IHR Episode #41 (Enhanced) – Audioengine, MIDI, and a New Contest (IHR_2007_05_04)

May 4th, 2007 by Derek

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Total time 52 min 22 sec. We skipped a show because of Derek’s cancer treatment, but now we’re back with an extra-long episode to make up for it. We have tons of news, plus our new “Show Us and Tell” contest, letters in the mailbag, an audio comment, MIDI 101, Audioengine 5 speakers, and feedback on our video podcast in IHR #40.

If you can play Enhanced podcasts (AAC enhanced) on your iPod or PlayStation Portable, or in iTunes or QuickTime, you’ll find lots of photos and links accompanying this episode.

00:00 Intros, Derek’s side effects (including cool gadgets such as his radiation machine and the huge door for that room), new shows on the Home Recording Network, Paul’s appearance on The Lab With Leo, coming to TV in May.
05:38 NEWS: Apple SoundTrack Pro, Adobe Soundbooth, and Sony Sound Forge; Rogue Amoeba’s Fission 1.5 and Audio Hijack Pro; Musikmesse announcements including Roland’s new HD-1 V-Drums kit and Digidesign speakers and Venue live console; funny Nickelback story.
18:00 NEW CONTEST: “Show Us and Tell” – Send your favourite original recording as an MP3 attachment, with “Contest” somewhere in the subject line, to contests {at} insidehomerecording {dot} com (or post a note and a link to an MP3 on a server somewhere in the IHR forums), with an audio or written explanation of how you put it together. (Note that cover tunes of non-public-domain music won’t work, because we can’t play them on the show.) We’ll randomly draw from all submissions (one per person) for some great prizes in July. The deadline is July 1, 2007. So get recording!
22:10 New “NED” player from macProVideo makes downloading work much better.
22:59 MAILBAG: Recording live music in Ireland with Reetsyburger and a Zoom H4 or H2, Edirol R09, M-Audio MicroTrack, or Belkin TuneTalk (listen to Andy Ihnatko on the MacNotables podcast for more on recording with the TuneTalk); resampling bitrates using iTunes as a sample converter with Matt, or BarbaBatch from Audio Ease; Josh and the new WeMakeMusicNotMoney free MP3 hosting.
28:12 AUDIO COMMENT: Bruce Williams from Audio2U.com.
30:00 Thanks again to GoToMeeting.com for sponsoring the show.
31:07 IHR 101: Paul “The Midiot” Garay begins his ongoing series on MIDI 101, and he really starts at the beginning, explaining pre-MIDI controlled voltage (CV), trigger, patch, ADSR envelopes, and gating controls, and why MIDI came about in the ’80s.
37:57 GEAR REVIEW: Paul reviews the Audioengine 5 speaker system.
49:11 EDITORIAL: Feedback on our show #40 video podcast. If you want lots of video, check out Sonic State and Gearwire.
52:22 END.

This episode of Inside Home Recording is sponsored by GoToMeeting.com (online meetings made easy with GoToMeeting: try it free for 45 days); M-Audio (thanks for the use of Pro Tools M-Powered); and Source Elements (thanks for the use of Source-Connect). We are also part of the Home Recording Network and Blubrry.com groups of podcasts.

Credits

Sounds: Our theme music, “Acidic Bond,” is by Steven Dennis in Louisiana, U.S.A., and our voiceovers are by Steve Herringer in Vancouver.

Pictures: The Home Recording Network “lava lamp” logo is based on an image by und_dann. Photo portraits of Paul and Derek are by Kris Krug. Other photos are from crazyneighborlady, rp72, kenstein, historicus, and jamesthephotographer at Flickr.

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7 Comments Add your own

1. Dan Gordon&hellip | May 8th, 2007 at 11:27 am

Hi Paul and Derek.

Just to point out that the new N.E.D player from MacProVideo is not working accordingly.
Unfortunately.

I’m an old MPV customer.
I’ve already bought 5 or 6 titles (Mastering Logic, Logic Plug-ins, EXS24, The Environment, Logic for Video Editors, Paul’s Reason one, etc…) since 2005.
I really like the tutorials.
Sometimes I wish the videos could be a little bit longer and with more deeper subjects, but they are very well done.

I also bought Martin Sitter Logic Book.

Anyway.

Unfortunately, the new N.E.D needs improvement.
In fact they need to make it work.
I’m on a PPC G4 with OSX 10.4.9, working perfectly, and even being helped via e-mail, by Martin Sitter himself and Jon from the MPV staff, we couldn’t make N.E.D to work here.

The only way I managed to download my recent purchased tutorials was asking them to put a direct link with the file on my MPV account page, like the old days of MPV.

I’d like to know if someone else have had problems with the new N.E.D.

But the tutorials are great and I don’t want discourage people to buy them.
Just be prepared to have to ask for a different way of downloading the videos and not being able to use the new features of the new NED, specially the great thing that allows the user to download the tutorials individually.

And Martin and MPV staff were very fast trying to help me.
They couldn’t make N.E.D to work, but they tried hard, giving me nice support and finding a way to allow me to download my videos.

Now, it’s about time to make N.E.D a working app.

:-)

Cheers,

Gordon
2. Derek&hellip | May 11th, 2007 at 6:34 am

We’ll chat with Martin and see if we can figure out if macProVideo can help improve the problems some people have with the new NED player.
3. Dan Gordon&hellip | May 11th, 2007 at 11:49 am

That would be great Derek.

Martin is a very nice guy.
I think he will try hard to make N.E.D a working app.

Also, I cannot watch old tutorials I bought (Mastering Logic, Logic Plug-ins, Environment) with N.E.D.
I have to watch each QT movie separately or use the Menu/Index online using Safari.

I can only use NED with new tutorials (Reason, EXS24 and Logic for Video Editors).

Cheers,

Gordon
4. Derek&hellip | May 11th, 2007 at 12:32 pm

It sounds like the new NED could have used some more beta testing. I wonder if you can have both the new and old one on your machine at the same time?
5. Dan Gordon&hellip | May 12th, 2007 at 10:54 am

I don’t think so.

I couldn’t make them both to work.

At least here, the old NED does not work anymore.

When I click an old tutorial NED icon, the only way to see the chapters is going online with Safari.
Then I can click on a video description to watch it.

This also has to be fixed.

MacProVideo could give us – owners of “old” NED tutorials – the appropriate file to load them into the new NED interface.
6. Reetsyburger&hellip | May 17th, 2007 at 1:51 pm

Thanks for the information and response on the podcast.

I’m female, btw.

We’re going with the Belkin and our iPod.

Thanks again!
Reetsyburger
7. Switching to Mac » Mac v&hellip | September 28th, 2007 at 9:11 pm

[...] in front of me right now. My first exposure to audioengine was when my friend Paul Garay from Inside Home Recording took me into his studio and showed off his audioengine 5’s. I own a pair of studio monitors [...]

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