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EDITORIAL
10:
LIVING

Number 10

That little program has with things like art was left to the earlier Apple lls and Editor-In-Chief D a v i d Ta n a k a

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done amazingly well, later Macs. No wonder, then, that Macs remain popular
Erin Bell
Managing Editor
going from anifty with artists, musicians and other right-brain types. erin@ppublishing.ca
animated GIF alternative Today, of course, Macs and PCs do many things equally Sean Carruthers
Contributing Editors
.to its own immersive well. But one thing about the Mac vs. PC battle has not Lee Rickwood

Chad Sapieha
universe. Although it’s changed -it is still about mindshare. MarcSaltzman

often reviled as amajor contributor to Web bloat, Apple maintains aposition as one of the top five personal
Advertising Sales
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on the Web, Windows machines, that translates into aglobal market ralph@ppublishing.ca
National Account Executive Maria Favot
Two other big deal digital technologies are celebrating share for Macs of about five percent. Nevertheless the maria@ppublishing.ca
significant anniversaries this year. The hard disk drive is Mac remains abigger phenomenon than afive percent Ad Sales

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now 50 years old. IBM introduced the first one in share would predict. Apple has always used some karim@ppublishing.ca
September 1956. The IBM 350 Oisk Storage Unit could variation of “the cool computer” to market the Mac, and MONTREAL Forbes Campbell
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but useful today only for one or two MP3 tunes or asingle TV spots. vivian@ppublishing.ca

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camcorders as well as computers. the things Ican do with aWindows PC. This month’s focus Art Director Steven Stoner
And speaking of computers, the IBM-PC is 25 years old on audio is acase in point. In working through similar $teves@ppublishing.ca
Production Coordinator Christie Swail
this year. The IMB-PC, introduced in August 1981, wasn’t music applications, GarageBand for Mac and Acid Music
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Distribution Manager
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between what have become the industry’s power couple: using the Mac somehow seemed cooler. IT Manager Steve Ouinney
Intel and Microsoft. steveq@ppublishing.ca

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Home recording studio primer

You may not be George Martin, but you may not need to be
Way back when, when Joe Clark ruled the country and Neil Young advised
us that "Rust Never Sleeps," musicians who wanted apermanent audible
record of their exploits faced afar more challenging situation than they do
today. Indeed, it was enough to give any self-respecting rocker aserious
case of the blues.
If you had the bucks, you could pile your gear in the VW bus and truck on
down to the nearest recording studio. If you had lots of bucks, you could
You might think that the obvious hub to any digital recording studio is the
leave your amp at home, use the prime Marshall stack at the studio, and hire
PC, but that's not always the case. Indeed, those who don't want to bother
yourself an audio engineer to boot. In either case, time was of the essence -
you'd have precious few hours to play or sing all your parts correctly and with the setup, the software choices, and multiple options and
somehow get everything to sound just right afterward.
But not everyone could afford to rent astudio, its equipment, and its
personnel. Fortunately, there was another solution. With afew hundred
bucks, aspiring musical icons could buy adecent reel-to-reel machine or a
four-track Fostex cassette recorder and commit all their tuneful
masterpieces to tape without ever leaving the comfy confines of their home.
Yet the home studio of the past had severe limitations. Multitracking [the
recording and layering of several individual instruments or sounds to create
aharmonious whole] was difficult with tape, particularly when dealing with
the restrictions of consumer level tape recorders. Editing [removing and/or
replacing flawed passages or notes] required patience, surgically precise
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The digital studio has changed much of that. With the right computer, afew
specific peripheral Items, and aton of studying and experimentation,
anyone seriously interested in home recording can produce results that'll
send the four-track tape crowd back to the proverbial drawing board. Of
course, there's no substitute for musical talent, but just ask Britney Spears
how much of that is needed when just about anything can be tweaked
during post-production to become just about anything else.
configurationsofaPC-basedDAW[DigitalAudioWorkstation]mayinstead
opt for all-in-one units that are loaded with easily managed proprietary
software and built only for audio recording. This is also agreat way to go if
your budget is akey consideration -as evidenced by sub-$4D0 entry-level
units from the likes of Fostex [MR-8 Mk II 8-Track Digital Recorder], and Boss
[BR6D0 8-Track Digital Recorder]. If your ambitions go no further than laying
down abeat and recording acouple of guitar or piano lines and avoice, these
value-conscious machines certainly have their place.
But standalone units are by no means confined to the low end of the price
or performance spectrum. If you want to do more with your music, look to
16- and 24-track units from Roland, Boss, and Yamaha. These systems offer
perks such as hard disk recording, CD burning, built-in effects and
drumbeats, support for lots of tracks, and amore palatable learning curve
than full-blown PCs. However, one of these babies will run $2,DDD and up.
Moreover, even the best standalone DAWs don't offer the versatility or the
potential of aPC. They aren't as upgradeable, they generally won't accept
third party software, and they limit you in terms of expandability. Truth is
that if you're not afraid of computers, you should seriously consider aPC as
the "engine" that drives your home recording studio.
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DAW programs include on-screen CPU usage meters to graphically display recording) are space hogs. Before mixdown, it's not unusual for asingle
the horrors), you're faced with dropouts, murderously long load times, and ten- or fifteen-track song to snap up 500MB of your hard drive. Multiply that
all manner of other nasty repercussions. by perhaps several dozen tunes, add afew virtual instruments and loops -
These days, a2.8HGz Pentium ora 2800-r Athlon is the bare minimum for all of which greedily gobble megabytes-and you can see how asmall hard
even acost-conscious DAW, In fact, considering recent CPU price drops, and drive is an ineffective hard drive,
the upcoming release of the 64-bit version of Windows Vista, and the factAdditionally, because you want to read (and write) information as quickly
that PC DAW leader Cakewalk has now converted its flagship product. Sonar, as possible, and because an operating system and whatever applications
to 64-bit processing, a64-bit dual core chip is the recommended route for you’re running will fight your music for hard drive priority, you may want to
any hardcore setup. Why 64-bit? Primarily because the architecture add asecond drive strictly for your audio files. These days, you can grab
supports vastly expanded memory allotments, meaning you can load more two 20DMB hard drives, each running at 220D RPM and with 8MB buffers,
effects, more processes, more virtual instruments, and larger, more for less than $20D. Wise composers will also want an external USB 2.0 or
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There's alot of variety here, and alot of choices. Some have abuilt-in audio
interface. Some are highly portable, and some are not. Some are wireless.
Some are better suited to particular DAW programs. Prices run the gamut
from ahundred to several thousand dollars, so check those Internet
discussion groups and choose wisely.
Speakers
When you audition and tweak your recordings, you want your speakers
and amplification system to be as accurate and as generic as possible. That
way you'll have aneutral product that sounds as good through your car
stereo as it does through your subwoofer-equipped living room setup.
Powered (active) studio monitors are purpose-built for the task, delivering
neutral sound and negating the need fora space-hogging external amplifier.
They are thus the ideal solution for non-professional hobby studios, though
budget conscious shoppers may want to pick up an old stereo amp, level
the tone controls, and purchase aset of inexpensive ''passive" monitors.
Alesis, Mackie, Event Audio, Yamaha, Tannoy, and Behringer all offer afull
range of active and passive alternatives.
Microphones
If you sing, look no further than the Shure SM58. Eeaturing anolse-
minlmizlng spherical filter and afrequency response tailored to the human
voice, it's been the vocal mic of choice since The Beatles roamed the earth.
If you're miking an acoustic guitar or electric guitar amp, check out the
equally time-honoured Shure SMS? or the substantially pricier SM81. Drum
miking is much more complex and can involve as many as eight or more
separate mics, but you can do adecent job with two or three SM5?s and an
AKG D112 for the kick drum. Add an overhead AKG IDOOS for extra flavor, or
ditch the drum-miking idea entirely and invest in an electronic set such as
Roland's V-Drums.
Software
The current crop of DAW-oriented software is staggeringly wide-ranging.
Eor comprehensive solutions that'll handle everything from multitrack
audio recording to MIDI to every form of post-production tweak known to
man, look to leading contenders such as Cakewalk's Sonar, M-Audio's Pro
Tools M-Powered, or Steinberg's Cubase. More affordable, slightly less
capable options include FASoft's nTrack, Cakewalk's Guitar Tracks Pro, and
M a c k i e ' s Tr a c k t i o n 2 .
continuous pieces of music when repeated (very popular for backing
drumbeats and in techno and hip hop music) -you can either stick with
loop-accommodating programs like Cakewalk's Sonar or move into fully
loop-centric applications like "Acid Pro" or one of its stripped-down
offspring. If your project calls for, say, an original saxophone line but you
don't have asaxophone, you can buy yourself aMIDI keyboard, acquire a
freeware or shareware saxophone virtual Instrument, and "play" a
reasonable sax facsimile right there on the keys.
And if you need drums but have no drum kit, check out highly rated but
rather complex software drumming solutions such as ToonTrack's Drumkit
From Hell or EZ Drummer. Dr make things easier on yourself and look online
for quality drum loop sets from respected suppliers such as Drums on
Demand and Beta Monkey.
Guitarists Only
Correctly miking aguitar amp so it doesn't sound like abuzzsaw and won't
wake up the neighbours has proven to be one of home recording's trickiest
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Windows Vista when it's launched in January, followed by their newly announced Zune music
products and services [see sidebar].
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functionality. While the viewer isn’t particularly sophisticated, the photo
manager provides the ability to group and sort all of your photos using
meta tag information such as date taken, star rating, and keyword. It’s no
substitute for a.dedicated photo management app, but it could be handy for
casual photographers.
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programmers are now spending their days working out the kinks. To find
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dominance poses any real threat, download the beta version at
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distorting which can blow your speakers. Weird huh? Not enough power
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Capturing the family hijinks

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You've got the high definition screen, now what? You can watch broadcast
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Fill *er up! Tunes for your iPod

Acheap way to pack your iPod full of tunes shifting” thousands of near CD-quality songs. Best of all, you can fill up
Until recently, there have been only two ways to fill up your portable music your portable audio player every night so you can wake up to abrand-new
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Pros: Music goes right to the iPod; works with Windows and Macs
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Turn your PC into an Internet radio recorder with the aptly name
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Unlike the Griffin iPill, AudioXtract saves the files as MP3s to your
computer’s hard drive. While many may prefer how the iPill puts the
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least works with non-iPod based products, too [or you can burn aCD
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Ifyou’relookingforaparticulargenre,suchasclassicrock,hip-hop,disco users download 100 free MP3s, If you like what you hear, you can purchase
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Going loopy over loops

Making music the drag and drop way

When Sony gave me ademo of ScreenBlast Acid Deluxe 2.0 afew years
ago, I’d not heard of loop software before -but was Immediately hooked.
Some months later aMac-user friend emailed me about this neat program
Apple had just announced called GarageBand, which did loops too.
Fast-forward to today and GarageBand is now in Version 3(part of iLife
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’06], while Acid 2.0 has morphed into Sony Acid Music Studio 6($89.95).
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These programs do more than just sequence loops, but that’s the aspect
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If you’re not familiar with loops, they are snippets of music. You can find Q
loops for most popular instruments and musical genres, as well as for N
sound effects, jingles for advertising work and even vocals. They're called
loops because you can join them together, just as sound engineers used to
physically join the two ends of apiece of audiotape to form an endless loop
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that played over and over. By design, when you play adigital loop
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continuously, it creates acoherent rhythm or melody. GarageBand and Acid 0
Music Studio (and other similar products] allow you to build unique «)
compositions using these off-the-shelf musical parts.
For example, suppose you want to create awaltz. You find adrum loop
that has a1-2-3 waltz beat -but that’s all you’ll likely hear in the loop,
asingle 1-2-3 measure. As you repeat or loop the drum segment, it I. A""'"
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will begin to sound like adrummer tapping out acontinuous waltz beat -
and voila, you’ve just created adrum track for your waltz. To that you
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can add other instruments -strings or horns for example -and build a.timeline in sequences that give you the sound you want. In Music Studio
unique composition. this process is quite elegant -using apen- or pencil-shaped cursor, you
Both GarageBand 3and Acid Music Studio 6include loop libraries to get simply draw or paint onto the timeline wherever you want that instrument
you going, but there are many commercial sources for loops (including to play. For acontinuous bass rhythm, for example, you’d paint it
Apple and Sony]. Magix recently sent us ahuge collection of loops called continuouslyover.thelengthofyoursong.Ifyouwantedsomethinglikea
Soundpool DVD Collection 11 (available from Magix’s e-store forUSS29.95], cymbaltoplayjusttwiceatparticularpoints,you’dpaintitonlyontothose
which is aDVD compilation of several libraries it had previously released on parts of the time line.
CD. It contains 2,DDD-f loops in CD-quality WAV format. Magix also has aloop For continuous play of aloop, GarageBand works the same way-you draw
sequencing program called Music Studio 11 Deluxe. out the loop over the timeline and the loop repeats for that duration, but for
GarageBand and Acid Music Studio have asimilar layout with amulti-track discontinuous segments, Ifound GarageBand’s cut and paste not quite as
timeline dominating the main screen. Afile browser lets you show slick as Acid’s paint method,
directories that contain your loops and when you highlight aloop file, the Inbothprograms,onceyou’velaiddownaloopsequenceyoucaneditit
program plays it so that you can preview it. To add aloop to your bychangingitsduration,movingitalongthetimelineorerasingit.Youcan
composition, you simply drag and drop it onto an empty track. set amaster tempo measured in beats per minute for your song and any
To build the composition you lay down the various loop tracks orlto the loop you drag onto the timeline matches your master tempo. You can also
change the master tempo at any time, and in this way change the length of
acomposition without altering the pitch.
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-compose music. But there are other multimedia applications as well
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where music is important. Ifind them agood way to produce unique

background music for avideo or slide show; for example creating an audio
track in Acid Music Studio and then importing the WAV file into avideo¬
Fisaia lie editing package like Premiere Elements.
GarageBand has aparticularly nifty level of integration with other Apple
fl s u i software. With an iChat session, for example, GarageBand will record each
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Throw away your sticky notes when you're working on along document and click it and click the red button to record your note. Click the Stop button
do all the work in Word. With Word's tracking tools, you don't need to make when you're done and close the Sound Recorder,
notes or write reminders on loose sheets of paper. And you don't need to cut If the button is not on the toolbar, click the Toolbar Options button at the end
aparagraph and save it in another document just in case deleting it was aof the Reviewing toolbar, click Add or Remove Buttons, Reviewing, and click
mistake and you need to put it back again. Tracked changes and document Insert Voice to add the button. The sound is saved with the document and
comments can take care of all this and they keep the information where it is can be played by clicking on it.
most required -inside the document you're working on.
While these tools were designed to be used during group work to help you Tracking changes
keep track of changes when you're working on adocument in collaboration When you're unsure whether to delete aparagraph or not, tracked changes
with others, they also work very well when you're working by yourself in agives you the best of both worlds. To enable it, choose Tools, Track Changes.
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Highlighting the Reviewing toolbar you can choose to view these mark-ups or not by
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Click the Highlight button on the toolbar and drag over words to highlight, document as it will look with the additions and without the deletions,
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Samsung's new portable MP3 player turns the world of digital audio on its mash-ups, your selection of samples or your very own podcast.
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anyone standing nearby. That's the point! wide variety of shapes, sizes, flavours and prices.
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Of course, not all sound cards and audio input devices are alike. While
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But even high sampling rates result in some sound quality degradation.
Just the physical process of moving sound through wires can cause
distortion. Two measurements are used to quantify this reduction in sound
quality: Total Flarmonic Distortion [TFID], expressed as apercentage, and
Signal-to-Noise Ratio (SNR), measured in decibels.
In both cases, smaller indicates better. So there are ways to measure,
compare and differentiate among the many sound cards available on the
market (see chart on page BC 38],
In most cases, if you're making CDs or preparing audio for Web streaming
or podcasts, analog to digital transfers should be done at least aCD quality:
16 bit/44.1kHz stereo. Be sure your sound card/input device can do analog-
to-digital transfers at that rate.
Using two channels stereo and 16 bit sampling at 44.1 KHz, the bit stream
-and therefore the approximate RIe size, storage requirements and
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processing, many sound cards include additional hardware
or input/output connections, including:
Digital Signal Processor (DSP): Aspecial microprocessor
that takes some of the workload off the computer's CPU by
performing calculations for analog and digital conversion.
Sound cards that do not have their own DSP use the CPU
for processing.
Memory: Like agraphics card, asound card can use its own
memory to provide faster data processing.
Input and Output Connections: Sound cards should have
connections for amicrophone and speakers, which can
inclucje stereo mini-plugs, RCA connections, quarter-inch
phone, S/PDIF (a digital interface from Sony/Philips) and/or
i MIDI, the Musical Instrument Digital Interface.
If you're going for atop-of-the-line sound card, check the
specs, but also make sure you have high-quality speakers
that match.
As far as the computer itself, although in many cases it is
possible to record audio to the same drive as the one running
the operating system and audio application, you'll probably
get better performance by recording to aseparate drive.
Audio eats up alot of space -nowhere near the amount that
video does -but even the smaller drives today will be hard to
fill with audio files alone. Extra drive space [internal, via EIDE or better;
external via USB or FireWire] can always be added. Some audio editing
programs or hardware accelerators do look for aminimum drive rotation
speed (?2DD RPM should do it;,and the Dxford 911 or922 bridge is nice ], so
always check your gear first to meet certain specs.
Desktop or notebook computers can be used, but remember that along
with the digital media system specs, RAM is very important, and more is
almost always better. Iwouldn't try running an audio program under
Windows XP or Mac DS Xon less than 512MB; 1GB is nice.
Most users agree that separate sound cards -or dedicated external
devices -provide better audio quality, so when sound is important, pay
heed to the experts, and listen up!
By Lee Rickwood
Lee Rickwood is afreelance writer and independent video producer. He operates
Word On AWire, an independent company providing editorial, media production and
consulting services to individuals and companies across North America. He can be
reached at videodazeiagoodmedia.com.
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When you go to agame or event held in alarge stadium, you invariably see
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their favourite player or rock star with the camera flash turned on. The sad
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any effect when you are afew hundred metres from your subject. Cameras
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3200, which is quite impressive. This reduces the need for aflash
considerably or makes it more effective over alonger distance.
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stop-action photos) or asmaller aperture [to put more of the scene into
sharp focus). Some camera makers implement akind of image stabilization
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shutter speeds stop motion better, whether the motion is in the scene or
induced by an unsteady hand holding the camera.
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