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Quick Trick! Adding Punch to pluck sounds

Posted on 12. Aug, 2011 by .

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Alot of people have been asking me how to make pluck sounds nice and punchy. Lots of artists in dance music have some really nice punchy clean pluck sounds so he’s how to do it! In this tip I’m going to be using my favourite softsynth “Sylenth1″ which is one of my favourites for plucks [...]

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Logic X – What’s expected to come?

Posted on 27. Jul, 2011 by .

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Logic is now due for an upgrade and there have been loads of debates across music forums worldwide of what’s to be expected. With Image Line and Steinberg really going full out in terms of features, Apple is now in the spotlight to bring Logic back on game. With the recent release of Final Cut Pro X, with [...]

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5 Tips for a clean mixdown

Posted on 13. Jul, 2011 by .

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It’s very easy these days to overfill your tracks with the vast amount of sounds we have available today. From doing this the overal mix of your tracks starts to clog up, stopping those important sounds from reaching the ears. Here are 5 tips that I strongly recommend you get into the habbit with for a clean [...]

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5 Awsome sample packs

Posted on 13. Jul, 2011 by .

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Sample packs are getting used more and more rather than alot of producers crafting everything from scratch. Lots of packs are being used to create big music hits, a recent example of this was the track KNAS by Steve Angello where it’s main hook comes from a loop bundled in a vegeance pack. Is that [...]

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Sampling a clean Kick drum from any track!

Posted on 04. Jul, 2011 by .

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Sometimes we hear a track with a real smooth kick drum and think to ourselves… I want my kick to sounds like that! Of course it matters how the the track is mixed down overall but I’ve sampled lots of powerful kicks from records and made my own by merging different parts together getting a [...]

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Z3TA+ 2 Available this month!

Posted on 03. Jul, 2011 by .

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When I saw this I literally drawled.. When I was using PC for making music a few years ago I used this synth extensively. When I switched over to Mac I wasn’t able to use it as it was only available for PC. Lets hope an AU version of this synth will be available. It’s [...]

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Introduction to making music

Posted on 02. Jul, 2011 by .

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So you’ve decided that you want to make music? Perhaps you have such a strong passion for music it’s always been your chosen path in life? Or maybe you hear all these great sounds and compositions and you’ve been wondering how they do it all? Well I’m going to introduce you to how music is [...]

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Synthmania – 5 must have softsynths!

Posted on 02. Jul, 2011 by .

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Software based instruments are getting more and more popular by the day and are frequently being used by some of the worlds most established producers. In this modern day and age where computers are getting more powerful, running your studio entirely off software is very common amongst producers. Here are 5 of the best software [...]

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Slice & Dice your loops!

Posted on 02. Jul, 2011 by .

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In modern day music production we find ourselves saturated with more and more samples packs available across the internet, packed full of loops of different sounds and speeds. Sometimes we start a track at a certain BPM and find an amazing loop that we’d love to use or manipulate for our record but it’s of a different BPM to [...]

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We’re back!

Posted on 01. Jul, 2011 by .

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So after a 2 year absence were back! This time around we’re taking things to a whole new level with our introduction of video tutorials and a full forum system being implemented over the next few days! All the information will be provided by a team of professional producers and signed artists, giving you an insight in [...]

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