It’s two hours before the Christmas party, and someone asks you to play some christmas songs. What do you do? Grab the nearest Christmas fake book, and use these 10 tips for creating awesome piano arrangements on the fly:
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MainStage works just like a pro-grade DAW, and it’s possible to pull off many of the techniques studio engineers use. One of the most useful studio techniques is bussing. Bussing allows several instruments to send audio through a signal effect, reducing CPU usage and creating a more “glued” sound (yes, that’s super unspecific. Bear with me). Here’s how to make one:
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I don’t usually share this kind of thing here, but I was really happy with the way that the remix I did for south african artist Vian Izak’s song “Revolver” turned out.
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1. Listen to all the songs back to back, without analyzing it.
I create a playlist of all the songs in Spotify, and listen to it on repeat while I do housework or other menial jobs.
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One of the problems some of my users run into is saving there presets at a specific value, then having them switch when they go back to them. For instance, you might want to have a cutoff set at a certain place. You make the adjustment, switch patches, but the next time you go back to your patch it’s back in the wrong position. Here’s how to get around this problem:
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