Using reverse drum hits is a great way to enhance a drum pattern or mix things up in an arrangement because it reuses the existing sounds, creates tension, and easily adds interest. Download audio file (afReverseDrumHits.mp3) Step 1: Starting Pattern First, here is the pattern well be starting with. It uses four sounds from the [...]

A friend brings you a multi-tracked session recorded with another DAW. Before diving in to the mix, send him looking for coffee and a newspaper, and take time to organize your project and optimize the work area. You will save time and gain in efficiency. Some say Less is more. Now lets say No stress, [...]

This is a subject I touched on briefly in a previous tutorial on gating and people were pretty interested in the technique. This tutorial aims to show the various ways of creating the effect in more detail. Ive used Logic but this can be achieved in pretty much any DAW that supports native side chaining [...]

Groove templates can be very useful when making music, and Logic makes it quite easy for you to make your own and use them in your projects. However a little homework is required and there are a few tricks to doing it right. Thats what this tutorial is all about. I would like to mention [...]

Gated Vocal effects are a cool way of adding extra rhythmic variations and dynamics to you tunes. Especially, genres like progressive and psy trance make extensive use of those techniques enhancing the overall rhythm and adding a sense of spirituality, if you like. I am going to be showing you various ways of achieving this [...]

Kicking off a new series of expanded, in-depth Basix tutorials, this is the first in a series of articles designed to guide you step-by-step through the process of setting up and using guitar amp simulation in your recordings. Beginning with the fundaments, we’ll work through some simple scenarios and work our way up to advanced [...]

When you listen to 80% of the dynamic and action-oriented orchestral music, youll notice that when used appropriately, orchestral hits can bring tense feeling to your tracks. In this short tutorial, Ill give you some advice about how to combine different patches. Step 1: Planning Your Orchestration When you write music for orchestra, you write [...]

If you are working in Reason its highly likely you will be utilising the side chain capability of the MClass compressor. As with everything in Reason the process of setting up a side chain is totally open-ended and because of this its possible to use one sound as a global side chain source, across a [...]