Today is the time to create something new! Have you ever wondered how to improve your simple noise sweep? I'm going to show you how to do the trick -...

For some synthesists the subject of modulation mapping is one to be avoided. It's hardly surprising considering the average mod matrix is made up of tables,...

Have you ever wondered how your favourite dance music producers create those amazing sounds that make you jump on the dance floor? Well, it usually takes a...

In film, television, and games, vehicle sound has evolved into a deeply creative and compelling class of design. Master sound designers such as Walter Murch,...

In this tutorial we cover how to create synthetic drums perfect for a house/trance track. We're going to create a drum loop with only the synths and effects...

In this tutorial, we're going to work through a hands-on workshop and create several Thor synthesizer patches. Then we'll take our new patches and combine...

If you ever played a game like Half-Life without sound you will acknowledge this: the scare factor comes, at least in large part, from the sound effects....

In this tutorial we will be looking into getting a little bit more out of Logic Pro's Guitar Amp Pro plugin. We are going to bypass Guitar Amp Pro's speaker...

In dance music genres such as house, the bass plays an important role - in many cases being the key to a successful track. This depends not only on the...

A synthesizer is an electronic instrument that reproduces a variety of sounds by generating and combining signals of different frequencies and...

Although Arturia’s Jupiter 8V admittedly isn’t a free synth, it is arguably one of the best analogue emulations on the market. If you are thinking about...

Absynth is one of my favorite tools for sound design, though I don't get a chance to use it nearly as often as I'd like. It has an extremely deep and...