The time between finishing a project and releasing it is crucial for success. Stress and releasing new music don’t mix. Releasing...

Get your track mixed by Derek ‘MixedByAli’ Ali. Ever wondered what your track would sound like if a mega-star mix engineer mixed it? Well...

It’s 808 day! The Roland TR-808 Rhythm Composer is no doubt the most iconic drum machine. Since it came out in the 1980s, it inspired...

This article was inspired by one of our readers’ comments. Dee suggested I check out Charanjit Singh who used a TB-303 before acid house...

Do What Yourself? How to be successful in a music career is totally different. Parts of the old music industry have become obsolete. And...

Leads are great. They are the sugary surface of any good track. They get you in the door and perk you up. But we all know what that one...

Your creativity shouldn’t stop at sound. We started an artist residency program.For the first edition Jesse Boykins III finished his...

Giving artists the space they need to create. All artists need space to create. Ideas are simple. But without the right resources to turn...

The truth about using samples.When I go online and read about sampling, I get pissed off. Samples have always been about creativity and...

Sometimes you play the gear. And sometimes the gear plays you. Live gear setups rule. It’s the first thing I check when I get to a show....

The creators guide to crowdfunding. How do you make a music project happen? Good question. The romantic in me wants to say that it’s all...

Expand your beat-making horizons. We’ve all felt it before: four-on-the-four fatigue. That feeling when you’ve listened to too much music...

Just say no to boring mixes. No one likes a dull track. It’s a fact. Mixing and producing flat music is pretty crappy too. Effects are...

It’s time to stop underestimating deep learning machines. Machines that do ‘deep learning’ — like LANDR — are a form of advanced...

Drums are the bones of your track: they support everything. You want them to be punchy and to cut through. You want them to be loud...

Piper is the animated short screening in theaters before Finding Dory—the long awaited Finding Nemo sequel. Finding Dory reached a lot of...

Let me guess: you use MIDI controllers regularly as a music producer. Or maybe ‘MIDI’ makes you think of elevator music, cheesy computer...

Time to update your producer toolkit. There’s no shortage of innovative VST plugins out there right now. The hardest part is picking from...

There’s one thing that all good music has in common. No, it’s not catchy lyrics, or a perfect hook. It’s something more subtle. The...

A MIDI keyboard controller is an essential piece of music gear in today’s home studio. A piano melody here, a beat there… Having both the...