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What is the Best Music Production APP

What is the Best Music Production APP?

Top 10 BEST music production Tips & Tricks EVER!! Tutorial.

Top 10 BEST music production Tips & Tricks EVER!! Tutorial.

Top 10 Best Mixing Music Tips - Achieve a Better mix

Top 10 Best Mixing Music Tips - Achieve a Better mix

Low Down on 5 Music Mixing Mistakes Exposed: What You Need To Do

PHOTO CREDIT: reportingtexas.com Low Down on 5 Music Mixing Mistakes Exposed: What You Need To Do I've helped hundreds of musicians improve their musical style. Sometimes it's as simply as fixing a few instruments, sometimes it's a total overhaul. Avoid these on your next mix.  Affordable Music Coaching at MusicXray 1. Lack of music variety One of the composition projects I am working on right now deals with creating a few dozen short musical snippets. Nice little music ditties that fit snugly behind dialogue. As I am composing, I listen to the tracks for any sound that seems to stand out inordinately from the mix. I am not talking about solos, drum fills, or riffs. I am talking about a walking bass line that seems to plod, the string patch that sounds okay for two seconds, then gets blase', the drum beat that is nauseatingly redundant, or the synth pad that seems to swallow up the bottom end of the track. Solution? After recording or MIDI inputting...

Mixing Kalimba Soundscape in Logic - 5090 Challenge Sabrina Pena Young

Mixing a recorded kalimba part into a soundscape in Logic using East West symphonic choirs and Guitar Rig for the 50/90 song challenge (50 songs in 90 days). Will be uploading the free finished version here for download: https://sabrinapenayoung.bandcamp.com/album/50-90-challenge-album

Electronic Music Update

I recently began teaching Music Synthesis and Theory at Murray State University in Kentucky. MSU has a small synthesis lab and a general purpose music lab. Students are learning Logic Studio and Garageband to create original works. I have begun the MSU Music Synthesis Blog for the class, which has some interesting links if you are interesting in audio engineering and music recording. You can also see the student blogs that were recently started by the Synth students. Recent music articles include: Music Promotion Tips Follow these tips when promoting your music online. http://www.associatedcontent.comarticle/1351326/music_promotion_tips.html Writing Articles to Promote Your Music Musicians are often too busy creating music to write anything other than notes. However, good writing can help promote your music. http://www.associatedcontent.comarticle/1351400/writing_articles_to_promote_your_music.html Promote Your Music for Free Promote your music for free using these online sources. htt...

10 Tips on Creating a Quiet Acoustic Recording Environment in Your Home Music Studio

10 Tips on Creating a Quiet Acoustic Recording Environment in Your Home Music Studio Chances are, you don't have a ton of money to make your home studio into top of the line, soundproof, professional-level, recording studio. Doing so would most likely involve tearing down your whole house and beginning from the ground up with top architects specializing in acoustics.  Yet, home studios are giving professional studios a run for their money, as professional level consumer software makes the PC (or Mac), one's own audio/video editing workstations. So, how can you better soundproof your studio affordably? Here are some tips: FIND THE QUIETEST ROOM IN YOUR HOME/APARTMENT . Look out for things like air conditioners, being too close to the street, a noisy neighbor, an uninsulated window that lets in outside noise. And, while the garage is great for band practice, for recording, you want to be somewhere that you can control both the temperature (for the equipment) a...

20 Mistakes Amateurs Make when Creating Musicc

Let's say you are aspiring to be the most memorable singer/songwriter/performer of all time, but it's the first time in that you have been in the studio and you are creating your first masterpiece.  Whether you are slamming together some sweet dance beats , crooning out a ballade, trippin' on rock n roll , composing your first string quartet , or trying to be the next Jordin Sparks, there are some things that will guarantee that your latest CD will end up at the bottom of the discard pile. So here you go, in no particular order: 20 Tips on How to Create Crappy Music 1) Make sure that your demo tape sounds like you recorded it at a construction site . The extra racket from the bulldozers and jackhammers will add a little bit of finesse to your delicate lyrics. 2) Make sure every lyric rhymes with the word " blue ".   3) If you can't afford a real musician to play the sick guitar solo, practice Guitar Hero  until you are blue in the face and then record your new...

Lesson Plan: Mixing Board and Electronic Instruments

Sound, Noise, and Electronic Music Group 1: Ages 5-7 Group 2: Ages 8-10 Group 3: Ages 10-13 Objectives Group 1&2: Recognition of various sound waves, ability to construct simple compositions using sound waves, training the voice to imitate sound waves, using the body to imitate sound waves in musical movement, learning concepts of timbre and noise as music, encouraging improvisation with instruments, continuation of Primer Level in Keyboard playing. Group 3: Recognition of various sound waves and noise types, ability to construct compositions using graphic notation, understanding the music history behind electronic music (John Cage, Futurists, noise, early electronic instruments, etc.), learning concepts of timbre and noise as music, encouraging improvisation and experimentation with instruments and various sound producers, using the voice for sonic imitation of sound waves, creating vocal compositions with graphic notation (vocalizations), continuation of Primer Level and Level 1 ...