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Soundtrap just revamped their free online music making platform Soundtrap is the Spotify-owned online music making platform that just expanded their free tier enabling anyone to make music anywhere. Soundtrap’s online music making platform did previously offer a free option, however with various limitations. We only had the ability to save up to five basic […]
Serato Studio DAW for DJs has arrived Serato Studio DAW is designed to be user-friendly for DJs and newcomers to music production. We recently covered the announcement of Serato’s first ever DAW and it’s been in Beta testing for a few months, however the launch is now officially here. Serato Studio DAW is a streamlined […]
Ableton Learning Synths is an interactive learning environment Ableton Learning Synths has just launched and it’s a new interactive website aimed at teaching you everything about synthesis. The new website is a great way for music production and sound design beginners to get comfortable with a lot of the parameters and terms you would find […]
Equaliser tutorial – find and remove bad frequencies in your mix In this Equaliser tutorial we look at using an equaliser to pin-point and remove unnecessary or unwanted frequencies from source sounds. We’ve been talking about the equaliser and its importance in making the most of your track in the mixdown stage. Often when listening […]
Equaliser Tips to create separate layers in your mix These Equaliser will hopefully help you with what is arguably one of the most important tools for mixing music. Here’s one of the reasons why… An Equaliser allows you to shape the frequency response of a sound and place it within a specific frequency band, this […]
PreSonus Studio 24c USB-C Audio Interface – Product Spotlight PreSonus recently released their new line of interfaces – the PreSonus Studio 24c is set to be a hit, here’s why… The Run-Down The PreSonus Studio 24c is part of the PreSonus new range of USB-C Audio Interfaces. The range comes in various shapes and sizes […]
What will the next Logic Pro X update offer? The Mac Pro desktops have everyone talking so much, we may have missed out on them announcing a Logic Pro X update. After the public reception on the previous Mac Pro desktop, that looked a bit like a trash can, one would have thought that Apple […]
United Plugins launches with 40% off three new plugins… United Plugins is a new umbrella company focused on delivering a wide variety of audio plugins from various developers. The United Plugins brand is launching with a promotional package of three plugins however so far onboard are JMG Music, FireSonic, SounDevice Digital and a little bit […]
Create Goa-style effects using a free Roland SH-101 plugin The Roland SH-101 is a classic synthesizer, it’s capable of creating everything from soaring leads to quirky “alien sounds”. The synth was incredibly compact and versatile for the time which made it very popular, it was also relatively well-priced considering what else was available. The accessibility […]
Ableton Live 10.1 update is here – this is what’s new… The new Ableton Live 10.1 update is all about the small details, they’ve added user wavetables, shortcuts and devices. Since the introduction of their new flagship synthesizer, Wavetable, Ableton users have been requesting the ability to load up custom sounds to use as oscillators […]
