Jul 29, 2020 | Instruments, Resources
The acoustic bass guitar is an instrument from the guitar family tree. It’s also known as acoustic bass or by the initials ABG. Much like a steel-string acoustic guitar, it has a wooden hollow body, though it’s usually larger in size. The acoustic bass... 
November 1, 2018 | Blog, Music Synthesis
INTRODUCTION Today I’ve made a pad synth in FM8 that might remind you of something from an ambient Squarepusher track like Tundra or Tommib. It consists of 3 carriers, enveloping, frequency modulation, low-pass filtering, and reverb. The patch is easy to... 
October 10, 2019 | Blog, Music Composition
Hocketing Hocketing is a compositional technique used to develop one long musical idea into a more interesting sequence by dividing it into shorter phrases and distributing them among instruments with similar sounds. The technique has proved to be effective... Jun 24, 2020 | Instruments
The violin is a mechanically simple but acoustically complex instrument. Interestingly, it was not progressively developed and improved over time, but suddenly appeared around 1550, in its current form. The two oldest violin-makers in history were from northern Italy:... 
June 12, 2019 | Blog, Music Composition
So you’re a composer, huh? What’s your real job? You must be really good with classical music… Are you sick of hearing this? Me too. Proper composing requires hard work, time, and commitment. Early in your composing practice, especially when facing obstacles and... 
