MPN Community Sponsors Innovative RM64 Artist

Bass Player, EQ, Guitar Player, and Keyboard magazines are sponsoring the RM64 Artists Record project — a ground-breaking program that provides seven musicians with the gear (the goodies include KRK Rockit monitors, Line 6 Pods, Novation MIDI controllers, Rode microphones, and Propellerhead Reason and Record software packages) and the platform

BT Wears His Lab Coat for These Hopeful Machines

Electronic music doesn’t have to be the most insanely complicated thing in the world to create—BT just insists on making it that way. Listening to his latest album, These Hopeful Machines (released in early February on Nettwerk), you’ll hear dance-pop, trance, house, breaks, cinematic soundscapes, and orchestral interludes, and you might notice

Propellerhead Record : Make Groovy MIDI Sequences

OBJECTIVE: Turn stiff MIDI parts into music that grooves and swings. BACKGROUND: The ReGroove mixer is a powerful tool for adding humanization and expressiveness to MIDI parts. It has two options: Global parameters and Channel parameters. We’ll cover basics of Channel parameters, which affect only note lanes assigned to them. Note: The following also applies to Reason 4. STEPS 1. Click on the ReGroove Mixer show hide button (lower right). The mixer has four banks of eight channels; each channel can have a different groove.       2. In the note lane you want to groovify, click on the Select Groove pop-up menu, and select a groove channel. Here, ReGroove channel A1 is being selected.        3. Start playback, so you can hear

Roundup : Can You Really Mix On Headphones?

Of course you can mix on headphones, but does that mean you should? It’s an increasingly relevant question because many people listen to music on earbuds or headphones, not the hi-fi speakers that resemble what’s used for traditional mixing. Furthermore, as more people work in home project studios, mixing at high levels could lead to a grumpy spouse or complaining neighbor. Another consideration is economics: Headphones take room acoustics out of the equation, which can be a factor with home studios, and top-of-the-line headphones cost less than top-of-theline speakers. However, not all headphones are created equal. Those designed for consumers sometimes “hype” the low end, high end, or both. Finding headphones that