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...

The only guarantee is change. Music is more contested right now than a Steph Curry layup. The same words keep coming up in...

We need to talk about sampling. Writing songs using the art of sampling is nothing new. In fact, it’s become one of the only frontiers in...

LFOs. If you’ve been ignoring them, you’re out of the loop. No, I’m not talking about the British techno group from the 90s. I’m talking...

SoundCloud is the largest and most important online music community. They’ve disrupted the way we understand online music distribution....

“Hard work overrides talent when talent ain’t working” I met a mixing virtuoso during the filming of Dave Pensado’s show Pensado’s Place:...

Wondering how to get your music on the radio? Make waves with your WAVs. Radio matters again. The live streaming power of the internet...

Turn scared into shared. Let’s face it, putting music out there for the first time isn’t always easy. Especially if you’re new to music...

Seeing will always be part of hearing. I remember hanging records on my wall when I was a kid. The art on the covers created a magic...

Music gets lost if you’re not careful. Just ask these huge artists that lost it all. Nothing beats the feeling of having your finished...

Get educated and get your audio format right. What’s the best audio format? It’s a common question. I’m sure you’ve asked yourself...