Archive for the ‘Audio’ Category

So You Think You’ve Finished Mixing? A Guide to Preparing Your Mix for Mastering

So You Think You’ve Finished Mixing? A Guide to Preparing Your Mix for Mastering

You know what it feels like to finish a mix. Having spent hours, possibly days, perfecting your track to the nth degree, it feels great to finally have a song to...

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Discover Pro Tools LE

Discover Pro Tools LE

We continue our series on Digital Audio Workstations, or DAWs, which allow musicians to record, edit and play back their music. This week we look at Digidesign’s...

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Workshop #82: The Challenge by Sigmund Dol

Workshop #82: The Challenge by Sigmund Dol

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...

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How to Create Organic Ambient Instruments in Ableton Live

How to Create Organic Ambient Instruments in Ableton Live

In this tutorial we are going to use Ableton Live’s “Sampler” and some of its built-in audio effects to produce wide, organic, ambient textures...

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Quick Tips: 3 Mixing Tips

Quick Tips: 3 Mixing Tips

Here are some of the best things I’ve learnt since I started mixing. Tip 1: Rest Your Ears If you’re mixing for a long amount of time you may be thinking your...

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All the Music Apps for Google’s Android You Could Need

All the Music Apps for Google’s Android You Could Need

The HTC Dream Android phone (elsewhere known as the G1) arrived in Australia recently, and I’ve had mine for about a month now. I have been an enthusiastic...

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Quick Tip: How to Use Cubase’s Quick Controls to Access Massive

Quick Tip: How to Use Cubase’s Quick Controls to Access Massive

Massive comes with a host of parameters that you can control in real time with a MIDI controller or using an automation track within your DAW. In this tutorial...

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Formant Filtering with Fruity Love Philter

Formant Filtering with Fruity Love Philter

Formant filtering is a process that replicates the vowel sounds produced by the human voice. As a tremendous part of our speech, these vowel sounds are instantly...

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New Tuts+ Site ‘Mobiletuts+’ Launched

New Tuts+ Site ‘Mobiletuts+’ Launched

We’ve been burning the midnight oil at Tuts+ HQ to bring you Mobiletuts+, the youngest member of the Tuts+ family. It’s all about quality tutorials for mobile...

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29 Music-making Apps for Linux

29 Music-making Apps for Linux

Last week we looked at why Linux deserves some consideration when choosing an operating system for your digital recording studio. But even the worthiest operating...

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