The software advancements made since digital audio took over is amazing. The industry has gone from recording to thin, in-editable vinyl disks and wax cylinders to thousands of songs and records being able to be stored in a single computer and every property of each song now being editable. The new industry standard for music recording is now a program called ProTools. ProTools first came around in 1991, around twenty years ago. It started off as a program that only allowed four tracks of audio and cost roughly six thousand dollars to start with. Over the past twenty years, ProTools has evolved from its beginning stages to a much more user friendly format, now being able to run on consumer PCs, and now gives the user hundreds of tracks to use in just a single session. The new software also allows the user to seamlessly cut and move audio without any lost data and patch them back together as if the track had been recorded that way. Users can change the beat of the music making it faster or slower and modify pretty much any property of the audio.
Plug-Ins and Other Specialty Software
AudioSuite plug-in are produced by hundreds of different companies that work along side ProTools that allow even more editing of the software. Users can use plug-ins made by companies such as Izotope, Brainworx, Sonnox, Nomad Factory and so many more to do everything from change the pitch of a track to use as basic equalizers and reverb units and even to remove the hum, clicking, and buzz created by the outboard gear. Other full fledged programs such as Antares Auto-Tune and Melodyne to shift the pitch of entire songs to fit exactly to a scale or individually shift the key of certain parts of a song. Melodyne has just released new software called DNA Direct Note Access that now allows the user to not only be able to shift the pitch of an entire wave, but now also break that wave down into its individual notes. You can now go as far as being able to move a single note in a single chord in a song if it is just barely off. The advancements in digital audio over the past decade even are completely amazing compared to the recording methods and edit methods of the old days.
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