Waveform Wednesday: Quick Sidechain Compression in Logic

If you’re looking for a nice kick sound in your song  a sidechain compression might help you out! Today lets put a sidechain compression on a pad. Triggered by the Kick. Here’s what you have to do: Write the kick on a MIDI track, like this: Choose a kick that you like, could be electric or acoustic, in this case I’d recommend the Ultrabeat kick drum, because its nice and you can also modify it. Once you’ve selected your plug in, send...

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Waveform Wednesday: Reason Rewire in Digital Performer

Every DAW has its ups and downs.  Have you ever hoped that someone would just combine them into one awesome DAW?  The good news is that you can do this (to an extent).  The better news is that it is really easy to do.  I’m going to show you how to do so in Digital Performer (everyone’s favorite). Essentially what we are doing is making Reason sync to another DAW. This offers the benefits of DP’s great sequencing and...

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Mac Daddy Monday: Dock Spacer using Terminal in OS X

What is Terminal in Mac OS?It is simply a text-based program that lets you send commands manually to the OS and interact with it. You can do pretty much anything, because the Terminal is basically a window into another OS. What is the Dock Spacer?The Dock is very convenient to organize application icons. However, if you have too much items in the Dock, it is easy to get lost visually and also waste time searching the application that you want to...

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Waveform Wednesday: Tidying Up A Logic Session (part 2)

Does the amount of information on your arrange window ever make you feel claustrophobic?  In Logic, we can organize untidy tracks and regions in various ways.  Here is one feature that can sweep regions from an entire take “under the rug,” so to speak.  Here we have three different versions of the same tune, so we can send them off for different applications.   We will be working on each chunk separately, and the extra...

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