Some people think they have to spend a lot to record high quality music at home. Not true.
Check out this article:
http://musicianhome.com/music-general/your-computer-recording-studio
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Pro Tools Workstation was used for the digital transfer of The Beatles entire music catalogue which has been re-mastered for release this September 9th.
Read the official press release below. Interesting stuff for Beatle fans, musicians, engineers, and producers alike.
Press Release - April 10, 2009
The re-mastering process commenced with an extensive period conducting tests before finally copying the analogue master tapes into the digital medium. When this was completed, the transfer was achieved using a Pro Tools workstation operating at 24 bit 192 kHz resolution via a Prism A-D converter. Transferring was a lengthy procedure done a track at a time. Although EMI tape does not suffer the oxide loss associated with some later analogue tapes, there was nevertheless a slight build up of dust, which was removed from the tape machine heads between each title.
From the onset, considerable thought was given to what audio restorative processes were going to be allowed. It was agreed that electrical clicks, microphone vocal pops, excessive sibilance and bad edits should be improved where possible, so long as it didn’t impact on the original integrity of the songs.
In addition, de-noising technology, which is often associated with re-mastering, was to be used, but subtly and sparingly. Eventually, less than five of the 525 minutes of Beatles music was subjected to this process. Finally, as is common with today’s music, overall limiting - to increase the volume level of the CD - has been used, but on the stereo versions only. However, it was unanimously agreed that because of the importance of The Beatles’ music, limiting would be used moderately, so as to retain the original dynamics of the recordings.
When all of the albums had been transferred, each song was then listened to several times to locate any of the agreed imperfections. These were then addressed by Guy Massey, working with Audio Restoration engineer Simon Gibson.
Mastering could now take place, once the earliest vinyl pressings, along with the existing CDs, were loaded into Pro Tools, thus allowing comparisons to be made with the original master tapes during the equalization process. When an album had been completed, it was auditioned the next day in studio three – a room familiar to the engineers, as all of the recent Beatles mixing projects had taken place in there – and any further alteration of EQ could be addressed back in the mastering room. Following the initial satisfaction of Guy and Steve, Allan Rouse and Mike Heatley then checked each new re-master in yet another location and offered any further suggestions. This continued until all 13 albums were completed to the team’s satisfaction.
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Solid State Logic XLogic Delta-Link MADI HD
With XLogic Delta Link MADI HD, Multichannel Audio Digital Interface audio equipment like routers, digital mixing consoles, and converters can now be directly interfaced with Pro Tools HD, providing simplified interconnectivity and significant cost reductions, and no more need for complicated format conversion workarounds.
Just one of these Delta Link MADI HD units can take the place of up to four Digi 192 Digital I/O’s, delivering dual feeds of 64 channels of digital audio interconnection from a single hardware interface. and will reduce your costs further by using an efficient single cable interconnect system.
Quantization: 24 bit
Sample Rates: 44.1kHz (-5%) to 192kHz (+5%)
More/Buy Solid State Logic XLogic Delta-Link MADI HD
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If you’ve only had the chance to use Time Compression Expansion plug-in from Pro Tools 6 then you need to get Elastic Time that was introduced in Pro Tools 7. This alone is well worth the upgrade.
The old Time Compression plug-in was very limited and could not take you very far when changing keys or shortening or lengthening audio files without creating some weird worbling sounds and other glitches.
With Elastic Time you can have your way with audio files by bending, twisting, and stretching them to any speed or key change without adding weird sounding artifacts to them.
Plus many other not so drastic changes as well like creating cool beats, remix vocals, and polish your tracks by tightening them up. After using Elastic Time once you’ll never be able to do with out it…guaranteed.
More on Pro Tools 8
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Digidesign Pro Tools M-Powered 8
Digidesign’s new M-Audio Torq LE DJ software is here with a new look and lot’s of nice new toys along with our old favorites like Sansamp, the great guitar amp and Pitch Shift which you can’t do without after using it just once.
Quality virtual instrument plug-ins:
The usual tons of effects plug-ins you’d expect like compressors, EQs, delays, reverbs, De-esser, pitch shift… the list is actually too long to include here. But you better make some room on your hard drive though cause there’s 8 GB of pro-quality audio loops courtesy of Big Fish Audio.
MIDI
There’s a new Score Editor window with a range of standard notation tools for composing music. It lets you write treble, alto, tenor, or bass clef parts.
You can place and edit notes in real time, edit meter, and key signature. Transcribe MIDI parts in real time then print out your score in its entirety or in parts. Even export sessions as Sibelius (.sib) files for further finessing in Sibelius.
The new MIDI Editor window in Pro Tools 8 software can display MIDI and automation data for Instrument, MIDI, and Auxiliary Input tracks. View velocity, volume, and pan MIDI parameters simultaneously and get quick access through multiple Automation and Controller lanes. Edit an entire MIDI Region Group then watch your music scroll by during playback in real time Notation or Piano Roll view.
ReWire
Pro Tools software accepts MIDI controller data directly from ReWire applications for recording to a Pro Tools MIDI or Instrument track.
In short, MIDI is no longer a weak point in the Pro Tools portfolio.
Check It Out:
Digidesign Pro Tools M-Powered 8
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