Audio Software - Mostly DAWs

The internet is 95% bollocks – literally as well as metaphorically but there are still gems of great price hidden in that wonderful 5%. I ran into one the other day – the intriguingly entitled Soundplant. Soundplant is the work of Marcel Blum, who is a musician, coder and curator, connoisseur and cataloguer and indeed purveyor of rare electronica. A …

50 Hz hum is an old friend to recording engineers or maybe 60Hz for our higher frequency neighbours and we often find ourselves trying to bolt the door on it during recording or trying to get rid of it in post. This week I’ve been sent some files with some hum problems and I thought I would pick up a …

I recently jumped into the deep end of MOTU world and I’m writing this as a small down payment against reviews of MOTUs M64 and 624 AVB-TSN interfaces. But at that the same time I had a chance to look at MOTU’s venerable yet still controversial DAW Digital Performer 9. I say venerable because Digital Performer has been around a …

I write a lot of words and I have a lot of writing tools. Emacs, Scrivener, WriteMonkey, Leo, Sublime Text, Editorial – the list goes on.  They all do similar things, I could probably get by with only one, but please don’t make me chose – I like the variety. And the same is true in audio production software. I …

I had a little bit of an awkward moment the other day. Well it was the other day but with hosting problems intervening, it is now a month or two back – forgive me. Anyway, I had a very quick and dirty job to do for Good Friday. I was putting together a video using music from The Plymouth Music …

Wavelab 7 and 8 are powerhouse programmes, you know that because when you launch them, the interfaces have more bells than the top shelf of a Glasgow pub and more whistles than a refs convention. Now if you were brought up with that, no problem. Or if you used the ‘Lab every day, no problem. But for a first time …

Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger all great aspirations, ideal for opening Glastonbury or indeed a tag line for the latest incarnation of your killer software. Avoiding of course – fatter, flatter, slower, harder to use. So have the Presonus boffins working on Version 3 of their Studio One Digital Audio Workstation delivered the Daft Punk upgrade or have they fallen foul …

I am very conscious that I have a back log of writing to do. I haven’t updated the CableFactory DI review and I haven’t written about the rather wonderful Marian Seraph AD2. Plus I haven’t finished musing on editing and I have something to say about Studio One and multi-document interfaces! However all that has to be banished to the …

In the beginning was Sadie 2.04. Well nearly Sonic on a Mac and Sunrise on the Amiga came first for me, but let’s start in PC world. In those days Sadie like pretty much everyone else was running on a plug in DSP card. In fact two, there was the XS card that hosted the DSP power and the X-ACT …