Dm1 the drum machine how to#

You can find out what I thought of it on page 104.įinally, as always, there’s my music theory Easy Guide on page 74, and this month we’re dealing with the scary-sounding contrapuntal motion. You’ll find the piece on page 67.Įlsewhere, in the issue I have a single-page review of Mozaic Beats’ AutoTheory, an innovative plug-in that remaps the MIDI input from your controller to predetermined keys and scales, making it easier to program parts that conform musically to your project.

Dm1 the drum machine how to#

You’ll find out how to program synth parts that exploit your synth’s portamento feature to the fullest, how to reinstate vibrato to your controller’s modulation wheel, how to draw and edit pitch bend curves and even how to program a Dolby THX-style polyphonic glide. Hot off the press, here’s the August 2014 issue of Computer Music, and nestling within its info-packed pages you’ll find 8 of them containing things I wrote! My ‘Pitch n Glide’ feature is a useful 5-pager extolling the virtues of performance-enhancing techniques such as portamento and pitch bend, with a dash of vibrato. Even if you have no interest in Pro Tools, why not buy a copy anyway and read it to your kids at bedtime? They’ll be snoring their heads off before you’ve done three pages! £7.99 of anyone’s money well spent I reckon! So, if you’ve recently bought Pro Tools, or are considering it as your next studio purchase, why not pick up a copy of this too? I worked really hard to make it accessible and informative for everyone from total beginners to seasoned veterans, and there’s lots of nice pictures in it as well. Except it doesn’t really come in a box any more, but you know what I mean. An indispensable 128-page guide to getting up and running with Avid’s iconic hard disk recording, production and mixing software, this is the book that should be in the box when you order the software. I’m absolutely thrilled to announce that my first book, Avid Pro Tools Basics, (part of Flametree Publishing’s Everyday Guides Made Easy series) is now available from all good online bookstores, and even a few disreputable ones, along with the odd high street bookshop.