Recording - June 2014 - 4

It's only ones and zeros
That slogan was on a T-shirt worn by
one of the proto-geeks at the computer
laboratory at Carnegie-Mellon University's
underground computer lab in Wean
Hall, one of the first spawning grounds
of the Computer Generation. Heck, it
even had the world's first "connected
appliance"-a Coke machine that was
hooked up to a telephone line so it could automatically call the bottling company when it
started to run low on the programmer's lifeblood (in the days before energy drinks). Teletypes
clattering, row upon row of glazed eyes staring at screens... was this the future?
The thought might have been a little scary, but for that cheery T-shirt: "Don't sweat it,
it's only ones and zeros." How very true, and yet how much grief those ones and zeros
have caused us over the years when they didn't line up exactly right.
Digital Audio is an awfully big topic to cover in a single issue of this magazine,
but once in a while it's good to collect some recent findings for you all. Ray Legnini
introduces us to networked audio using Dante as an example; Diana Smethurst looks
at the world of the streaming DJ through Spacial's SAM Broadcaster; a pipe organ
is captured digitally through the expertise of engineer Mike Pappas and his
Neumann mics; we look at new and improved software from Ableton, Cakewalk,
iZotope, Steinberg, and WaveDNA; not to mention new hardware from Radial and
Samson, new iOS apps, new computer accessories...
I could go on, but this month I won't. My esteemed and much-respected friend and
colleague, Lorenz Rychner, has something to say to you all, and for one more time I
yield the floor to him. Enjoy the issue.

PUBLISHER: Thomas Hawley
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EDITORIAL

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SPECIAL PROJECTS EDITOR: Lorenz Rychner
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Sven-Erik Seaholm, Paul Vnuk Jr., Devon Brent,
Allen Goodman, Sean Shannon, Ray Legnini,
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Brent Heintz, Paul Vnuk Jr.
ART & PRODUCTION

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Dear Reader...
if your keen eye picks up on the
subtle changes that occasionally
appear in our masthead, then you
will have perceived yet another one
just now. Yours truly is getting out of
the day-to-day fray, after about a
quarter of a century with this magazine. Allow me to wax nostalgic for
a moment while I hitch up my trousers and jog my memory-where did I leave my
glasses, again? Oh right, on my nose. Let's proceed, but where were we?
Picture yourself in Los Angeles in the mid-'80s, with MIDI still on a growth curve,
and the Yamaha DX7 still the rage (remember the Dyno-My-Piano sound that it did
better than the Dyno-My-Piano mod of the real Rhodes?). Sampling was the hot new
item-Ensoniq for the pecuniarily challenged, E-mu for the better-heeled, Fairlight for
the well-heeled, and the Synclavier for those with astronomical bank balances.
Music Maker Publications, then an offshoot of a British magazine emporium, printed a bunch of my articles, and when it came time to increase the staff, my other gig
had folded when the Grove School of Music went away, so I slipped into the
Assistant Editor's chair, with Nick Batzdorf as the Editor.
Fast-forward to 1996, I follow the gig to Colorado, Mike Metlay joins us from
Florida, and Nick stays in LA until, a few years later, he starts a new venture and I
take over his position.
And to this day it's still Metlay and yours truly, this many years later, except that you'll
now have to go to Mike for any and all editorial matters. Be kind to him, won't you?
You will still be reading my prose now and then, and my new moniker promises
that I'll get to do some interesting projects. While I thank everybody around here and
beyond for putting up with me all those years, it's not entirely Farewell to all. To the
many with whom I developed a personal vibe, among readers, writers, and industry folks alike, let me say that my email address remains functional and I will enjoy
hearing from you.
Happy Recording!

RECORDING June 2014

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