8 Unique Uses of Reverb in Popular Music History
Just as food can be improved with a little hot sauce, so too can songs be enhanced with a bit of reverb. From surf rock and techno to trap music, ambient,...
Creative Ways to Use LFOs on Synths and Beats
Everyone has a soft spot for a synthesizer filter sweep or a tremolo effect on a guitar track. Thanks to LFOs (low frequency oscillators), these wooshy filter...
Sampling Your Samples: Why You Should Try It
Sampling, by its very nature, is an experimental process. One finds a sound, records, and manipulates it for the desired effect. Some samples are simple, like...
Create a Massive Synth by Layering Multiple Sounds
In crafting sounds, many synthesists probably return again and again to their favorite original patches or even presets, tweaking the parameters here...
An Introduction to Microtonal Music
A few years ago, Korg released its Monologue synth, and one of the features that excited many was its microtuning feature for making microtonal music....
Music Technology History: the Electronic Handclap
The story of the handclap in popular and underground musical formats of the late 20th century is a long and interesting one. That mechanical sound, first...
How to Get a Fat, Deep Bass Sound
Like anything in music production, bass sound preferences are many and varied. No two people, even if operating in the same genre, are going to be in...
A Brief History of Pitch Correction in Music
Even with the mid-20th century’s recording studio wizards, if you were a vocalist who sang off pitch, solutions were time-consuming, difficult, and not...
Using VocalSynth 2 on Different Instruments
We designed VocalSynth 2 with vocalists and producers in mind, but these folks aren’t the only people who can have some fun experimenting with...
Turn your voice into an unreal instrument with VocalSynth 2
Building off of some of the ideas we explored in "9 Songs that Changed the Way We Produce Vocals," in this post we demonstrate how vocals can become...
Modulate Your Vocals by Layering VocalSynth 2 Modules
With the following experiments, we play around with layering VocalSynth 2 modules. Some vocal samples have two, three, even four VocalSynth 2 modules...
5 Artists on the Cutting Edge of Immersive Live Sound
Over the last few decades, great technological leaps have allowed musical artists to create mind-bending visuals and sound. Music software like Max MSP,...
How These 5 Artists Use Negative Space in Music
By its nature, music seems to imply fullness in live and recorded listening experiences. That is, a filling out of the field of sound, whether it’s a...
