EQ and Compression: Kick Drum

:::EQ and Compression: Kick Drum tips, tricks and advice::: If you use VST equalizers and compressors, you’ll find they come with their own presets. Presets are great as starting points, the compressors should only need either the threshold or input changed for them to apply their magic. VST EQ presets on the other hand will […]

Creating Music: Free Multitracking Software

Audacity is a great little software program that primarily operates as an editing program. But delve under the hood for a second and you’ll find a multitrack recordig system. Doesn’t support midi but hey it’s free. It looks a lot like a basic version of Cool Edit the pre-Audition mulltitracking software. Does take a lot […]

Voxengo TransGainer released

TransGainer INTRODUCTORY PRICE IS NOW IN EFFECT! Voxengo has released TransGainer – an audio plug-in suitable for a wide range of professional music production uses.  TransGainer implements audio signal envelope adjustment algorithm that reacts on transients rather than on signal’s loudness level.  This algorithm allows you to adjust volume of attack and sustain stages of […]

Teaching an old PC new tricks

What can you do with old PCs? Not a lot? Well depends what you want to do. I have a lot of SCSI based equipment, at the moment they connect to my main DAW PC. This of course  is not ideal. My main SCSI units are my EMU ESI samplers. And they are also my […]