Monday, 1 October 2012

Music Production: Going Hitech

Music can be produced by the use of both hardware and software. In the past only hardware was used to produce music. The advancements in computer speeds led to software executing all music production tasks by software.

Despite the rising invasion of software hardware has not been kicked out completely in music production. Music producers still use mixing desks; hardware effects, and hardware synthesizers.

Each musician maintains his uniqueness with his choice of music production equipment. The following equipments can be described as the bare minimum to record and write music irrespective of the instrument played or genre of music created.

A faster computer is a great tool to produce music. Speed of a computer is important as music software takes up a lot of system resources. That is why the computer must have a fast processor and lots of RAM.  Needless to say, lots of hard drive space is also required since all music files and recordings to take up lots of gigabytes. A DVD/CD writer is essential to write CDs of tracks produced and back up the work.

As an important component Soundcard has a good role to play. But it must be made sure that soundcard has a very low latency. High latency makes a computer unusable as everything on the record will be behind everything else in the track.

Also make sure that ASIO Support (Audio Stream Input/Output) is there if Windows are being used and a nice amount of audio inputs is a must. Spending some good money on near-field studio monitors is helpful as the tracks will benefit a great deal in sound quality no matter where they are played.

Near-field monitors are another requirement. They are different from normal speakers/stereo systems and designed to show exactly what the music really sounds like without affecting the sound in any way. Their design is also better than conventional listening speakers. All active monitors have a power amplifier and passive monitors. A list of essential music production equipment.

•    Mixing Board
•    Multitrack pro Tools
•    Monitors
•    Mixdown
•    Auxiliary Outboard Processors
•    Dynamics Processors
•    Effects
•    Piano
•    Microphones

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