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Monday, December 20, 2004

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Sweetwater Gear Giveaway - Holiday Studio Bundle!
Sweetwater Gear Giveaway - Holiday Studio Bundle!
This month we're giving away an amazing combination of studio tools that any musician would love to have! With Sweetwater's Holiday Studio Bundle, you'll have complete control, plenty of inputs for your microphones and keyboards with Yamaha's 01X, THE musician's choice for composition and audio production software with MOTU's Digital Performer 4.5 and an amazing digital audio storage system, the GT103 and GT Key 80GB from Glyph. All told, this Holiday Studio Bundle is worth over $4000 so sign up today to win!

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Fold-Down
The process of taking a certain number of audio channels and restructuring them in fewer channels. The fold-down process is most commonly used to reproduce surround sound mixes in a stereo format. When starting with a 5.1 mix the process involves integrating signals that were originally sent to the subwoofer and taking the center channel signal and creating a "phantom center." In addition, any audio sent to rear channels must be integrated into the stereo mix. This is often the tricky part, as signals that have been decorrelated to produce a front-to-rear sense of space must be carefully handled to avoid phase cancellation in the stereo mix. This process is also sometimes referred to as downmixing.
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Having trouble with your FireWire interface under Windows XP Service Pack 2?

Due to issues with its FireWire implementation, we recommend that users with FireWire interfaces do not install Service Pack 2 for Windows XP at this time. If you have already installed Service Pack 2 and are experiencing difficulties using your FireWire interface(s), you can remove Service Pack 2 as follows:

1. Go to the Add/Remove Programs control panel.
2. Locate Service Pack 2 and remove it.

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