Audio Pizza | More Than Just a Sound Bite. Reviews, Tutorials and Commentary by and for the Blind

Who Wants A Smart Speaker - AP109

In this session I take a look at measuring and normalising to a LUFS value in Reaper. What does LUFS represent, and how is it calculated?. I start with discussing what Peak and RMS represent and how they are measured and the issues with normalising to each of these values when applied to Loudness. I discuss the Integrated, Range, True Peak, Short-term, and Momentary values provided by an LUFS analysis..

The Mini Guide is a handheld ultrasonic mobility aid. it uses two sonar sensors to provide tactile and/or audio feedback to the user. The guide has a number of distances or ranges to which it can be set from 0.5 metres through 8 metres. If there are no objects in the field of view of the device inside the set range, the guide provides no feedback, however it will start to vibrate once there is an object detected within the chosen range. It will vibrate faster and faster as the object comes closer.

Where Kayaker Educates Us About the State of Chicago - AP106

The Nudge/set items dialog is another extremely useful feature within Reaper. You can open it with N. As the name suggests, it allows you to either nudge the position of an item or set it to a specific location. Nudging the position is extremely useful however you can do far more than this. For example, you can nudge the right trim set the position of an item, or duplicate an item a specific number of times placing each item on a beat, or every second

A detailed look at the console within Reaper. This SWS tool allows quick and efficient adjustment of selection, mute, pan, volume, and many other extremely useful tasks.

HomePod evicted , Alexa conflicted - aP103

This tutorial takes you through the process of creating a custom action in Reaper. Custom actions allow you to improve your productivity by combining multiple actions in to one.

Thanks Hugo for bringing us Audio Pizza. The episode is on the iOS app Instacart. This app is not currently available in Australia, but check it out in your region.

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HomePod - First Look and Thoughts - AP100

AudioPizza Predictions - To Notch or Not - AP99

The Audio Pizza team finally get back together just in time for Black Friday with all their picks and recommendations of just what gifts & gadgets you should be hunting down in the sales.

Hugo takes us on the journey of setting up his new iPhone X, and discovers some of the gestures needed now the home button is gone. 

This tutorial is courtesy of Dani Montalvo @charadani and covers the process of setting up a side-chain in Reaper on Windows.