Sound Bank Diversity Today we have a large number of sound banks at our disposal. They became an inevitable part of music production starting from famous redesigned synthesizers like Moog and Oberheim, all the way to complex live string and drum ensembles....
Become a parallel professor We have covered the use of parallel compression in one of our previous blog articles. It’s a technique whereby you use the compressor as a send effect (you’d traditionally use it as an insert) so that the dry and...
INTRODUCTION Here we are, walking through another hip-hop production process. This time, we are diving into a more synthetic, darker type of hip-hop, hip step. This is an increasingly popular style that features many cliche techniques such as fast hi-hats and...
Nobody can deny that audio processing of drum loops and individual drum sounds requires countless hours of work. Paying attention to details, cutting, moving, and processing it in various ways is something that all producers came across many times. What’s...
This week I am honoring a well known performer in the Boston area, Zhi Zhou, the Erhu player. Check out this blog from Tramminhdao for some background info. I captured a piece of his performance and imported it in Lumit so I could explore his musical themes and let...
INTRODUCTION Drum & Bass is a very dynamic genre. It has evolved so much since the ’90s but is still grounded in acoustic elements. In this blog, I will walk through a more synthetic style of D&B – liquid D&B. For a more detailed walk-through...
