Djing with your iPad
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If you own an iPad and if you are reading this blog, you are probably always looking for some music app review here and there on the net, so I’m happy to write the first of many upcoming app articles in this blog.
Due to the very hyped week for Dj apps I feel that there is no better subject for today’s post.
I’m going to talk about 2 apps out there which are for me the top iPad app for djing, Dj Player and Djay.
Let’s do a quick review of both apps and then I will tell you which over [...] Continue Reading…

Daniel Kandi : Breathe (7 Skies Remix) Video & Review
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Hey guys, finally an update on the blog.
So this time the content quite juicy and hopefully interesting, in this page you will find a link to a video I just posted on my YouTube channel, on the video you will be able to have a look at the Logic project of one of my latest remix, you will also see a few plugin settings and see how I mix elements together and how I create percussions etc.
The rmx in question is Daniel Kandi : Breathe (7 Skies Remix) which is out now on 10 years of Anjunabeats compilation, you [...] Continue Reading…

Benefits of listening your tracks in an unconventional way

What if you are almost done with your track but there is still that little “cherry on the cake” missing and no matter how hard you try it just doesn’t come?
I hate that feeling and for the record I’m in this situation about 350 days a year ( I deserve a 15 days break).
There a little something that I always do though and this thing inspires me most of the time.
Now, what I’m about to tell you might sound a little odd (it probably is as well) but I suggest you to give it a try since is [...] Continue Reading…

Logic Users : Just watch this

Not exactly like Protools Audiosuite, but a real time saver so far.
Please note I did this video using a reverb but nothing holds you from using an eq a delay a chorus or whatever plugin you want.
I also just realized the crop screwed up a few menus so on protools what i click is simply the “Audiosuite” menu on the top bar.
On logic “Option” in the top bar and then “Audio”
On wave Editor to add a plugin : “Layer” on the top bar

What if inspiration hits you?

Hands up who never had an inspiration “attack” while driving or at the shopping center or during class at school/uni.
How many times that happened to you and how many good ideas did you lose because you couldn’t remember em by the time you got back home? Sometimes even if you are home by the time your DAW is ready the idea is already gone.
So in this post I’m going to tell you what you can do in order to save your ideas.
Now first thing is, the idea I’m talking about isn’t necessary a melody, it can be a pattern/sequence [...] Continue Reading…

Best way to submit your tracks to a label
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After I got the 12347263524273725 mail from someone asking me to make sure Anjunabeats got his demo I decided to write this.
So labels actually check out the demos you send over, most of them even pay someone to listen each and every track that gets sent to the office(they are called A&R and they are VERY patient persons), now, asking to an artist of a label to ask the label to ask the A&R to listen your track isn’t the strategy that will get you signed, for a few reasons.
1) Plenty of people already thought about this strategy already, [...] Continue Reading…

Native instruments 50% Off, 5 Plugins You Can Pick!
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A few minutes ago like probably many of you, I received an email from Native instruments with a great deal, 50% Off all Instruments and Effects for the next 5 days.
I’m probably not the only one who got really excited about this thing as I’ve been trying to purchase a plugin  from almost an hour now and Native Instruments Website has been experiencing High Traffic problems on their server since I first got there, which means a hell lot of people are trying to take advantage of the offer (can’t blame them).
So how can you decide which plugin to [...] Continue Reading…

I’m Sorry But…
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I’m not going to make any youtube video tut. about mixing, eq-ing, compressing.
Why so?
Well, despite what you might think it ain’t because I don’t want to show you my tricks or something like that.
When it comes to teach something in my opinion you have to be able to teach conventional method before you teach your own one, it’s like driving lessons, where you always have to keep both hands on the steering wheel and stuff like that, and as soon as you have your driving license you just start drive the way it’s more comfortable with you (just give [...] Continue Reading…

Standalone-Studio (which is my studio)
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So this morning I was playing around with my camera, and a lens i borrowed, a nice 17mm that lets you take a quite wide angle on your images.
Well anyway, I took some pictures of my little studio and published them on my facebook, which was a big mistake as now I’m flooded with questions about my setup.
So I decided to take a little time to write on my dusty and unupdated blog, and talk about how I make all that stuff work.
So the core of the whole studio is of course my MacBook Pro and Logic Pro 9.
Whoevers [...] Continue Reading…

Mixing with Ableton Live
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I’m far from being an advanced user of Ableton Live, I use it mostly for radio shows and sometimes to stretch stems for remixes, however it seems many people don’t get or underrate the power of a specific Ableton stretching algorithm.

Did you ever listen to some online radio shows and the tracks playing sound like there is an lfo modulating the volume or the phase? Or to be more clear, Did you ever listen to some online radio shows and the tracks played sound like crap?

That’s because of the ableton (or mix meister or what ever) algorithm, by default [...] Continue Reading…