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Grammy winner Vance Powell walks you through his entire mixing process, taking his production from a great sounding rough to a finished mix using his SSL console.

Learn Vance’s mixing philosophy and tricks that help him achieve a killer mix quickly and his workflow secrets that give him a flexible sonic palette to work from on every mix.

Between the tracking session and the mixing session is the often overlooked editing and production process that adds the finishing touches and details that can make a song stand out.

Every producer and engineer needs to help guide artists towards a cohesive vision for their records. Grammy winner Vance Powell works with the band Tyler Bryant and The Shakedown to add layers of vocals, guitar overdubs and create the final song arrangement together at his studio Sputnik Sound in Nashville, TN.

Splash in interesting Runs + Fills with Polychords to empty measures! Learn Polychord trick & effortless easy fingering.

A Serious Problem that Pianists Face: How to fill in interesting music to long notes and empty measures.

In a song, we often see a lot of long notes. These long notes usually take up a few beats creating empty measures. A lot of students get stuck and do not know how to create interesting fills to make the song come alive. If we just play the notes as they are for 4 beats, the whole song sounds boring and the music is dead.

Ableton is packed with an array of useful features and tools that you can utilize and experiment with – one of which is the Drum Rack. In this video, Frequent will teach you how to make a “glitch machine” in Ableton’s Drum Rack. Once built, this rack will allow you to apply unique glitch effects to your tracks quickly and easily!

Learn how Matt from Zetta makes huge Dubstep drops and ask him any question you have about his production process!

In this issue, we’ve amassed the ultimate collection of professional advice on all things music; whether that’s creating, recording, mixing, mastering or everything in between. Compiled from our interviews with such luminaries as John Leckie, Tony Visconti and Gary Numan, we’ve also got tips and alternative approaches from our (both pro and amateur) music-making audience. We hope this feature provides some inspiration for your creative studio endeavours. Also this issue, we chat to Catherine J Marks, a producer with some seriously impressive credits to her name and a nominee for this year’s MPG Producer Of The Year. We also spend some time with The Flashbulb, whose beautiful studio in the natural tranquility of Georgia is a thing to behold. We wrap up our A-Z series with Gear4Music, which is chock full of all the key terms and techniques that you need to know. We’ve also got our usual vast array of reviews and hands-on tutorial content, as well as an extensive guide to creating music on the move with an iPhone or iPad. We hope you enjoy the issue…

Final Cut Pro X 10.3 Essential Training offers a thorough exploration of Apple's flagship software and focuses on getting users comfortable with each aspect of the video editing process. Senior staff instructor Ashley Kennedy covers all phases of post-production—from ingest and organization to editing and refining in the timeline, correcting audio, managing media, and delivering the final project. She also covers primary and secondary color correction, and shows how to use effects to change the look and feel of video, audio, and graphics. Each stage of the post-production workflow is explained thoroughly and concisely, using real-world examples within a series of short documentary and promotional projects.

Starting every mix from scratch wastes hours of precious mixing time and keeps you from creating consistent sounding mixes. The key to efficient and creative mixing is to create a mixing template system that sets you up for success on every mix.

Did you know that joysticks and gamepads can make awesome MIDI controllers? Learn how in this course with “the Godfather of Controllerism", Moldover!

Learn exactly how Cymatics grew their email list to over 400,000 real subscribers and how to use an email list to connect with your fans.

In this video, Eric Kauffman showcases Wave Candy – an FL Studio native plugin used for analyzing and visualizing your sounds. This plugin includes an Oscilloscope, Spectrum Analyzer, Vector Scope, and Peak Meter. Eric will guide you through all its features so you won’t miss a single detail of your mix!

Ableton’s Operator is packed with features that can be extremely effective when used properly. In this video, Frequent shows you how to take advantage of Operator’s envelope looping feature to create some awesome rhythmic sequences.

Learn the Secrets to play full sounds on the Right Hand. Know how to drop your fingers to get rich sounds in octaves.

Many students want to play full sounds on the right hand.

In this course, I show you how to create full rich sounds to one melody tone that you see in Fake Book or Lead sheets.

In this video, Tascione will teach you how to create continuously evolving soundscapes using Ableton stock plugins – including Operator and various effect racks created by Tascione. These soundscapes are perfect tools that will add cool and unique atmospheres to your tracks!

In this video, Eric Kauffmann will create beautiful, lush pads with nothing but stock plugins inside FL Studio. These pads are made from Harmor, Sawer, and 3xOsc, and are processed with various stock effects including Fruity Reeverb 2, Fruity Compressor, and more.