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Is LUNA Really Free? The Free DAWs Worth Downloading on Mac, Windows and iPad
Universal Audio's LUNA now costs nothing on Mac and Windows. Here is what that gets you, plus the other free DAWs worth your time, including Sampledex on iPad, Mac and Windows.
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A home podcast studio built from gear I actually use: a 4K webcam, a pair of tracking PTZ cameras and the headphones every broadcast booth already owns.
FeatureIs Sampledex for iPad a Real Free DAW, and What Can It Do?
Robert Clemons has brought Sampledex from the Mac to the iPad as a free download. Here is what it does, what it can't do, and who it's for.
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Building drums on an analog synth: noise, pitch envelopes and the 90 ms rule
Kicks, snares, hats and toms from a single voice — what actually creates each sound, and the envelope settings that matter.
How to actually listen to billy woods' lyrics
His writing is called dense, cryptic and difficult. It is none of those things once you know what he is doing. Six habits that make the catalog open up.
ShrapKnel handed a whole album to Controller 7 and it sharpened them
Curly Castro and PremRock's Nobody Planning To Leave is a single-producer record with Open Mike Eagle, Breezly Brewin, D-Styles and ELUCID in the margins.
Velocity, aftertouch and mod wheel: making a hardware synth sound played
Most synth patches sound programmed because nothing responds to the hands. Four routings fix that.
How to buy billy woods on vinyl without overpaying
Backwoodz sells most of its catalog direct, presses in small runs and sells out fast. A practical guide to getting the records at retail instead of resale.
Sortilège: how one Aethiopes verse turned Preservation and Gabe 'Nandez into a duo
Nandez's appearance on "Sauvage" was the seed. The full-length that grew out of it is one of the most texturally strange records Backwoodz has released.
Music metadata explained: ISRC, UPC, ISWC and the credits that get you paid
Identifiers and credits decide whether your royalties find you. A practical walkthrough of ISRC, UPC, ISWC and release credits, using the free public standards and databases you can check yourself.
Roblox just signed music's biggest promoter and one of its fastest-growing distributors — in the same week
Live Nation and Too Lost both announced Roblox music deals in the same week. Read side by side, the two press releases reveal how the platform is turning games into a discovery channel.
Terror Management and Known Unknowns: the billy woods records people skip
Two solo albums that get lost between the big ones. Both are essential, and both explain how woods got from History Will Absolve Me to Hiding Places.