i think something that would help most people is to not quantize the sh!t out of everything sometimes mistakes are good and should be left alone I agree, it's good to have a little bit of a live feel left to it so it doesn't sound all stiff. As for finding a groove: If you need to rely on the bassl...

I don't see any realistic advantage to using linux audio programs to do anything exept that they handle cpu better. Right now i run Sonar 4, Reason, Reaktor 4, Lin Plug Albino, waves plugins all at the same time and i havn't been able to crash my programs in windows yet. that being said: There is ab...

I have no idea how you could come up with melody based on a system of trial and error. Well.....i guess i can, but how do you breathe soul into it that way? I was a musician way before i started to produce electronic music and i take the same tactics into my techno stuff. Everybody7 should take the ...

Wow!.... Some of you are just now hearing about this for the first time? It's somewhat reality shattering when you find out how amazingly common this is in electronic music. Very few of the big name dj's and producers make music alone. Alot of them use outside musicians and even more of them use eng...

Yeah it would be quicker but i'v always taken the time to give a listen to every track. It's usually worth it New TRUE talent is alot more rare than people think it is. There are alot of people that are in the mid-ranges when it comes to talent but it's very, very rare to come across a true honest t...

good topic :D I don't really make minimal per-se but there is a method to my maddness. I always start with the drums First i lay down the basic minimal rythm of the track with the drums then i start tuning the drums bringing them all into exact tune with eachother until they ring out in the basic to...

i actually recommend a pc over a mac by far i havn't come across a mac vet that can handle the beating i put on my pc running Reaktor 4, Sonar 4, and reason at the same time all the studio computers i use for mixdowns are pc and they work without problems i'v had 70 channel studio mixdowns using wav...