Archive for tag: automation
SysEx and MIDI Automation: Don’t Forget That Preset
January 17, 2008 UncategorizedThe focus of this post is on capturing SysEx information from external MIDI devices in order to have a record of your presets right in your session or automate the settings throughout the track. It happens to producers time and time again: you’ve created an awesome synth sound or guitar tone, you’ve recorded the midi [...]
Read More »Automation: Enhancing, Creating Motion, Adding Flavor
December 23, 2007 UncategorizedThis post focuses on making your tracks sound more dynamic with automation. Automation has been with us for a long time. Before there were computers, it wasn’t too uncommon to see engineers, producers, and assistants all at the board to move faders and push buttons in real-time as the mix ran its way through the [...]
Read More »Compression Sends vs. Compression Inserts
December 22, 2007 UncategorizedThis post is going to focus on using compression on sends vs. compression on inserts in order to retain fidelity while adding punch. Throwing up an insert on a track is an obvious way to control the dynamics of the track or to add punch. Unfortunately, sometimes adding compression to the sound itself dulls the [...]
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