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Composing and production - 16 Apr 2007
If you experience a block in producing music, you may want to try writing down the concepts you are recording. It is amazing how much you can understand a song when you are the one writing it on paper. If you can, exercise writing without looking at a keyboard. If you stretch your composing abilities, […]
Read Full Post »Free Combinator patches - 30 Mar 2007
I’ve created some free patches for Reason’s Combinator, just for those who read this blog. The first one, DX piano, is a wide, lush replication of an electric piano, similar to a DX-7 E-piano, with its own characteristics. Very playable as an electric piano for “padding out” arrangements in places where a pad […]
Read Full Post »Beat layering - 14 Mar 2007
Making drum tracks thick enough can be quite the challenge sometimes, especially if you’re using programmed drums or loops. A great solution is to throw a few more drum tracks on top of it - I like to pop open a couple of canned loops, whether my own or off-the-shelf. However, you can make a […]
Read Full Post »Reason Tips: Multiband Limiting - 09 Mar 2007
Chances are, if you’re already producing music, that you have run into the issue of compression, limiting, and general loudness. Not only does the right average volume level keep your tracks at the same volume as all the commercial songs, it is also more convincing to listen to. There are a lot of places that […]
Read Full Post »C-Thru Music’s AXiS natural keyboard - 08 Mar 2007
I was thinking of doing something other than a product highlight, but my plans changed when I saw this. This is another one of those one-product start-up companies like I’ve been highlighting, and their product is actually quite similar to the monome 40h and the genoQs Octopus in the way of MIDI control. But, like […]
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