Welcome to Hard Truths, the series on the LANDR Blog where we cut through the noise and take on a harsh reality from the world of music...

Lyric writing is often romanticized by songwriters. Some believe that unless you live your life, collect memories and let the words come...

Careers in music have an alluring quality. It makes sense, so many people are passionate about music. But the music industry is known for...

Learning how to improvise can be a bit terrifying if you stop to think about it. As musicians, we’re taught to stick within a certain set...

Synthesizers are some of the most challenging musical instruments to use well. Even basic synth plugins have enough parameters to get...

Music has always been linked with emerging technologies. But AI is something new. AI has the power to completely transform how we make...

Ash Koosha is a British-Iranian composer, record producer, innovator and futurist living in London, United Kingdom. He mainly uses...

Everyone creates in their own way. But there’s a few production tips that are essential for anyone wanting to find success with their...

MIDI editing can be tedious. Nothing takes you out of the flow of writing songs like spending too long moving MIDI events around. But it...

Musicians are often forced to choose between the flexibility of digital and the reliability of hardware for live performance. Getting the...

LANDR’s senior audio engineer Al Isler loves to talk mixing. So we opened up our P.O. box to the LANDR community and asked you to send Al...

For musician, actor, multimedia artist and university professor Yassin ‘Narcy’ Alsalman, music is a spiritual conversation, and good...

Creativity can mean many things. To write a song that really resonates you’ll have to draw from sources of inspiration that go way beyond...

Between touring with Milk & Bone, working on her solo project, KROY, and lending her musical flair to film scoring, it seems Camille...

If you’re serious about making music, then you’ve certainly got your work cut out for you in 2019. Between writing songs, mixing your...

Unless you’re a bonafide musical wizard, you probably get stuck in a creative rut every now and then. Good habits are important for...

It’s easy to get hyper focused on the pieces of gear you need to add to your setup. Equipment like audio interfaces, headphones and VST...

Writing songs is tough. Sometimes you don’t know where to start and other times you feel completely stuck. But it doesn’t have to be...

Wanting to be original is a universe away from actually releasing new and unique music. All music is informed in some way by the music...

Artists can completely transform in front of your eyes. One day it’s rock, the next day it’s rap, tomorrow it’s country. It’s not...