What Is Collaborative Filtering? The core idea fits in a single sentence: people who agreed in the past will probably agree again. That is the whole premise. In other words, the system does not study the song itself. Instead, it studies the behavior of the people who play it. It ignores the content entirely, so [...]
How Digital Audio Works: Sample Rate and Bit Depth Explained Sound in the real world is smooth, with air pressure rising and falling in endless detail. A computer cannot store that, because a computer stores numbers. So digital audio comes down to a single task. Turn a smooth wave into a list of numbers, then [...]
How to Write Your First Guitar Tab in Guitar Pro 8 Guitar Pro 8 is the standard tool for writing and reading tablature, and its interface can look intimidating the first time you open it. It is not. You can have a playable tab on screen in about five minutes. Here is how to create [...]
How to Add Reverb in REAPER Using a Send Track You can drop a reverb plugin straight onto your vocal, but that is not how records are usually built. The standard approach is a separate reverb track fed by a send: one reverb can then serve several tracks at once, and you keep independent control [...]
How to Create, Arm and Record a Track in REAPER REAPER gives you a complete recording studio for a fraction of what the big DAWs cost. It also opens on a flat gray window that tells you nothing about where to begin. This is how to record in REAPER, from empty project to finished take. [...]
The Mixing Signal Chain: Why EQ Always Comes Before Reverb Your DAW will let you stack plugins in any order you want. It will not warn you when that order is wrong. And it is one of the few things in mixing that is not a matter of taste there is a reason engineers reach [...]
How Spotify's Algorithm Knows What You Want to Hear Next Every Monday, Spotify hands millions of listeners a playlist of songs they have never heard before. Interestingly, a surprising number of them are good. Nobody at Spotify picked those songs; a machine learning system did. Here is how a music recommendation algorithm actually works. The [...]