Initial musical thoughts
14/03/05 13:14 Filed in: Music
A new
category to my blog is about music - its creation,
editing and reproduction. Though I'm not a musician,
I appreciate music, and good audio reproduction.
My current environment consists of hardware and software with some skills (they are still embryonic).
Hardware
Hi-Fi system with speakers, amp, cassette deck (yes I'm that old), record deck (similar comment), CD player. Into this is plugged my PowerBook that allows me to playback and record. I also have an M-Audio Oxygen 8 USB keyboard controller, Griffin iMIC USB input and output (one stereo channel each way). I have access to some live audio equipment - such as mics, analogue mixing desk and active PA speakers.
Software
iTunes - brilliant - great organiser of music and yes I have bought some music via iTunes Music Store; GarageBand via iLife '05 - this is so neat. I also use Sound Studio, Spark XL, Bias Peak to do some audio editing.
Skills
I have rerecorded some old cassette music onto the computer and created mp3 and CDs. I have been the sound engineer for several village pantos and created soundtracks, edited snippets of music and sound effects to go with the performance.
My current environment consists of hardware and software with some skills (they are still embryonic).
Hardware
Hi-Fi system with speakers, amp, cassette deck (yes I'm that old), record deck (similar comment), CD player. Into this is plugged my PowerBook that allows me to playback and record. I also have an M-Audio Oxygen 8 USB keyboard controller, Griffin iMIC USB input and output (one stereo channel each way). I have access to some live audio equipment - such as mics, analogue mixing desk and active PA speakers.
Software
iTunes - brilliant - great organiser of music and yes I have bought some music via iTunes Music Store; GarageBand via iLife '05 - this is so neat. I also use Sound Studio, Spark XL, Bias Peak to do some audio editing.
Skills
I have rerecorded some old cassette music onto the computer and created mp3 and CDs. I have been the sound engineer for several village pantos and created soundtracks, edited snippets of music and sound effects to go with the performance.
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