Producer Cafe

Burn a DJ Mix to CD Properly with WaveBurner

Posted on 04. Dec, 2009 by Maluu.

If you have ever listened to a continuous dj mix on your stereo which featured multiple tracks, you may have noticed that there are slight gaps, clicks, or pops in between the (what should have been) seamless transition. This can be very annoying, especially when the whole point of a continuous mix is to have a gap free listening experience to really get in the mood. Good news though, we can prevent this occurrence so transitions from track to track are perfectly seamless.

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Build your own devices with Max for Live

Posted on 04. Dec, 2009 by Clintonne.

Have you ever wished you could build your own audio effects? How about your very own soft synth? Or perhaps some MIDI device that based upon the notes you play on your MIDI controller, automatically plays a predefined sequence in the right scale for you.
Now all of this plus much more is possible in Ableton [...]

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5 ways to keep your studio inspiring

Posted on 26. Nov, 2009 by Luke Bond.

One of the most important things when writing inspiring music is to have an inspiring work place. A room that’s untidy, dirty, dark and cold really blocks your mind. My studio was like this and I wasn’t getting anything done, everytime I started a track my head was just drained, of course that wouldn’t be [...]

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Make Reason Sound Great

Posted on 29. Aug, 2009 by Benedict Roff-Marsh.

Reason is a wonderful system that offers a lot of scope to the electronic musician from it’s inbuilt synths and effects, ability to patch both audio and Control Voltages (CV) and particularly the overall workflow which is second to none.
Sadly Reason gets caught in a debate about how it “sounds” with accusations of “thin”, “weak” [...]

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Submitting your music to labels & artists

Posted on 23. Aug, 2009 by Luke Bond.

There are various ways out there that you can submit your music to record labels and artists, 10 years ago people were posting tapes! With the revolution of the internet it’s never been easier to get your music across for exposure.
MySpace

One of the most common and successful ways of getting in contact with DJs, record [...]

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Presonus – Studio One

Posted on 23. Aug, 2009 by Luke Bond.

After hearing about this upcoming DAW and seeing some of the screenshots from it, I couldn’t wait to get my hands on it! The demo has just been released and the first thing I did was download and fire it up!

Straight away you can see by the colours and layout from the plugin loading screen [...]

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Hardcoreproducer.org – Associate Forum

Posted on 10. Aug, 2009 by Luke Bond.

Hello everyone,
I just thought I would update you of one of the projects I’m involved with. As well ProducerCafe I also run a forum called Hardcore Producer which is dedicated for people who are interested in producing “UK Hardcore” which is a very upbeat genre of dance music particually popular in the UK and other [...]

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Propellerhead Record – Open BETA

Posted on 30. Jul, 2009 by Luke Bond.

Propellerhead Software has announced the “Record Open Beta experience” which gives you the opportunity to test drive Propellerhead’s new Record software for free until September 9th, 2009.
What is record?
Propellerhead record is the sucessor to the award winning Reason. Record contains more advance arrangement and audio editing capabilities as well as an overal cleaner and easy to [...]

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Logic 9 Announced!

Posted on 29. Jul, 2009 by Luke Bond.

Apple has unveiled the next version of Logic Studio with major upgrades to Logic Pro, MainStage and Soundtrack Pro and more than 200 new features that simplify complex tasks.

Logic Pro 9 features new Amp Designer and Pedalboard plug-ins that provide realistic virtual guitar amps and stompbox effects to create amazing custom guitar rigs. A new [...]

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Process This! 5 must have FX & Processing Plugins!

Posted on 28. May, 2009 by Luke Bond.

We all have those plugins that we use on a day-today basis and wouldn’t know how we would cope without them. Well here’s mine, I find these really useful when I’m stuck for something on a track. These include both post production FX, processing and Synthesizers. 
These are in no apparent order.
1. Liquid

This little beast is [...]

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