Using Nintendo Wiimote for Music Production 

By Paul D. Lehrman

Using Nintendo’s Wii Remote, or “Wiimote.” as a musical-instrument controller...

Cycling '74 Max Tutorial 

By Jeffrey Stolet

How to use Cycling '74 Max Graphical Programming Software in March 2009 EM...

Frequency Domain Delays Sound Design Workshop 

By Len Sasso

Frequency Domain Delay tutorial with Obelisk Spectral Processing as Example in EM March 2009...

From Mix magazine: MASTERING: From LP to MP3 

By Janice Brown

Mix magazine talks to mastering engineers about mastering audio for multiple sound audio formats. Learn about audio mastering studio engineers in Mix magazine ...

Showdown at the Clubhouse | Amp Software Vs. Amps 

By Mike Levine

Can a software-modeled guitar amp hold its own against the actual amp it models? EM conducted a blind listening test with five discerning engineer/producer/guitarists who regularly record electric guitars...

Making Tracks: Locomotion 

By Jim Aikin

If you’d like to make your next pad track worth listening to, while still keeping it relatively unobtrusive, try splitting it apart and processing it through three different auxiliary mixer channels at once...

Sound Design Workshop: Steam Powered 

By Len Sasso

Spectrasonics Omnisphere's powerful Steam Engine offers clever takes on FM, ring modulation, waveshaping, and voice multiplication, and you get a host of modulators and a robust modulation matrix...

Square One: Audio Poltergeists 

By Brian Smithers

EM Tutorial on Avoid or correct sonic problems like ground loops, clipping, clocking errors, jitter, and sample-rate conversion artifacts...

Master Class: Cakewalk Beatscape 

By Brian Smithers

How to use Cakewalk Sonar’s Beatscape beat-creation plug-in...

Space Is the Place, Part 2 

By Myles Boisen

Part 2 of Electronic Musician’s feature on creating open-sounding mixes using 3-D techniques. This installment focuses on avoiding practices that can clutter up your mix including overcompression, excessive EQ, and overly dense arrangements...

Making Tracks: Surround in Pro Tools LE and M-Powered 

By Brian Smithers

Neyrinck Mix 51 is an RTAS plug-in that brings surround panning and mixing to Pro Tools LE and M-Powered....

Square One: Catch a Wave 

By Jim Aikin

How to interpret the waveform display in an audio editing program....

Sound Design Workshop: Klangumwandler Redux 

By Len Sasso

Virsyn Prism takes a novel, multiband approach to frequency shifting, first breaking the signal into 27 frequency bands, then letting you frequency shift each band independently....

Garrigus.com Announces Sonar 8 Power 

Garrigus.com has released the new book, Sonar 8 Power, by Scott R. Garrigus. ...

Audiolife Announces "How-To" Series for Indie Artists and Musicians 

Audiolife has launched a monthly how-to series that provides useful guides and industry tips for artists and musicians....

Essential Utilities 

By Len Sasso

It's hard to get excited about utility software; it usually does a job you'd rather not have to bother with. But when the job needs to be done, having the right tools can make it more fun with less drudgery....

Making Tracks: A Stamp in Time 

By Michael Cooper

One of the great benefits of recording with a DAW is the ease with which files can be shared to facilitate collaboration on a project by two or more parties. Here is how to keep them in in sync...

Sound Design Workshop: Talkbox Redux 

By Len Sasso

Antares Throat is an effects plug-in that applies physical modeling of the throat to an audio source. That makes it a natural for producing talkbox-like effects....

Space Is the Place, part 1 

By Myles Boisen

Electronic Musician’s feature on how to create more open-sounding mixes through three-dimensional mixing techniques, which include conceptualizing elements to be not just in the horizontal positions (left to right panning), but also vertical (EQ), and front-to-back (level)...

Square One: In Phase 

By Brian Smithers

Linear phase filters introduce phase shift in a signal, but the phase shift is proportional to the frequency....