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Free Virtual Instruments and Effects Plug-ins

Free Virtual Instrument and Effects Plugins

Free Virtual Instruments & Effects Plug-ins It’s no mystery that the global economy isn’t in the best shape these days. It seems like every television, radio and print news organization jumps at the chance to throw around the “R” word.  While these are economically sluggish times for all right now, this is nothing new for many performance and recording artists whom unfortunately have been in recession for centuries.  Fortunately for us computer-based home recording...
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Mixing Essentials: Five Tips to Improve Your Mix

Five Tips to Improve Your Mix

Mixing essentials is necessary.As home studio recording musicians and producers we want our recorded tracks to sound great. But often, our area of expertise may be singing, playing an instrument, composing, or remixing prerecorded tracks. But if you intend for your finished piece to be heard by others in the form of a CD or MP3, then writing and recording the music is only one-third of the equation. The other two are mixing and...
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Three Easy Music Recording Setups for Guitarists

Guitar Music Recording Setups

Recording guitar setup.If you’re a guitarist or bass player who’s interested in recording music at home then you have several good options available to you.  Simply perusing the articles within HomeMusicProduction.com you’ll find great tips for computer or iPad based DAW setups, many of which may be right for you.  However, in this post I’m going to review three easy setups for recording music at home that are specifically geared toward guitarists.  We’ll start...
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iPad DAW App Comparison

iPad DAW App Comparison

If you’re considering a mobile music recording solution for your iPad, then you’re in luck.  Things have come a long way with iPad DAW recording apps in just a short time.  While recording software for PCs and laptops are called DAWs or Digital Audio Workstations, I believe these new iPad DAWs will be referred to as Mobile Music Workstations or Mobile Audio Workstations.  Whatever we’re calling them, the recent release of FL Studio Mobile...
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Music Recording and Production Software | DAW Roundup

Music Recording and Production Software

Music recording software thoughts> I’m often asked what Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) is the best for musicians within a specific type of music genre, or for musicians just getting into home music recording for the first time.  This is a difficult and almost impossible question to answer since this is a personal choice based on your style and preference for writing and producing music. Next to the computer choice, the DAW is the most...
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Laptop vs. Desktop for Home Music Recording

Laptop vs. Desktop for Home Music Recording

If you’re looking to build a home music recording and production workstation, then deciding which computer to buy will be the single most important decision you’ll make.  In this age of “in the box”...
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AC-7 Core DAW Control Surface for iPad

AC-7 Core by Saitara Software

If you’re looking for a great wireless DAW control surface for your iPad, Saitara Software has released AC-7 Core which is a new version of its popular AC-7 Pro app.  AC-7 Core is available...
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Bridging the 64 bit Gap with jBridge

Bridge 64bit-32bit

Increasingly the sample libraries we love require more and more RAM.  A few sampled libraries now require upwards of 1 Gig of RAM to play a single sound patch or program.  Although this is fantastic for maximizing...
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My Home Music Production Workstation 2.0

My Home Music Production Workstation 2.0

Back in May, I wrote my first article in HomeMusicProduction.com titled Current Home Production Studio.  Since then I’ve moved to a new home, upgraded my OS to Windows 7, retired my networked laptop and made a few...
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Build A Home Studio for Under $2,000

Build A Home Studio for Under $2,000

Build A Home Studio for Under $2,000 Updated August 27, 2011 Building a home studio from scratch can be a daunting task.  There are thousands of products on the market for creating, recording and...
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Safeguarding Your Home Studio

Safeguarding Your Home Studio

Five Must-Do’s To SafeGuard Your home Studio So you’ve either just forked out some good coin for a home recording studio, or you’re about to make that fantastic leap.  Well one item often overlooked, but incredibly...
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The electronic wind instrument, also called a MIDI wind controller or wind synthesizer, has been around since the 1970′s. Affectionately known as the EWI (pronounced E-wee), it’s typically designed to emulate the fingerings of either a saxophone, other woodwind instruments or a trumpet, and is capable of controlling music synthesizers or other devices. Today’s...

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