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Kyma 7: More Inspiration for Sound Designers

Kyma was designed to be a hardware and software sound design environment for studio and live performance artists. And Kyma 7 promises some new inspiring features...

Review: How to Sell Your Music on Patreon

There's lots of online stores where musicians can sell their music. But, most of these, iTunes included, don't convey the personality of the artist. G. W. Childs discovers if Patreon breaks the mould.

Native Instruments Showcase Power of Maschine & Komplete Kontrol Combined

What can happen with Maschine and Complete Kontrol connected is exactly what Native Instruments are keen for us to see and hear. Here's Mark De Clive-Lowe performing a tasty tune using the duo.

Creating Deep House Chords in Logic Pro X

It's true. Deep house is back with a bang. One of its trademarks are the typical chord stabs. In this Logic Pro X tutorial, Darren Burgos shows how to create hundreds of variations from one preset!

Meet Meris OTTOBIT: Audio in > Video Game Out

Now here's something unique and cool. A 500 series modular format sound processor designed for sound designers to achieve 8 and 16-bit video game soundtracks. The video is worth watching too!

The macProVideo Story: Bill Burgess on How he Began Creating Video Tutorials for Logic Pro

It's the 10 year anniversary NonLinear Educating, (parent company of macProVideo, AskVideo and AskAudio Mag). Bill Burgess is one of their veteran trainers for Ableton & Logic with good reason.

MIDI Controller Instrument Painting: Merging Visual Art with Sound

What do you get when you cross a Makey Makey with a piece of visual art... (a painting)? sag-art have created something sonic based which is pretty cool. Watch it in action here.

FREE: AskAudio EZ Drummer MIDI Pack

Grab yourself a FREE MIDI pack for Toontrack's EZ Drummer, which includes 4/4 and 6/4 half time shuffles courtesy of Toby Pitman. Simply login or sign up with a free account and download them here.

How Sound Affects You: Sound Baths

Taking a bath in water (hot is my preference!) is second nature to us all. Every day though we may be bathed in different things like light and also sound. Lynda Arnold explains what a sound bath is.

Here's What You Don't Hear When Music is Compressed

One way to end the MP3 vs uncompressed audio format, 'does it sound better' debate would be to hear the elements from a song which are lost during compression... and here's a video showing just that.

Review: Casio Trackformer XW-PD1 Groove Center

We caught up with Sara Simms playing Casio's Trackformer XW-PD1 Groove Center at NAMM 2015 (see video) and she'd been in a privileged position to test it out fully and give it an in-depth review.

Creating Detuning & Unison Effects in iZotope Iris 2

Iris 2 from iZotope is a synth with a lot of easily accessible features which, if used right, can result in some incredible and organic sounds. G. W. Childs shows you how to create unison effects here

10 Year Anniversary 60% Sale on All Tutorials at AskVideo

If you want to learn your audio software (Logic, Cubase, Ableton, Native Instruments and more) so that you're able to do more, do it better and in less time... then check out this sale at AskVideo.

Logic Pro X 10.1: Unique MIDI Patterns with Time Handles and the Brush Tool

Logic Pro 10.1 brings new and innovative ways to create MIDI patterns and then manipulate them with ease. Using the brush tool and time handles, David Earl shares some neat tricks in this video.

New Interplanetary Sounds for NI Massive from Impact SoundWorks & Histibe

Looking for some cutting-edge, futuristic sounds to take your Native Instruments Massive-based tracks into the next millennium? Impact Soundworks' Interplanetary, designed by Histibe, fits the bill.