Whether you’re just starting out making music in your bedroom or a multi-platinum producer, imposter syndrome can affect all of us at some point. The feeling you’re not worthy to compose and release music due…
Tag: music production
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…
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.…
Compressors are one of the most misunderstood production tools of them all, yet they’re hugely favoured by musicians and engineers for taming dynamics, manipulating amplitude envelopes, peak limiting, sidechain compression, parallel processing, and much more.…
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…
Audio-to-midi conversion has been a staple of DAWs and music software for many years now. As far back as 1992 Melodyne by Celemony introduced its revolutionary polyphonic mode. This allowed users to extract pitch and…
Hats off to Ableton. They managed to keep this one quiet. You may have heard by now that there’s a new Push controller in town. The news of Push 3 sent certain factions of the…