Music Production

  Making a stellar DJ mix shouldn’t be locked to having CDJs and a mixer. In this video I’ll show you how to make them in Ableton Live by stitching songs together- warping tracks, locking them to the grid, BPM automating, adjusting EQ, gain, filter, and adding effects between different ...

I had a chance to sit down with the MODX and get to explore its capabilities. In this video I’ll tell you what I like and what I don’t like about it, as well as put it to use in a real-world studio scenario by synthesizing some sounds & using ...

The S2400 has some of the best groove and punch on the planet. It also has Choke Groups that can make sounds cut each other off, creating a gating effect between the various sounds in your songs. Combined, this makes for a SERIOUSLY awesome sounding drum machine sampler, but getting ...

Alright- some of the people on the S2400 forum were requesting those of us who had our units make more video content for them to watch while they were waiting for their units. I’ve never actually made a video before actually learning a piece of gear inside and out, but ...

Granular synthesis has for a long time been an integral technique used by sampler and synthesis fanatics everywhere. It’s a powerful technique where a “grain” or small snippet of a sample is used as the base sound or waveform of a larger sounding synthesizer preset, typically made with a digital ...

So, something that bugged me about my music for a LONG time was my drums- especially with my house music because the pro’s- my favorite artists- their drums had this bounce and polish to them that I could never seem to figure out. I was sure that it was some ...

Alright so, as long as I’ve been making music I’ve always searched low and high for ways to make my own sound unique- to make everything that I make stand out in some way that differs from the rest. Now, probably to my own detriment, I’m going to share with ...

  Hardware synthesizers: Elektron Digitone – the simple fact that it’s sitting on my desk, just to the right of my computer keyboard staring me in the face forces me to make sounds in it. While I use my VSTs to make sounds all the time, and technically they’re more ...

I’ve heard of some confusion on how to sync the Roland TR-8S with their computer- when should I use USB audio? Why is the timing off when I use MIDI sync over USB? How can I tighten up the timing when recording my drum tracks? In this video I’ve addressed ...