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    Picture of a basic home studio deskBasic home studio design: You’ve made the decision to produce your own music, but where do you start? One option is to go to the nearest professional recording studio, however with fees starting at $100 ...

    2009-02-16 17:29:45

    Basic Home Studio Design

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    [caption id="attachment_20" align="alignright" width="343" caption="Pic by Estudo caseiro"]Home studio build pic[/caption] The good news is it isn’t hard to build a home recording studio and setting it up doesn’t require vast technical knowledge. Myths abound about the difficulties of creating ...

    2009-02-17 02:47:05

    Build a Home Recording Studio

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    The home recording video below is definitely one of my favorites. It goes into every aspect of your home studio and how to get the best out of each part. You really need to have this base level knowledge before you start your recording as many people buy some expensive equipment then wade straight in to ...

    2009-06-12 14:31:34

    Home Recording Video

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    Pro Tools Studio


    Pro Tools Studio from Digidesign is the industry standard audio creation and production software package and is used in virtually all professional recording studios worldwide. It has everything you need to make the perfect recording every time and it’s easy to learn.

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    Pro Tools 8 has a modern user friendly, colourful interface and allows you to record in Loop Record, recording multiple takes each onto a new playlist.

    One of the great things about Pro Tools is you can use it as a pre production tool. One of the most important phases of a recording project is pre production and yet this is one area that people neglect. Pre Production involves sitting down with the song writer and mapping out the way the songs will be structured and what instruments will be included in the recording. Rather than taking loads of handwritten notes, al of this information can be handled within the ProTools environment.

    So how does it work?

    First off you need to experiment with the tempo and key of the song. Open Pro Tools and go to View>Edit Window>Rulers>Tempo. Sit down with your acoustic guitar or keyboard and perform your song in its most basic form and then experiment until you lock down the perfect tempo.

    Once you’ve identified the correct tempo and key, set up and lock a new click track, new track>click track, and record the instrument and vocal. You may also want to make use of the memory location tags to note where individual song parts are. These are useful for identifying the start of choruses, verses etc.

    When you come to playback the click track, you’ll find lots of creative ideas rushing into your head. Make use of the memory location tags to note these down. Once you’ve built this backbone, it’s easy to open a new session and record the actual sounds.

    Pro Tools studio software has the most options for working with digital audio post production, offers the best in digital mixing and supports all standard formats. It features a host of single-key edit commands that enable you to organize, listen to, and view your edits easily, making the post production stage simple and straight forward.

    So, if it’s really that good why isn’t everybody using it?

    First off, the professional edition is expensive and whilst the LE & M-Powered versions are cheaper they do not contain all the features contained within the pro edition.

    Sorry No Pro Tool Studio On Vista For Now

    Pro Tools studio doesn’t work on Windows Vista and even when the new version is released it will only work on Windows Vista Ultimate. It also works better on a Mac computer than a PC. Pro Tools has been designed to function with the company’s audio interfaces so if you don’t have one of Digidesign’s interfaces you should consider an alternative package.
    If you already own a PC or Mac, and have an existing audio interface, programs like Cubase & Nuendo will work just as well and save you money in the long run. SONAR is another possibility; however it is not compatible with the Mac.

    Before making any decisions, make sure you know exactly what you’re going to do with the software. Read reviews of the different packages on the Internet and try and get some advice from the professionals. A bit of research now could save you from a lot of hassle in the future.

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