April 16, 2019 | Blog, Music Synthesis
Arpeggiators are perhaps one of the simplest and most audibly recognizable sequencing tools available. They originated in the early days of hardware synthesizers. In essence, an arpeggiator is a very basic real-time sequencer which takes a chord as an input and turns...
July 1, 2021 | Audio Processing, Blog
Many different percussive sounds can be used in the rhythm section of your mix, but one of the most overlooked is the shaker. Shakers come in many different varieties. They all sound different. Their name comes from the method used to create sound with them – moving...
July 12, 2021 | Audio Processing, Blog
Drums are a cornerstone element in most modern dance mixes. They provide a lot of emotion and feel to a song without any melodic background. They’re complex by nature and frequently span the whole audible frequency range. This makes them quite challenging to...
June 11, 2021 | Instruments, Resources
The Bongo drum, better known as the bongos, is a type of Afro-Cuban percussion instrument made up of two small open-bottomed drums of different sizes. The larger drum of this pair is called “hembra”, female in Spanish, and the smaller drum...
