music production

In an effort to meticulously emulate the high-gain Mesa Boogie guitar amp, Kuassa has now released a new digital audio dynamic effect, Amplifikation Rectifor, which makes it the company's fifth guitar amp simulator they have launched to date. And at the time of writing, there is a generous...

Hey all, in this easy-to-follow tutorial series, you will learn how to create a basic Zimdancehall instrumental from scratch or a blank canvas with stock and third-party VST plugins. Although I use Image-Line's FL Studio as my primary DAW, you can pretty much do the same thing in any music...

Last year in December 2021, Impact Soundworks released Tokyo Scoring Strings, an NI Kontakt sample library containing the sounds of Koichiro Muroya. Now, fast forward to January 2022, Tokyo Scoring Strings, id est Impact Soundworks' flagship orchestral string library, has recently been updated...

The whole SaaS or subscription-based business model being adopted by numerous professional audio software developers (e.g. iZotope, Inc., Waves Audio Ltd., etc) and digital audio workstation developers (e.g. Avid Technology, Inc. Pro Tools, Reason Studios, etc). Do y'all think Klaus Martin...

The title says it all. I am wondering what's the quality factor (bandwidth) to set FabFilter Software Instruments Pro-Q to one octave. Is that Q 1.414 like what most people suggest on YouTube?

What are some of your go-to settings in the event that you choose to use iZotope Ozone Vintage EQ, particularly for audio mastering?

Myuuzik software company Audiomodern has launched Chordjam, an on-the-fly myuuzik composition assistant for Apple macOS and Microsoft Windows on popular professional audio plugin formats such as VST, VST3, AU, AAX, and as well as for di iPad. Som a di inchresin features a Chordjam plug-in...

What would y'all recommend as a general-purpose go to best settings for FabFilter Pro-L VST mastering limiter?

This sound design tutorial shows how to make a basic electric piano using Native Instruments' Massive VST wavetable synthesizer. 1) Initialize Massive VST to its default preset. 2) For Oscillator 1 choose a "Sin-Squ" wavetable, and turn the wavetable position knob completely to the...

A MIDI keyboard is a musical device often used with music production software (DAW) via a USB connection to play various virtual instrument plug-ins (e.g., AAXs, VSTs, AUs, etc.) or trigger drum samples. Note: A MIDI keyboard does not produce sound but sends messages to a music production...

In music production software, dBFS (decibels relative to full scale or full code) and dBTP (decibels relative to true peak) are both units of audio measurements used in the digital domain, but the two aren't quite interchangeable. dBTP is essentially a way to gauge extra volume above zero, aka...

Yes, you can use both Image-Line Maximus and Fruity Limiter software audio plug-in at the same time for your audio mastering needs. This is what you would refer to as your mastering chain where the signal goes from IL Fruity Limiter to Maximus or vice-versa. If you like to keep things simple...

A non-technical and simple explanation you need to know about the difference between 32-bit and 64-bit audio plugins is that 64-bit audio plugins provide better performance compared to 32-bit audio plugins. 64-bit plugins can access huge amounts of primary memory, whilst 32-bit audio plugins are...

In music production, an audio compressor is a sound effect (i.e., either an analog hardware unit or a digital audio software plugin) designed to reduce the dynamic range (DR) of the source material or entire mix as a means to either smoothly or aggressively control volume fluctuations...

A brickwall limiter is an audio signal processing effect either found in a physical hardware form or as a digital audio software plug-in extension (i.e., VST, AAX, AU plug-ins, etc) and is for the most part used in audio post-production (or audio mastering) to make music (or the program...

This sound design tutorial shows you how to make a basic electric piano using the digital audio software plug-in Xfer Records Serum inside Image-Line's FL Studio (DAW).

What's the appropriate amount of dB gain reduction you should do with Waves L2 Ultramaximizer mastering limiter?

Is oversampling enabled in iZotope's Ozone Maximizer by default?

A DAW (digital audio workstation) is a computer program or mobile software (i.e., an iOS or Android application) used by your favorite recording artists, music producers, film composers, sound designers, and audio engineers as a virtual environment to create intellectual property so that you as...

This sound synthesis tutorial shows how to design a basic 808 bass drum using the virtual analog synthesizer LennarDigital Sylenth1 in FL Studio (DAW). The final sound is perhaps more suitable for hip-hop music production e.g., trap music. But it can somewhat blend well with other genres of...