In this tutorial I share a technique for turning any texture, pad, or soundscape into a tight rhythmic stuttering pattern. It’s accomplished using sidechain options of the gate effect in Ableton Live. This type of effect is something you hear in a lot of psy dub, psy trance, and psybient music. You hear it used in many songs by artists like Shpongle…

In my last article, Guitar Chord Theory – Hang-in There Its a Long Story we looked at scales and the order of steps and half-steps that are used to make a scale. If you haven’t read it you probably should as it will make this article much easier to follow. It’s important to remember that […]

by Kim M. Rush Beat maker software has been one of the many successes in the modern technology. Why? Because it has answered the call of many music lovers who wants to create their own music on a computer. Before, it was really hard to produce your own music. You can’t even do it yourself […]