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How tape machines shape the lo-fi sound
Learn about the origins of the lo-fi sound, including saturation, wow, flutter, and tape delay—and how the quirks of analog tape machines have translated to the digital domain.
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Sound Design
Explore synthesis, audio effects, and other topics that pertain to the world of sound design.
11 tips for improving your melodies and chord progressions
Veteran producers Nick Chen, Isaac Duarte, and Kaelin Ellis share 11 powerful tips for breathing new life into your melodies and chord progressions.
3 timeless sound design tips from MYLK
We had the opportunity to sit down with veteran producer and vocalist MYLK to hear about the lessons she’s gathered across the span of her creative journey in sound design.
What’s new in Arturia’s FX Collection 4?
From cutting-edge distortion tools to a lush reverb unit, here are the four newest plugins added to Arturia's FX Collection 4.
10 music production techniques you need to try in FL Studio and Ableton Live
Veteran producers Kaelin Ellis, Max Rewak, Isaac Duarte, and Nick Chen came together to share ten timeless music production tips in FL Studio and Ableton Live.
10 sound design techniques that will change how you sample
From convolution to multi-band effects processing, here are ten timeless sound design techniques that will help you reimagine your samples.
Producing a beat with the world’s most unexpected sounds
In this production tutorial, we try to guess the sources of some of the world's most innovative and unexpected samples, and then flip them into a beat.
How to use Efx Fragments, Arturia’s granular synthesis plugin
We walk through the major sections and features in Arturia's Efx Fragments to showcase a few of the many ways that it can bring new life to a sound.
Producing a beat into a full song with Kaelin Ellis and SW8VY
Kaelin Ellis brought his beat to veteran producer and instrumentalist SW8VY to build it into a full song in Ableton Live.
The 3 levels of sound design (free presets included)
We walk through the three levels of sound design, the techniques that comprise them, and how to apply them to your own productions.
Granular synthesis: A guide to what it is and how to use it
Learn about what granular synthesis is and how you can use the technique to create immersive soundscapes out of deceptively simple one-shots.
How to make monster sounds (free Ableton and Serum presets included)
Let's create our own monster sounds from scratch via two different approaches: synthesis and recorded audio.