Tutorials

Tip | Jun 26, 2011 by Mo Volans

Sometimes the simplest processor can be the best one for the job. To demonstrate this theory I'll be covering the legendary SPL (Sound Performance Lab) Transient Designer...

Tip | Jun 25, 2011 by G.W. Childs IV

Clean & pristine sound is the Holy Grail of music production. But Lo-fi productions have that much more character and help your music stand out from the digital crowd.

Tutorial | Jun 23, 2011 by Mo Volans

If you were wise enough to opt for the larger '˜Studio' bundle when you purchased Logic you will probably already know that the package includes several applications. One of these extra apps is...

Tip | Jun 23, 2011 by G.W. Childs IV

Trance beats are not that difficult to produce, let's face it. Why? Well, they are 4/4, 16-beat, it's a generic 4 on the floor drum beat with the snare on the 5 and 13, and kick marking every bar.

Tutorial | Jun 22, 2011 by Richard Lainhart

In Part 2 of this Quick Tutorial, we'll be looking at how to reproduce another synth sound from a recent pop hit...

Tutorial | Jun 21, 2011 by Mike Watkinson

The Beat Detective window in Pro Tools is a really useful collection of tools and processes, which comes onto its own when you need to '˜fix' the timing of recorded audio, especially drums.

Tip | Jun 20, 2011 by Toby Pitman

In the second part of this walk-through of Logic's Advanced Quantization features we're going to have a look at probably the most useful and powerful feature

Tip | Jun 18, 2011 by Rounik Sethi

When it comes to automating effects and instrument parameters over time, Logic gives the end user a lot of excellent choices. For example, it's possible to use Hyper Draw (Region-based automation)...

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...

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...