Audio Engineering

I just bought a new computer, which I primarily use for casual web surfing, watching movies, and audio/video production. I decided that I was going to hook the computer up to my mixer and have the sound played through a pair of studio monitors. I figure the quality of sound will be great for movies, and be ready for use for audio production.
To date I have been using studio monitor headphones for production.
Could somebody recommend a good pair of studio monitors for me?
I haven’t bought new hardware in a while and am out of the loop with regards to what’s available/prices/products.
I am looking for something that is quality and affordable.
 
Thanks.I just bought a new computer, which I primarily use for casual web surfing, watching movies, and audio/video production. I decided that I was going to hook the computer up to my mixer and have the sound played through a pair of studio monitors. I figure the quality of sound will be great for movies, and be ready for use for audio production.
To date I have been using studio monitor headphones for production.
Could somebody recommend a good pair of studio monitors for me?
I haven’t bought new hardware in a while and am out of the loop with regards to what’s available/prices/products.
I am looking for something that is quality and affordable.
 
Thanks.I just bought a new computer, which I primarily use for casual web surfing, watching movies, and audio/video production. I decided that I was going to hook the computer up to my mixer and have the sound played through a pair of studio monitors. I figure the quality of sound will be great for movies, and be ready for use for audio production.
To date I have been using studio monitor headphones for production.
Could somebody recommend a good pair of studio monitors for me?
I haven’t bought new hardware in a while and am out of the loop with regards to what’s available/prices/products.
I am looking for something that is quality and affordable.
 
Thanks.

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Being an audio engineer, I sense I actually don't understand what the digital sound actually is. A lot of audiophiles say they don't like digital sound. A lot of flame wars take place, comparing the theoretical and measured parameters of digital and analog sound.

In some of very clever and thick book for audio engineers I've read about the theoretical approach to "ideal" digital sound.

They say, I need to calculate the convolution of my audio signal with Sinc function to get rid of all frequencies beyond the Nyquist frequency, so they do not suffer from non-linear distortions. This is done by a special analog linear filter. They I need to collect disctete number samples between regular intervals, as frequent as double Nyquist frequency. Then convert these sample levels to digital numbers to store.

Now I have the theoretically ideal digital sound and I want to playback it. Again, I convert these numbers to a series of amplitude levels. Then I generate a regular series of thin short impulses with these levels. Finally, again, I need a filter to convolute this series with a Sinc function to get continious analog signal. Finally!

Okay, but how alike is my signal to the original? Well, taking a Fourier image of a filter (Sinc function), I see, that it has flat amplitude dependence up to the Nyquist frequency. Theory says it is good. Also, the phase dependence is linear, and no dispersion is present. Theory says it is good. I loose all frequencies beyond Nyquist range. That is how we pay for digital sound. The only problem is exactly at Nyquist frequency. But it is a single one, why worrying? We must have got an ideal sample!

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 The thing is, I need a 4-channel audio interface. I need it to be compact, solid and relieble. It's gonna be the audio interface for the live gigs, so it must be reeeealy well made. I can afford 300-400USD. Any ideas? Thinking about the Focusrite Sapphire Pro 24. 

Does anyone know if it's possible to set the audio input and output to different devices in Logic? I want to use the inputs on my Edirol FA-101 but output through Built-in Audio, as switching the headphone cable back and forth is getting kinda annoying.

Бывает такое состояние души, когда природа, музыка, ты как одно целое. Рядом находятся люди которые наполняют твою жизнь эмоциями, все это располагает тебя к позитиву и радости.





а еще мы только приехали с ежегодного фестиваля GES FEST 2010, как и что там было, можно прочитать в моем отчете тут http://ico.promodj.ru/blog/413488.…

Selling some old music equipment that I don't need any more. I'm in southeast England, so the nearer you are the better; collection is best. I don't mind mailing any of it, but obviously that'll put the price up.

I have -

- A Rode NT2, working and complete apart from shockmount
- A Drawmer MX60 preamp. Has a very nice valve sound.
- A pair of KRK v8 monitors. They need new tweeters (I think)
- A Marshall AVT2000 combo amp. Not in the best condition visually, but still sounds great.

I don't really know how much to ask for any of it, so name your price.

Thanks!

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The deadline for the remix submissions is May 1, 2010. So hurry! ;)

Good Luck!

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I'm sorry about posting so much recently but this is driving me crazy.

In Battery 3, what MIDI parameter is used for the hi-hat control on pre-constructed kits? In the manual it says "using the modulation wheel" or something like that, but I'm programming drums using the piano roll and the Modulation parameter in Hyper Draw in Logic doesn't seem to do anything. I have the channel set to "Any".. I don't know if that makes a difference.

Google is also failing me.

Thanks!