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A home studio visit sees the SOS team tackle some stubborn synth and DAW gremlins.

How to recreate open-reel tape trickery in Reaper.

How to drag all your instruments into the same instance of Kontakt and set them up to use separate Kontakt MIDI inputs and audio outputs...

This month’s band, the Broken Heartbreakers, threw down the gauntlet for our engineer — could he improve what was already a decent mix?

Learn to make the most of Cubase 8.5’s Retrologue 2 synth.

Program drums and automate effects faster with Logic’s Step Editor.

Pro Tools 12.5 lets you collaborate remotely with other users. Here’s how to get started.

Truly an international effort, Lukas Graham’s breakthrough hit ‘7 Years’ was masterminded by a Danish film-sound designer and a Californian mix engineer.

Must modern metal drums rely on triggered samples? Our engineer shows how you can mic up a kit for a modern, heavy sound.

A directory of all media pages that hold the associated media files for May 2016 audio examples.

Zwiepack: Our engineer captured one jazz session using two completely different recording techniques. Which one won the day?

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We explore the ins and outs of the new Track Freeze function in Pro Tools 12.4.

With integration for Music Memos, new batch processing tools and expanded multithreading support, the Logic Pro 10.2.1 update gives you more power than ever.

Zwiepack: Our engineer captured one jazz session using two completely different recording techniques. Which one won the day?

Samplitude Pro X2’s aux buses, submix buses and VCAs add up to a powerful and flexible routing system.

Reaper’s automation lacks a relative trim mode, but now you can add your own.

Our engineer reworks a busy mix, to make the chorus and outro rock like they should.

Cubase 8.5 introduced Retrologue 2, a powerful virtual analogue synth, and its presets are great — but rolling your own patches can be a lot of fun.