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  1. How to Use Ableton’s Beat Repeat Effect for Live Performance

    How to Use Ableton’s Beat Repeat Effect for Live Performance

    Tutorial Intermediate

    It’s not exactly news that a lot of people see Ableton Live as one of the best pieces of software for live performance. After relying on Live and a laptop...

  2. How to Use Transient Designers in Your Mixes

    How to Use Transient Designers in Your Mixes

    Tutorial Intermediate

    Not long ago, transient designers were only available as hardware processors. Now, a number of DAWs and plug-ins are dragging the technology into the digital...

  3. 10 Ways to Enhance Performance In Propellerhead's Reason

    10 Ways to Enhance Performance In Propellerhead's Reason

    Tutorial Intermediate

    In this article, we’re going to look at ten things you can do to help maximize the performance of Reason, fix various annoying issues, and avoid CPU strain...

  4. Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Impedance (But Were Afraid To Ask)

    Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Impedance (But Were Afraid To Ask)

    Tutorial Intermediate

    Impedance is something that everyone who records or plays music should know about. It comes in to play every time we plug in an instrument, microphone,...

  5. How to Set Music to Film Using Markers & Timewarp in Cubase 4

    How to Set Music to Film Using Markers & Timewarp in Cubase 4

    Tutorial Intermediate

    If you fancy having a go at composing music to film, one of the first obstacles you will encounter is how to synchronize the music to the action in the film....

  6. How to Set Up Side Chain Compression in Cubase 4

    How to Set Up Side Chain Compression in Cubase 4

    Tutorial Intermediate

    In past tutorials I have covered side chaining in Reason and touched on side chaining effects busses in Logic Pro, but after a few emails on the subject, I...

  7. Warping Tunes for Live Sets with Ableton Live

    Warping Tunes for Live Sets with Ableton Live

    Tutorial Intermediate

    Ableton is fast becoming the tool of choice for the digital DJ and has just about every tool you could ask for when putting together a live show or DJ set....

  8. Using Hitpoints and Markers in Cubase 4 to Create a Tempo Track

    Using Hitpoints and Markers in Cubase 4 to Create a Tempo Track

    Tutorial Intermediate

    Sometimes when you are recording a new track it is good to turn off the metronome and auto-quantize using your software, just hit record, and play from the...

  9. How to Add the Experimental to Electronica, Part 1

    How to Add the Experimental to Electronica, Part 1

    Tutorial Beginner

    It’s a bit of a shame that the abstract electronica genre isn’t thriving commercially the way it used to be. The heyday of labels like Warp Records and...

  10.  Generating Drum Fills With VST Livecut In Cubase 4

    Generating Drum Fills With VST Livecut In Cubase 4

    Tutorial Beginner

    "Livecut" by Smartelectronix is a VST beatslicer effect. It re-arranges the incoming audio in real time and is a great tool for generating drum'n'bass type...

  11. How to Create a Tape Stop Effect

    How to Create a Tape Stop Effect

    Tutorial Intermediate

    Andy Slatter guides you through the process of creating the tape stop effect using Cubase 4.

  12. How to Record the Best Live Drum Sound Ever

    How to Record the Best Live Drum Sound Ever

    Tutorial Intermediate

    Recording drums is a bit of a lost art. Engineers used to spend a year experimenting with mics before they were allowed near a Fairlight or a Synclavia (old...