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3 Saturation & Distortion Plugins That Aren’t A Waste of Money

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Music production has changed a lot since I first started writing beats in FL Studio 4 back in the very early 2000s. I didn't really know what a VST plugin was, nor could I afford them being 11 years old and all. Computing power has increased significantly the last two decades, and ingenuity in programming has lead to some really awesome sounds coming from some plugins. Let … [Read more...] about 3 Saturation & Distortion Plugins That Aren’t A Waste of Money

Using Main Return Tracks with Drum Rack Sends

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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

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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

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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

Ableton 11 Groove Pool Tips and Workflow

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If you're reading this, then chances are you're into music that fits a traditional fixed grid system, typically with 4x4 or broken beats, funky bass riffs, and other rhythmic fills. Typically in a 4/4 time signature, one bar of music is broken into four beats, and each of those four beats is broken down into 16th notes. If you were to lay down a note to be played on each 16th … [Read more...] about Ableton 11 Groove Pool Tips and Workflow