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Tip | Jun 17, 2011 by G.W. Childs IV

If you’ve been checking out the new series on Thor, you’re hopefully becoming aware of how versatile this synth actually is. You’re also probably learning how cool...

Tip | Jun 17, 2011 by Mo Volans

Cut and paste editing is a pretty broad subject, simply because the possibilities are almost limitless. So with this in mind, we’ll just concentrate on a workflow...

Tip | Jun 17, 2011 by Richard Lainhart

In Part 1 of this Quick Tutorial, we'll be looking at how to reproduce a synth sound from a recent pop hit, The Black Eyed Peas "The Time (Dirty Bit)"...

Tutorial | Jun 16, 2011 by Mo Volans

Reason users have had access to the excellent M-Class mastering processors for a while now, but due to the lack of audio support users were limited to only mastering material that had been created...

Review | Jun 16, 2011 by Toby Pitman

May 2011 saw the release of a new EZX for Toontrack's EZ Drummer software called Number 1 Hits. Created by Grammy award-winning producer Niklas Flyckt...

Tutorial | Jun 15, 2011 by Richard Lainhart

In the first part of this Feature Tutorial we discussed how to configure external MIDI instruments in Logic that is, setting up a hardware MIDI keyboard or drum machine as both a MIDI controller...

Tip | Jun 14, 2011 by Mo Volans

There are literally hundreds of techniques for increasing the impact of your drum sounds in any DAW. Having said that, there are a few key methods I use repeatedly...

Tip | Jun 13, 2011 by G.W. Childs IV

For someone who’s been doing this a long, long time, I often forget that some of the new talent that comes into electronic music may not know certain building blocks...

Review | Jun 13, 2011 by G.W. Childs IV

Evolution is a controversial subject at best, and its premise has sparked debate since inception. However, its theory has been beneficial for technology in major ways.

Tip | Jun 11, 2011 by Mike Watkinson

Whether invented by accident by Les Paul or, as others say, by Ken Townsend at Abbey Road in 1966 (and used on John Lennon's voice), automatic double tracking (ADT) is a way of thickening...

Review | Jun 11, 2011 by G.W. Childs IV

It’s rare that a piece of software carries nostalgia. To give an example of what I’m talking about take a look at Pac-Man: no matter what country you’re from, if you grew up in the 80s...

Tip | Jun 10, 2011 by Richard Lainhart

In this Quick Tutorial, we'll look at how to create a classic analog synthesis sound — the sound of whistling wind — using Logic's ES1 synth.

Tutorial | Jun 09, 2011 by Scott Freiman

Constructing your own sounds or effects from scratch in Absynth doesn't have to be a long, drawn-out process. Scott Freiman shows how the Mutator can be used to generate new from old.

Tutorial | Jun 09, 2011 by G.W. Childs IV

Recently I wrote a tutorial on how to quickly make an electro kick drum in Logic Pro. If you recall, the exercise merely utilized a few iterations of Logic’s Klopfgeist with a bit of effect.

Tip | Jun 09, 2011 by Mike Watkinson

In a previous Quick Tip we explored transient-based selections in Logic Pro. In Pro Tools, this is handled by a feature called ‘Tab to Transients’. Let’s take a closer look.