22 essential arranging tips - Tutorials | musicradar.com
Arranging can broadly be defined as the process of transforming a collection of musical ideas into a complete track. It can involve everything from writing harmonies, re-arranging parts, adding parts, removing parts, planning the structure of a song or even adding effects from time to time. If there's one absolute truth about arranging, though, it's that it's the stage where you have to stop making excuses and start making firm decisions, whether these be about which parts to leave in or out, where to put them, or whether you need to add a whole new part altogether. Consequently, for many, arranging is also where music making stops being fun and creative and starts feeling a bit too much like pressure and hard work. This needn't be the case, though - with all the power and versatility that modern technology gives us, the possibilities are endless and the process can be relatively painless. 1. 3. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 21. 22.
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Photo via yopob.com, All Rights Reserved Yoko Ono wants you to remix her track “The Sun Is Down!” whose stems are released under a CC Attribution-NonCommercial license . You can download the sample pack which includes the track’s vocal effects, loops of bass, drums, sound effects, and Tenorion files. But Yoko’s also running a contest to find the 10 best remixes. Here are the details: Create your own remix of “The Sun Is Down!” When you have finished your mix, make an MP3 copy that’s as high quality as possible, but still under 10MB in size. Email the MP3 of your mix, along with its name and your name, address, email and phone number to remix@YOPOB.com before 12 December 2009. The Top Ten mixes will be decided by Yoko Ono Plastic Ono Band. The winners will receive special signed Yoko Ono Plastic Ono Band prizes and will be featured on this site over the Xmas and New Year period. Head over to Yoko Ono’s Plastic Ono Band for the full contest details and to download the sample pack. 5 Comments »
26 free Mac music-making tools - Tutorials | musicradar.com
The quality of modern freeware for making music often rivals that of commercial products - but there is a preconception that the best music-making freeware is PC only. With this in mind, we've picked out the very best music freeware for Mac, and compiled the handy list below. It's divided into the loose categories of synths, effects, real instruments, sequencers, samplers and utilities/other. Read more: Waves CLA mixHub Synths SonicBirthFormat: VST, AUSonicBirth is a modular plug-in development environment similar to SynthEdit and SynthMaker. Above: SonicBirth is necessarily deep and complicated, but it still looks cool Fxpansion OrcaFormat: VST, AU, RTASThis experimental analogue synth may look odd, be monophonic and only feature one oscillator and filter, but believe us when we say this thing is a leviathan. Togu TAL-BasslineFormat: VST, AUTogu's TAL-Bassline is a clone of Roland's SH-101, one of the biggest-selling monosynths of all time. Effects Above: Check out the control names! Synths
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Play Chords with One Finger Using Logic Pro’s Chord Memorizer -
Really bad at playing keyboards? Lost that creative spark? Here’s a tutorial showing you how to create some cool ideas using a little known object in Logic called the Chord Memorizer. Buried inside the dreaded Environment, this MIDI tool can help you build anything from new musical ideas to complex layered sounds — with one finger! Step 1 When you first start using Logic, the Environment can be a bit of a scary place and many users tend to never visit it that often, if at all. Open up a ‘New’ blank Logic song from the File > New menu. Step 2 Now open up the Environment from the ‘Windows’ menu or press Command+8. In the Environment you should see the Software Instrument you just created. Step 3 Let’s create a new object. Step 4 Select the new Chord Memorizer and rename it ‘Pad Chords’ in the left hand dialogue box. Step 5 Now double click the Chord Memorizer. Step 6 Now let’s map a chord. Step 7 Now we’re set up to test it out. Play C2 and you should hear the chord an octave below, and so on.
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