The 5 Most Important Developments in Hip-Hop Production
Even for casual listeners of the genre, it is easy to distinguish when a hip-hop track was made just by listening to the first few bars. The instrumental...
Music production
Music production is an artform that evolves with new technology, workflows, and techniques. Browse through our music production tips below to help you adapt and stay innovative.
3 Ways to Reshape Your Sound with Stutter Edit
We recently showed users how to learn Stutter Edit in 10 minutes, and then deploy it for expanding rhythmic possibilities. Now we turn to the more...
6 Times Transient Shaping Beats Compression
When it comes to handling transients, sometimes there’s a more effective tool than your usual dynamics processors—processes such as...
Types of Studio Monitors and Which to Choose for Home Studios
An important decision when designing a home studio for music production, mixing, and mastering is the set of monitors to purchase. Apart from the...
How to Choose the Right DAW for Songwriters
Songwriting might be a creative practice, but today’s songwriters live in a digital age where technology is also a part of the process. Whether you’re recording...
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...
The Beginner's Guide to Synths for Music Production
Amazingly, significant synthesizer developments began as early as 1896: there was the Telharmonium, the Theremin, the Ondes Martenot, and the Electronic...
5 Popular Music Production Techniques and How to Create Them
Artists, genres, and even eras of music are defined by distinct production effects. James Blake is synonymous with warped vocals. Lo-fi hip-hop equals...
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...
How to Program and Layer Electronic Basslines in Your DAW
What makes a good electronic bassline? Sometimes, a perfectly tuned sub does the trick. Even a single repeated note can pack a punch. At the right time,...
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...
Creating Textures with Trash 2 for Industrial Music
Industrial music is about as sonically diverse as other genres, like post-punk, jazz, rock and roll, and so on. Much sonic ground, for example, separates...
