Apple Logic Pro 7.2 has features that are the envy of its competitors, but the implementation of those features is not always completely intuitive. In...
Using vocoders for nonvocal purposes is nothing new. Of the vocoder's two inputs, the carrier needs to have sustained notes with rich timbre. The speech...
The sounds that you hear in movies, TV, and video games fit so seamlessly with the visuals that it's easy to forget just how much work goes into producing...
It seems we will never be rid of the analog-versus-digital debate. Far from a debate, really, it usually amounts to little more than hand-wringing over...
This is the second of two columns featuring music attorney Bev Green, a veteran entertainment lawyer in the San Francisco area who practices at the firm...
This is drinking music, says John Bigham, front man for the Soul of John Black. I wanted to make down-home-blues party music, he says of the band's latest...
Apple adopted a universal MIDI patch-list management system as part of Core MIDI in Mac OS X. The scheme uses two XML (Extensible Markup Language) documents:...
Since the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) in 1990, people have grown accustomed to blue stripes in parking lots, wheelchair-size.......
Much of the number crunching that occurs within your audio software remains a mystery; does your DAW treat audio as floating-point numbers or as fixed-point numbers? What’s the difference, and should you really care?...
Electronic Musician's Pro/File of Monsieur Leroc, who's latest CD, I'm Not Young But I Need the Money, was put together without a lot of gear, but with a lot of creativity....
Writing music for cell-phone games is a specialized skill. Though it may seem simple on the surface, the process is more complex than just dropping an...
Former Talking Head member Jerry Harrison has established himself as a successful producer. Electronic Musician talks to him about his production philosophy, gear choices and his advice for personal-studio owners....
The advent of digital audio sequencers has made quantized drums a fact of life. Here’s how to chop up multitrack audio drum parts and quantize them perfectly in Apple Logic Pro....
SFX Machine Pro, winner of an EM 2007 Editors' Choice Award, takes a novel and somewhat quirky approach to effects design. One of the best ways to learn...
Think Different
A Different Drummer
It's Only Make-Believe
Preaching to the Converted
GET THE PICTURE
The Sound of a Craving Heart
Amped Up
Name That Patch
Q&A: Bev Green
Overcoming Adversity
Truly Gritty
How Your DAW Does Math
Sonic Sculptor
Phone Tag
From Talking Heads to Production Whiz
Slice, Move, and Glue
Machine Tools
