music production

How do you get that super low vocal sound in EDM or pop music?

Watch Venus Theory as he demonstrates some of the cool features of UVI Dual Delay X audio software plug-in.

Hello, everyone! I'm new to singing and song production, and I recently encountered an issue while recording. As I was finalizing my latest track, I noticed that my vocals were not in sync with the song's beat. I'm not sure how to properly address this problem, and I was hoping some of you could...

Are you looking for one-of-a-kind, delay-based effects to take your recordings to the next level? With PSP 285 semi-modular delay machine, you can create a huge array of delay-based effects with excellent audio quality.

If you need to convert milliseconds to hertz (Hz) you divide the value of ms (milliseconds) into one thousand and the answer you get as your final result is the value in Hz you want. For example, if you want to convert 50 milliseconds to Hz, you gotta use the formula like this: frequency (Hz) =...

A parametric equalizer (EQ) is like a sculptor's tool for shaping sound. Just as a sculptor uses different tools to shape a block of wood into a specific form, a parametric EQ allows a record producer or a sound engineer to adjust specific frequencies of an instrument in order to shape it into...

Synth presets are a great place to start when making music. They can help you quickly produce your record since you may be overwhelmed by so many individual parameters to fiddle with. The same logic applies to sound engineering. FX presets aren't altogether bad. You can further tweak and modify...

An audio plug-in is 3rd party software program that can be added to a digital audio workstation (DAW) to extend its native library. These digital audio extensions are often used as effects, such as audio analyzers, reverb, delay, chorus, compression, and EQ, to correct or enhance sound...

Audio mixing (or just "mixing" in short) is arguably the most pivotal stages in music production from a technical perspective. It has no blueprint because every song is, well, different. Hence, people called "mixers" in the music industry must adhere to rigorous turnaround times during this...

discoDSP's Discovery, a virtual analog synthesizer modeled after Clavia's Nord Lead 2 — released in 1997 — has been updated to version 5.1, and the following changes have been made to the audio software plug-in: New features Fixed bank and preset recall. Fixed VST3 delay mix and pitch...

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...