Electronic Musician's interview with Michael Petricone, VP of the Consumer Electronics Association, who tells why he thinks the major record labels are stifling technologies that could help independent musicians....
Native Instruments has announced the Traktor Tutorial DVD, which offers comprehensive video tutorials, artist interviews, and special workshop content to help you get the most out of NI Traktor 3 DJ software....
Predicting the future is never easy, but trying to anticipate what it will bring can help a lot as long as you really know the subject that you're speculating...
After years of touring and making several indie CDs, singer-songwriter Ari Hest's career was on the rise. He signed with Columbia Records and cut a CD's...
The audio input/output (I/O) that's built into your computer is fine for playing games and maybe for watching movies. But once you begin to produce your...
From time to time, EM's editors search out cost-effective solutions for common problems. Most electronic musicians use software instruments to one extent...
As I pulled up to the ramshackle house in the Atlanta suburbs, I was sure that I had the wrong address. This couldn't be where producer, keyboardist,...
Using REX files is a great way to add prerecorded beats to almost any project. One advantage of REX files, which are available from many sound developers,...
Vector synthesis was invented by Sequential Circuits and first appeared in the company's Prophet-VS synthesizer in 1986. Subsequent classic hardware vector...
Most desktop musicians are familiar with the term "additive synthesis," but how many know exactly what it is and how it can be used to create sound? In this article you will learn how to use additive synthesis to create sound. Learn about the basic principles behind this technique and the different ways it has been implemented over the years....
Mastering is essentially the art of applying signal processing to finished mixes in order to enhance them or correct perceived problems, sequencing the...
If you think that most contemporary records are constructed in the box by young musicians endlessly peering at screens and applying multitudes of plug-in...
Granular synthesis is often used in academic and experimental music but isn't found in many commercial synthesizers. The sounds it produces are somewhat...
In the music-for-picture world, composers get most of the glory. But there's another group of professionals who have a big impact on which music gets...
Nicolas Collins is an instrument-building animal, and he wants you to be one too. He has spent the last three or four years touring the world, doing workshops...
Lynda Kay Parker and Danny B. Harvey are the component parts of the quirky country duo Lonesome Spurs. Though both are native Texans, they're based in...
Opportunities for voice-over (v/o) production have increased dramatically for project studios, mimicking the DIY paradigm shift that continues to rock...
Read Electronic Musician's tutorial to learn about using multiple filters for creative sound design and how to combine filters with effects to add punch to ho-hum drum loops, rhythmic activity to sustaining pads, and ethereal colors to vocals....
Q&A: Michael Petricone
Q&A: Michael Laskow
Hest Makes Best
Movin' On Up
Twelve Under a Hundred
Beat Crazy in Atlanta
Train REX
Sounds in Motion
Do-It-Yourself Mastering
Old-School Contemporary
Controlled Chaos
Here's That Grainy Day
Q&A: Jack Rudy
Mic Specs Demystified
ROUTLEDGE Handmade Electronic Music: The Art of Hardware Hacking
Texas in a Suitcase
Recording the Spoken Word
Sounds in Motion
