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As a music producer, I'm always trying to keep my eyes open for new ways I can approach making music. I love finding new plugins.  There's a certain child-at-Christmas feeling to discovering a new tool, and getting a wave of excitement about all of the musical possibilities this new tool can bring. Well, it's in that vain that we will be talking about Noises by AudioThing today.  Noises is a really cool plugin, designed in collaboration between AudioThing and German composer Hainbach.  It's a Noise generator which puts the focus on exploring the sounds available and creating unique results. There's a lot of cool stuff going...

The internet is a limitless and wonderful resource for music producers.  It's allowed collaboration, the sharing of knowledge and techniques so music production is now more accessible than it ever has been before, and a whole host of access to awesome tools to help you make music in better, different and more exciting ways. If you're like me, you're regularly looking around for the newest options out there for music production.  Expanding your toolset is something I always say is super important, and today we are going to talk about something a little different. Instead of synths, DAWS or plugins,...

I've recently been very fortunate and got hold of a MacBook Pro with Apple's M1Pro chip, and it's a stunning device. You may remember our article here, where I discussed the options for the best Mac for running Logic Pro, and now having an M1Pro chip in my home production arsenal, I can safely say that the verdict was right. The M1 Pro chip runs Logic Pro seamlessly, enabling faster editing, producing and music making like never before.   But I acknowledge that I'm very fortunate to be able to use one of these machines, and not everyone has an up to date Apple...

When I began learning Music Production, Mastering was always spoken about as a dark art which mastering engineers had to train for years to learn. And even then, it wasn't always something you could teach. It was intuitive; it changed with the times. It was a gift you either had or you didn't. But over the past decade or so, something quite interesting has happened. There's been a huge uptick in AI Mastering sites and plugins, and a focus on DIY Mastering.  I'll admit I was skeptical about this at first, which may have just been my internal bias. If I'd always been taught that...

One of the biggest challenges facing musicians today is keeping listeners engaged in the music they're listening to. The world of social media and streaming has given us millions upon millions of hours of content and music, all of it vying for that couple of seconds it takes to win or lose our attention. Things can seem overwhelming amidst all of the often chaotic content that's saturating our social media feeds and our music streaming services.  And it's in this landscape that we, as music producers, are trying to get our music heard by people. Not only that, we're trying...