Until version 8, Pro Tools didn’t offer any effective comping tools to its users. Now, that’s changed, and you can throw out the old convoluted comping...

At the most basic level, the role of the musician in the studio is to deliver a performance of high quality that can be released to the world (or at the very...

Reason 4’s RPG-8 Arpeggiator device is a useful tool when you want to create any sort of arpeggiated melody from a chord progression or even lead line...

The producer, whose role we discussed last week, usually has a henchman that we call the studio engineer. In some cases, particularly those cases where the...

In Logic Pro 9, Apple included a new speed fade feature which allows you to replicate the effect of a record speeding up or speeding down (at least in some...

The producer has a job that consists of many roles. Some of them happen in the studio, and some of them don’t. I’m going to spend a few articles talking...

A while back we took a look at the most basic lesson in guitar improvisation: the pentatonic scale. Today we’re covering what many would consider the second...

While some producers, such as electronica producers, practically live in the sequencer, many home recording enthusiasts are totally unfamiliar with the...

In a music world where less and less people are bothering to learn to read and write “proper” notation, more easily grasped formats such as tablature are...

In the precious minutes it takes from the time you have a great musical idea to loading up Logic and configuring a session, you may have lost the creative...

Ever felt like the default screensets offered by Logic just don’t suit your style of working? In this first tutorial on helping you make the most of limited...

While some producers, such as electronica producers, practically live in the sequencer, many home recording enthusiasts are totally unfamiliar with the...