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Best Maschine tutorials for beat making and performing in 2024
Native Instruments Maschine is a powerful music-making tool that features a broad array of capabilities, and many ways that it can be integrated into a production or performance setup. These...
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Working with sample packs: how to create dynamic tracks
Sample packs are a good way to expand your sonic palette, and can help give you inspiration to make new music. Sample packs can include both loops and one-shot sounds, and in this guide on how to use...
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What is voice leading? How to create smooth, harmonic progressions
As contemporary composers, producers, and beatmakers, we may not always gravitate towards classical music. Perhaps we assume its style is conservative or outdated. But there is timeless compositional...
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6 creative reverb effects you’ll wish you’d known sooner
Reverb is a powerful tool for manipulating the sense of space in your audio mixes. It can turn dry and dull recordings into stadium-shaking, diva-belting, out-of-this-world tracks. Tag along as we...
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Music production 101: How to start producing music
What is music production? Nowadays, it most often refers to the full journey of creating a piece of recorded music: from the initial spark of inspiration through to writing, recording, shaping sounds...
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Must-know drum fills and how to program them with MIDI
Drum fills are a variation in a drum part’s rhythmic pattern, usually for one of two bars, and in the context of a piece of music they serve two primary purposes: Drum fills help to define the end of...
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How to make a Leap kit with Kontakt
Leap is a Kontakt 8 feature for jamming with samples live, and in Creating beats with Leap, modern loop engine we looked at getting started using the Leap kits included with Kontakt 8. This time,...
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Essential audio effects and how to use them
Reverb. Delay. Compression. Flanger. Chorus. You’ve probably heard of these types of audio effects in your beatmaking or production journey. But what exactly are these things? Put simply, they are...
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How to make a soulful score with Fables
Based on meticulous recordings of traditional classical instruments with real-time FX processing and layering, Fables is a Kontakt instrument designed for creating evocative atmospheres and lush...
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What is modular DJing?
You might have heard that modular setups are a flexible, creative, and portable option for DJs, but what exactly does modular mean and how do you know if it’s right for you? Unlike all-in-one...
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How to customize Traktor Z1 MK2 for DJing
Traktor Z1 MK2 can be quickly customized to suit your DJing style and personal preferences. Customizing this portable controller is easier than ever using Traktor’s Preferences. In just a few minutes,...
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9 music trends to look out for in 2025
We live in exciting times for the music industry. New technologies, shifting social habits, and global upheaval mean that the music world is changing fast. The rules that have governed the industry...
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Enhance your drum beats with Neutron 5 Transient Shaper
Transient processing is one of the simplest and quickest ways to improve the sound of your drums, and multiband transient processing in particular affords you the ability to both make your beats hit...
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Mastering club-ready dance music with Ozone: Nihil Young’s advice on...
Mastering is the final polish that takes your song from great to radio-ready, making it punchy, warm, and powerful enough to stand out on big systems – whether in a club or a festival setting. While...
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How to program your first sounds with Massive X
Getting started with virtual instrument plugins can be intimidating, especially when dealing with more advanced synthesisers – and there are few synths as advanced as Massive X! In this guide on how...
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Going beyond reverb and delay for making better ambient atmospheres
While ambient music thrives on space and texture, it’s not the only genre in the game that uses, if not needs, texture and space to sound its best. While reverb and delay are great for creating space,...
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Why layering is the secret to making VST strings sound human
One of the great things about being a music producer today is the accessibility of high-quality sounds. With just a few clicks, you can have choirs, orchestras, brass ensembles, synthesizers, and more...
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5 ways to use MIDI generators in music production
MIDI generators often get boxed in as a quick-fix tool for knocking out melodies or chord progressions when you’re stuck. And sure, they’re great for that, but to stop there is selling them short....
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Using Guitar Rig for an analog sound: How Hyperbits gets warm results...
Gone are the days when music producers would need a million-dollar studio to achieve million-dollar results; this accessibility has been one of the biggest shifts in the music production space over...
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7 production moves chart-topping organic house producers are using
Organic house music has dominated the scene over the past few years and for a good reason. It’s a genre that thrives in different spaces – perfect for daytime parties where fans don’t need to stay out...
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