Archive for tag: volume
How Do I Get My Songs to Play at the Same Volume?
February 11, 2009 Software, VolumeThis article isn’t about mastering a CD so that the songs are all at the same perceived volume, it’s about getting your music collection to play back at reasonable volumes relative to each other. It’s also about providing this feature to your digital distribution customers. I’m sure you’ve at some point put your music collection [...]
Read More »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 »Sample Rate and Bitrate: The Guts of Digital Audio
January 12, 2008 UncategorizedThis post focuses on the basics of digital audio: sample rate, bitrate, and how analog signals are represented digitally. We use digital audio all the time, but I am surprised on a fairly regular basis how many people are unclear about how digital audio works. Digital audio has two primary qualities that compose the way [...]
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