This is the second instalment in an informal series of Logic quick-reads, following on from my previous article on sampling drums in EXS24. Today we’re covering the topic of sidechain compression.
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I’m creating a series of very short Logic tutorials, partly to help me out with a student I’m currently teaching but also as Logic’s manual buries this information deep within hundreds of pages of explanation and I’ve not yet seen other sites cover this in the simplicity and succinctness it requires.
I don’t know why but I am a total sucker for these Extralife DIY videos. Perhaps because I am so cack-handed myself and have the DIY skills of an undeveloped chimp who’s yet honed his motor neuron skills.
It seems pointless trying to write an introduction that adds anything to the already behemoth legend status of electronic music pioneer that is Aphex Twin (or Richard D.
Like any self respecting music producer, you can’t help but be fascinated and influenced by the influence Steve Reich has had not only on contemporary classical music and minimalism but his ripples are felt through electronic dance music too.
There’s a whole variety of synthesis types available ranging from things you’ve probably come across like subtractive, wavetable and granular to lesser known techniques like additive, phase distortion, Karplus-Strong and vector.
Zeroes and Ones editor, coder, musician, DIYer and producer extraordinaire Matthew Cieplak under the alias Extralife has started a new YouTube channel which he describes as “Funky disco music with a side of DIY, software and electronics.
Spending years in bands self producing and releasing material, it was always clear to me that one part of the process stuck out and that’s drums.
As a young impressionable teenager, it was first hearing Mingus’ tribute to Thelonious Monk – Jump Monk – that first turned me on to jazz. I’d been exposed to odds and sods during secondary school but this was a milestone in terms of me becoming obsessed with the sound.
The Jan Hammer Group’s track Don’t You Know is a groovy synth-jazz funk number taken from their 1977 album Melodies. It has seeped into the collective conscious through Erol Alkan’s inclusion of it on Another Bugged Out Mix and through being sampled numerous times.