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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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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Easy sidechain effect using Camelphat

Posted on 12. May, 2009 by Luke Bond.

Are you after that cool side chain dip effect? Rather than having to set up a compressor and route it with a kick drum ect, here’s a much more straight forward and easy way to get it!

Requirements
- Any Sequencer that supports VST or AU plugins.
- Camelphat version 3+
Lets get started!
Ok so first of all I’m [...]

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What is compression? Compression Made Easy!

Posted on 09. May, 2009 by Luke Bond.

There’s alot of people out there who use compression but do not understand fully what it does. The funny thing is that it’s really simple! Compression is one of the main tools used among producers and can make huge differences in your overall sound. I’m going to explain what compression exactly is and what sort [...]

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How to make a DJ mix in Ableton Live

Posted on 08. Jan, 2009 by Luke Bond.

There are many ways you can make your own DJ mix whether you record it to your computer directly from your CDJs or use some of the various DJ mixing programs out there but one of the best ways to produce a mix for maybe a demo or for an album is using ableton. Ableton is a [...]

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