Audio hardware & software

This book contains general information about hard- and software.

Hardware

Types of Audio Cables

There's a difference between analog and digital audio cables: Analog Cables are using electric...

Using Audio Interfaces

Use an audio interface for recording sounds onto your computer, or to play sound from the compute...

Basic Stereo Speaker Setup

Making a stereo speaker setup using 2 speakers, audio interface, pc ...

Quadrophonic Speaker Setup

Making a quadrophonic speaker setup using 4 speakers, audio interface, pc

Zoom recorder

Quick guide: https://zoomcorp.com/media/documents/E_H4n_Pro_QuickGuide.pdf

Software

Reaper

Reaper is a cost-effective and highly customizable digital audio workstation (DAW) used by musici...

Ableton Live

Ableton Live is a popular digital audio workstation (DAW) known for its real-time performance cap...

Audacity

Audacity is an easy-to-use, multi-track audio editor and recorder for Windows, macOS, GNU/Linux a...

Adobe Audition

Audition is a comprehensive toolset that includes multitrack, waveform, and spectral display for ...

Multichannel audio

In this chapter you can find tools, tutorials, system settings and tips & tricks on how to create...

Multichannel audio in Isadora and Reaper

With Isadora you have control over your interactive performance with audio over 2 channels or mor...

4 speaker setup with Reaper

In this example we work with Reaper, Focusrite interface, 4 speakers, windows desktop. The idea ...

Ambisonics and the ATK toolkit for Reaper for multichannel playback.

This page contains links to sources containing information about Ambisonics, the Ambisonics Toolk...

Speaker configuration focusrite 1st and 2nd Gen Scarlett 2i4

Since 2024 Focusrite control software doesn't support 1st and 2nd Gen Scarlett Solo, 2i2 and 2i4....

Audio effects and plugins

Audio plugins, often referred to simply as 'plugins,' are software components used in digital aud...

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