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There has been a dramatic uptick in recent years of music being made with hardware. It isn't the first instance of something "new" coming along and being the next best thing, replacing the previous one before a core group of people return to using the old stuff. The music industry in general is a fun one for this kind of thing; when CDs were first introduced as a consumer product, people talked about the "death of vinyl", and then when streaming came along, that was a further death - of the CD. But over the last 5 to 10 years, you...

The world of music production has never been more accessible to the novice producer as it is today. Gone are the days when making music would have cost an arm and a leg for studio time, because you now have most of the functionality of a professional recording studio in your own home in the form of a DAW. But just because music production has become more accessible, that doesn't mean that getting a professional sound out of your DAW is equally easy to achieve. In fact, you'll need to put in a lot of work to get a professional sound out of...

There was a time when I would have scoffed at the idea of making music on any kind of mobile device. I remember being 18 and having a super basic Korg synth app on my iPhone, and feeling underwhelmed at the capabilities of it compared to the computer based synths I was used to using. But fast forward to today, and the capability of mobile devices has completely outpaced my ability to keep up with them, and so I'll admit I'm even a little surprised that what would ten years ago been a pipe dream, is today a reality! I am of...

I grew up using Logic Pro as my main DAW. I learned the basics of DAWs using Cubase during my college years, but after Cubase, Logic Pro was the next DAW I learned, and I spent a long time with it. Looking back now at a lot of the music I made when I was younger, it was all recorded, mixed (and to some extent mastered) in Logic Pro. So I've always been familiar with it, and it's this familiarity which meant that for a long time I was aware of what it didn't have.  That is, an effective way to perform live.  This was made even more obvious when I...

The modern world of software and technology is an ever changing place, which for us music producers means that our DAWs, the workstations where we use the tools of the trade to make our music, are always being updated and added to. Sometimes this is in the form of huge overhaul updates, while other times it's smaller patches that fix issues. But over time the results mean that we are getting a DAW which is always evolving and adding new features. Logic Pro has had many quality of life updates since the launch of Logic Pro X. The huge overhaul of Logic's UI and addition...