Digital audio workstation

Posted by Franz

Digital audio workstations:

Reaper
Pro Tools
GarageBand
Logic
Cubase
Live

from:
Survey of Music Technology
Georgia Institue of Technology. October 2016
https://www.coursera.org/learn/music-technology

Low-frequency effects

Posted by Franz

LFE does not equal subwoofer
http://www.dolby.com/uploadedFiles/zz-_Shared_Assets/English_PDFs/Professional/38_LFE.pdf

Dolby Digital programs may include a bass-only LFE channel, but this channel does not correspond directly to a subwoofer output.
It is possible for a program to contain an LFE channel, but a decoder may provide no subwoofer output because all of the bass information in the program, including the LFE channel, can be reproduced by the main speakers.
The opposite is also true: it is possible for a program to not contain an LFE channel, yet a decoder may provide a subwoofer output because some or all of the main speakers are unable to reproduce the bass information in the program.
The difference between the LFE channel and the subwoofer output is that the LFE channel is used to carry additional bass information in the Dolby Digital program while the subwoofer output represents how some or all of the bass information will be reproduced.