Flex your sound design muscles by restricting yourself to one sample for every element in a song.

We show you how to make a gritty lo-fi analogue synth lead in the style of Mac DeMarco.

In this new installment of our mixing series we mix a deep house-style beat using Waves plug-ins in Ableton Live.

We put Paul Woolford’s jungle remix of ‘Delicate Limbs’ under the microscope and see what makes it hit so hard.

The pads in 808 State’s genre-defining ‘Pacific State’ are no doubt at the top of the list of the most iconic sounds in dance music. In this Synth Secrets, we replicate the Mancunian quartet’s synthesis secrets.

Spectral processing can open up possibilities when working with stems, from adding effects like delay, to targeting specific instruments for dynamics processing, and more. In this tutorial, we show you how.

Latency can turn your hardware heaven into a confusing and frustrating hell – especially with Ableton Live. We look at some strategies to get your MIDI and audio all synced up.

Got big hair and big shoulder pads but small drums? We show you how to take your ‘80s percussion from wimpy Hall And Oates to stomping New Order.

We show you how to take your mix from dull to sparkle with bus processing plugins from the Arturia FX Collection 2.

In this tutorial, we use Surreal Machines’ Dub Machines plugins to turn a dry beat into delay-soaked dub madness.

In this new installment of our mixing series, we mix a ’90s-style breakbeat using Waves plugins in Ableton Live.

In this Beat Dissected, we use Oblivion Sound Lab’s Hex Drum to create a beat like Marvin Gaye’s groundbreaking ‘Sexual Healing’.