CMUSE

It’s tempting to assume that a staccato note is just a blip. It isn’t. A staccato note are a precise amount of silence that sits … Read more

In many ways, a MIDI sequence can look right on the grid, but sound disconnected when played back. It has all the notes. They is … Read more

How far is an accelerando? How quickly does it increase speed and how tense does it need to be? It gets rid of the ‘panic’ … Read more

Nested tuplets is tricky to program into a sequencer as a polyrhythm too. Unless you’re a freak of nature, it’s easy to get lost when … Read more

By now most musicians has heard of and felt what a triplet is, and they will know what I mean by a bouncy, swung subdivision … Read more

The reason is compressor instability, where release time isn’t riding on the rhythm but fighting against it. What is end of a gain reduction envelope? … Read more

Post production presents you with this same dilemma: Audio and Video files gets out of sync. Why? You recorded audio on 30 frame-per-second equipment, and … Read more

You press play, hit record on the beat, play it back and hear it just off the grid. Not that you’re late. The click track … Read more

When you’re editing a vocal take and the snare hit lands just a hair behind the grid, this present an issue. It’s not loud enough … Read more

Sync problems can cause panic, especially if they arise close to deadline. That’s when you render a project and realize the sound is out-of-sync. Or … Read more

When you press down on your keyboard’s middle C, it rings out in perfect tune. Turn that pitch bend wheel for a sweepy string or … Read more

Try dumping sound from old synths sometime and you’ll experience a certain variety of digital angst. Plug in your MIDI interface. Hook it to your … Read more

This is about modulation depth. How much depth do you put into your modulation? You probably spend quite a bit of time tweaking this around. … Read more