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...

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...

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...

Master Class: Rack 'Em Up 

By Len Sasso

The Drum Rack instrument is one of Ableton Live 7's most interesting new features, and its creative potential is enormous. You can build a virtual drum...

It's Easy Being Green 

By Jon Chappell

Is your studio contributing to global warming and other environmental problems? Unfortunately, the answer is almost certainly yes. Between the electrical...

Making Tracks: Loop-Overs 

By Steve Skinner

Live drums, no matter how well played, have variations in timing and feel. If you want a drum loop to work with a live drum track and you want to avoid...

Sound Design Workshop: To the REXcue 

By Jim Aikin

Sometimes a sampled beat sounds perfect just the way it is. But a little creative patching can transform it into something wildly new. You can adapt the...

Square One: Duly Noted 

By Jim Aikin

Until around a hundred years ago, the only way to send music over long distances or preserve it for posterity was to write it down on paper. Electronic...

Play With the Pros 

By Tracy Katz

Traditional instrumentalists, especially guitar players, should add the video tutorials at iVideosongs (ivideosongs.com) to their arsenal of musical resources....

Strutting in Stylus 

By David Battino

Spectrasonics Stylus RMX serves up great-sounding drum grooves as fast as you can click, but it also has several hidden time-saving features: 1. Right-clicking...

Bands in Demand 

By Tracy Katz

Community seems to be the keyword in recent music-promotion trends. In an effort to keep music alive, many bands and artists are giving listeners the...

Self-Control 

By Michael Cooper

Perhaps the most common career-oriented question that unsigned songwriters ask is, How can I get my songs published? Many of these same writers have only...

Making Tracks: Picture for Sound 

By Rusty Cutchin

Musicians often have their hands full dealing with audio in their studios, but a new generation of low-cost tools may make adding basic video-editing...