Plug a keyboard into a computer, press a key, and a piano sound comes out. It’s natural to assume the keyboard sent that sound down the cable. It didn’t. The cable carried no sound at all. That’s the part of MIDI that confuses almost everyone, and once you see it, the rest falls into place. Read More …
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Scoring a Film With Two Old Computers
You don’t need a powerful machine to score a film. You need your computers to agree on what time it is, and to not fight over the same resources while they do it. This guide is for composers working with older hardware and no budget. The idea is simple: your desktop makes the music, a Read More …
The Native Instruments Producers Series
The blog at Native Instruments has been putting out quite a bit of content as part of a Producers Series focused on learning music production. I am going to use this post as a way to collect all of these together for others, and then you can pick through what you would like to read. Read More …
Some Kick Drum EQ Tips
More notes to myself… (and the other bedroom producers out there.) These are some of the Kick Drum EQ Tips from some recent videos. I have yet to test these out, so YMMV. With the bass drum there could almost be a problem around 300 Hz to 600 Hz. Check the EQ. How do the Read More …
More Bass Guitar Recording Tricks
Tune the bass. Tune the bass. Tune the bass. Everything harmonically else in the song is going on top of the bass. If it is a little bit our of tune, then the rest of your tracks are not going to sound right. I like to tune the bass just a little bit flat, so Read More …