If using Macintosh, check out Motion 5. Aside from being particularly friendly and tweak-able in real-time, it allows any audio source to affect parameters of particle emitters and such.. amplitude and frequency dependent, which means that once you've mapped your audio to a couple of shape generator...

It's surprising to see Cubase at n.3. I'm not sure about the audience of that webzine but I'd guess mostly bedroom beat makers (FL and Ableton crowd)? I though of Cubase a bit in the league with Digital Performer (more seasoned producers). Nice to see some changes. But pity Digital Perfomer is so lo...

1TB (5400-rpm) hard drive This bit seems the weak point in my opinion. I'd get at least 7200rpm if not an SSD. A good compromise would be a smallish SSD to run the OS + programs + current projects & media, and external storage on a larger disk. I recently put my hands on a late 2012 iMac 2.7GHz qua...

From ROMA: "Stealing small amounts of food to stave off hunger is not a crime, Italy's highest court of appeal has ruled." But Gypsies are not known for stealing small amounts of food to avoid starvation. I challenge any statistics to prove they do that. On the other hand, what supports the Gypsy s...

Democracy is not in question. The issue here is materialism, and therefore all problems are to do with money. There is no longer good / evil. So now, the criminal is not bad, he's just poor. The celebrity psychopath is OK, because he donated to cancer charities. Everything is reduced to a balance s...

Interesting debate. I congratulate the OP for his very humane behaviour and the lucky, highly unexpected happy ending. This combination makes the story powerful because it has a resolving narrative sequence that indeed inspires hope. Good people usually lose, that's why Hollywood films are so succes...

Maybe this helps:

Thanks, Guitfnky, checking that out!

Hi all! I'm looking for someone who is able to create video content (whether animation or filmed, or a combination) for a little 3min pilot project. Do you know any internet channel through which it is possible to get in touch with video folks and discuss collabos etc...? Would Deviant art be a good...

Good find!

They should call it "most used DAW by our readers" but anyway
Voted for Reason

1) Does what you do or achieve with the compressor differ depending on what compressor you're using? So do different compressors do different things essentially. I'm not that anal about gear to have strong opinions on different compressors, but I would explain the large variety of models on 1) chara...

I should add, this example uses the common sustained note and kick so that you get the obvious famous pumping effect. However, I strongly suggest experimenting with many different combinations. It doesn't have to be very noticeable, but as a common practice, together with the usual eq'ing/filtering,...

I suggest following this simple example to really get sidechaining: 1) Open an empty project 2) Load up any synth or sampler with a constant sound (when you press a note it stays on as long as you hold the note down, i.e. with an ADSR where Sustain is all the way up). 3) In the sequencer make a litt...

The Apple brand is considered by many a way of life or even a religion. As this topic is a very dividing one, I recommend being carful dropping the "i-[whatever]" word, especially for a poll in which "no" is an option... some people may find it offensive.

As far as stock devices, from 6 to 9, I don't believe there's much difference. You should know Pulveriser which is already an amazing multi-functional device for filtering, distortion and FM/AM/Comb modulation. If you don't love it, I kindly urge you to explore it more because it is jolly. Oh wait! ...

Thanks for the insights, Platzangst and Jengstrom! So I proceeded with the following test: 1) Opened the session and rendered the sliced & pitched audio track 2) Disabled stretch for the new track 3) Deleted the original edited track 4) Saved as a new Reason project 5) Quit Reason 6) Emptied cache (...

Q1: no, not at all. *Mastering* generally speaking, as you started saying, is made so that the audio material can sound consistently across its targeted mediums (vinyl, radio etc..). *Mixing* still generally speaking, is the technical stage of production in which more creativity is involved, meaning...

Is it normal that I get around 20GB of .cachemanger files after a couple of hours of work on a session? In this session I have one ~3min stereo audio track with some slicing and pitch adjustments. The audio track is not being tweaked, however after some mixing and MIDI editing I find the cache folde...

Yes!!!!! A favourite topic, Marco
Fuzz life.

The dark themes look half done.

I guess breaks/drops started becoming mainstream since amerikossi :puf_wink: discovered electronic music and called it EDM a few years ago. Someone here on another post told me there is a genre called bro-step which is apparently based on build ups followed by simple melodies that work well for aren...

Any smoker dare to math up a year of smoke? ;) On a serious note, I think a few grands on a hobby aren't a shock. This assuming we're speaking from the perspective of, at least, average international working-class (if that exists). Meaning it's a sum that may look like a salary but can be managed. S...

More than a recording app, I'd look at a good microphone. I think there's a pretty good choice of decent mics that connect to a phone/tablet nowadays, and most of them come with a recording app, or else you may find one for cheap or free. Otherwise go with a Zoom h1 pocket recorder or similar. Then ...

Hi Vince-Noir - have you tried using display port/thunderbolt instead of hdmi on the mac mini? i've got a 2012 one and it doesn't support 4k - but apparently you can get higher res out of thunderbolt? I would love to know as i'm thinking of getting a bigger screen - would you recommend this one eve...