In this Synth Secrets, we show you how to craft a bass sound that will both devastate dance floors and guide ships through a foggy harbour.

Artificial intelligence can help balance a track by working across mix groups. We use Sonible’s smart:EQ3 and smart:Comp to take a vocal house song over the finish line.

Know what the different kinds of reverb mean? If you can’t tell a hall from a chamber, this is the guide for you.

In this new Beat Dissected we program a Nu Disco groove in the style of Purple Disco Machine and Never Dull.

Restricting yourself to one synth can be a great way to improve your synthesis chops. We use a Moog Grandmother and Ableton Live to build up an ambient song piece by piece.

Get inspired by disco and funk and bake your own dirty, rezzy filtered Rhodes electric piano.

In this installment of Beat Dissected we program a percussion-driven house beat and use stereo width techniques to add character to the drums.

Delay and reverb aren’t just for imparting a sense of space. In this tutorial, we use them creatively to add atmosphere to a mix.

Harness the power of the Shepard tone to blow people’s minds with a riser that never peaks.

In this tutorial we use K-Devices’ Max for Live device Hexo to generate stacked arp parts that contain multiple time signatures and constantly evolving movement