COMPUTER MUSIC 10 years back
Our monthly shake-of-thehead at our younger selves’ news choices…
“The question on everyone’s lips: which sample rate do you use?”
EQ: just two letters, but a whole world of possibilities and potential problems, so we took you through the basics in May 2012 ( 177).
We also asked which format you should release your music in, and noted that the CD – and possibly even the very concept of the ‘album’ – could be on the way out. What goes around comes around, though, and we’ve recently heard talk of the inevitable ‘CD revival’ (in your face, vinyl!). No format stays dead long.
We also told you about Audiobus, a new technology that enabled you to connect up iOS music-making apps and use them together in a project. It’s still around, though the rise of Apple’s own AUv3 plugin standard has certainly lessened its importance somewhat.
In the reviews section, we took a look at Steinberg’s modular CNC Series controllers, which actually looked far cooler than we remember them being, and we reported on our latest Facebook poll, which asked the question on everyone’s lips: which sample rate do you use? It was a thumping win for 44.1kHz as it turns out: we wonder if we’d still get the same result now?