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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 11 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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Quick Tip: Have A Backup Plan

Quick Tip: Have A Backup Plan

Hector Lee on Feb 2nd 2012 with 5 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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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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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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8 Free Professional Quality Audio Unit Plug-ins for Mac

8 Free Professional Quality Audio Unit Plug-ins for Mac

Robert Anthony on Jan 23rd 2012 with 14 comments

Lets face it, software is expensive. It is also a necessity more so than a want if you are serious about making computer based music. While there are hundreds of free plug-ins available online, more often than not two problems will arise: One, most of them are for PCs leaving us Mac users feeling left out. Two, most of them are vary poor quality.

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Quick Tip: Mixing with Hearing Loss

Quick Tip: Mixing with Hearing Loss

Mike Elliott on Jan 19th 2012 with 4 comments

Its safe to say that most of us do not have perfect hearing. Life is full of loud noises, concerts, and sometimes just bad luck that will damage our hearing. Whether your ears were naturally born with hearing loss or you hurt them in an accident, not all is lost! In this tutorial I will show you a few basic ways that you can mix to the fullest even when your ears do not cooperate.

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Quick Tip: How to Spice Up Your Arpeggio Pattern in Reason

Quick Tip: How to Spice Up Your Arpeggio Pattern in Reason

Nemeth Balazs on Jan 18th 2012 with 1 comment

Nowadays making an arpeggio is a great way to add interest to your track. There are many plugins out there which can arpeggiate your chord sequence in numerous ways. Lots of patterns and tweakable parameters are at your disposal in order to customize your patterns.

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Quick Tip: Drum Processing Part 3: Hi Hats & Percussion

Quick Tip: Drum Processing Part 3: Hi Hats & Percussion

Jack Wiles on Jan 13th 2012 with 3 comments
This entry is part 3 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 part we will look at adding hi hats and percussion to our kick and snare drums.

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Quick Tip: Use the Doubling Technique for Quick Drums

Quick Tip: Use the Doubling Technique for Quick Drums

Ryan Leach on Jan 5th 2012 with 6 comments

It’s 3:30 in the afternoon when your phone rings. The head of a music library is calling and she needs your help. They have a commercial for an A-list client that needs music, and they want you to submit an entry. You’ll get $10,000 if you land the gig.

Oh, and it’s due by 5:00.

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