Super Audio CD (SACD) is an optical disc format for audio storage introduced in 1999. It was developed jointly by Sony and Philips Electronics and intended to be the successor to the Compact Disc (CD) format.
Wavetable synthesis is a sound synthesis technique used to create periodic waveforms. Often used in the production of musical tones or notes,it was first written about by Hal Chamberlin in Byte's September 1977 issue. Wolfgang Palm of Palm Products GmbH (PPG) developed it in the late 1970s and published in 1979. The technique has since been used as the primary synthesis method in synthesizers built by PPG and Waldorf Music and as an auxiliary synthesis method by Ensoniq and Access. It is currently used in hardware synthesizers from Waldorf Music and in software-based synthesizers for PCs and tablets,including apps offered by PPG and Waldorf,among others.
Music information retrieval (MIR) is the interdisciplinary science of retrieving information from music. MIR is a small but growing field of research with many real-world applications. Those involved in MIR may have a background in academic musicology,psychoacoustics,psychology,signal processing,informatics,machine learning,optical music recognition,computational intelligence or some combination of these.
Dynamic range compression (DRC) or simply compression is an audio signal processing operation that reduces the volume of loud sounds or amplifies quiet sounds,thus reducing or compressing an audio signal's dynamic range. Compression is commonly used in sound recording and reproduction,broadcasting,live sound reinforcement and in some instrument amplifiers.
Ableton Live is a digital audio workstation for macOS and Windows developed by Berlin-based Ableton. In contrast to many other software sequencers,Ableton Live is designed to be an instrument for live performances as well as a tool for composing,recording,arranging,mixing,and mastering. It is also used by DJs,as it offers a suite of controls for beatmatching,crossfading,and other different effects used by turntablists,and was one of the first music applications to automatically beatmatch songs. Live is available in three editions:Intro,Standard,and Suite.
Kornelis Antonie "Kees" Schouhamer Immink is a Dutch scientist,inventor,and entrepreneur,who pioneered and advanced the era of digital audio,video,and data recording,including popular digital media such as Compact Disc,DVD and Blu-ray Disc. He has been a prolific and influential engineer,who holds more than 1100 U.S. and international patents. A large portion of the commonly used audio and video playback and recording devices use technologies based on his work. His contributions to coding systems assisted the digital video and audio revolution,by enabling reliable data storage at information densities previously unattainable.
TASCAM is the professional audio division of TEAC Corporation,headquartered in Santa Fe Springs,California. TASCAM established the Home Recording phenomenon by creating the "Project Studio" and is credited as the inventor of the Portastudio,the first cassette-based multi-track home studio recorders. TASCAM also introduced the first low-cost mass-produced multitrack recorders with Simul-Sync designed for recording musicians,and manufactured reel-to-reel tape machines and audio mixers for home recordists from the early 1970s through the mid-1990s. Since the early 00's,TASCAM has been an early innovator in the field-recording and audio accompaniment to video with their DR-series recording platforms. TASCAM celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2021.
Alan Moulder is an English record producer,mixing engineer,and audio engineer.
In audio and broadcast engineering,Audio over Ethernet is the use of an Ethernet-based network to distribute real-time digital audio. AoE replaces bulky snake cables or audio-specific installed low-voltage wiring with standard network structured cabling in a facility. AoE provides a reliable backbone for any audio application,such as for large-scale sound reinforcement in stadiums,airports and convention centers,multiple studios or stages.
In professional audio,a digital mixing console (DMC) is a type of mixing console used to combine,route,and change the dynamics,equalization and other properties of multiple audio input signals,using digital signal processing rather than analog circuitry. The digital audio samples,which is the internal representation of the analog inputs,are summed to what is known as a master channel to produce a combined output. A professional digital mixing console is a dedicated desk or control surface produced exclusively for the task and is typically more robust in terms of user control,processing power and quality of audio effects. However,a computer can also perform the same function since it can mimic its interface,input and output.
iZotope,Inc. is an audio technology company based in Cambridge,Massachusetts,United States. iZotope develops professional audio software for audio recording,mixing,broadcast,sound design,and mastering which can be used in wide range of digital audio workstation (DAW) programs. In addition,iZotope creates and licenses audio DSP technology including noise reduction,sample rate conversion,dithering,time stretching,and audio enhancement to hardware and software companies in the consumer and pro audio industries.
An automixer,or automatic microphone mixer,is a live sound mixing device that automatically reduces the strength of a microphone's audio signal when it is not being used. Automixers reduce extraneous noise picked up when several microphones operate simultaneously.
An audio engineer helps to produce a recording or a live performance,balancing and adjusting sound sources using equalization,dynamics processing and audio effects,mixing,reproduction,and reinforcement of sound. Audio engineers work on the "technical aspect of recording—the placing of microphones,pre-amp knobs,the setting of levels. The physical recording of any project is done by an engineer... the nuts and bolts."
Gerhard Steinke is a German sound engineer.
Semantic audio is the extraction of meaning from audio signals. The field of semantic audio is primarily based around the analysis of audio to create some meaningful metadata,which can then be used in a variety of different ways.
Graham Blyth is an English audio engineer who is known for designing mixing consoles. He is a co-founder of Soundcraft,a manufacturer which Blyth helped form into a world leader in sound reinforcement and recording mixers,establishing the "British sound". After succeeding in electrical engineering he became a professional organist,performing on pipe organs around the world. Blyth is a Fellow of both the Royal Society of Arts (RSA) and the Audio Engineering Society (AES). In 2012 he was awarded an honorary doctorate degree in science from the University of Hertfordshire.
Dan Dugan is an American audio engineer,inventor,and nature sounds recordist. He was the first person in regional theatre to be called a sound designer,and he developed the first effective automatic microphone mixer:the automixer. Dugan's sound design work was acknowledged in 2003 with a Distinguished Career Award by the United States Institute for Theatre Technology,and in 2020 with an Emmy Award for technology relevant to remote working. In 2021 he was awarded Fellowship in the Audio Engineering Society.
High-resolution audio is a term for audio files with greater than 44.1 kHz sample rate or higher than 16-bit audio bit depth. It commonly refers to 96 or 192 kHz sample rates. However,there also exist 44.1 kHz/24-bit,48 kHz/24-bit and 88.2 kHz/24-bit recordings that are labeled HD Audio.
A bedroom producer is an amateur musician who creates,performs,and records their music independently using a home studio,often considered a hobbyist opposed to a professional record producer in the recording industry that works in a traditional studio with clients. Typically bedroom producers use accessible digital technology that costs less than the equipment in a professional studio,such as MIDI controller-based instruments and virtual studio technology,to create music for release to the world. While a professional record producer oversees and guides the recording process,often working alongside multiple people such as studio musicians,singers,engineers,mixers,songwriters,arrangers,and orchestrators,a bedroom producer does everything independently:creating the ideas,recording them and processing them for release. Bedroom producers are often self-taught,learning sound design,mixing and music theory by reading music production blogs and watching tutorials on the internet. As bedroom producers depend on the accessibility of music technology,bedroom production has been made easier with advances in home computing power and digital audio workstations (DAW).
Timo Preece is an American musician.
