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This month's tracks are from Madonna, Justin Bieber, Elbow, Maroon 5 and Flo Rida.

Editor In Chief, Paul White questions vintage gear plug-ins.

When TV composers talk about archiving, they usually mean backing up their hard drives.

Milk-Plus, Animation, The Badje, Caution Horses, Damien Calcagne, Jack Jeffery, Black Storm, Matteo Bosi.

Need more space? Lose the cymbals!

We examine the production of some recent releases from Paul McCartney, The Maccabees and Fun.

I don't get the point of telephone text messages, I really don't! Come on guys, speech transmission was established as a...

Most of the time, TV composers are happy if anyone notices their music. It’s when people start to like it that the trouble starts.

Dave Gerard & The Watchmen, Knive Eight, A Glance Beyond Nature, Seed, Adam Dawson, My Name Is Earl, Dream Baby Dream.

Whether you're the one producing the music or are simply listening for pleasure, the music itself must always be an emotional experience — because if it isn't, what's the point?

We examine the production of some recent hit records by Flo Rida, Kelly Clarkson abd Michael Kiwanuka.

While the term 'first do no harm' may embody the spirit of the Hippocratic Oath, the phrase itself is apparently absent from...

Can’t find what you want in a music library? No problem. Just hire a composer to write it for nothing!

Mike Senior asks - Should artists receive credit for their music on moral as well as legal grounds?

• Sean Kingston 'Party All Night' • Gotye 'Somebody That I Used To Know' • Olly Murs 'Heart Skips A Beat' • Carly Rae Jepsen 'Call Me Maybe'

It's no secret that today's music production requires both left-brain and right-brain functions, and although neuroscientists...

If you thought music for media was a tough job to get into, you should see how hard it is to get out of.

Dr Douglas Doherty discusses the point.

Have your say for a chance to win an AKG C12VR mic worth £5,700 / $5,499!

Commercial Productions Analysed: Rebecca Ferguson • David Guetta • Professor Green

While technology continues to march ahead, the cold reality is that the musical hardware and software available five years ago almost certainly already did everything...