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These audio examples accompany our Cubase Mastering workshop in SOS April 2021.
We show you how to structure your music with the Arranger Track.
We explore the new bounce options in 2020.11 and reveal their benefits.
Olivia Rodrigo stormed the charts earlier this year with her breakthrough single ‘Drivers License’. LA’s rising star Mitch McCarthy talks us through the mix.
Why let guitarists have all the fun? Stompboxes can be inspirational mixing tools.
Want to try a spot of DIY mastering? You can do so in any version of Cubase 11, including Elements.
Bands are still recording music even though they can’t use professional studios or play together — and this means new challenges for mix engineers.
We show you a different approach to arranging in Live.
Pads are the glue that holds entire genres of music together. We look at how you can improve yours.
Take control of your mixes with VCAs.
Logic’s drum instruments offer powerful ways of laying down percussion and more...
Binaural recordings are an easy and effective way to capture immersive audio.
Audio files to accompany our Cubase workshop.
We look at how to improve our workflow with the magic use of key commands, also known as hot‑keys or keyboard shortcuts.
Reason is more than capable of traditional multitrack recording. So here we consider how you might run a full tracking project.
Choose a mic with the optimum polar pattern for the job, and you’re halfway to capturing a great recording.
From sketches to final mixes, engineer Jonathan Low spent 2020 overseeing Taylor Swift’s hit lockdown albums folklore and evermore.
Melodyne Essential now comes bundled with Pro Tools 2020.11, so let's explore what it offers.
In Auto Sampler, the main features behind the automatic creation of sample sets are presented in a very intuitive fashion and work extremely well...
Recording an instrument you’ve not encountered before can seem daunting. Here’s a rule of thumb that guarantees a decent result every time.