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Free Piano Libraries and VSTi shootout
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This post is a long due on my schedule, I prepared everything during mid 2015 and then…nothing. It’s time to wrap it up and maybe also do a little update, 5 years in the world of sampled instruments are like a whole new era. Anyway, the main question behind this post was “Is there…
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Sunday with Ola: the Riff Challenge
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It’s been few months since I started recording ideas “on the fly” for the Sunday with Ola Riff Challenge and I’m quite digging it. What is it? It’s a challenge to write your own riffs on a drum loop that you can download from a link on every episode of the segment “Sunday with…
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Producing a song with free plugins only
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It’s been a while that I’m thinking about producing an entire song with just free plugins. I’m not talking about mixing and mastering only, I mean also songwriting: vst instruments, guitar and bass amp simulators, drum samples. I already did an entire mix using just free plugins, you can achieve very good results, free…
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Hydrogen: best free drum machine ever
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As most of you already know, I really like the world of open source software and Linux. During last years things have changed for producers: you can find on the internet extremely powerful Linux multimedia distributions, focused and well packed for this particular purpose, to let people make music, for free. The existence of…
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Pre-production: the extra oomph of every music project
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Usually, when you’re happy with your songwriting, you can’t wait to press REC and start recording everything you wrote. There’s nothing better than listening to your work after all those efforts. However, it’s important to bear in mind that from songwriting to mastering there is a lot of actions and activities that must be…