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Every once in a while, some clever people come up with a solution to an issue that the DAW developers simply have not addressed
Read MoreIn the famous words of Clint Eastwood’s Dirty Harry, “You’ve got to ask yourself one question. Do I feel lucky? Well, do ya, punk?”
Read MoreBefore this year there have been a goodly number of audio interfaces in various price ranges available that were more than good enough in most ways
Read MoreLet’s assume first of all that regardless of how many machines are in your rig, you are committed to using a Mac as the primary machine. Then the question becomes which Mac?
Read MoreWhat a great time it is to be a composer working with digital products! This last year has seen major revisions to almost every DAW, packed with lots of new features
Read MorePeople often write me about the pros and cons of switching from another DAW to Logic Pro
Read MoreWe spend a lot of time with our Digital Audio Workstations. We spend a lot of time learning them. We spend a lot of time developing a workflow around them. And every time a competitor comes out with either a cool new feature or reminds us of a feature it has long had that ours does not, we want it NOW!!!
Read MoreJay Asher discusses Apple’s brand new Logic Pro X
Read MoreThirty years ago it was pretty much universally accepted that intellectual theft was commensurate to physical property theft and that therefore companies had the right to employ copy protection methods to prevent it
Read MoreJay Asher discusses his thoughts on Ocean Way Studios Plug-in
Read MoreWith all the DAW zealots out here in the tech universe proclaiming their DAW of choice as the best, there is simply no denying that in the professional world of film and TV composers, engineers, and post production houses, ProTools has always been the industry standard
Read MoreThe first real journey into the world of synthesizers came when I bought a Yamaha DX7 in the early ‘80’s. To say it caused a sensation is an understatement. Among its revolutionary features was the BC1 breath controller that came with it
Read MoreIf you are a young composer who wants to make a career scoring films and television shows, the simple reality is that with the budgets that are prevalent today, you will have to use sample libraries and computers a lot
Read MoreIt used to be so much easier conceptually to be a film composer
Read MoreThis is a technology column and therefore at the year’s end it should be a celebration of all came our way this last year, right?
Read MoreWith all the major DAWS for the Mac (Logic Pro, Cubase, Digital Performer, etc.) it is possible to host a QuickTime Movie inside the DAW and sync to it and it works just fine.
Read MoreWhen I first arrived in Los Angeles in the early 70’s, most scores were still composed for real players and prepared for sessions the way they always had been
Read MoreIt has literally been one year now since I began my public ruminations in this magazine about my process of upgrading my composer’s rig
Read MoreMost of us spend a lot of time composing in a DAW so which we choose to use is a big deal
Read MoreJay Asher interviews Mike Greene, the mastermind behind the Kontakt based vocal library, “Realivox-The Ladies”
Read MoreLost in the furor of the latest and greatest advancements in sample libraries is return of the synthesizer. Did it ever really go away?
Read MoreFor many film and TV composers, creating sample and virtual instrument based compositions has become an important part of their work
Read MoreJay Asher discusses powering his studio and its various elements on/off or leaving them on 24/7
Read MoreLast January, composer Mike Verta spent his own hard earned money to take a short piece that he had written for an orchestra and record it at the famous 20th Century Fox Scoring Stage
Read MoreJay Asher shares his thoughts on sorting through sample libraries, how to avoid being disappointed, what users should expect from developers and what developers expect from users
Read MoreWhile no one Jay Asher knows at Apple will say it, his guess is, yes the Mac Pro line will be discontinued… eventually
Read MoreJay Asher makes the decision to acquire a second computer, commonly referred to as a slave
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