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.…
Tag: music production
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…
So, you’re ready to get your fingers dusty and try your hand at some lofi Hip-Hop beats. In this article, we will be taking you through the key principles involved in producing lofi hip-hop beats.…
Although the vast musical landscape is always evolving and progressing, a recent major trend in music has taken a nostalgic step back into the past. I am of course referring to lofi Hip-Hop. This downtempo…
Soundtoys have built a loyal fanbase and enviable reputation for highly usable and innovative plugins. It has however not gone unnoticed by fans that they have been MIA recently. Well, they need worry no longer…
‘Don’t Get Too Close’ – the latest album announcement from Skrillex comes 2 days after he released his second solo album ‘Quest For Fire’. A massive treat for his fans, as these are his first…
