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Pro Tools Tip: Toggling Track View between Waveform and Volume

To quickly toggle the track view, for all tracks, between displaying waveform and displaying volume, hold the Option key (Mac) or the Alt key (Windows), then press the hyphen (-) key on the QWERTY keyboard (not the “minus” key on the numeric part of the keybo

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How To Get the Most From Your Compressor Pedal — Part 2

Miss the first installment of this series of articles? Check out Part I. Part I focused on the basics of guitar compressors and how they work. In Parts II and III, I’ll show some sample settings and suggested uses. For my test signal chain, I used a Fen

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Blue Cat Audio Updates PatchWork

Blue Cat Audio has updated PatchWork, its “universal patch bay for plug-ins” software to version 1.62. This update includes a new light-blue user interface theme in addition to its original darker color scheme. Users may also now select from among third-party themes as wel

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Rupert Neve Designs RNDI and R6

Rupert Neve Designs has two great new products — just announced, and already in stock at Sweetwater! First up is the RNDI Active Transformer Direct Interface. The RNDI is an active direct box with custom transformers; class-A, discrete FET amplifier circuitry; a rugged ste

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DAW Tip: Colorize Your Tracks

Regardless of your DAW of choice, they all offer you the ability to color to your tracks and mixer channels. Usually, they’ll impart a basic color of their own, such as red for audio tracks, and blue for MIDI tracks, etc. Some DAW users never explore the use of color any f

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Why do some MIDI synths have CV/Gate jacks?

Q: Why do some MIDI synthesizers and effects have CV/Gate jacks? A: Back before MIDI, the only way for one device to control another was through the use of control voltage inputs and outputs, and gate (trigger) jacks. These connections could control everything from t

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Dave Smith Instruments Releases OS Update and Soundset for Tempest

Dave Smith Instruments, one of the most acclaimed and beloved designers of analog and analog/digital hybrid synthesizers, has updated the operating system on the Tempest analog/digital hybrid instrument to OS 1.4 chock full of powerful new features as well as 928 new sound

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Cakewalk Announces New SONAR Family

Cakewalk has announced a brand-new SONAR lineup, as well as a revolutionary new model for buying and owning software. With this release, Cakewalk has done away with version numbers; the software at the time of purchase is always the most current version, and free updates f

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How To Get the Most From Your Compressor Pedal — Part 1

Most guitarists associate compressor pedals with snappy country licks, spanky funk rhythm, and clean, sustained, single-line leads. While these are iconic sounds, compressor pedals can be set up in a variety of ways, making them suprisingly versatile; from subtle to over t

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Do I need a Preamp?

These days, nearly every audio interface includes preamps so that you can get a strong level into your DAW. Some of them include a fair number of features, such as selection among line, mic, and instrument levels; phantom power; and sometimes even polarity reverse. And ind

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