Celmony Melodyne is a program which can seperate polyphonic material into individual notes. Think of it like a MIDI file but instead your can get into a wav file and vary the pitch and timing of individual notes in a chord. So you could take a single guitar riff for example and create varyiations out of [...]

This is the second part in my guide to making a dual boot sytem with Windows XP and Windows XP. If you would like to read Part 1 go here Speed Up Your Music Production Part 1. What you will need 1. If you want to make a dual boot system, the first thing I can recommend is going out [...]

If your interested in speeding up your sequencer and have the hard drive space available, I highly recommend making a dual boot system. In doing so you will be able to optimise your hard drive to perform at it’s best while tweaking your latest CPU intensive tune. I am a Windows XP user and have been running the [...]

If  you are an upcoming artist and want to share your tunes with the world, then head on over to MP3.com.au and sign up for an account. I created my profile simply to show my friends what I do with my spare time. That’s right I do not sit in front of the TV and eat cheese toasties when I [...]

Today I have had a very exciting day…. I have been sanding floors with a floor sander for the last 9 hours straight! Ok so that’s not very exciting right but at least it gave me inspiration to write this post. While I was sanding I listened to the echoes and concluded that the acoustics of an [...]

Is everything is sounding the same? Read on for some inspirational tips. 1. Switch genres. Try making a house track if your used to making drum and bass tracks. Or the other way around if that is the case. Sometimes I switch genres to take a break from drum and bass. This will help you to expand your musical ear. 2. [...]

If your serious about music then you may want to get yourself  a set of decks and start building a collection of vinyl. Once your tunes are up to scratch you will need some way of showing your music to others. By playing your tunes at smaller gigs you can get the recognition you deserve. All the [...]

If you are a sample whore just like me, then you may well need a way of sorting your . wav samples into some kind of useful structure. When I was living in the city, I had a proper landline broadband connection (not this crappy satellite setup I have now) and I used to browse the web and download any [...]

I’m using a pair of Sennheiser HD 280 Pro. They sound great, are comfortable and are not too expensive at AU$250. The frequency response is good based on the fact that the tunes I make with these translate well on my monitors. Some headphones these days fit really close to your ears to block out background noise [...]

Here is a delay chart I thought I would share. You can use it to find out the delay in milliseconds for any given note at any bpm. If your chosen bpm isn’t on the chart just interpolate between other bpm’s to find the correct dealy. Click on the image below to enlarge. Download PDF