An update to my previous post on Tokyo Guitar Show 2007. I had the chance to see and record a demo of Roland’s latest guitar system called VG-99. It is a multi-processor effect as well as a synthesizer. The VG-99 suprised me with its sound processing. The effects, pre-amps and ribbon controller are one of the best. It also has a sensor where you can wave your hand either to control the volume or do other filters of the sound. Here’s the video of the recorded demo:
This is a continuation of my previous post in Neil Zaza - I’m Alright Cover by Yoeru guitar video. During that recording as I had mentioned that I’ve used Amplitube 2 as Virtual Studio Technology setting or VST for short. In Sonar, VST’s are like plugins that you just hook them up by the plugin manager and then load the Amplitube’s VST. When it’s loaded next thing to do is apply the current patch settings (as shown in the image below, full image is also provided at the end of this article) in the currently selected audio track, which is in my case the recorded guitar track.
After few research and readings here are some basic checklist a Digital Audio Workstation might have:
PC - that should be a dedicated computer for recording audio. It is advisable to have a separate computer for doing other applications such as internet surfing, word processing, anti-virus etc. Why? Because some of it might interfere during recording. Audio “drivers”, which is basically the interface or gateway between your recording hardware and software might affect its stability if used with a PC with different applications. One more concern is the memory usage that we would want to fully maximized for audio recording.
According to Mr. WikiPedia, a digital audio workstation also known as DAW is a system designed to record, edit and play back digital audio. A key feature of DAWs is the ability to freely manipulate recorded sounds, much like a word processor manipulates typed words.
Have you ever wondered of how an audio or sounds can have multiple effects, with different instruments and with a wide-range of channels from Mono, Stereo to Surrounds? Imagine if we are to setup a recording studio in a Church just to make our sound like in a “Church Hall” that would really be so expensive and huge effort is involve.
