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Bandlab Discontinues Free Version of Cakewalk by Bandlab DAW

Richard L'Hommedieu bandlab, cakewalk, daw, music software, sonar June 10, 2023

Bandlab Discontinues Free Version of Cakewalk by Bandlab DAW Bandlab, the company behind the popular digital audio workstation (DAW) software Cakewalk, has announced that they will no longer be offering a free version of the software. Bandlab acquired Sonar by Cakewalk DAW after Gibson discontinued the software after it purchase it from Cakewalk, leaving their […]

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Gear Reviews/ Software Reviews

Fender Musical Instruments Releases Presonus Studio One 6

Richard L'Hommedieu daw, Fender, fender musical instruments, making a Scene, presonus, studio one, Studio one 6 September 30, 2022

Fender Musical Instruments Releases Presonus Studio One 6 Introduction Back in November of last year Fender Musical Instruments announced their intention to acquire Presonus Audio Electronics as part of their expansion of their reach into the pro audio market. In January “Making a Scene” interviewed the founder of Presonus Jim Odem about this new acquisition […]

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Studio One 5.5 Update!

Richard L'Hommedieu daw, Home Recording, indie music, presonus, recording, studio one February 1, 2022

Making a Scene Takes a Look at the new Studio One 5.5 Update Even with the pending acquisition of Presonus by Fender Musical Instruments, the team at Presonus is still rolling out updates to their flagship DAW “Studio One”. The new 5.5 update adds some powerful new features to their “Project Page” that will making […]

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Presonus Sphere – Review

Richard L'Hommedieu daw, indie artists., indie music, Presonus Sphere, recording software May 15, 2021

Making a Scene Reviews Presonus Sphere One of the most important tools for Indie artists and songwriters today is the home recording studio. The Advantage of building a home based studio allows you to demo your work before going into the studio, create song structures to write against or, with the right equipment you can […]

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Presonus Releases Studio One 5

Richard L'Hommedieu daw, making a Scene, presonus, recording software, studio one July 14, 2020

PreSonus Releases Studio One 5 When you invest in a DAW for your studio it is important to remember you are also investing in the company and their ability to continue to develop the software to not only innovate add new features but also to stay abreast (if not ahead) of the technology. PreSonus has […]

In The Studio/ Recording Techniques

Audio Summing Explained

Richard L'Hommedieu analog summing, analog vs digital, daw, digital summing, diy recording, Home Recording, making a Scene, Recording Techniques January 23, 2018

HISTORY In the Early days of recording, music was cut directly to a disk from a single microphone. In the studio, the art of mixing fell to the music “Conductor” whose job it was to move the musicians who were recording either closer or further back from the microphone. By the 1930’s the radio broadcasting […]

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Building Your Studio/ In The Studio/ Music Biz News

Gibson Kills Cakewalk and the Sonar Line of DAW’s!

Richard L'Hommedieu cakewalk, daw, Gibson, Gibson Trouble, recording studio, sonar December 14, 2017

Gibson has decided to discontinue all development of Cakewalk products, which includes the very popular DAW(Digital Audio Workstation) SONAR, which has for 30 years been the flagship of the Cakewalk line. The apparent explanation is “they want to focus on consumer audio electronics” Gibson Brands announced today that it is ceasing active development and production […]

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Top 5 Audio Assault Plugins

Brandon S Hire amp simulation, audio assault, daw, death metal, diy recording, making a Scene, Metal, recording plugins, vst plugins December 2, 2017

Top 5 Audio Assault Plugins Brandon Shire We all have our favorites, and in this post I want to share my top 5 from Audio Assault! Let’s countdown, starting from number 5. FREAKQ 305 5. FreakQ 305 It’s hard to see what’s so special about FreakQ 305 on the surface, because it looks like a typical […]

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Top 5 IK Multimedia Plugins

Brandon S Hire audio plugins, daw, IK Mutimedia, making a Scene, recording plugins, Recording Techniques, VST November 29, 2017

Top 5 IK Multimedia Plugins Brandon Shire We all have our favorites, and in this post I want to share my top 5 from IK Multimedia! Let’s countdown, starting from number 5. MASTER EQ 432 5. Master EQ 432 The right amount of the right eq on the master bus can really bring your mix […]

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Top 5 Waves Plugins

Brandon S Hire audio plugins, daw, making a Scene, Plugins, Recording Techniques, VST, waves plugins November 28, 2017

Top 5 Waves Plugins! Brandon Shire We all have our favorites, and in this post I want to share my top 5 from Waves Audio! Let’s countdown, starting from number 5. MY DEFAULT HLS SETTINGS 5. Kramer HLS Channel This thing is just meaty. I use it as a low end enhancer more than anything, […]

Recording Techniques

How to Add Realism to Midi Strings – Video Tutorial

Brandon S Hire daw, making a Scene, Midi, recording, strings July 31, 2017

A four part series on creating realistic strings with MIDI ..

In The Studio/ Recording Techniques

Why Should you Use an Expander on your DI

Brandon S Hire :A/D, Amp, analyzer, Audio, Compression, Compressor, concepts, Converters, daw, db, dbfs, DI, Digital, expander, expanders, expansion, facebook, Factory, floor, Gain, Gain Reduction, guitar, Guitars, HoRNet, I/O, Instrument, Joey, Joey Sturgis, Joey Sturgis Tones, JST, melda, MeldaProduction, Multi, noise, noise floor, Nomad, plugin, Plugins, Production, REAPER, Reduction, Signal To Noise Ratio, Sturgis, Track Utility February 28, 2017

MELDAPRODUCTION MMULTIANALYZER NOISE FLOOR ANALYSIS WITH EXPANDER ENGAGED In the first picture, you’ll see 4 colored bands on the analyzer. The red band is the noise floor of my interface, and it’s reading down around -110dbfs. The dark orange band at the very bottom is where the expander is pushing that noise floor to, down […]

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Understanding Drum Sample Libraries

Brandon S Hire Addictive Drums 2, Audio, Ballou, beato, Channel, Compression, Custom, Cymbals, daw, demo, DRT, Drum, Drumagogg, Drumforge, drums, Effects, EQ, GUI, Instruments, Jay, Jigsaw, Joey, Kick, Kick 10, Kit, Kontakt, Kurt, Libraries, Library, Maas, making a Scene, Massey, MAutoAlign, melda, MeldaProduction, Midi, Mix, Mix Ready, Mono, Multi, Multichannel, Native, One Shot, Pack, plugin, Plugins, Processed, Producers, Production, Randy, Randy Staub, Raw, REAPER, rick, Room, Room Sound, Routing, Sample, Sampler, Samples, Slate Digital, Snare, Sound, Sound Radix, SSD4, SSD5, Staub, Stereo, Steven Slate Drums, Sturgis, Trigger, Unprocessed, wav, Workflow, XLN Audio, youtube February 24, 2017

Understanding Drum Sample Libraries From bedroom producers, to the top brass mixing engineers with multiple grammies, there are a lot of people who use drum samples in their mixes. Joey Sturgis is famous for using Kick 10 from Steven Slate Drums in many of his productions (although now Joey Sturgis has his own sample library […]

Software Reviews

Sonar X3 – X3, Studio and Producer

Richard L'Hommedieu cakewalk, daw, recording software, sonar x3 May 23, 2014

Sonar X3 Lets face it, once you find a DAW that you like and you have gone through the learning curve it’s pretty hard to change. But, if you are looking to get your first full DAW or you feel your DAW is not giving you what you want, you might want to consider Cakewalks […]