Craig Anderton
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Craig Anderton
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The Most Recent stories by Craig Anderton
- Serafine Collection Sci-Fi II April 2008
If you stay until the end of movies, you’ve seen Frank Serafine credited as the sound designer on numerous films. Sci-Fi II isn’t about stereotyped sci-fi soundscapes, but an eclectic sound effects collection—some easily identifiable ...
- Sony Six-String Orchestra April 2008
Riffs, riffs, and more electric guitar rock riffs: Tele, Les Paul, Strat, wa, clean, distorted, chords, single notes . . . your biggest issue will be auditioning them all. These riffs are also quite inspiring; if you’re looking for ...
- Digital Sound Works Dramatic Percussion April 2008
Hosted by TASCAM’s GVI player, Dramatic Percussion features unusual percussion sounds, often played in unusual ways (like thumb rolls on a concert bass drum).
- Time To Get In Tune April 2008
Guitarists, how many hours have you lost while recording as you tuned your guitar for the umpteenth time? This month’s theme is tuning, so let’s look at three very different ways to get in tune in the studio.
- Steinberg Cubase 4: Try out different arrangements for a project April 2008
OBJECTIVE: After creating a project, experiment with the order of different parts of the project to create new arrangements.
BACKGROUND: Cubase allows creating an Arrangement Track, which lets ...
- Ableton Live 7: Turn Live into a signal processing rig April 2008
OBJECTIVE: Although Live can serve as both an instrument and a DAW, it also makes a fine host for signal processors, whether in the studio or live.
BACKGROUND: You can feed realtime audio into a Live track, so a low-latency ...
- Cheat Sheet: DSP Functions April 2008
Cheat Sheet delivers concise, explicit information on how to do specific recording/audio-related tasks. This installment describes the types of DSP you’ll find in typical waveform editors and DAWs.
- Key Issues: Managing Multisamples With SFZ April 2008
The following may seem techy, and, frankly, that techy aspect inhibited me from checking out the SFZ file format. But once I finally wrapped my head around the concept, I was glad I did.
The SFZ file format—a license-free spec, ... - Sony: Matt Fink—StarVu Session Keys March 2008
Having reviewed the other three members of Sony’s Artist Integrated series—Tony Franklin (bass), Siggi Baldurson (drums), and Parthenon Huxley (guitar)—we’ll turn our attention to former Prince & the Revolution keyboardist Matt ...
- Big Fish Audio Hadeeth 2 March 2008
These construction kits with Middle Eastern rhythms are typical Big Fish: A mixed file, along with the various elements that make up the mix (usually 4–6 loops). There are also 121 files of hits for the seven individual percussion instruments ...