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How To Get Your Music On Spotify Playlists

 One of the reasons why Spotify is the most popular streaming service is because of its music discovery options. The quality of playlists on this platform beats all the competition. As a result, artists get a new possibility of promoting their music. Spotify offers two kinds of playlists: official and user-created. Official playlists are usually more popular, but user-generated playlists offer an even greater variety of genres. Let’s start from official playlists - like RapCaviar or New Music Friday. How do I get a track on an official playlist? There’s three ways. 1. Spotify For Artists This year Spotify...

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Top 5 Free VST Emulations Of Famous Synths

Get that classic sound with these 5 free synths for Mac & Windows! 1. Steinberg Model E [Minimoog Model D] The Minimoog is probably the most important synth in history. It was the first compact synth which musicians could easily use on tour. Combined with an easy to use interface and warm sound it quickly became the top synth in the world. It was used in countless hits - for example in Michael Jackson’s Thriller as the bass. I was surprised by how good Steinberg's emulation sounds. It’s a nice free alternative to Arturia’s Mini V. Here’s the bassline from Thriller recreated...

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6 Ear Training Tips For Music Production

Ears in music production are the same as feet in football. Do you think Cristiano Ronaldo would have come so far without training? It’s no different when it comes to producing. Let’s explore some ear training techniques to get you ready to play in the “big league”.  Critical listening vs analytical listening There are two listening perspectives that form the foundation of music production, each being important in its own way and essential for a professionally-sounding and expressive song. The aim of critical listening is to pinpoint the physical details of a mix. These can be the dynamic range, how...

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6 Types Of Remixes

Do you know the difference between a bootleg, VIP and Re-Edit? 1. Official remix An official remix is typically requested by an artist or label. The remixer gets the stems (audio bounce of each track) and sometimes the MIDI files. If the remix will help sell the artist’s record, the remixer gets a fee or profit share from the sales. Sometimes the remix ends up being more popular than the original track, such as Hippie Sabotage’s remix of Tove Lo’s “Stay High”. 2. Bootleg A bootleg is an unofficial remix (made without permission of the original artist). Most bootleggers don’t...

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Trap Beat Guide: Melodies - 3 Essential scales for making melodies

Making a trap beat shouldn’t be too complicated. In fact, most of them consist of very few elements. In this article I’ll show you my trap beatmaking workflow! In case you missed it, here's part 1 with drums tips. Part 2: Melody Before making a bass pattern I like to make a melody and figure out its chord progression. Most trap melodies are based on one of these 3 scales - minor, harmonic minor, and phrygian. Here’s how these are created: Btw, all of these scales and more are included in my trap toolkit - check it out! The minor...

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Trap Beat Guide: Bass - Essential tips for making 808 patterns

Making a trap beat shouldn’t be too complicated. In fact, most of them consist of very few elements. In this article I’ll show you my trap beatmaking workflow! In case you missed it, here's part 1 with drums tips, and here's part 2 with melody tips. 3. Bass Once you have a melody it’s time to create a bass pattern. Most of trap bass sounds are called „808s” and are long, distorted sub bass notes. Here’s a typical trap bass pattern: Btw, my new sample pack includes a lot of awesome 808s and MIDI clips. Check it out here. The...

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Trap Beat Guide: Drums - Essential tips for making trap drum patterns

Making a trap beat shouldn’t be too complicated. In fact, most of them consist of very few elements. In this article series I’m showing you my trap beatmaking workflow in Ableton Live! Part 1: Drums Every beat’s core is the drumbeat. Most trap drum patterns follow a similar formula. The sound selection for trap isn’t hard either. A trap drumkit must contain of at least 3 sounds - kick, snare and hihat. All of these sounds should be short and snappy. Most kickdrums are short, clipped and lowpassed. The snare is an important element which gives you the most variety...

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Top 5 FREE Piano Plugins

Are you looking to "color" your track with some cool and totally free piano plugins? Look no further, we've listed 5 top FREE VST piano plugins.  1. Iowa Grand Piano Made by the craziest free instrument maker - Bigcat Instruments, Iowa Grand Piano delivers a beautiful and sophisticated sound. Very simple to use plugin with useful decay and release knobs. Download: Mac / Win If you're looking for more realistic instruments, see this Kontakt Instruments list - there's more pianos, but also a lot of other instruments :) 2. 4Front Piano Although this plugin has no effects, I still find the sound quite...

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9 Amazing FREE VST Synth Plugins

Welcome again to the Editor`s choice of the 9 most Amazing FREE VST Synth Plugins! We made an effort in making a list of 9 high quality free VST synth plugins you can download and use right away. ENJOY! Oxe FM by Oxe Music Software    Oxe is a really cool FM synth definetely worth a shot. BrainStormer by Roazhon DSP BrainStormer is a freeware virtual analog synthesizer.  Uno FM by XSynth Uno has been listed as one of the best Freeware FM synths around by Computer Music Magazine. Try it out! VOMP by Sam VOPM is an emulation of the Yamaha YM2151...

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Operator For Beginners: Trap Kick & Bass [Free Patch]

In this tutorial we’re going to make an awesome Ableton instrument in Operator. We’ll go through all you need to know to make this patch even if you’re new to Operator. Here’s the patch we’re going to make: You can download this patch here for free. Let’s get started! Let’s load up Operator onto a MIDI track. Here’s what it looks like by default:     Now let me explain in short Operator’s UI. On the left of the device there’s four oscillators (they generate the sound). Then, the sound can be modified by using some of the sections on the right...

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