SOUND ON SOUND
These audio files accompany the Creative Convolution: New Sounds From Impulse Responses article.
Today's multi-gigabyte drum libraries include some fantastic sounds and groove presets — but they haven't taken all of the work out of creating a great drum part.
These audio files accompany the Mix Rescue article.
Though often overlooked by beginners, colour adjustments can do a lot for footage, from fixing incorrect camera settings to adding some Hollywood sheen.
In Cubase 5, Steinberg introduced some powerful batch-export options, which have removed many project archiving and transfer frustrations.
If you ever intend to make music to complement visuals, youll need to know the basics of working with video content in Logic Pro.
If youve never used your own samples in Reason, heres how...
Learning how to extract MIDI data from Kontakt will allow our scripts to respond to different user actions in different ways, and even to control entire Kontakt Multis at once.
When you need to really open up your mix, it's time to employ some classic stereo widening tricks. We show you how to implement them in Pro Tools.
In SOUND ON SOUND September 2010s printed magazine (and digital editions), we introduced some innovative methods of recording and processing impulse responses. But if you know how to use a program like MATLAB, you can even generate them from scratch.
We look at how Live handles control surfaces, and offer some tips for configuring and using them.
Use Reaper to create an always-on recorder that captures all the inspiration, but none of the chit-chat.
No matter how brilliant your music is, TV and film producers will never license it if they cant find it...
Although Snow Leopard is growing in popularity, its not without its problems. Lets look at the solution to one of them...
Legendary Black Sabbath frontman Ozzy Osbourne is still rocking in his sixties. The musical powerhouse behind his latest hit album Scream is producer, engineer, songwriter and instrumentalist Kevin Churko.
With official support for USB 3 sorely lacking, we'll just have to make the most of its predecessor.
When is a reverb not a reverb? When it's a filter, of course! There's more to convolution than meets the ear, and creative processing of impulse responses can yield extraordinary results.
These audio files accompany the Programming Realistic Drum Parts article.
Singer-songwriter Joe Murphy has been crafting tunes for a few years, but had hit a wall when it came to fine-tuning the arrangement and mix of ‘Casting Shadows’. This month, we embellish some repetitive drums by adding percussion, and get busy with the send effects.
These audio files accompany the Mix Rescue article that featured in SOS August 2010.