Editing Recording studio (section)

==Digital audio workstations==
[[Image:Peter Francken in his studio.jpg|thumb|300px|Music production using a digital audio workstation (DAW) with [[multi-monitor]] set-up]]
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General-purpose computers rapidly assumed a large role in the recording process. With software, a powerful, good quality computer with a fast processor can replace the [[mixing console]]s, [[multitrack recording]] equipment, synthesizers, [[Sampler (musical instrument)|samplers]] and [[effects unit]] (reverb, echo, compression, etc.) that a recording studio required in the 1980s and 1990s. A computer thus outfitted is called a [[digital audio workstation]], or DAW.

While [[Apple Macintosh]] is used for most studio work,{{citation needed|date=April 2021}} there is a breadth of software available for [[Microsoft Windows]] and [[Linux]].

If no [[mixing console]] is used and all mixing is done using only a keyboard and mouse, this is referred to as ''mixing in the box'' (ITB). OTB describes mixing with other hardware and not just the PC software.
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