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Quick Tip: Creating Skrillex Style Tech Basslines in NI Massive

Quick Tip: Creating Skrillex Style Tech Basslines in NI Massive

Jack Wiles on Feb 9th 2012 with 5 comments

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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Quick Tip: Reaper Rendering for High Quality Mixdown

Quick Tip: Reaper Rendering for High Quality Mixdown

Emerson Maningo on Feb 8th 2012 with 6 comments

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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How to Make Arpeggiated Lead Sounds in Logic

West Latta on Feb 3rd 2012 with 19 comments

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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Quick Tip: Have A Backup Plan

Quick Tip: Have A Backup Plan

Hector Lee on Feb 2nd 2012 with 4 comments

There is one major fear when it comes to working with computers, a hard drive failure. Hard drives will fail and they always occur when we least expect it. And when the drive with all your session files crash, it is a disaster. I’m always told “If the file does not have two copies, it doesn’t exist.”

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Getting to Know Altered Chords Part 6: Altered IV

Getting to Know Altered Chords Part 6: Altered IV

Ryan Leach on Feb 1st 2012 with 0 comments

In this series we will learn about altered chords and how we can use them to add harmonic interest to our music. Part 6 of the series will continue with the altered IV chord.

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Quick Tip: Creating a Realistic Kick From Samples

Quick Tip: Creating a Realistic Kick From Samples

Will Walker on Jan 31st 2012 with 3 comments

One of the things I’ve become interested in lately is creating realistic sounds from samples. This basically means creating organic sounds as if they were recorded from a live performance or a naturally occurring sound phenomena from static and rather lifeless sounds or samples. This quick tip I am about to show you regarding kick drums can be extended to any drum sound or any other sound type for that matter.

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How To Use Frequency Dependent Side-Chaining

How To Use Frequency Dependent Side-Chaining

Mo Volans on Jan 30th 2012 with 0 comments

We’ve looked at the subject of side-chaining quite a few times in the past but there is one area of the subject that hasn’t been touched upon. Frequency dependent side-chaining is a process which allows us to home in on a specific frequency range for processing.

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How to Create and Dominate Hip-Hop Drums

Eric Shafer on Jan 27th 2012 with 29 comments

One of the most important aspects in hip-hop and popular music is the drumbeat. What makes it sound so big? The drum patterns appear so simple, so why are they so hard to create? Well, in this tutorial, we’re going to break down the fundamental elements of a hip-hop beat.

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Quick Tip: Drum Processing Part 4: Tips and Tricks

Quick Tip: Drum Processing Part 4: Tips and Tricks

Jack Wiles on Jan 26th 2012 with 13 comments
This entry is part 4 of 4 in the series Drum Processing (Quick Tip Series)

This short series of quick tips is designed to give you a good overview of the audio processing techniques involved in creating a professional sounding drum beat for use in house, electro and breaks in Cubase. In this final part we will look at a few ways to add even more life to your drums.

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What Can the Experts Teach You about Recording Vocals?

What Can the Experts Teach You about Recording Vocals?

Björgvin Benediktsson on Jan 25th 2012 with 1 comment

I was at the NAMM trade-show in Anaheim last weekend and went to a really great panel about vocal recording. Although NAMM is mostly a trade-show with manufacturers demoing new and exciting products, there are a few opportunities to get educated in audio on the second floor of the convention center. In their Hot Zone there were multiple panels of really interesting material, everything from how to succeed in the music to road stories from seasoned veterans like Alan Parsons.

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