From the course: Digital Audio Foundations
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Effects plugins and virtual instruments
From the course: Digital Audio Foundations
Effects plugins and virtual instruments
- In a traditional analogue studio, you'll find lots of musical instruments to produce sounds and lots of equipment like mixers and effect units to process sounds. In a digital studio, software versions of those instruments and processors are inside of the dock. The software versions are called plugins. While analogue enthusiasts often profess the audio superiority of analogue gear, plugins in your dock are highly capable. The quality of your work will depend much more on your decisions and skills than on whether the instruments and effects are analogue or digital. The very best plugins may even be even better than their analogue counterparts because they have no unintended noise or distortion or because they do things that are impossible in the analogue demand. They're are also some distinct practical advantages to using plugins. If you want to use the same effect on 20 tracks, you don't need 20 hardware units of the effect in a rack of gear or built in a mixing console. You simply…
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