ABSTRACT
A digital audio workstation is a piece of software designed to act as the creative space in which musicians can write, produce and mix music. Ableton Live first gained popularity in the market as an application that could be used by DJs to play dance music sets in real-time, enabling the user to mix different audio streams on the fly and have them synced to a master tempo, keeping everything in rhythm. Digital audio is an approximation of this real-life wave-form, which is stored using pulse-code modulation. As either a physical sound pressure wave or audio signal gets progressively louder, its level keeps multiplying exponentially rather than increasing in a straight line. Most audio tones we record are complicated and contain many frequencies. Equalisation (EQ) is also used to carve away problematic or unnecessary frequency bands within an audio signal. Parametric EQ is usually the type used to boost and bring out a particular part of an instrument.
