As the game industry continues to grow and change, composers and musicians are increasingly interested in learning more about ‘‘how to break into the game industry‘. What many novice composers and musicians do not realize is how sophisticated and involved the process of writing music for games has become.
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Paul Nolan has recently put together an insightful screencast series on using arpeggiators in the Logic 9 environment. He has given us permission to use them on Audiotuts+. Enjoy!
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The reason you’re here on our site is because you’re interested in audio tutorials. I think we do a great job: we have a huge number of excellent tuts – both free and premium. But we know we haven’t cornered the market. There are an amazing number of audio tut sites out there, and the number seems to grow every year. Here are 35 of the best.
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This series of quick tips will outline how you can use the ever powerful NI Massive synth to create techy basslines used by artists such as Skrillex. In this example I have used Cubase but the same principles will translate to pretty much any other DAW. Here is an example of the kind of sound you can expect to end up with at the end of this series:
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In this quick tip, you will learn how to do rendering in Reaper. This is written for new Reaper users. The objective is to have a high quality resolution rendering suitable for audio mastering. This will be useful if you like to submit your Reaper mix for mastering.
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In this week’s Audio Premium content, Björgvin Benediktsson takes you in detail of the mixing process, using a folk song as an example.
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The auxiliary send is an important and versatile part of a mixing board. This post is a clear explanation and helpful overview of the topic from Mark Garrison’s book Encyclopedia of Home Recording.
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This track has been submitted for your friendly, constructive criticism. What useful feedback can you give the artist? The floor is yours to talk about the track and how they can fix problems in and improve upon the mix and the song.
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The use of arpeggiators in modern electronic music is as popular as ever. Hardware synthesizers such as the Access Virus, Nord Lead, Waldorf Q, and Novation Nova have long been popular in electronic music for their unique sound, extensive programming matrices and step-sequencing and arpeggiation functionality. While several third-party soft-synths have robust arpeggiation and step-sequencing functionality, none of the synthesizers in Logic Studio have this feature.
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