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Essential Guide: How to Make a Sample Pack
Want to refine your sound design and create a new income stream? Learn how to craft a professional sample pack that stands out. This guide covers everything from defining your niche and making compelling beats and melodies to mastering technical standards (WAV, 24-bit, 44.1kHz) and effective marketi
Experimental Trap Hits Different: How to Break the Rules and Build Your Sound
Dive into the unpredictable world of Experimental Trap, where traditional beats get twisted, and sound design is an art form. Discover why this genre, influenced by everything from Rave to Boom Bap, is captivating a new generation of producers using DAWs like a sonic playground. Learn what makes it
What Is a DAW? A Producer's Guide to Choosing Your First One
Ready to stop making music that sounds like it was recorded inside a recycling bin? Choosing your first Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) is the single most important step to making legitimate-sounding Electronic, Hip Hop, and Rock. This guide demystifies the process, breaks down what a DAW is, and hi
How to Make Hard Techno: A Producer's Guide to Raw Power
Learn how to make Hard Techno from scratch. This guide covers kick drum design, rumble kicks, acid basslines, distortion techniques, arrangement, and mixing for the club.
What Is Vaporwave? Origins, Sound, and How to Make It
Learn how to make Vaporwave music with this complete production guide. Sampling, synths, Lo-Fi effects, mixing tips, and arrangement techniques for authentic Vaporwave production.
Serum 2 Upgrade: Xfer Records Revolutionizes the Wavetable Synth
Xfer Records has created something that feels less like a plugin and more like an instrument, one that acknowledges both electronic music's past and its future. Whether you're creating experimental sound art or crafting club bangers, Serum 2 is the rare soft synth that delivers on its considerable h
Futureproof Launches a New Kind of Music School
Futureproof believes the future of music is human. We use artificial intelligence to augment the music education experience, making the curriculum more relevant and intuitive for each student.
How to Make Festival Trap Drops Like Runnit
Discover essential tips and sounds to elevate your festival trap tracks. Learn how to create captivating beats that resonate with your audience.
Reese Bass Sound Design: Everything You Need to Know
A Reese bass is a sustained, detuned sawtooth-style bass with phase beating that accelerates as the note climbs in pitch. It originated on Kevin Saunderson's 1988 Detroit techno track "Just Want Another Chance" (released under his Reese alias) and became the foundational bass of drum and bass after Ray Keith sampled it for his 1994 jungle anthem "Terrorist." Today every subgenre of DnB uses it, from liquid to neurofunk. What's up drum and bass producers. Today we're diving into the sound design
How to Find a Music Manager: An Interview with Perry Davis
How to get a music manager? Get expert insights from industry veteran Perry Davis (24/8 Management). Learn what music managers look for in artists, essential social media tips, career strategy, and advice for aspiring managers in the music business.
How to Mix and Master Dubstep: A No-Nonsense Guide
Most producers treat mixing and mastering like separate, intimidating stages. You finish your track, bounce it, and stare at a master bus wondering why everything sounds flat. I think that whole approach is broken. If you're processing your sounds right as you go, you're already most of the way there. This is from the final unit of my course "How to Make Dubstep with Protohype" on Futureproof. Here's the full breakdown of my approach, including my jar analogy, why transient shaping is non-negot
Serum 2 Spectral Mode: A Producer's Deep Dive
Serum 2 dropped and the one feature everyone keeps asking about is Spectral Mode. Fair enough. It's the biggest shift in how Serum makes sound since the original plugin hit, and once you understand what's actually happening under the hood, it opens up a whole new way to get weird with any sample you throw at it. Spectral synthesis isn't new. It's been around for a minute in other tools. But having it baked into Serum, with the workflow and the warp modes we already love, makes it genuinely usab