As Luke mentioned, just connect the ATEM using USB C to the MacBook. Max resolution of the ATEM Mini is 1080p. Each camera input can have stereo audio inputs, which can be split into two individual mono inputs if needed for separate eq and compression. There is also a stereo mic input. The Fairlight ...

At the synth museum I was working at, we had an artist in residence come in to spend a week on the Buchlas. He came up with a great line. With a Buchla, you can’t get the same sound once.

If you are looking for the midrange sound of the NS10 you might want to look at some of the headphone simulation tools such as Waves CLA NX, which does have an emulation of the NS10s. I just reread the SOS article again and it does a very good job of explaining the importance of the time domain ...

I agree with the idea of a sound for video forum and if possible the occasional column in the mag. I have had a dual career as a musician/engineer and a video editor and producer, which was basically the day job. It turns out musicians make good video editors because of their knowledge of pacing ...

Thanks for these tips, very useful. Another tool to try is Brian Eno’s Oblique Strategies, a stack of cards that can lead you in different directions.
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Lots of good advice here from experienced musicians and some of these approaches are now being supported by science. I was able to interview Dr. Daniel J Levitin, the author of “This is Your Brain on Music” and his new book “I Hear There Was A Secret Chord.” Highly recommended reading. I asked what i ...

The expensive wooden cheeks will come later as a FirWare update.

The install was smooth and all my 3rd party plugins seem to be working. The chord track and session musicians are partly complete as has been noted here. The big surprise, ChromaGlow. I thought the last thing I need is another distortion plug-in. Initial impression is that this is really good and ...

Yes to using a clap to line up the audio and video. Some editing programs, like Premiere and DaVinci Resolve, can sync based on analyzing the audio waveforms. For any iPhone video recording I highly recommend the free iPhone app, Blackmagic Camera. It maybe a little more than you are looking for but ...

So far AI has nailed the artificial part 100%, it is the intelligence that is not there yet, but I don’t think we should underestimate the direction it is going. One of my music teachers said that musical style is just a collection of cliches, or identifiable phrases, or elements. Anything that can b ...

I have had similar results. Started down the M1 path with the 13 inch and upgraded to the 16 inch M2 MacBook Pro for video projects. The M1 was just fine for audio work, no problems and no fans. I was working on a video project with 4 cameras at 4K for a two hour jazz concert. The M2 has ProRes ...

Interesting distinction between reading music and sight reading music. Reading, at whatever speed you need, helps with the understanding of the music and the structure. Sight reading is the real time experience that does take practice to be reasonably proficient, but it sure can be fun. Player ...

Physics has laws. Grammar has rules, such as I before e except after c, which has been proven by science? Music has theories. These theories can be guides to help you lead the listener to your envisioned destination or improvised expression. I am in awe of soundtrack composers in how they foreshadow ...

Whatever your entry point into music is, either by reading or learning by ear, I think the important point is that there is an understanding of music and a way to communicate effectively with other musicians. This communication may be genre and style specific. If you want to play some Gypsy Jazz ...

Both the Real Book and the Nashville Numbers are an effective way of communicating the essential information of the chords and the song structure, and in the case of the Real Book, the melody. My understanding of the Nashville system is that by just using the 1,4,5 as an example, it was easier to ...

Interesting discussion on reading and improvising. I once had a music teacher say, playing music is not terribly difficult. You learn three or four chords and you can have fun playing hundreds of thousands songs. For reading music there is only 12 pitches, a few rhythms and some dynamic markings ...

Bernard Vonnegut, brother of the great writer Kurt Vonnegut, was an atmospheric scientist who discovered that silver iodide could be used in cloud seeding to produce snow and rain. A journalist came to interview him and was shocked at the mad scientist messy lab he had. Bernard replied, “if you t ...

This is an interesting development that could have positive impacts for music creation. Lots of practical issues to be worked out as far as project sharing, libraries and the such, but even as a longtime Logic user I am trying to look at this through a different lens. Logic on the iPad is a multi ...

We have had an early, non-moving fader, FireWire PreSonus board in our studio for over a decade. This is in a control room used for teaching at a college, so pretty heavy student use. It has worked really well. The only problem we have had is that once in a while it doesn’t boot up, but indicates t ...

Sheldon from the Big Bang Theory summed it up nicely, “ I am going to listen to some jazz, where they play all the notes at once.”

Studio Bell, Home of the National Music Centre, is an amazing facility with an incredible keyboard collection. I have fortunately been involved in the project since it’s inception. The goal has been to create a Living Museum, where artists have access to the incredible collection. As you can see f ...

Over on this side of the pond, Tascam and if you couldn’t afford the Tascam, Foster mixers, were popular in all the home studios with Tascam/Teac 4 track tape decks. We did have one setup with a SONY MX-16,8x4 mixer, which had limited controls but four outputs and did sound very good for the time. ...

Thanks for sharing your workflow. I have evolved a similar flow in Logic Pro. What I like about Scaler is that you can explore different progressions that you might not normally use. It can be a good starting point for new compositions and good for musicians learning theory. I have just started to ...

There have been a few of these discussion on copyright lately. A few years back I attended a workshop on copyright in the digital age. The Copyright Lawyer had some good advice. If you ever have a question about copyright, the answer is in the question. Do you have the right to copy? If you are not ...