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Pro Tools offers punch-in features designed to make it work like a tape machine - except that you can change your mind later about where, when and what to drop in...

We explain how to tweak your tracks with MOTU's answer to Sony's Oxford EQ and speed up your workflow with the essential DP keyboard shortcut selection!

If you want to incorporate live drumming into your sequencer-based productions, your drummer will almost certainly have to play along to some sort of click track. However, if you're not careful, it could easily end up being more a hindrance than a help.

We evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of different on-stage playback machines, and offer advice on how to avoid those embarrassing live backing-track pitfalls!

Subtle adjustments of your tempo track is a much overlooked way of changing the mood of sequences. Craig Anderton explains how to do it.

Five years in the making, Netflix’s smash hit animated movie tested its music production team to the limit.

Aviram Barath’s musical direction inspired rapper Loyle Carner to work with a live band for his hit album hopefully!

There is nothing ordinary about the success of Alex Warren’s breakthrough hit — or its signature sound, created by producer Adam Yaron.

FKA Twigs has worked with many big‑name producers, but it was experimental electronic artist Koreless who guided the making of her new hit album Eusexua.

IK Multimedia have announced that the latest version of their flagship mixing and mastering software plug-in suite is now available.

Harrisons latest plug-in models the input, EQ and dynamics sections of their recently released 32Classic analogue console.

IK Multimedia take home-studio mastering to the MAX — and beyond!

The minimal arrangement of Ellie Goulding's unlikely New Year number one was underpinned by a rather less minimal mix...

After unknown busker Tones and I teamed up with unknown producer Konstantin Kersting, she soon became very well known indeed!

Modern rap might be minimalist, but that doesn't mean it's easy to mix — especially when, as on DaBaby's Kirk album, the vocals were tracked in a hotel room.

In a world where almost everyone is mixing ‘in the box’, Mark Ralph and Clean Bandit have gone the other way.

Beyoncé and Jay-Z topped charts worldwide with their album Everything Is Love. Stu White was the engineer who made it possible.

K‑pop is a truly global music style, and BTS’s successful assault on the US charts was led by a British mix engineer.

When Grammy-winning engineer Vance Powell has to track an entire record in a day, you can rest assured he has some tricks up his sleeve…

Pair Track Stacks with Smart Controls to create unique layered instruments in Logic!