Digital audio workstation
A digital audio workstation (D.A.W.) is an electronic device or computer software application for recording, editing and producing audio files.
Description
DAWs come in a wide variety of configurations from a single software program on a laptop, to an integrated stand-alone unit, all the way to a highly complex configuration of numerous components controlled by a central computer.
Regardless of configuration, modern DAWs have a central interface that allows the user to alter and mix multiple recordings and tracks into a final produced piece.
Uses
DAWs are used for the production of music, radio, television, podcasts, multimedia and nearly any other situation where complex recorded audio is needed.
History
The history of DAWs parallels advances in computer power with expensive-but-limited units becoming available in the 1970s, then more affordable PC-based systems in the late 1980s
Today (circa 2016), a powerful system can be built inexpensively, using open-source software and consumer audio equipment even as a market exists for professional high-end systems, essential in any modern recording studio.
See also
- Audacity (audio editor)
- Audio editing software
- Audio engineer
- Comparison of digital audio editors
- Comparison of free software for audio
- Digital audio
- Multimedia
- MuseScore
- Music
- Podcasts
- Radio
- REAPER
- Scorewriter
- Television
External links
General interest
- Digital audio workstation @ Wikipedia
OS X
- The MacBook Pro Desk of an Audio Engineer & Student
- 7 Useful OS X Shortcuts for Audio Engineers
- 8 Powerful Mac Audio Tools
- The Best Free & Cheap Audio Editors For Mac OS X
- How to Capture and Record Audio on Your Mac
- Why Is My Mac's Mic So Bad? ("Ambient noise reduction")
- Record live band practice with Garage Band
- How to record your band (rehearsal)
- Cheap omnidirectional mic for music rehearsal?
- Getting the BEST sound using a room mic and full band.
- macosxaudio.com
See OS X.
