Pro Tools: 25 Pro-Tips Tutorial
Keyboard Focus Mode At the top right of the Edit window there’s a small box with an A and Z in it. Engaging this icon will turn it orange and engage Keyboard Focus mode, also known as Alphabet or A/Z mode. More More...
Ableton Live: 25 Pro-Tips Tutorial
Save For The Future If you’re creating sounds to use in future projects there are two ways to make them easy to fully recall. To save the instrument and its associated audio plug-ins, highlight all of the devices More...
Logic Studio: 25 Pro-Tips Tutorial
Buss Automation Audio, instrument and MIDI tracks all appear in the Arrange area’s track list, but you’ll struggle to immediately find equivalent tracks for your project’s aux faders (either running More...
Reason Tutorial: 25 Pro-Tips
Quickly Create Automation Lanes Practically any parameter in Reason can be automated, but normally you have to start recording automation to activate an automation lane for that particular control. However, if More...
Re-Creating Old-Skool Dance Tutorial
When it comes to rave piano lines, the M1 is the industry standard. From the early acid house scene of the late 80s through early 90s breakbeat to the hardcore and jungle divide, producers of the time developed More...
Cubase 6: 25 Pro-Tips Tutorial
Editing Hitpoints Through Volume If you’re creating loops in Cubase 6 and are trying to create slices in the style of Dr.Rex, the Sample Editor is where you access the controls for this. Cubase 6 includes a feature More...
Cubase 5 Tutorial: 25 Pro-Tips
Customise The Toolbar The area at the top of Cubase’s Project window can be customised to show whatever sets of controls you prefer. Right-click in an empty area and, from the resulting list, choose what is visible More...
Live 8 Tutorial: Performance Controls For A Live Show
Session View can be used for the simplest of performance-based tasks, such as DJ’ing from one song to the next or the live triggering of multiple clips and live manipulation of various musical elements. This More...
Reason 5 Tutorial: Making Beats with Kong Drum Designer
Propellerhead fans have always had access to some pretty impressive drum tech. Even the company’s very early creations – such as the now legendary ReBirth package – offered two classic hardware emulations More...
25 Tips For Audio Editing Tutorial
Work Non-Destructively Most DAWs are non-destructive in the way that they deal with audio edits, meaning that when you cut a file, for example, you are not actually cutting the original but merely referencing the More...
