Recent content by VomitHatSteve

You mean something like a plugin in your DAW that sends commands back to the X32 based on automation in the DAW? That sounds feasible; the X32 API should certainly allow it. But it's really gonna depend on if your DAW supports that kind of modding (and if you or someone else writes it)

"makeup gain" is the answer to most of this. (A limiter is just a compressor with specific settings pre-set, so I'm not really going to mention it otherwise) You are correct that what a compressor does is turn the loudest peaks in a signal down. Notably, they do not turn them down below their...

I think you're over-stating how difficult it is for most people to get their pitch. Let's compare apples to apples. If someone's pitch goes off on just a few notes in a song, it doesn't take a pro singer to punch in those fixes; same way it doesn't take a pro to punch in a few spots that were...

IANaL, but I'd presume you're bound by French IP law for paying Alex, but enforcement seems unlikely. Realistically, just pick whichever number is higher, I guess. It's unlikely to be a significant amount of money, but if somehow the album does take off, you're protected

This analogy seems incredibly forced. I think you're over-complicating a fairly simple breakdown of your point. You say a singer is responsible for 3 things: Pitch, timing, and tone. And that allowing automated tuning to fix pitch and editing to fix timing fundamentally robs them of their...

Are you in the USA or somewhere that has a similar compulsory licensing system? If so, you're obligated to pay your co-writer half of the compulsory songwriting royalties unless you negotiate a different rate with them. The rate is 12.4 cents per permanent sale, so if the album is 10 tracks...

Archiving just means storing the project long-term somewhere, right? So you kind of just make up what's important to you to archive and figure out a process for that. If I wanted to be exacting in my archiving of a project, I would do the following: 1. Go to File > Clean Current Project...

You could always consult the old thread.

There's about a million ways to record a piano. The obvious thing that looks wonky about your setup is that the LDC is at a great distance to have phase issues with the SDCs. If I were to do 3 mic recording... My first impulses would be SDCs at opposite ends of the piano, and LDC across the...

Depending on where you're going for your commercial CDs, replicated CDs are very different from duplicated ones. If you do 500+ commercial disks, you're most likely getting a completely different technology (i.e. not CD-Rs) Besides that, some disks are cheaper than others and may work poorly in...

In theory, your stereo track should be exactly the same as the two hard-panned mono tracks. But theory may not reflect reality. Assuming that your interface or DAW isn't doing something silly like adding cross-talk between the two signals to fill in the center (I've never heard of that, but hey...

Solid in the sense of "3-dimensional", it turns out: https://www.etymonline.com/word/stereo- So pedantically, 2 signals is the minimum required to create the sense of a 3-dimensional space, but I don't think I've ever heard an arrangement with more channels being referred to as "stereo[phonic]"

I feel like folks are over-complicating this. A stereo signal is either a single signal doubled, or two signals panned to opposite sides. In the first case, there is not more information; it's just the same data twice. It will sound exactly the same as a mono signal because your stereo playback...

It's pretty well known that there are drawbacks to mixing in headphones that don't apply to mixing on speakers (phase, fatigue, etc) Historically, the response to the question "what are the best mixing headphones" here has been "that's the wrong question" because of this. Your primary mix...

The fundamental difficulty with this premise is that the minutiae you want to edit (kit arrangement, pattern sequences, etc) aren't generally MIDI controllable. So if such a device were to exist, it would require a proprietary computer-based editor that the manufacturer handles or an API that...