Adobe Audition is relatively simple to use and intuitive enough for novice users, but there’s far more to it than immediately meets the eye. This Master Class will focus on recording and mixing music....
The time has arrived. With a reasonably powerful laptop computer and an affordable collection of software instruments, you can easily take your studio...
Promoting your music to film and television productions is only half the battle. You need to learn how to legally license your music for film and TV. You need to understand master and sync rights, performing rights organizations, cue sheets, publishing, and much more....
Interviews with three esteemed mastering engineers—Bob Ludwig, Stephen Marcussen, and Steve Hall—who shed light on their little understood yet extremely critical profession....
Loudness is one of those really obvious qualities that appear to be so simple that we have trouble even describing it. At the same time, it is very important to us as an expressive tool. But when we dig into what loudness is and how to control it, it isn’t simple at all. In fact, we can’t even really measure it! Meanwhile, loudness management is at the heart and soul of good audio and of expressive musicianship....
Getting comfortable with MIDI’s amazingly malleable qualities can add capabilities you may not have thought possible to your studio and live performances....
As a founding member of Nine Inch Nails, drummer-producer Chris Vrenna spent a lot of time exploring his dark side. He also spent a lot of time creating...
This column examines some well-known snare-drum backbeats, detailing not only key ingredients that went into making them—particular drums, tunings, and playing styles, as well as miking, processing, and so on—but also showing how you can get comparable results in your own personal studio. The point is to expand your bag of tricks, hopefully inspiring you to go the extra mile in your quest to create the perfect snare sound for a given production....
If you're coming into the world of desktop music production as a non-keyboard player, you may find MIDI somewhat mystifying and intimidating. Even a basic MIDI synthesizer (either a hardware instrument or a software plug-in) can add a lot to your music....
Get your music into television and movie soundtracks with this guide to promoting your music to music supervisors, publishers, agents, and other music, TV, and movie professionals....
Get the most out of Native Instruments FM7 with this programming master class. You will gain mastery over algorithms and operators, as well as learn how to creating looping envelopes. The article also covers how to a stunning Fender Rhodes model...
EM discusses the software tools that you can use to make music with alternate tunings. We also describe specific techniques for working with Csound, Native Instruments Reaktor, and other programs, and we point you to Web sites where you can learn more....
FireWire (like USB) is a bus for connecting digital gear, and it is amazing for the kinds of data that it can carry at one time over a single cable. MIDI...
Does it seem as if there's never enough time to chase your musical dreams? You probably feel that if you only had more time, you'd get so much more music...
Even as consumers continue to flock to the low-res world of MP3, RealAudio, and Windows Media Audio, the recording industry is moving steadily in the...
Remember how exciting it was when you burned your first CD? Making your first DVD can be just as a big a thrill, and the medium offers creative musicians...
Windows-based musicians may have more plug-in choices than they realize. Plug-in compatibility may not necessarily be a simple yes-or-no proposition. To provide more options for users of DirectX-only host software, several developers have created wrapper applications....
If you make even a little bit of money off your music, including your personal studio, you could be saving big money on your income taxes. By turning your music-related business into a sole-proprietorship, you can take several write-offs and deductions that can keep your money in your pocket and out of the IRS’s....
By making it possible to freely mix-and-match nearly any repeating rhythmic or melodic passage, loop slicers have changed the way many music professionals work....
