It’s easy to get overwhelmed when you’re creating new music. Distractions come easily when we have so many software instruments, sample...

Everyone knows mastering is an essential phase in the life cycle of a song. When the mix is finally complete, mastering is the step that...

Hardware synths produce an incredibly powerful sound that’s hard to ignore. Who doesn’t love twisting a knob and hearing it change the...

The road to success as professional musician can take some unexpected turns. Finding your way into the right gigs and developing the...

A great song can seem like it’s own little musical world. When everything falls into place, a tightly produced track feels as if it must...

Toplining is a popular songwriting technique. It’s common practice especially in the world of pop, hip hop and electronic dance music....

Making money with music is no small task. Waiting for one of your tracks to blow up isn’t a great plan, and even if your audience grows...

Welcome to Sample and Hold, the series on the LANDR Blog where we highlight one unique crate-digging session and the digger’s gold we...

Beats rarely sound complete without a solid vocal sample or rap part. It’s all part of the arrangement process that every beatmaker goes...

Electronic drum kits are in a special category of instruments. Most people buy them to use in their apartment or home studio because...

A digital audio workstation is usually a hefty investment. It might need a certain amount of computing power to operate well. Luckily,...

Royalty-free music is incredibly valuable because of the way today’s internet works. You can’t post anything with music on websites like...

Welcome to Sample and Hold, the series on the LANDR Blog where we highlight one unique crate-digging session and the digger’s gold we...

Multiband compression is a unique type of dynamics processing It’s a powerful compresor style that can address mix problems you might...

Playlists are how people find music these days. It’s the modern take on the radio station, except now people have complete control over...

Modern listeners get their music from more diverse sources than ever before. In the past it was simple. Music producers knew their fans...

Piano VSTs are a songwriter’s best friend. The piano is one of the best instruments to use for writing, arranging and producing music....

There’s something special about the sound of a cassette, they produce this amazing warmth and warble as they pass the electromagnetic...

Welcome to Sample and Hold, the series on the LANDR Blog where we highlight one unique crate-digging session and the digger’s gold we...

Hit tracks from professional producers almost always have one thing in common—they’re loud. That pro volume level is a basic expectation...