Tutorials

Tutorial | Mar 06, 2011 by Andrew Turner

Musicians have documented their compositions on sheet music for possibly thousands of years. In the age that we live in, I feel that the format best suited to modern sheet music is JavaScript. Honestl

Tip | Mar 05, 2011 by G.W. Childs IV

Not all of us have a Neumann condenser microphone to run home to when the world seems like a cold dark place, and our vocals sound too thin. In fact, some of us have very limited microphone access, pe

Tip | Mar 05, 2011 by Mo Volans

Filtering is a great way to add life and attitude to your audio but sometimes the results can be a little static. Aside from adding time consuming automation to introduce movement you have the option

Tip | Mar 04, 2011 by G.W. Childs IV

For many who are new to audio recording with computers, and even some who have worked with them for a while, but are a little timid; automation has appeared as almost a dark art. For some, once they'v

Editorial | Mar 03, 2011 by Rounik Sethi

Hands-up who wants low-latency and high performance multi-track audio recording on their Mac? Me too... as well as almost every Computer musician I've ever met! Until now Firewire and USB 2.0 have bee

Tutorial | Mar 01, 2011 by Peter Schwartz

While Logic's Score Editor presents an extremely comprehensive set of music notation symbols which composers need to mark up a Score, certain symbols are conspicuously absent. One such symbol is the "

Tip | Feb 27, 2011 by G.W. Childs IV

Need a quick, creepy, psychedelic ambient background? You can create something otherworldly from very worldly sound with very little effort in Ableton Live. GW shares his dark secrets in this article.

Tip | Feb 25, 2011 by Peter Schwartz

We're already spoiled for choice regarding the number of methods Logic provides for viewing and editing MIDI data: the event list, score editor, piano roll, and hyper editor. If I were to then say t .

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

Garageband makes it really easy to get in there and easily set up virtual instruments that come built-in. However, if you're going in to Garageband with the intention of using a third-party plug-in, y

Tutorial | Feb 23, 2011 by G.W. Childs IV

During the heat of my video game industry days, I was often asked what I used to make so many Sci-Fi characters sound so authentic. To the surprise of many, I would always respond with simply, "Reason

Tip | Feb 22, 2011 by Rounik Sethi

Almost all Logic users instinctively reach for the EXS24 at the mere mention of "sample". By all accounts the EXS24 is a great sampler, though not as full featured as 3rd party products like Kontakt,

Tip | Feb 20, 2011 by Mo Volans

There are some basic processes that remain firmly in the "jargon category" to some beginners. Although Normalization is available as a feature in just about every DAW (and Audio Editing software) some

Tip | Feb 20, 2011 by Gary Hiebner

Your hi-hat patterns can make or break a beat. Well-constructed hat patterns can make a stale beat groove. It can take a stagnant beat and turn it into a groove monster. I have found by adding modulat

Tip | Feb 18, 2011 by Mo Volans

Side Chaining is a popular technique used in a variety of musical genres. Commonly used to duck one signal below another, Mo Volans puts the concept to the test in Cubase 6.

Tutorial | Feb 17, 2011 by G.W. Childs IV

In some of the recent Hip-Hop tracks I've heard, specifically Waka Flocka Flame, I've been seriously impressed with the hi-hat programming that has been taking place. Instead of regular 8 beats, and 1