Think of DJing and the image that immediately springs to mind is that of two turntables and a mixer. But in this age of DJ controllers and CDRs is there really still a place for…
Author: Simon Gilbert
If you’re new to music production you may be wondering exactly what is reverb or to give it its full title reverberation. Along with terms such as EQ and Compression, reverb is one of those…
The DJ community has been left spinning this week after the shock news that Pioneer DJ’s parent company has acquired Serato. AlphaTheta Corporation who owns Pioneer DJ and Rekordbox have announced that they have bought…
Having just used the new Enhance Speech tool I’m left wondering what sort of AI voodoo have Adobe employed this time. I actually stumbled across this new podcast tool as I was looking for ways…
We’ve all been there. You get in the studio eager to cook up something earthshakingly awesome! You fire up your DAW but find yourself suffering an acute case of Blank session syndrome (the inability to…
When it comes to iconic pieces of sampling hardware they don’t get much mightier than the E-mu SP1200. This 80’s 12-bit beast has reached legendary status in recent years, particularity within the Boom-Bap Hip-Hop fraternity.…
Over the past few decades, we have become accustomed to the practice of sampling in contemporary music. A technique originally pioneered in the Hip-Hop world, it’s now become commonplace in almost all genres of music.…
So you’ve spent countless hours perfecting your upcoming release. You have a marketing strategy in place and you’re ready to take the world by storm. Just one slight problem. You need some scroll-stoppingly good cover…
Moog Music, Possibly THE most iconic name in synthesis has just announced a move to the inMusic family. With a 70-year history Moog have remained true to their roots and as such have remained a…
When it comes to software samplers the choices are vast. And HY-Plugins have just added to this long list of options with an update to their HY-Slicer sample slicing and arrangement tool. The rather imaginatively…
