Make Reason’s Combinator work the way you’d expect it to. Many musicians are content to use Reason as a straight-up DAW, recording audio and synthesizer tracks,...
The Interface User’s Guide to Making Music is yours to download. U.K.-based Focusrite, a leading manufacturer of audio interfaces, microphone preamps, recording consoles, and other studio...
This month we go beyond the basics and dive into logic operations, variable step sequencing, and modular polyphony. Learning the basics of any technology is important,...
Las mujeres han hecho algunas de las contribuciones más significativas a la música electrónica, y aquí rendimos homenaje a tres de ellas. Si le pide a...
Women have made some of the most significant contributions to electronic music, and here we pay homage to three of them. If you ask your average...
Movie and TV composer Michael Whalen reveals his approach to developing sounds for music. I’ve been creating sounds for more than 40 years. I coax them...
To connect with your audience, anything worth playing is worth playing again. To repeat or not to repeat? That’s this month’s question. There are all kinds...
How to shape your sounds with envelope generators. Every synthesizer, even the most primitive, has at least one envelope generator. Most have two or more. If...
This new coffee-table book is the stuff of keyboard dreams. Just out from the University of North Texas Press, Classic Keys contains a wealth of well-researched information and...
Excerpt from the book Classic Keys: Keyboard sounds that launched rock music. Authors Alan S. Lenhoff and David E. Robertson As the saying goes, if you have...
The Book of Summit explains the inner workings of the Summit, Novation’s latest flagship synthesizer. Novation just published The Book of Summit, a free new synthesizer...
Arturia’s recent firmware update for the MatrtixBrute opens the door to new sequencing capabilities. The Arturia MatrixBrute is a full-featured analog synth that sounds great. Arturia’s...
File away your musical ideas for future use. Think about how you make music. It can be pretty nonstop: playing, listening, producing, and posting finished pieces...
Modulation changes everything when you route control signals from sources to destinations. Turning knobs by hand while a synthesizer is producing a tone is a great...
Exploring harmonic relationships beyond chords and intervals. Chords. What are chords? Oh, that’s right, they are collections of notes sounded at the same time. They have...