Author: Kentaro
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Ableton Live 9 – 101 by Lenny Kiser
Lenny Kiser gave us some great tips & tricks with Ableton Push at last night’s SF-EMM! On July 6th he will be offering an Ableton 101 Intro class over 4 days. This is a great opportunity to gain a full on understanding of Ableton production techniques from start to finish! Don’t have Ableton 9? The class…
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March 2013 Meetup Highlights: Dave Smith Instruments with Carson Day
At long last! If you missed our March meetup with Carson Day showing off the Prophet 12 from Dave Smith Instruments, here’s your chance to see and hear it! (Along with a Tempest and a Mopho x4.) Thank you to Pyramind for hosting and for the great support of the SF-EMM members that came down…
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Sonic mayhem: ‘Mass Effect’ composer Sascha Dikiciyan’s favorite iPad music creation apps
Nice list of apps for music creation on iPad. [browser-shot url=”http://www.theverge.com/2012/7/13/3117498/sonic-mayhem-sascha-dikiciyan-ipad-apps” width=”400″] http://www.theverge.com/2012/7/13/3117498/sonic-mayhem-sascha-dikiciyan-ipad-apps
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Helpful EQ Cheat Sheet for Cleaner Mixes
Chek out this handy guide of EQ tips for various frequency ranges. It gives examples of when to boost or duck frequency ranges to create more room in your mixes. EQ tips Cheat Sheet by fredv [snap url=”http://www.cheatography.com/fredv/cheat-sheets/eq-tips/” alt=”EQ tips Cheat Sheet by fred” w=”400″ h=”300″]
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Renoise and Ableton Live sidechain Tutorial
Here is a simple example of how to do a sidechain in Renoise and then in Ableton Live. There are many ways to implement a sidechain but this is a great easy to follow example of how the technique works.
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Picobots debut album Melanie Griffith released!
SF-EMM member Michael Falk has released his debut album as Picobots titled Melanie Griffith. The album embraces 80’s style production values featuring snappy bass lines, reverb drenched guitars, wailing saxaphones, layered vocal harmonies, synth drums and more! Picobots counts The Human League, early Depeche Mode, and John Carpenter and Vangelis film soundtracks among his influences. Download…
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A concise explanation of Audio Compression
I came across this article years ago and felt it does a concise job of explaining audio compression. http://www.thewhippinpost.co.uk/mixing-music/compression-audio-mixing.htm
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4 channel mod goodness!
Have a listen to this funky oldschool 4 channel mod by our very own Louis Gorenfeld. Made with Milkytracker this tune uses a total of 4 mono tracks and pull off an amazingly full sound. BRAss enSEMbLe mASsacRE (4ch MOD) by extentofthejam You can grab the actual .mod file here to see how the track was…
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Trance fans checkout this SuperSAW Tutorial
Checkout this example of a Trance style SuperSAW using the awesome (and free) Synth1! Synth1 Link
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SF-EMM Summer Party
UPDATED LINEUP: 9pm – ILOVEDJREY (Indie Dance Music) http://www.house-mixes.com/profile/iloveDJrey 10pm – SSATOSHI (Progressive House) http://soundcloud.com/sattygalle http://suneth.com/ 11pm – LEWIS BROWN, JR (House) 12am – GIOVANNI ESCOBAR (Trance) http://soundcloud.com/giovanni-escobar 1am – QUALAFOX (Drum & Bass) http://www.facebook.com/pages/QUALAFOX/354989245527 Come one and all to the first ever SF-EMM Summer Party! Bring your friends down to an awesome event at…