Are you bored of always using the same old libraries and samples? Would you like to have your own, unique, organic sounds for your music projects? Today we’re going to show you how to create a beat from scratch with samples recorded in a kitchen, by using just an audio recorder to capture the sound …
Transitions between different sections of a track are key to its development, since they help the music flow when they’re properly executed, but certain arrangement and structure decisions can make this process a bit more complicated. Some people use sampled based effects from libraries, such as sweeps, risers, downlifters and so on, and they are …
On August 10th, 2021, Aulart had the honor of presenting, in the Auditorium of the Jaume Fuster Library in Barcelona, the autobiographical book of the Argentine international DJ Hernan Cattaneo: “El Sueño del Dj: Memorias”, in which he explains his extensive career and what it has meant for him to fulfill his dream of dedicating …
A few weeks ago, we talked about creating your own slicing presets in Ableton Live, a process that allows you to load, manipulate and transform samples easily and almost instantly. Today we’re going to use that preset to show you the possibilities of processing sounds with this kind of workflow. In the clip below, Dave …
If you feel like the low end of your tracks doesn’t sound as good as the ones of professional producers and engineers, we’re going to show you a technique that you might not know about which has been used in studios around the world for years. This process, which will allow you to easily get …
If you want to create music with your computer, there’s something you’re absolutely going to need before anything else: a DAW. Digital Audio Workstations are a kind of software designed for recording, composing, sequencing, processing and editing audio, meaning it’s basically the center of any music studio. Nowadays the market is full of different DAWs. …
Behringer, the controversial music gear manufacturer, has already released two different clones of the iconic Roland TB-303: TD-3 and TD-3 MO – a brand new modded unit with very interesting additions. They both have great sound and a very appealing price which together with the current hype around the Acid sound have led these machines …
Technology in the music production field keeps on advancing and evolving seamlessly, with loads of new instruments, effects and libraries being released every week. The price might be a problem though, especially if you’re getting started and don’t want to invest huge amounts of money in something that you’re not sure of. But when it …
In today’s post, we’re going to discuss 5 very common mistakes that producers usually make in their mixes when they’re first starting out, so you can understand why it’s important to avoid them and how to do it. All of these mistakes are somehow related to psychoacoustics, the science that looks into the way our …
Today we’re going to take a look at how to create your own loop slicing presets, so you can quickly tweak and manipulate them once you load them on a MIDI track. First, we open a new Live project and create an empty MIDI track. Then, we load an empty Drum Rack from the ‘drums’ …
