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Soundation Studio, The Web Based Sequencer

By Big Al on Sunday, October 25th, 2009 | No Comments

Here’s another move towards music creation in the cloud. Soundation Studio is the web based sequencer that enables you to make music, ringtones and audio clips directly from the internet without downloading any software. This beta version includes over 400 royalty free audio loops, 9 different effects, track automation, basic loop editing, loop audition, master [...]

How To Change The Tempo Of A Loop In Pro Tools

By Big Al on Saturday, October 24th, 2009 | No Comments

This is an example of how to smoothly change a loop’s tempo in Pro Tools. Follow this example and your loop will conform to any tempo changes you make in your Pro Tools session. In this example, Elastic Audio and the TCE Tool are used. Click Here To View More Pro Tools Gear

Automated Mixing? Waves New Vocal Rider Plugin

By Big Al on Friday, October 16th, 2009 | 2 Comments

Waves new Vocal Rider plugin was just introduced at AES 2009. Vocal Rider is designed to match your vocal tracks to the rest of the mix and then keep the relative volume throughout the song. All you do is instantiate it on your vocal track, bus a summed instrumental mix to the side-chain, and hit [...]

Ask Big Al: Using Analog Mixers For “Color”

By Big Al on Tuesday, October 13th, 2009 | No Comments

This represents a new feature here on the blog, “Ask Big Al“. I get a lot of questions from a lot of sources, but recently a lot from my Twitter followers. Some answers are short and easy, and some aren’t. So, I decided to offer to answer the more complex questions via posts here on [...]