SOUND ON SOUND
As Apple and Spotify mark out the boundaries of the sharing culture, copyright owners are still looking for ways to make their music pay in a digital age.
We speculate on Apples direction for music, as revealed by the launch of the new Logic Studio suite.
While music software interfaces still lag behind hardware in the tweakability stakes, theres a lot we can do to improve that situation with Mac OSs built-in features.
We round up the latest from the Apple Developers Conference and the implications for Mac musicians.
Part 2: We turn to Logics dynamics processing in our quest for a polished master.
News, tips and advice for Mac-based musicians.
Part 1: Use Logics EQ and SubBass plug-ins to give some mastering polish to your mixes.
With the increasing size of audio files and high-quality sample libraries, a Apple MacBook hard drive that seemed capacious just a couple of years ago may now be straining at the seams — but swapping it for a bigger one is easier than you might think.
Your toolkit for producing polished, contemporary-sounding vocals should include appropriate EQ techniques and subtle ambience processing. Enter the workshop...
Dynamics control without compression, tuning for dummies, and vocoding for fun and profit... There's all this and more in part one of our complete vocal production masterclass.