic....
Mastering is simply tailoring your mixes to best suit the delivery medium. No more, no less. Vinyl is probably one of--if not the most--nuanced...
Well, let's say I buy a Korg ES-1 and fiddle with the factory sound bank for a while and then I think, "Nah, this stuff is clichéd, dated, and...
The sample market is weird to me because I feel as if old-school sampling was all utilitarian--as in cleanly sampled bread-and-butter sounds that...
Can you please sample an 808 through some gear that has tubes in it? Doesn't even matter what it is as long as it's outboard vintage analog with...
Yeah, the Aly James stuff is nice and I'm looking forward to that too. He's a solid guy and a developer actually worth supporting so I hope people...
Back when Radium was still bombarding us with cosmic rays. Slightly off-topic, but it made me think of Bubba Zanetti's.
ThunderBolt Technology. AFAIK, that port is only going to be useful with ThunderBolt 2 add-in cards, but I could be mistaken.
Go RME. You won't regret it. Out of all the snake oil, false promises, and worthless hype in the audio game, RME is one of the few things that...
Anyone else catching this series? It's streaming online. http://www.pbs.org/show/soundbreaking/episodes/
Localization of sound is possible by inter-aural time difference as well as inter-aural level difference. In other words: sound is perceived to be...
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