Chapter 16
The virtual studio
The studio without a studio: welcome to the virtual studio! There is no dedicated acoustic space, just one room where the electrical analogue of sound is created, assembled, manipulated (or processed), mixed and recorded. Real sounds may still be captured by real microphones, but are not at the heart of the operation: they might be recorded during a moment of quiet in the same control space, or they may be imported.
Today, a virtual studio is most likely to be centred on a computer with software that duplicates many of the functions of a real studio – and in its simplest (or purest) form that is all there is. Even the recording process stays within the computer, although if the end-product is to be, say, ...
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