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The annual AES tradeshow and convention begins this Friday! This year the show is back in New York City. We love heading to the Big Apple to check out the newest and coolest from all ends of the pro audio industry. Best of all, Sweetwater has the hookup for you: You can attend the tradeshow for FREE. All you have to do is register for a free pass, using VIP code SWVIP.
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Roland SP-404 - This portable Groove Sampler picks up where the SP-303 left off, with more features, more voices, more pads, and more memory, plus this model can operate off battery power for maximum portability.
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| Hi-MD |
A data format that is an extension — actually a near-complete revision - of Sony's original MiniDisc (MD) system. The format's most significant change is the introduction of Hi-MD media, which includes a new 1GB disc in the existing MD form-factor and a reformatting of existing MD media that doubles its capacity to 305MB. In addition, several important and long wished-for MiniDisc capabilities have been incorporated into Hi-MD equipment.
Hi-MD AUDIO equipment complies with the Hi-MD AUDIO standard, while maintaining playback compatibility with MiniDiscs recorded using conventional MD devices. Hi-MD equipment can record audio to Hi-MD media in uncompressed PCM (16-bit/44.1kHz) as well as in Sony's ATRAC3plus encoding at 256kbps ("Hi-SP") and 64kbps ("Hi-LP"). Hi-MD recorders can also be used directly as USB connected data drives to store images and text files on any PC supporting USB storage devices, with no special drivers needed. |
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| Finicky File Names |
When you're creating, editing, and mixing a project in your DAW software you're likely to end up with a number of scratch tracks, alternate takes, submixes, and the like. It's important to establish track-naming conventions so you can quickly locate and access these audio files when you need them. A series of files with the names "Lead vocal scratch," "Lead vocal bridge," and "Lead vocal Autotune" is much more manageable than "scratch vocal," "Joey b," and tuned vocal."
However, remember that many software programs are finicky about so-called special characters in file names, and refuse to process tracks that contain them. These characters include the colon (:), the slash (/), and the backslash (), which all have specific functions in operating systems. They can cause a bounce to disk or other file processing to crash. If you call your latest mix "6:04 p.m." you might have trouble; rename it "604 p.m." and it should bounce and save just fine. |
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