Additive Synthesis: breaks sound down into its harmonics, creating timbre by adding sine waves together Granular Synthesis: creating sounds by playing waveforms and/or samples through a synthesis engine that operates like a sampler on the microsound time scale So, what can you achieve by running some...
Songwriting, Music Composition writing chords and bass lines: Yesterday was my last day with my Song Writing and Music Composition students before leaving to set up my own music production school. In the course we covered chord sequences, melody, structure and rhythm, lyrics, arrangement, extended...
In January 2013 Garnish Music Production School learners Pete Waidson (Mixing course) and Michael 'The Fox' Gleeson (Ableton course) had their first release on Toolroom Records entitled 'Interferon' which had huge support from label boss Mark Knight, as well as regular plays from Stefano Noferini,...
It's nice when we get notes like this from past learners. Ironically student aftercare or industry connections are not all over our website. For all of her faults, Margaret Thatcher famously said that being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people...
Recording vocals: DIY vocal booth and pop shield or pop filter: This is about how I record vocals at home with a DIY vocal booth. We cover more on this on the Sound Engineering course. I have a macbook pro plugged up to an apogee duet,...
Many people ask which order to do our courses in for a complete music production program, but until yesterday, we had never had someone ask about nearly all of our courses before setting foot in the place, so it got me thinking while answering this enquiry about categorising...
Apple's Magic Mouse review using Logic Pro 9 in Snow Leopard: Before the turn of this decade and I got my hands on a Magic Mouse, I used the Mighty Mouse and I got used to and enjoyed the scroll ball/sphere/nipple on the front. It...
A very important feature from Ableton and probably one of the least used are the Ableton Live Clip (ALC) files. Organization is key, especially in today´s frenetic rhythms. ALC files can help us organize our library of sounds and have them ready to use in...
We can all agree that MUSIC and how it sounds & makes us feel is the most important thing that we do as Producers/Composers/Beatmakers, etc. Now, when you think of the phrase “Music Production”, you can’t really help but think about the second word...
We can all agree that MUSIC and how it sounds & makes us feel is the most important thing that we do as Producers/Composers/Beatmakers, etc. Now, when you think of the phrase “Music Production”, you can’t really help but think about the second word...