http://www.songhaysystem.com/kb/subject/audio The Funky Knowledge Base at songhaysystem.com. The subject of this channel is Audio/Video. Sun, 21 Feb 2010 22:00:22 GMT http://www.songhaysystem.com/kb/number/2076072327/subject/audio Article Excerpt: The Ctrl+E keyboard shortcut is the Paste to New command. This suggests that the Ctrl+C, Ctrl+E keys combination can be used to quickly break up a large sound file into smaller ones. When regions are defined in the large sound file the Regions List (Alt+… Sun, 21 Feb 2010 22:00:22 GMT Bryan Wilhite http://www.songhaysystem.com/kb/number/2076072119/subject/audio Article Excerpt: DVI and HDMI are exactly the same as one another, image-quality-wise. The principal differences are that HDMI carries audio as well as video, and uses a different type of connector, but both use the same encoding scheme, and that's why a DVI source can be… Wed, 22 Apr 2009 03:33:48 GMT Bryan Wilhite http://www.songhaysystem.com/kb/number/2076072064/subject/audio Article Excerpt: “A pentatonic scale is a musical scale with five pitches per octave in contrast to an heptatonic (seven note) scale such as the major scale. Pentatonic scales are very common and are found all over the world, including but not limited to Celtic folk mus… Tue, 28 Oct 2008 19:54:46 GMT Bryan Wilhite http://www.songhaysystem.com/kb/number/2076071945/subject/audio Article Excerpt: iTunes ignores ID3 version 1.x tag information and embedded images in MP3 files. For those of us who wrote 1.x tags first and then used 2.x tags for “long string” support, we must use a tool like MP3 Tag Tools (on Windows) to copy 1.x tags to the 2.x … Wed, 19 Mar 2008 22:46:54 GMT Bryan Wilhite http://www.songhaysystem.com/kb/number/2076071892/subject/audio Article Excerpt: For those of us who remember Sonic Foundry Batch Converter, the functionality of this legacy product is now incorporated in Sound Forge 9.0. Craig Anderton details this functionality in “Batchin’ it with Sound Forge 9”: http://www.sonycreatives… Tue, 02 Oct 2007 18:55:34 GMT Bryan Wilhite http://www.songhaysystem.com/kb/number/2076071498/subject/audio Article Excerpt: SMPTE timecodes developed more out of historical/political necessity than by pure engineering. The ancient black-and-white TVs of the golden age of North American television scanned at 30 frames per second (fps) because of the ease of synching to the 60Hz… Sat, 12 Feb 2005 09:33:39 GMT Bryan Wilhite http://www.songhaysystem.com/kb/number/2076071596/subject/audio Article Excerpt: * Determine the time signature of the loop. It is customarily 4/4. The musician that created the loop should provide this information. * Determine the key of the loop. The musician that created the loop should provide this information. * Determine the t… Fri, 02 Jul 2004 07:45:11 GMT Bryan Wilhite http://www.songhaysystem.com/kb/number/2076071589/subject/audio Article Excerpt: Version 1.5.3: Installed without incident. Version 1.5.x: This version was purchased and promptly forgotten about by this procrastinator (it was burned to a CD and "stored"). This memory lapse allowed me to overlook the new elaborate registration proces… Mon, 14 Jun 2004 22:33:55 GMT Bryan Wilhite http://www.songhaysystem.com/kb/number/2076071590/subject/audio Article Excerpt: Right-clicking on a relevant Knob or clicking the MOD + button may show the External Sources menu item. Two very important menu items under External Sources are Pitchbend and MIDI-CC. These two items allow KONTAKT to react to the Pitch Bend and Modulation… Tue, 01 Jun 2004 06:05:07 GMT Bryan Wilhite http://www.songhaysystem.com/kb/number/939190588/subject/audio Article Excerpt: In the E-Control Mixer, on the Master Output Strip's Hard Disk Recording Panel is the Disk Record Pot. By default it is not turned all the way to the right (0dB). It is highly recommended to turn this all the way up and reduce levels as needed with faders… Mon, 19 Apr 2004 21:55:56 GMT Bryan Wilhite http://www.songhaysystem.com/kb/number/2076071506/subject/audio Article Excerpt: If all of the tracks are muted in a Vegas Video Project file, the Save As... dialog will appear when the Render As... Command is executed. The behavior is by design and can frustrate many a sleepy head in the middle of a pre-dawn render. Just wake up and … Sun, 18 Apr 2004 04:33:40 GMT Bryan Wilhite http://www.songhaysystem.com/kb/number/2076071501/subject/audio Article Excerpt: In my flippant remarks about EQ (9/23/2000), I insisted that EQ is the most important digital effects tool the desktop audio engineer has. I was wrong. The Compressor/Limiter is the most important digital effects tools the desktop audio engineer has. EQ i… Wed, 11 Dec 2002 22:35:17 GMT Bryan Wilhite http://www.songhaysystem.com/kb/number/2076071497/subject/audio Article Excerpt: The Decibel (dB) The decibel (dB) is one tenth of a Bel. The Bel is named after Alexander Graham Bell and is equivalent to twice (or half) the loudness (level or signal amplitude) of a given sound. This scale of measurement is relative (instead of absolu… Fri, 29 Nov 2002 17:53:15 GMT Bryan Wilhite http://www.songhaysystem.com/kb/number/902037412/subject/audio Article Excerpt: Important Concept to Understand: The mixer sits between the inputs and the speakers/monitors (outputs). All connections should show an understanding of this concept. Important Items from the Manual: Meters (page 9) --- 'AVG' (average) LEDs indicate no… Sat, 23 Sep 2000 15:07:00 GMT Bryan Wilhite http://www.songhaysystem.com/kb/number/2076071314/subject/audio Article Excerpt: Calibrate a sound card with an external mixer with a digitized sound generated at specific amplitude. Levels measured by any sound card software should match the levels of the external mixer. The mixer should go into the red when the software goes into th… Sat, 23 Sep 2000 15:07:00 GMT Bryan Wilhite http://www.songhaysystem.com/kb/number/2076071316/subject/audio Article Excerpt: First of all for expert remarks about equalization see http://www.prorec.com/ where a search for Lionel Dumond finds some articles back in 1998 that are informative. I can only write very basic things like: EQ is the most important digital effects tool t… Sat, 23 Sep 2000 15:28:00 GMT Bryan Wilhite http://www.songhaysystem.com/kb/number/-24999984/subject/audio Article Excerpt: Videomaker Magazine 7/95 p.60: an entry-level mic is dynamic and unidirectional. Rec brands: Azden DX-431 ($30); Audio-Technica ATR30 ($60). The Shure SM-57 is a durable and versatile microphone. The Shure SM-58 is another inexpensive choice for recordin… Wed, 08 Mar 2000 04:38:16 GMT Bryan Wilhite http://www.songhaysystem.com/kb/number/458984172/subject/audio Article Excerpt: SCMS is an acronym (pronounced "scums") standing for Serial Copy Management System. This technology permits only one generation of digital-to-digital copying. The following is from Sweetwater Sound (www.sweetwater.com): "This nefarious little "feature" … Sat, 02 Oct 1999 17:20:04 GMT Bryan Wilhite http://www.songhaysystem.com/kb/number/937451391/subject/audio Article Excerpt: Okay, so I can't afford near-field monitors. I have two sets of Labtecs. I have the LCS-1030 which has a range from 50Hz to 18kHz and I have the LCS-2414, from 40Hz to 20kHz. Note that the 1030 has "Dynamic Bass Equalization - Actively adjusts bass equal… Thu, 16 Sep 1999 03:16:58 GMT Bryan Wilhite http://www.songhaysystem.com/kb/number/895437339/subject/audio Article Excerpt: A "Full Duplex" sound card has the ability to record and play digital audio simultaneously. Some sound cards compromise on sample rates when they go into full duplex mode. In such a case, full duplex mode is marketed as a telephony feature. The AWE32, how… Wed, 03 Mar 1999 23:13:25 GMT Bryan Wilhite http://www.songhaysystem.com/kb/number/918663446/subject/audio Article Excerpt: In Windows 95 or Windows NT, the MIDI Mapper and the Sound Mapper interfaces have been rolled into the Multimedia Control Panel Applet. Sound Mapper controls are under the Audio tab. MIDI Mapper controls are under the MIDI tab. Microsoft may have changed… Wed, 10 Feb 1999 16:28:10 GMT Bryan Wilhite http://www.songhaysystem.com/kb/number/-24999981/subject/audio Article Excerpt: If no CD-ROM drive is detected in Windows 3.1, check to see if the setting is changed to "0," in MPLAYER.INI. If the setting has changed, then set it to "17." This setting can change when the operating system checks for a CD-ROM drive during a WinSetup dr… Wed, 10 Feb 1999 16:46:51 GMT Bryan Wilhite http://www.songhaysystem.com/kb/number/-24999978/subject/audio Article Excerpt: Since AWE Control Panel Effects (like Room 3 and Plate) are global effects they are not useful when you only want one or two tracks to have Panning Delay. A solution would be to record that particular instrument with the Control Panel effect (using a WAV … Wed, 10 Feb 1999 16:29:25 GMT Bryan Wilhite http://www.songhaysystem.com/kb/number/-24999979/subject/audio Article Excerpt: Vienna 2.0 supports stereo sound samples by using the mono 16-bit CD quality samples required in previous versions. When a stereo sound file is imported, it is split into its left and right channels in two separate files. A stereo effect can be achieved b… Wed, 10 Feb 1999 16:30:03 GMT Bryan Wilhite http://www.songhaysystem.com/kb/number/-24999980/subject/audio Article Excerpt: When the user mistakenly gives the same names to User Samples, Instruments and Presets, Vienna 2.0 may "keep the names unique" by adding 1, 2, 3, etc. after each multiple name. Vienna will also duplicate the samples (adding 1, 2, 3, etc. after each duplic… Wed, 10 Feb 1999 16:29:56 GMT Bryan Wilhite http://www.songhaysystem.com/kb/number/-24999868/subject/audio Article Excerpt: The AWE32 was the first consumer-level sound card to include a Sony/Philips Digital Interface (SP-DIF) output. The output from this interface can go directly to DAT, DCC (Digital Compact Cassette) or even a digital-signal-ready amplifier. SP-DIF is an int… Wed, 10 Feb 1999 16:29:48 GMT Bryan Wilhite http://www.songhaysystem.com/kb/number/-1611696358/subject/audio Article Excerpt: Listening with headphones it may be possible to detect a faint FM-like tone and white noise when no sounds are being played. This is due to the noise generated by the sound card itself. This noise is quantified by the Signal-to-Noise ratio of the card. PC… Wed, 10 Feb 1999 16:29:31 GMT Bryan Wilhite