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New free Arturia Pigments 3 update

Monday, May 3, 2021

Now there is a new free Arturia Pigments 3 update with some great and useful updates making it a more complete synthesizer.

9 good chorus plugins

Sunday, December 27, 2020

An article about Chorus effects. What is it and how to use it. 9 best chorus plugins for your DAW. Free and paid like TAL Chours LX, EchoBoy, Valhalla, Audio Damage Quatromod.

DCO 106 - A Roland Juno synthesizer model

Sunday, November 8, 2020

Cherry Audio DCO 106 - A Juno 106 analog synth model with modern modifications. In 1984 Roland released a new six-voice digitally controlled analog synthesizer.

Top Free VST Plugins 2020

Monday, July 6, 2020

The best free VST plugins available in 2020. This article is about free high-quality plugins for music production in any genre. Valhalla supermassive, Saturation and Voxengo Span

Best delay plugins

Thursday, June 4, 2020

What is the best delay plugins right now and how to use them? A review and comparison of some great VST delays. Valhalla Delay, Colour Copy and H-Delay

Audio compressors

Sunday, May 24, 2020

Music compression. What are the best VST plugins for mixing? An article about audio compressors, designs, and difference. Compressing Vocals, bass, drums, busses, and master-channel.

Best EQ VST plugins

Monday, May 4, 2020

What EQ VST plugins are good and for what. An article about equalizers and filters. A look at 16 different eqs from SSL, Waves Audio, Izotope inc, IK Multimedia and Cubase

New Arturia Pigments update

Friday, March 6, 2020

New Arturia Pigments 2 update v 2.0.1.837. New features and Bug fixes. No more time limit on user samples. Sample loop is now correctly saved. Poly aftertouch is working again.

Arturia Pigments - modulation with functions

Wednesday, February 26, 2020

Arturia Pigments sound design - filter modulation with function 1 to 3 synth modulators. How to use function 1 to 3 creatively for modulating frequency and other parameters.

Drum machines and samplers

Sunday, February 23, 2020

How to make beats with drum machines and samplers. 4 sampler plugins and how to use them creatively for beat making, drum patterns, and drum programming.

How to build a pc for music production

Friday, January 24, 2020

How to build a PC for music production and making beats. Where you start and what does it take. Best music production software.

Roland D50

Thursday, January 16, 2020

Roland D50 synthesizer blog post. A famous vintage synthesizer from 1987. D-50 is Roland's first digital keyboard. Today this is still is a semi-popular synth with some nice features.

New synths 2019 - pigments 2 vs massive x

Wednesday, January 8, 2020

A blog post about two synths released in 2019. Two of the best synthesizers. Arturia Pigments 2 and Native Instruments Massive X. Two very different instruments but are they worth using?

How to make a Kontakt Instrument

Wednesday, January 1, 2020

An article about how to make a custom interface for Native Instruments Kontakt. How to make the knobs, sliders, and background image. Kontakt Scripting tips.

Synthesizers plugins and cpu usage

Wednesday, December 25, 2019

Synthesizers VSTi plugins and VST plugins CPU usage. What is latency and CPU usage? How to record real-time with latency-free plugins in your favorite DAW.

How to make your synth sound wider

Friday, December 20, 2019

How to get stereo width in your mix. A short article with some stereo tricks for impact and making your synths sound fuller and bigger.

Best DAW CPU

Thursday, November 28, 2019

Best CPU for music production right now? An article about central processing units for better application performance. What is the best music production CPU right now? Intel or AMD comparison and CPU benchmark

Arturia - Digital Synth - Analog Sound

Tuesday, November 26, 2019

Digital synths - Analog sound. Arturia V collection. The early versions of V Collection was emulaions of old vinage analog synths like Minimoog Model D, Jupiter 8, ARP 2600, Yamaha CS-80 and Modular.

Synthesizer design and programming lingo

Monday, October 21, 2019

An overview of analog and digital synthesizer design and how to program them. Synthesis is a synthesis method where oscillators generate waveforms and then filter out frequencies over time. VCO/DCO and filter VCF

Mixing with reference tracks

Friday, October 11, 2019

Mixing music with reference tracks. How to set up and use reference tracks in your DAW. A best practice article for better mixes and better results.

Gain Staging in your DAW

Thursday, October 10, 2019

Gain Staging is about controlling the levels of channels, busses/groups and master channel. K-14 helps you in the mixing process.

DAW Project Organization

Friday, September 13, 2019

Organization your projects with Cubase as a sample. A best practice article on organizing your DAW Projects for better and faster workflow before mixdown.

Zero latency plugins

Friday, September 6, 2019

Composing and working with zero latency plugins. An article about plugins and latency and how it affects your workflow. Cubase latency and waves latency chart.

Renew Your Synths

Thursday, July 18, 2019

New synth presets for your favorite synths. You probably already own enough software synthesizers for the production of 10 albums.

Arturia Pigments Quick Review

Wednesday, July 17, 2019

Plugin review. Pigments is Arturia's new synth from 2019. A modern Arturia plugin version of a hybrid analog vs wavetable synthesizer with extensive modulation. Check out our Arturia Pigments presets.

Massive X synthesizer is out

Tuesday, July 16, 2019

Massive X is the latest synthesizer from Native Instrumnts. It is a modern synthesizer with lots of modulation capabilities and steps up from the old Massive synth.

Massive is still alive

Tuesday, July 16, 2019

NI Massive is still alive? A new Massive X has been released but what about the old tried and tested Massive. Is it dead or alive?

Buyers guide to Softsynths

Tuesday, July 16, 2019

A buyers guide to synthesizers in 2019. A round up of the most interesting synths and some outsiders.