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16/08/2024
Keyswitching with Smaller Keyboards
By Craig Anderton Keyswitch keys enhance expressiveness by letting you trigger various real-time articulations for instruments like strings, brass, guitars, an...
09/08/2024
How to Get the Most Out of the Channel Editor
By Craig Anderton The Channel Editor places all of a mixer Channel's elements-level fader, inserts, sends, individual effects, input controls, routing, mac...
02/08/2024
Free Download: 25 Analog Cab IRs!
By Craig Anderton Yes, just click here to download 25 Analog Cab IRs.zip. The IRs are 1024 samples long, 48 kHz, 24-bit, and mono, so they work with pretty muc...
26/07/2024
Creative FX Sound Design
By Craig Anderton It's been a while since we've had a post for sound design fans. So, let's create some crazy FX for sci-fi/suspense/horror movies,...
24/07/2024
Brandon Ellis | Take the Leap | Quantum Audio Interfaces
The Black Dahlia Murder guitarist and New Jersey native talks about taking his leap. A life in music requires passion, creativity, dedication - and for many cr...
19/07/2024
A Dive Into Inside-Out Mixing
By Craig Anderton There's no right or wrong way to mix. For example, many successful engineers adjust individual tracks, and then mix groups of tracks....
12/07/2024
5 Session-Saving Tips for Studio One
By Craig Anderton I admit it: the following tips are based on personally embarrassing experiences. I like to work fast to keep the creative juices flowing, but...
05/07/2024
The Ultimate Creative Block Unlock
By Craig Anderton You've probably seen ads for packs of MIDI chords that claim to help you write hits that will make your listeners' jaws drop in amaze...
28/06/2024
Grab Cab Impulses for Ampire from Any Amp Sim
By Craig Anderton Some of my favorite guitar sounds involve using Ampire's amp, bypassing its cab, and adding a cab from the Helix Native plugin. Others in...
26/06/2024
Mad Keys | Take the Leap | Quantum Audio Interfaces
The self-taught multi-instrumentalist and St. Louis native talks about taking his leap. A life in music requires passion, creativity, and dedication - and for ...
21/06/2024
Dynamics Processing for MIDI Velocity
By Craig Anderton Sure, you can follow your virtual instrument with an audio compressor. But there's a problem: an instrument's dynamics and expressive...
20/06/2024
KOTA the Friend & RMB Justize | Studio One x TuneCore
Watch the independent artist and Wiz Khalifa producer cook up a song in a single day Imagine meeting someone for the first time and making a song together. Tha...
14/06/2024
Studio One's Keyswitching Secrets
By Craig Anderton Announcement: The 2nd Edition of The Huge Book of Studio One Tips and Tricks is now available as a free download for owners of previous versi...
07/06/2024
Unlock New, Unique Vocoder Effects
By Craig Anderton Usually, the Vocoder inserts into a track that provides the modulation, and the Vocoder's sidechain receives the carrier. But why be norm...
06/06/2024
Louis Michot | Take the Leap | Quantum Audio Interfaces
The GRAMMY-winning fiddler, songwriter, and New Orleans native talks about taking his leap. A life in music requires passion, creativity, dedication - and for ...
31/05/2024
A Guitar Solo Trick You've Never Heard Before
By Craig Anderton Let's get right to what this sounds like. It's not quite feedback or tape reverse, it's well, listen to what it does in this blue...
24/05/2024
Add Punch & Snap to Drum Hits
By Craig Anderton A Pro EQ3 stage's gain can respond dynamically to incoming signal level, so that louder inputs kick the gain higher (or lower). But Studi...
22/05/2024
How To Distribute Your Music with Studio One From Creation to Digital Streaming Platforms
If you're a PreSonus user, you're probably pretty hands-on in producing ...
17/05/2024
Studio One: Your Binaural Beats Lab
By Craig Anderton When I heard about binaural beats, I was interested-I like beats, and I'm into binaural audio. But this has nothing to do with either o...
15/05/2024
The Pocket Queen | Take the Leap | Quantum Audio Interfaces
Professional drummer, producer, and New Orleans native talks about taking the leap. A life in music requires passion, creativity, and dedication - and for many...
08/05/2024
Introducing the All-New Quantum Audio Interfaces
Take the Leap with the Next Generation of PreSonus Audio Interfaces MEET THE ALL-NEW FAMILY OF QUANTUM AUDIO INTERFACES The culmination of nearly 30 years of ...
08/05/2024
INTRODUCING QUANTUM
Take the Leap with the Next Generation of PreSonus Audio Interfaces MEET THE ALL-NEW FAMILY OF QUANTUM AUDIO INTERFACES The culmination of nearly 30 years of ...
03/05/2024
Groove Hacking with Multiband Gating
by Craig Anderton About four years ago, I did a tip on multiband gating. Although it was a cool effect, it was guitar-centric, cumbersome to edit, and time-con...
26/04/2024
The Real-Time 6-to-12-String Guitar Converter
By Craig Anderton With this technique, when you play a standard 6-string electric guitar, you'll hear the rich, vibrant sound of a 12-string guitar. The pr...
19/04/2024
Impact XT's Secret Clip-Launching Talents
By Craig Anderton Impact XT can launch clips, which is great for songwriting (see the blog post Songwriting with Impact XT). But few people realize that Impact...
12/04/2024
Make Better Mixes with Selective EQ
By Craig Anderton Good mixes often depend on carving out a unique sonic space for each instrument, so you can hear them clearly. Sometimes carving out that spa...
05/04/2024
Multitimbral Magic with MIDI Guitar
By Craig Anderton MIDI guitars are a niche product, because the learning curve can be daunting for some guitar players. However, I'm surprised how many pro...
29/03/2024
Avoid Collaboration Concerns
By Craig Anderton As the universe of Studio One users grows, so do opportunities for collaboration. But your collaborator may not be using the same version of ...
22/03/2024
Create Rhythmic Alchemy with the BeatCoder
By Craig Anderton Over three years ago, I wrote a blog post on how to make a drumcoder. Its design was somewhat like a vocoder-drum audio served as a modulat...
15/03/2024
Make Stereo Downmixes More Immersive
By Craig Anderton One of Atmos's coolest features is scalability. No matter how complex your Atmos project may be, you can render it as Binaural, 5.1, 5.1....
13/03/2024
Studio One: A Brief Exploration with Great Good Fine Okay
Watch the Brooklyn Synthpop duo remix their song Blame in Studio One Less than 24 hours after meeting each other, producer Luke Moellman and vocalist Jon San...
10/03/2024
Stamp Out Boring Flanging!
By Craig Anderton The impetus behind this design was wanting to add envelope flanging to amp sims like Ampire. But there's a problem: most amp sim outputs ...
01/03/2024
Creating Room Ambiance with Virtual Mics
By Craig Anderton Supplementing close-miking techniques with room mics gives acoustic sounds a life-like sense of space. Typically, this technique involves pla...
27/02/2024
Notion Mobile 3.3 Now Available
Notion Mobile v3 took mobile music creation to the next level with support for iOS, Android, Windows, Fire OS and macOS. Now v3.3 adds many enhancements and fix...
26/02/2024
The Sweet Spot with Grammy-Nominated Producer 6ix
Logic's Grammy-nominated producer breaks down his Sweet Spot. Before he found success as an avant-garde hip hop producer, 6ix was just 30 units shy of a de...
25/02/2024
The Sweet Spot with Multi-Platinum Producer Warren Huart
The Grammy-nominated multi-Platinum producer breaks down his Sweet Spot. From the studio with chart-topping artists like Aerosmith and The Fray, to empowering ...
23/02/2024
Don't Make This Mixing Mistake!
By Craig Anderton Do you think of mixes in absolute terms, or relative terms? Knowing the difference, and when to apply which approach, can make a huge differe...
16/02/2024
Tuff Beats
By Craig Anderton Calling all beats/hip-hop/EDM/hard rock fans: This novel effects starts with drums modulating the Vocoder's white noise carrier, and take...
09/02/2024
Reinvent Your Stereo Panning
This tip is about working with stereo, NOT about Dolby Atmos or surround-but we're going to steal some of what Atmos does to reinvent stereo panning. Stud...
07/02/2024
Studio One: Mix in a New Dimension with Jeff Ellis
The GRAMMY-winning recording and mix engineer shows us how he uses Studio One to create an artful immersive mix. Jeff Ellis is a force to be reckoned with. The...
02/02/2024
Presence Electric 12-String (the Artist Version Remix)
Presence's sound library includes a fine acoustic 12-string guitar, but not an electric one. So, perhaps it's not surprising that one of the more popula...
26/01/2024
Faster, Simpler, and Better Comping
At first, this might not seem too exciting. But follow the directions below, and try comping using this method-I don't think you'll be disappointed. Thi...
19/01/2024
How to Quickly Slash Your Latency
You know the feeling: You're tracking or doing an overdub with a virtual instrument or amp sim, but you're frustrated by the excessive latency inherent ...
12/01/2024
How to Fix Phase Issues
Recording audio using more than one feed from the same source may create phase issues. For example, when miking a bass amp and taking a DI (dry) input, the DI&#...
05/01/2024
Bigger, Wider Sounds: Try Stereo Miking
If you haven't experimented yet with mid-side stereo miking, you'll be in for a treat when you do. Here's why: Record background singers with gorge...
29/12/2023
How to Prioritize Vocals with Mix Ducking
This complements the tip Better Ducking for Voiceovers and Podcasts and the tip Why I Don't Use Compression Anymore. It applies the concept of voiceover duc...
22/12/2023
Should You Use Highpass Filters when Mixing?
Engineers sometimes advocate using high-pass filters to clean up the low end and tighten the sound. Others believe that because of issues inherent in highpass...
20/12/2023
Studio One: A Brief Exploration with Josh Cumbee
The GRAMMY-nominated artist, producer, and songwriter shows us how he uses Studio One to cook a musical idea from scratch. Josh Cumbee is a triple threat: The ...
15/12/2023
Why I Don't Use Compressors Anymore
This wasn't a conscious decision, or something I planned. But when I looked through my last few songs while seeking candidates for a book's screenshots,...
08/12/2023
Phrasing-The Final Correction Frontier
First, a follow-up: In the October 13 tip about creating Track Presets for parallel processing, I mentioned that Track Presets can't include buses, which is...
