Sampling Frequencies & Bit Rates: 96 v 44.1Khz & 24 v 16bit by Stephen Powell I had a conversation recently with a guy who described himself as a “glitch-dubstep-lo-fi composer” He went on to describe a couple of his tracks which turned out to be pretty...
Logic pro 9 Environment Chord Memorizer: Musical tips: One object I have in my music production environment click and ports layer is the Chord Memorizer, which can be a great music trick for DJ's with limited musical skills. The Chord Memorizer can be a useful music...
- Al Riley My first multitrack workstation was my 4-track Portastudio (not a DAW, an AAW I suppose?), which gave me the novel luxury of changing the volume and panning different instruments after recording them! I could even use insert effects (a guitar pedal) and...
Build a synthesizer | THINK, MAKE, PLAY | Max/MSP. article by Mr Steve Powell What’s the first thing you do when starting a new track or build a synthesizer on your computer? Fire up Logic or Max/MSP? Warm-up the TB808? Sit on top of a hill...
Logic Pro 9 training: Environment layer - Click and Ports: Many people are a bit scared of Logic Pro 9's environment and it even puts people off using Logic Pro as a DAW altogether. Logic Pro/Studio's Environment is the foundation that Logic is built on. It's...
New Approaches: Max/MSP Digital Synthesiser Building in electronic music production (EMP) by our course designer and instructor Steve Powell: 11/1/11 Everyone has different ways of writing music whether you sit down with your guitar, play and hum until you get something you like, or draw out some...
Celemony Melodyne DNA pitch correction software: Celemony Melodyne DNA pitch correction music studio software. But what's it for? 10 years ago the standard way to correct pitch in vocals was Autotune. To correct bits manually, you'd have to use graphical mode. It was very fiddly, you'd have...