If the bass is for you, get whatever you like. But if it is for her, a shorter scale would probably help her progress faster and thus maintain her interest, unless she has enormous hands for her height. Nonetheless, you mentioned the weight as the problem. I’ve never really noticed much difference b...

The clock matters because the output frequency will only be completely accurate when produced by a speaker if the clock is exactly the same as the nominal sample rate. If the sample clock runs at 44101 Hz or 44099 Has when outputting CD audio the signal will be stretched accordingly (by around 0.002...

Looking at your specs, your processor and memory are absolutely up to the task (I run big orchestral templates on a slightly slower 6700k). Which leaves 3 possibilities: your audio interface, your SSD and... something else! If it's your audio interface (or driver) causing the problems then they woul...

What may be relevant, though nobody seems to have mentioned it, is how fast you need your storage. The bandwidth needed for audio production, even with huge sample libraries, is a fraction of that needed for, say, editing 8k multicam streams. The M1Max seems to have been engineered for video product...

"Songwriting" by Stephen Citron is my favourite. It explains (popular) music theory very clearly, and has plenty of information on structuring songs, lyric writing and so on. It also has outdated information on how to lay out a song on paper, because it was written a long time ago! I learn...

I recently fell foul of this. I've kept my production desktop on MacOS 10.4 Mojave for 32-bit compatibility (newer versions won't run 32-bit plugins, which might prove problematic with older files, and, worse, might lead to me having to pay lots of Waves upgrade fees). As a result, I've been stuck o...

Just for reference, I used Garageband with soft synths to produce backing tracks 12 years ago on a Powerbook G4 - which I had to, as Garageband didn't support (and I think still does not support) MIDI out. So very, very old hardware is sufficient to run software instruments on Garageband. The latest...

The reason, as far as I remember, was a simple one. Roland had pretty much cornered the multitimbral midi module market in the late 80s, with the D110 for pro markets and MT32 for non-professionals. Along with the multitimbral D series keyboard synths (D5, D10, D20, D110) these had 9 part multitimbr...

Hi Aleks. The reason you are finding semimodular synths is that they are the easy way in to modular synthesis, and can be used alongside other 'fully modular' modules. All analogue synthesisers are constructed from certain modules (or blocks, if that makes it easier) in the signal chain. In subtract...

Hi there. My experiences with miking accordion are all live, rather than in studio, but I had a couple of thoughts which might help you. There is a stereo oddity with squeezeboxes of all kinds, which is the stereo field changes with the bellows. For the piano accordion the treble portion (the piano ...

Btw, you can create an arrange track for an aux by selecting the aux in the mixer and pressing control-T.

I've never noticed this problem, and I use stems quite a bit. But that might be because the way I do it. First I (usually) print (bounce tracks in place) all virtual instrument tracks so I'm just working with audio tracks. (That's just to prevent any buggy or inconsistent behaviour in VIs or bus rou...

Hi. Your question seems odd to me. Electric violin, like electric guitar, is usually played through effects pedals and an amp (or amp sim), which gives it a tone quite unlike the acoustic violin. Are you trying to make your recordings sound like an acoustic violin? If so, a violin resonance IR will ...

As I understand it - please correct me if I'm wrong! On a please scope, an in phase mono signal (or stereo signal where R=L) panned centre will show as a vertical line. A completely out of phase stereo signal (i.e. R=-L) will show as a horizontal line. A signal with no phase correlation, which in pr...

It seems unlikely to me that Apple would come after you for using the iMessage bleep (unless it formed a substantial part of the composition). But if you are concerned, you could make your own sound which is similar but different. But no. Never assume anything is royalty free, unless it specifically...

There's a bit of confusion in this thread as to what you want to do and what the problem is. If you still want to use your old powermac, it would be worth finding out whether the firewire sockets on the mac is at fault, or whether it's the audio interface, or, indeed, whether it is the cable between...

Yes (assuming you are downloading a legitimate version like in the mattingalls link above). The problem is that, while soundflower itself runs fine (I think) on OSes up to and including Catalina, the configuration utility soundflowerbed hasn't been updated in ages and won't run properly on the last ...

Considering you say your cables may not be in the best condition and (you imply) you were using the venue's guitar amp, I wonder whether the 'feedback' you heard was actually an oscillation caused by cable capacitance, or a faulty amp, or both? It sounds a lot more likely to me than earth hum, which...

I should add, though, that if your question is 'can I use the interval of an octave in a harmony line which is not just the melody sung up an octave and call it harmony without my friends mocking me?', then yes. Yes you can. As long as your friends aren't jerks.

I think Eddy Deegan is on the right track here. An octave is an interval, but would a succession of octaves in parallel (e.g. male and female voices singing the same line an octave apart) be harmony? If so, an organ voiced 8'4', or a synth sound with a pronounced octave partial could be said to be h...