Audiotuts+ Roundup
Audiotuts+ is our sister site, and part of Envato’s Tuts+ family designed to power up your skill set. It is a blog for musicians, producers and audio junkies.
The site is interesting and informative, and always worth a visit.
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Here is a roundup of this week’s tutorials and articles.
How to Create Post Production SFX Using Reason
Dec 4th in Production, Reason by Simon O’ Reilly
When working in post production for film and television, gaming and other types of media, sound effects are half the picture. There are many sound effect libraries available on the market these days and although the sounds can be of high quality, getting into the routine of dragging and dropping sounds from libraries can take all the creativity out of the production process.
Flex Time: Using Logic Pro 9’s Flex Modes
Dec 5th in Logic Pro, Production by Joel Falconer
In a recent tutorial on quantizing audio in Logic Pro 9, we used one of the flex modes so that we could put our audio in time with the new Flex Time feature. But there are several flex modes, and each serves a different purpose — how do you know which one is the right one to use?
Win a Black KORG nanoPAD USB Drum Controller
Dec 7th in General by Adrian Try
It’s small, black and handy, and it triggers sounds. What more could you want? To enter, all you’ve gotta do is comment below, letting us know why you’d like to win the nanoPAD. One random commenter will be chosen as winner. Too easy!
Workshop #18: Monster Forestry by Light Rain Ends
Dec 7th in General by Adrian Try
At Audiotuts+ we irregularly put up a reader track for workshopping and critique (find out how to submit a track). This is how it works: you upload your song, and every week or so we’ll publish one here and step away from the podium. The floor is yours to talk about the track and how the artist can fix problems in and improve upon the mix and the song.
Holiday Giveaways, Freebies and More!
Dec 7th in News by Collis Ta’eed
It’s hard to believe it’s almost a new decade, and with 2010 just around the corner it’s time to get celebrating the holiday season. There’s plenty happening around the Envato network of sites, read on to find out about it all!
How to Create and Organize Your Own Apple Loops
Dec 7th in Logic Pro, Production by Mo Volans
If you use Logic Pro, Soundtrack Pro or Final Cut Pro it’s highly likely that you’ll be familiar with Apple loops. These applications come with a pretty massive collection of sounds in this format but it’s much more satisfying to build your own custom loops and have them stored alongside the library sounds.
This tutorial will show you how to turn your raw samples into Apple loops and tag them with the appropriate data so that they show up in your searches. These loops can then be used in any of your project, regardless of their tempo.
Blog Tour Event: “Music 3.0″ by Bobby Owsinski
Dec 8th in General by Adrian Try
Bobby Owsinski is a music and television producer, recording engineer, former touring musician and author of a number of best-selling music and recording books like “The Mixing Engineer’s Handbook” and “How To Make Your Band Sound Great.” His latest book, which he discusses here, is “Music 3.0 – A Survival Guide For Making Music In The Internet Age.”
Open Mic: Tell Us About Your Favorite Music Keyboard
Dec 8th in General by Adrian Try
What’s your favorite music keyboard? Do you use one? Why did you buy it and what do you like about it? Do you want a new one for Christmas?
Each Tuesday we open our mic to readers and lurkers alike to come out of the woodwork and tell us your thoughts and opinion, your experiences and mistakes, what you love and what you hate. We want to hear from you, and here’s your chance.
How to Edit for One-Shots In Edison/Slicex – Audio Plus
Dec 8th in General by Adrian Try
In this week’s Audio Plus content, Sean Duncan teaches you how to extract drum-type hits from a junk percussion recording session. Sean has also included a Junk Percussion Pack with 23 sounds.
To learn more about what you get as part of Audio Plus, read this. To take a peek inside this tutorial, hit the jump!
Workshop #19: Cool Whip Hot Sauce by The Pinstripes
Dec 9th in General by Adrian Try
At Audiotuts+ we irregularly put up a reader track for workshopping and critique (find out how to submit a track). This is how it works: you upload your song, and every week or so we’ll publish one here and step away from the podium. The floor is yours to talk about the track and how the artist can fix problems in and improve upon the mix and the song.
How to Protect Your Ears
Dec 10th in Tutorials by Björgvin Benediktsson
A while ago we asked you readers about what kinds of tutorials you
would like to see next. While I went over the very informative list I
stopped at a reader’s suggestion. This reader kindly told us that we
haven’t been focusing on the most natural thing we audio enthusiasts
use. Namely, our ears. Our ears are the most important aspect of our
music production, without them there wouldn’t be much music would
there? Music to our ears would be a mute point, no pun intended…
A Musician’s Introduction to Copyright
Dec 10th in General by Adrian Try
Copyright is an important topic for every musician that is serious about his work. It is also a dangerous topic to comment on. Firstly, it is a confusing web of legal issues that keeps many lawyers employed – and I am not a lawyer. And secondly, copyright law varies from country to country – though many countries have now standardized. So don’t take this article as legal advice. Hopefully it will offer sensible advice to musicians in most countries. I advise you to do some research of your own, and consider paying someone qualified for some real legal advice.
Workshop #20: Icarus Returning by A Cloud for Climbing
Dec 11th in General by Adrian Try
At Audiotuts+ we irregularly put up a reader track for workshopping and critique (find out how to submit a track). This is how it works: you upload your song, and every week or so we’ll publish one here and step away from the podium. The floor is yours to talk about the track and how the artist can fix problems in and improve upon the mix and the song.
Adrian
Adrian is writer and editor for Audiotuts+ and the AudioJungle blog. He has been playing keys and acoustic guitar for three decades, and has six kids. Follow him on Twitter at @audiotuts.
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