Most Common Keys For House and Deep Tech Music
In an attempt to get my tracks to sound more like the tunes I like to DJ, I ran across an article about how club sub freq’s can range down to about 40Hz, which is just below the note E1. Note Hz C1 32.7 D1 36.7 E1 41.2 F1 43.7 G1 49.0 A1 55.0 The article […]
FX Halos in Ableton Live
This is a very simple trick to do, but not so obvious to figure out that it’s even possible. The idea is to sidechain compress the processing on a Return bus by its own input signal, in order to clear out some “empty” space around the dry signal. It’s like making a “breathing fx bus”. For […]
MiniCommand, Machinedrum, and OS X
So I’ve had a Ruin & Wesen MiniCommand for a little under a year, but haven’t been using it as much as I would like because it didn’t integrate well with my setup — until last night. The standard way to use the MiniCommand is to connect it in a closed MIDI loop with the device […]
Alien Autopsy Via Sample-Rate Reduction
Here’s a cool sound-design trick. If you want to get a vocal-sounding ‘formant filter’ effect out of a synth that only has a normal lowpass filter, you can take advantage of a quirk of sample-rate reduction effects to generate multiple “mirrored” filter sweeps through the wonder of aliasing. Here’s a sound clip from my machinedrum […]
Cool Tricks For Better Mixes
I recently slugged through mixdown on my track Super Broken and found the following 5 tips invaluable: 1. Mono Is Awesome I’ve heard this one a million times, but never actually tried it. This article does a great job describing the hows and whys: The Secret Benefits To Mixing In Mono. Among other great insights — […]
