Digital Audio Production 599are predominantly Mac based. The crème-de-la-crème in this fi eld being the Sonic
Solutions—the choice of music editing system for most classical music producers. The
high-end systems mostly show up with their own proprietary hardware and it is here,
as much as in software, that these systems score over desktop PC systems using a
16-bit sound card. The professional units typically offer better quality A to D and D to A
conversion and more transparent signal processing.
20.1.4 Multitrack Hard-Disk Recording
Hard-disk capacity and computer speeds are not so high that multitrack recording on a
DAW is commonplace. A typical home-studio application (Cubase AV) is illustrated in
Figure 20.4 , which shows the combination of multitrack audio and MIDI data, all within
one screen environment.
20.1.5 Plug-ins
As more and more audio production is gradually taking place on computer platforms,
or on the desktop, hardware manufacturers are now producing software programs
Figure 20.4 : Multitrack audio recording combined with MIDI sequencing.