MIDI pad controllers are a fantastic tool if you don’t know how to play the keyboard. Many pad controllers allow you to set individual pads to play whole chords, so you can easily write chordal…
Category: Music Sampling
Transcription is the process of listening to a piece of music and notating it down note for note. Whether you notate it down in traditional sheet music, tablature, or your own style of notation, notating…
Studio Electronics, or sE, have brought multiple industry-leading condenser microphones to the market, including the sE2200. Their live dynamic microphones, such as the V7, bring a powerful sound to the stage too. sE continues to…
Sample-based music production is on the upward trend and has been for a while now. Sampling entails taking single or multiple snippets (samples) from a piece of music, or any sound source like a washing…
We can truly reshape any sound using granular synths. You think you know a sound… until it’s thrown into a granular sampler. Both granular synth hardware and granular softsynths give us the power to reimagine…
Building a hi-hat in Serum is one of the simplest processes there is. But that doesn’t undermine the power of the digital hi hat in modern music. So many genres, from Drum & Bass and…
Based on sounds from an upright piano, sampled with vintage microphones, with the warmth of saturated tape and true LoFi vibes, LoFi Piano is a real experience for your listeners, reports gearnews.com The instrument features…
The wonder that is the 808 originated from Roland’s TR-808 synthesizer. But what we call 808’s today sound much bigger than what the 808 synthesizer gave birth to. With such a popular sound comes a…
Bedroom Producers Blog has released BPB Dirty Spring! Dirty Spring is a free spring reverb plugin with which has controls such as pre-delay, and even a bitcrusher! Dirty Spring is a plugin with the user experience in…
Your EQ is an essential tool for any of your mixes, and vocal tracks are no different. Whether it’s removing low end from your vocals, or boosting some low midrange frequencies, using the right strategy…
