Tutorials

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...

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...

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.