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Digital technology is an adult

Arecent email Ireceived

Humans go from birth to adulthood in 25 years, which means that there is now ageneration that has never lived in aworld without personal computers. And what of the 25 year old PC -has it reached adulthood? In fact, the

announced the 10th

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anniversary of Flash.

That little program has done amazingly well,

business concerns. The frivolous joy of experimenting with things like art was left to the earlier Apple lls and later Macs. No wonder, then, that Macs remain popular with artists, musicians and other right-brain types.

Today, of course, Macs and PCs do many things equally well. But one thing about the Mac vs. PC battle has not changed -it is still about mindshare.

going from anifty animated GIF alternative .to its own immersive

universe. Although it’s often reviled as amajor contributor to Web bloat,

Apple maintains aposition as one of the top five personal

whether you love or hate Flash, you can’t deny its impact

computer manufecturers or close to it, but in asea of

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September 1956. The IBM 350 Oisk Storage Unit could

Windows machines, that translates into aglobal market share for Macs of about five percent. Nevertheless the Mac remains abigger phenomenon than afive percent share would predict. Apple has always used some variation of “the cool computer” to market the Mac, and

store five megabytes of data -abreakthrough in its day,

it’s still at it -witness the recent “I'm aPC, I’m aMac”

but useful today only for one or two MP3 tunes or asingle high-res digital photo. Today we find tiny-huge hard drives everywhere -in music players and video camcorders as well as computers.

And speaking of computers, the IBM-PC is 25 years old

TV spots.

When Isee those ads Ithink maybe Ishould get alife and get aMac full time, but in reality. I’m pretty happy with all the things Ican do with aWindows PC. This month’s focus on audio is acase in point. In working through similar music applications, GarageBand for Mac and Acid Music

Two other big deal digital technologies are celebrating significant anniversaries this year. The hard disk drive is now 50 years old. IBM introduced the first one in

this year. The IMB-PC, introduced in August 1981, wasn’t the first mass market personal computer, but it soon became synonymous with the term PC and its family tree leads directly to today’s machines (at least the non-Mac

ones). The IBM-PC chaperoned the first serious date between what have become the industry’s power couple:

Studio for Windows, Ifound that Icould do the same

things in either, and in some cases. Acid was slicker. Was it just my imagination then, or is every Mac surrounded by that Jobs reality distortion field -because Iswear, using the Mac somehow seemed cooler.

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Home recording studio primer You may not be George Martin, but you may not need to be

if you wanted to add audio effects such as reverb or delay, the associated hassles were many.

Way back when, when Joe Clark ruled the country and Neil Young advised us that "Rust Never Sleeps," musicians who wanted apermanent audible record of their exploits faced afar more challenging situation than they do

today. Indeed, it was enough to give any self-respecting rocker aserious case of the blues.

If you had the bucks, you could pile your gear in the VW bus and truck on down to the nearest recording studio. If you had lots of bucks, you could leave your amp at home, use the prime Marshall stack at the studio, and hire

The digital studio has changed much of that. With the right computer, afew specific peripheral Items, and aton of studying and experimentation, anyone seriously interested in home recording can produce results that'll send the four-track tape crowd back to the proverbial drawing board. Of course, there's no substitute for musical talent, but just ask Britney Spears how much of that is needed when just about anything can be tweaked during post-production to become just about anything else.

You might think that the obvious hub to any digital recording studio is the PC, but that's not always the case. Indeed, those who don't want to bother you'd have precious few hours to play or sing all your parts correctly and with the setup, the software choices, and multiple options and yourself an audio engineer to boot. In either case, time was of the essence somehow get everything to sound just right afterward.

configurationsofaPC-basedDAW[DigitalAudioWorkstation]mayinstead

But not everyone could afford to rent astudio, its equipment, and its personnel. Fortunately, there was another solution. With afew hundred

opt for all-in-one units that are loaded with easily managed proprietary software and built only for audio recording. This is also agreat way to go if your budget is akey consideration -as evidenced by sub-$4D0 entry-level units from the likes of Fostex [MR-8 Mk II 8-Track Digital Recorder], and Boss [BR6D0 8-Track Digital Recorder]. If your ambitions go no further than laying

bucks, aspiring musical icons could buy adecent reel-to-reel machine or a four-track Fostex cassette recorder and commit all their tuneful

masterpieces to tape without ever leaving the comfy confines of their home.

Yet the home studio of the past had severe limitations. Multitracking [the recording and layering of several individual instruments or sounds to create

down abeat and recording acouple of guitar or piano lines and avoice, these value-conscious machines certainly have their place.

aharmonious whole] was difficult with tape, particularly when dealing with the restrictions of consumer level tape recorders. Editing [removing and/or replacing flawed passages or notes] required patience, surgically precise

or performance spectrum. If you want to do more with your music, look to 16- and 24-track units from Roland, Boss, and Yamaha. These systems offer

But standalone units are by no means confined to the low end of the price

knives and measurements, steady hands, and tiny pieces of sticky tape. And

perks such as hard disk recording, CD burning, built-in effects and drumbeats, support for lots of tracks, and amore palatable learning curve than full-blown PCs. However, one of these babies will run $2,DDD and up.

Moreover, even the best standalone DAWs don't offer the versatility or the potential of aPC. They aren't as upgradeable, they generally won't accept

third party software, and they limit you in terms of expandability. Truth is that if you're not afraid of computers, you should seriously consider aPC as

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Personal Computing instruments, and the like. And when aCPU is pushed to its limits [many agood thing, because WAV files (the file format of choice for digital audio DAW programs include on-screen CPU usage meters to graphically display recording) are space hogs. Before mixdown, it's not unusual for asingle the horrors), you're faced with dropouts, murderously long load times, and ten- or fifteen-track song to snap up 500MB of your hard drive. Multiply that all manner of other nasty repercussions.

by perhaps several dozen tunes, add afew virtual instruments and loops -

These days, a2.8HGz Pentium ora 2800-r Athlon is the bare minimum for all of which greedily gobble megabytes-and you can see how asmall hard even acost-conscious DAW, In fact, considering recent CPU price drops, and drive is an ineffective hard drive,

the upcoming release of the 64-bit version of Windows Vista, and the factAdditionally, because you want to read (and write) information as quickly that PC DAW leader Cakewalk has now converted its flagship product. Sonar, as possible, and because an operating system and whatever applications to 64-bit processing, a64-bit dual core chip is the recommended route for you’re running will fight your music for hard drive priority, you may want to any hardcore setup. Why 64-bit? Primarily because the architecture add asecond drive strictly for your audio files. These days, you can grab supports vastly expanded memory allotments, meaning you can load more two 20DMB hard drives, each running at 220D RPM and with 8MB buffers, effects, more processes, more virtual instruments, and larger, more for less than $20D. Wise composers will also want an external USB 2.0 or authentic samples into RAM, thus reducing the dependency on both the FireWire drive for backups and archiving, processor and the hard drive. 64-bit chips have also proven flat-out faster Sound card

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Some are better suited to particular DAW programs. Prices run the gamut from ahundred to several thousand dollars, so check those Internet

continuous pieces of music when repeated (very popular for backing drumbeats and in techno and hip hop music) -you can either stick with loop-accommodating programs like Cakewalk's Sonar or move into fully loop-centric applications like "Acid Pro" or one of its stripped-down

discussion groups and choose wisely.

offspring. If your project calls for, say, an original saxophone line but you don't have asaxophone, you can buy yourself aMIDI keyboard, acquire a

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And if you need drums but have no drum kit, check out highly rated but rather complex software drumming solutions such as ToonTrack's Drumkit

When you audition and tweak your recordings, you want your speakers and amplification system to be as accurate and as generic as possible. That way you'll have aneutral product that sounds as good through your car stereo as it does through your subwoofer-equipped living room setup.

Powered (active) studio monitors are purpose-built for the task, delivering neutral sound and negating the need fora space-hogging external amplifier.

From Hell or EZ Drummer. Dr make things easier on yourself and look online for quality drum loop sets from respected suppliers such as Drums on Demand and Beta Monkey.

They are thus the ideal solution for non-professional hobby studios, though

budget conscious shoppers may want to pick up an old stereo amp, level the tone controls, and purchase aset of inexpensive ''passive" monitors.

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Alesis, Mackie, Event Audio, Yamaha, Tannoy, and Behringer all offer afull range of active and passive alternatives.

wake up the neighbours has proven to be one of home recording's trickiest tasks. Fortunately, one of the joys of modern recording technology Is that

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Correctly miking aguitar amp so it doesn't sound like abuzzsaw and won't

If you sing, look no further than the Shure SM58. Eeaturing anolse-

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minlmizlng spherical filter and afrequency response tailored to the human voice, it's been the vocal mic of choice since The Beatles roamed the earth.

All of the above connect directly to the sound card via cable, thus allowing

If you're miking an acoustic guitar or electric guitar amp, check out the equally time-honoured Shure SMS? or the substantially pricier SM81. Drum miking is much more complex and can involve as many as eight or more separate mics, but you can do adecent job with two or three SM5?s and an AKG D112 for the kick drum. Add an overhead AKG IDOOS for extra flavor, or

ditch the drum-miking idea entirely and invest in an electronic set such as

guitarists to play at virtually any volume and eliminate miking hassles.

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4) Spaces With all of the multitasking that we do these days, everyone knows just how precious desktop real estate can be. Spaces is anew virtual desktop

apps, the new version will also add 64-bit support forapps compiled for the

solution, which means it will already be afamiliar concept to some Windows users; the main difference is you navigate using Command keys rather than having to click an icon in the system tray. You can drag applications to any of the virtual desktops, and go straight to those virtual desktops by clicking on the dock icon for the application you want to go back to. During the

Intel processor, including Carbon and Cocoa-based apps. The 64-bit apps and 32-bit apps will be able to run simultaneously.

keynote, the application was demoed using four virtual workspaces, but it’s likely that the Leopard will be able to handle at least nine virtual spaces.

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In addition to the new ability to search other computers on your network (including servers), the new version of Spotlight will also add more advanced searching capability like Boolean searches and the ability to refine searches by file-type. The Spotlight window will also bring up recentlyaccessed items automatically, so you may not even have to type in asearch

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Speaker sensitivity isn’t the only thing to look at, though, there’s also frequency response. Frequency response is the-abiiity to replicate sounds at different frequencies. It is usually stated as aminimum and maximum

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You need that dB rating, and the smaller it is the better. Sometimes there’s agraph to look at, which is even better because it shows you how aspeaker performs through all the frequencies.

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Some of the downsides to IPill, however, is that it’s not compatible with non-iPod based MP3 players and there was afair bit of song repetition, too.

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If you’re not familiar with loops, they are snippets of music. You can find loops for most popular instruments and musical genres, as well as for sound effects, jingles for advertising work and even vocals. They're called loops because you can join them together, just as sound engineers used to physically join the two ends of apiece of audiotape to form an endless loop that played over and over. By design, when you play adigital loop continuously, it creates acoherent rhythm or melody. GarageBand and Acid

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No longer limited to the world of teeny, tiny earbuds, portable MP3 players can now be heard clearly and plainly not just by the wearer, but by anyone standing nearby. That's the point!

So there's no better time to learn about editing digital audio. Today, you can never tell who's gonna hear your personal song list, your own mash-ups, your selection of samples or your very own podcast.

In Part 1, we'll look at the hardware side of digital audio. Next time, we'll review some great new audio editing software.

There are stand-alone digital audio workstations (DAWs), as well as individual hardware and software solutions for the PC; they come in a wide variety of shapes, sizes, flavours and prices.

Almost any computer today comes with the basics: aset of internal or external speakers, coupled with asound card of some sort. As long as your computer's sound card has input connections, you can play your analog or digital field recordings into your computer, save them as computer audio files and edit them in digital form.

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Audio eats up alot of space -nowhere near the amount that video does -but even the smaller drives today will be hard to But even high sampling rates result in some sound quality degradation.

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