Quick Tip: A Better Mac Volume Adjustment

I found this great tip from David over at MacSparky.com:

Hitting the built in volume buttons on your Mac is great for quickly raising or lowering your volume but what about when you want to lower or raise the volume just a little bit. Once again Apple has a solution that they don’t tell anyone about.
Hit [...]

The Auto Save Vault in Final Cut Pro: How To Restore and 4 Lifesaving Tips

From GeniusDV:

Restoring an Autosaved Project in Final Cut Pro
When you begin work on a Final Cut Pro Project, the first thing you should do is give your project a name and save it so that the autosave function can work. Autosave will not work until you have named and saved your project first. If your [...]

Soundsnap.com: Find and Share Free Sound Effects and Loops

Soundsnap is a new online platform for finding and sharing free samples, sound effects and music loops.
Designed as a resource and community for musicians, sound designers, producers, film makers and web/video game developers, Soundsnap provides user driven content for use in virtually any kind of media production. Users can freely download and upload content to [...]

Mac Audio Programs (Part 2): The Big Three: Logic, ProTools, Digital Performer

This is a continuation of a series of quick reviews and overviews of some of the audio applications available for Macs.

You’ll remember from my previous article on the subject, some of the great features of Logic Pro 7– Apple’s pro-level audio and music production program.
It includes the features pros expect, and more, including– Surround [...]

Mac Audio Programs: Apple’s offerings, a Features Overview and Review

Today we’re going to take a look at Apple’s 3 players in audio software– GarageBand, Soundtrack Pro, and Logic. Do you ever find yourself wondering what’s the difference between these apps? Which one should I buy?
This is the first in a 3 part series– next time we’ll look at Logic as compared to some other [...]

The Top 20 Plugins for Musicians and Songwriters

From Gina Fat-Saez at O’Reilly:
I am a plugin addict. As a studio owner, I own many of the popular audio plugins such as the Waves Gold Bundle, the Bomb Factory plugins, and Line 6 Amp Farm. Though I routinely use all of these “utility” plugins, it’s the more esoteric plugs that I turn to when [...]

iTunes 7.2 supports DRM-free ‘iTunes Plus’ music

From Playlistmag:
An update to Apple’s iTunes software is available for download from Apple’s Web site and through the Software Update system preference. The new version, 7.2, adds support for previewing, purchasing and downloading DRM-free music through the iTunes Store.
“We have always believed that music should be accessible and DRM-free,” Chris Bell, Apple’s director of worldwide [...]

A Couple of Audio Tips for Final Cut Pro

From GeniusDV.com: When editing audio [in Final Cut Pro] you may find it advantageous to have mutiple tracks visible with some muted. You may also find yourself needing to test various level settings and it would be a big help not having to remember each time which ones you were comparing. Go to the [...]