Archive for tag: Cubase

Reaper: Leaner, Meaner, Cheaper, Than Cubase or Pro Tools

April 29, 2011 DAWs, Reaper

Reaper is a leaner, meaner digital audio workstation than Pro Tools or Cubase without the hassles.

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Mastering Experiment: “But They Do” with the Focusrite Liquid Mix

March 8, 2008 Mastering

This post focuses on an experiment with my new Focusrite Liquid Mix, with which I mixed and mastered a song of mine that was in need of polishing. First of all, I will be out of town until the 19th… meaning that I won’t be making any posts here at TSB until then.  But, I [...]

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The Art of Comping: Creating Master Performances

February 23, 2008 Comping, Post

This post focuses on the technique of comping, or creating a composite performance from various elements of multiple performances. It used to be that in order to get a recording of a performance the performers had to run straight through the material.  But ever since the invention of overdubbing people have been changing the way [...]

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Dealing with Latency: The Audio Buffer

December 13, 2007 Uncategorized

This post is going to focus on the subject of latency in the digital medium, mainly adjusting the audio buffer to achieve the results needed. One thing that people who are new to the realm of recording on a computer will notice is that there is a lag between what goes into the computer and [...]

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Roll Your Own Multitrack Drum Sample Kit

December 8, 2007 Uncategorized

This post describes how to create your own multitrack drum kits by creating and layering samples from existing multitrack drum recordings. Despite the samples being sequenced, you’ll end up with separate, mixable tracks for each mic just like you would have from a live drum performance.   Samples are a reality of modern music production. [...]

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