Better Tone Through Reamping 

By Mike Levine

Electronic Musician offers tips and advice on reamping guitars, bass, drums, keyboards, and more, from a panel of top producers, engineers and musicians...

Sound Design Workshop: Caught in the Act 

By Len Sasso

Capture many takes of a randomly changing process, combine them in a multisampled instrument, and then create a composite track using the best ones...

Making Tracks: Side Order 

By Brian Smithers

Author Brian Smithers you how to adapt M-S principles to control stereo width, ensure mono compatibility, and explore new ground in effects processing....

Square One: Into the Ether 

By Brian Smithers

Read EM September 2008 Square One column on using Ethernet and OSC to improve your MIDI audio production workflow...

Making Tracks: Pitch Doctor 

By Michael Cooper

MOTU Digital Performer separates itself from the pack with its standout pitch-automation functionality. A little-known but invaluable application is nondestructive rearranging of musical parts in an audio track...

Sound Design Workshop: Foley Drums 

By Len Sasso

Layering real-world sounds with synthesized drum parts puts a new spin on your drum tracks. Industrial, household, military, transportation, and vocal sounds make excellent fodder...

Master Class: Mastering With Peak Performance 

By Larry the O

“Mastering with Peak Performance” presents a master class on mastering with the Mac audio editor Peak Pro 6, with a special focus on optimizing use of the Playlist...

Making Tracks: Creating Realistic String Parts 

By Steve Skinner

When Vienna Instruments introduced the affordable version of its Vienna Symphonic Library (VSL), Vienna Special Edition (VSE), which is Digidesign Pro...

Sound Design Workshop: One for the Rhodes 

By Len Sasso

In the world of virtual instruments, a physical-modeled electric piano is as close as you get to the real thing. The premier examples of this type of...

Square One: Snap, Crackle, Pop 

By Brian Smithers

Is the saying goes, stuff happens. No matter how hard we try to avoid it, a steady chain of events works to degrade every recording we make (see Fig....

Making Tracks: Pickup Sticks 

By Jon Engel

Mixing and matching MIDI drum loops from different libraries can give your drum tracks a creative boost. But keeping them consistent and getting a human...

Sound Design Workshop: Guerilla Tuning Tactics 

By Brian Smithers

When you're accustomed to fixing performance errors by using pitch- and time-correction plug-ins, it's easy to overlook their more creative applications....

Square One: RSS 2.0 Feed Basics 

By Jack Herrington

As every musician knows, Podcasting provides a great way to get your music out to the public and let people know what's coming out of your studio. With...

Windows on the World 

By Dennis Miller

Like many musicians, you might be wondering if it's time to run Windows on an Intel Mac. Perhaps you're already a Mac user and want to try out some free...

HowAudio.com Releases Cubase 4 Tutorial 

Cubase 4: Essential Training offers basic to advanced instruction on Cubase 4....

HowAudio Offers M-Audio MicroTrack II Mobile Recorder Tutorial 

HowAudio.com's latest video tutorial on the M-Audio MicroTrack II is available online for free....

Square One: All in a Dither 

By Brian Smithers

What is it about dither that inspires so much trepidation among digital musicians? The mere mention of the word brings looks of disquietude normally reserved...

Master Class: Virtual Orchestra Virtuosity 

By Rob Shrock

Long gone are the days when professional composers would need a wall of fully loaded hardware samplers just to provide a few hundred megabytes of memory...

Making Tracks: Free Speech 

By David Battino

I've long been fond of speech synthesizers; somehow their robotic sound heightens the humanity of the rest of a song. When mixed in more subtly, synthetic...

Sound Design Workshop: Beat the Blahs 

By Jim Aikin

For fifty or a hundred dollars, you can buy a CD or DVD that's packed with great-sounding, professionally designed drum loops. But sometimes a beat needs...