With so many music production plugin bundles around there's an excellent opportunity to save big cash on a lot of audio plugins whilst at the same time making sure you're getting top drawer quality and a set of audio plugins that truly fit your needs.

 

After years of real world testing in our own studios alongside research from our producer colleagues we've compiled a list of the most relevant Waves plugins for Trance, EDM and 4/4 Electronic styles.

With so many reverb plugins to choose from it's difficult to separate the good from the bad. We've tested, summarised and presented a round-up of our top reverb plugins available today. Whether you're looking for reverbs best for EDM, Trance or Dubstep or something more traditional for film and orchestral composing there's something here for everyone.

How to make a trance track - Our Trance music production tutorial. In our music production video tutorial we explore our Progressive Trance sample ...

2.  At mix down, loop the loudest most important part first. Set levels at this point as correctly as possible. In a pop track for example this would be your final "All in" chorus.

It's easy to find the synths everyone's talking about but what about the rest? There's a lot of hidden gems available out there that for one reason or another remain in the shadows of the more popular names or only find friends in particular musical circles.

Who'd have thought it? That in 2020 there'd be a near infinite amount of Vintage Synth VSTs designed and developed entirely in software that so closely match the sound of the original hardware synths you'd be hard pushed to win a back to back blind test in the sound stakes on some of these.

So we're back with the definitive list of must have Trance synths of 2020. Whether you're starting out, an experienced producer looking to expand o...

Lot's of confusion and mixed information out there in regards to both backing up your projects, kits and sounds but also later re-uploading your own or third party sound packs and associated RYTM kits and sounds.

We reached out to Elektron, got the low-down on how best to do this and put a few different methods to test.

..Building on the previous decades foundations in pioneering electronic music the 90s saw an explosion of music technology, going from a largely analog, hardware based setup to the introduction of digital synthesizers, romplers, and digital "analog modelling" synths alongside computer software based midi sequencers which were starting to gain gaining traction.

What goes into creating audio for screen? And what are the main elements of sound design for TV, Film and Game?

Perhaps your looking to get into sound design for these formats or just wanting to understand more about it. 

We've compiled a easy to digest list of what goes into audio for screen and cinematography.