Making a Custom Sampler Instrument
Sampling is one of the most important aspects of modern music production. It is the basis of the sampler, one of the most common types of software...
Sound Design
The Basics of Convolution in Audio Production
Convolution is one of the more sophisticated processes regularly used in audio production. Its ability to accurately impart the characteristic timbres of spaces...
How to Keep Repetition in Music Interesting
Electronic music production is defined by the use of repeating loops. They’re built into the machines we use to make beats—drum machines,...
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...
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,...
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...
Why Upgrade to VocalSynth 2?
We’re excited to bring you the newest version of VocalSynth! Since the release of VocalSynth 1 in 2016, we’ve been gathering feedback and ideas from our...
11 Tips for Mixing and Sound-Designing a Fiction Podcast
Podcasts seems ubiquitous these days—indeed, people have been talking about the podcast revolution since 2014, when Serial took the medium mainstream. A...
White Noise, Filters, and Effects: How to Use Them Together
White noise is one of the most common sounds used in music production. It’s an even mix of all audible frequencies, but we often perceive it as being...
Don't Blend In: 9 Ways to Create Unique Sounds
I've worked on and written music for plenty of Hollywood movies and TV shows, including NCIS and Arrested Development. With so many episodes, so many...
4 Ways to Get a Shoegaze Sound
Shoegaze is predicated on gauzy walls of sound. There are reverb-laden swells, blistering distortion, and lots of delay, often all at once. My Bloody...
