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Honk Your Horn

This is the third tune from the instrumental series. It was inspired by a car alarm going off in my neighborhood, I recorded the alarm with my iphone and then made a tune out of it. You’ll hear the alarm sample coming in and out of the music. Enjoy!

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Maxed Out

This is the first track of a series of 9 instrumental pieces I’ll be releasing on the next 9 days. Enjoy!

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Call and Response in Electronic Music

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In this tutorial I’ll be demonstrating ways to craft cool melodies, especially if you’re running out of ideas. Call and Response is a technique that has been used for centuries, and even to this day different genres use it in many creative ways. I’ll be discussing how to use it in both macro and micro ways. Please use headphones or nice speaks so that you can enjoy some of the subtleties in the effects. [Read more]

Boards of Canada Pads on NI Massive

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A cool technique that a lot of people miss when sculpting sounds is the idea of an envelope modulating itself. I’ll explain that in a minute. But this a feature that I learned of by designing sounds on the Prophet 08 by Dave Smith Instruments. The idea is that you can make for instance a filter envelope modulate it’s decay, attack, or anything you can think of that’s available. [Read more]