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With two and a half billion hits across YouTube and Spotify, a nomination from NME Australia as “Best Song” of the year and four ARIA wins, Tone and I’s Dance Monkey has been a huge mainstream hit. It was released last year via Bad Batch Records under exclusive license to Elektra Records and went on to […]
Frequency modulation synthesis has something of a reputation for being complicated and difficult to master, and while FM synths can definitely be intimidating, they’re really quite straightforward once you’ve got your head around the basics. That said, programming patches on the quintessential hardware FM synth, 1983’s Yamaha DX7, would have been a slog. The instrument […]
In this Weekend Workshop, we won’t be making a single sound in our DAWs, but the work we do might well take your productivity to new heights. Making DAW templates might just be the least sexy part of producing music, but there’s a great logic to getting one made this weekend. When you’re staring down […]
With vast collections of increasingly complicated synth VSTs on your computer, creativity can take a hit as you suffer choice paralysis: not being able to decide on which tool to use for the job as there simply so many great synths out there. If you do determine which tool to use, you can spend hours […]
Even if you don’t know Maarten Vorwerk’s name, you’ve almost certainly heard his work. By some accounts, he has been ghost producer to some of the biggest names in dance and pop. Read our full interview here. In this tutorial, Maarten walks us through his process for making classic rave stabs and reveals another trick […]
1. Go to www.steinberg.net, browse to the Support page and scroll down to locate the link to the downloads section – click the link. On the following page choose to download WaveLab 10. If you don’t have a Steinberg eLicenser dongle grab WaveLab 10 Elements instead. 2. Follow Steinberg’s instructions for installing WaveLab, which are […]
1. Start by creating some mastering stems. Open up an existing project in which you’ve created a final mix – effects, automation etc. The stems you choose to create will depend on the material you’re working with – we’re using something from a band recording session. 2. Consider the instrumentation of the project and how […]
You can cut your original productions into chunks and play everything back as loops – but why not take it a little further for some of the parts and resample a few notes, so you can play them back live? Follow our step-by-step guide to get a better handle on your live arrangements. Sampling technique […]
In Point Blank’s latest video, DJ Billy ‘Daniel’ Bunter shares a few tips on how to make it as a DJ. Drawing examples from his own illustrious career, Bunter divulges how he managed to make a living – and then become an icon – as a DJ. “This year [2019] is 30 years to the […]