What Saturation Is and How to Use It in a Mix
Saturation is a gentle, level-dependent distortion. It adds harmonics to a signal and softly rounds off its peaks, which makes a bass…
OpenAL Explained and How It Handles 3D Audio for Games
OpenAL is a free, cross-platform audio API that games and apps use to position sounds in 3D space around a listener. You…
IK Multimedia T RackS and the free version explained
When most music makers search “t-rack,” they mean IK Multimedia’s T-RackS, a mixing and mastering suite for Windows and macOS. It comes…
Ubuntu or Linux Mint for Music Production and Everyday Use
Ubuntu and Linux Mint run the same core packages and the same kernel, so the real differences show up in the desktop,…
Automatic double tracking and free doubler plugins
Automatic double tracking (ADT) is the trick Abbey Road engineer Ken Townsend built in 1966 so John Lennon could stop singing every…