IO Music Academy is a music production education facility located in Hollywood California. When the Covid-19 pandemic shut down the globe, IO Music Academy saw an opportunity to help provide artists with a bit of income by offering online courses with some of the electronic music scene's finest producers, and invite students to learn the secret sauce of some of their favorite … [Read more...] about Learn Music Production with Ableton Live for Free
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Synthesizer Love: Moog Subsequent 37
It's been about 2 months since I ordered a Moog Subsequent 37 synthesizer. I was using Arturia's Minimoog emulation VST on a lot of my tracks and with my wedding approaching rapidly knew that I had to get it now or end up having to wait until after the wedding to buy any new gear. Since I received the Moog synthesizer, I have not written a song that doesn't feature it as the … [Read more...] about Synthesizer Love: Moog Subsequent 37
Using Main Return Tracks with Drum Rack Sends
Using Return tracks can be a great way to add cohesion and help glue sounds together in the mix. Instead of having individual reverbs and saturators on channels, using one instance to process all of your tracks can also help save on CPU utilization. What happens though if you want to use sends and returns on an instance of Ableton's default instrument, Drum Rack? Ableton's … [Read more...] about Using Main Return Tracks with Drum Rack Sends
Kali Audio LP-6 Review
I've been in the market for new studio monitors for a few years now. I bought my KRK RokIt 5 2nd Generation studio monitors back in 2010 when I was writing music as Dirty Machine Language with my roommate at the time. I was 20, working at a burger place and hustling cannabis on the side. Money was tight and our townhouse was small, so that's what I went with. A buddy had some … [Read more...] about Kali Audio LP-6 Review
Ableton Tips for Owning Your Loop Samples
With the rise of Splice, and more and more sample companies opting for releasing loop heavy packs, producers often find themselves in one of two predicaments: Either you think using loops is cheating and a waste of time. (Hello). Or you use loops but find that just dragging in the basic loop doesn't always add the pizazz to your track that you're looking for. We'll go over a … [Read more...] about Ableton Tips for Owning Your Loop Samples