Top career advice: staying weird in a prescriptive world Ikävä Pii: “Don’t aim for a career in art. No one is owed a career in art. Your joy of creating, pure urgency – that’s what should drive you. If you want to be an artist, do your own…
Delta blues history is the story of how a small handful of musicians, working with cheap guitars in the Mississippi Delta, created a body of music that would eventually power every electric blues record, every rock and roll riff, and every modern American blues guitar style we know…
To our friends, artists, partners, collaborators, and community: After three months of hard work, and three months of extraordinary loyalty from you, I am pleased to share that a definitive agreement has now been signed for Native Instruments to be acquired by inMusic. Two iconic music technology companies,…
Few sounds in American music hit harder than Texas blues guitar. It’s the rhythm-driven, bend-heavy, vocal-phrased style that Stevie Ray Vaughan, Jimmie Vaughan, Freddie King, and Albert Collins burned into the canon. If you’re an intermediate player ready to dig in and woodshed something with real grit, this…
Komplete Select The gateway to the Komplete universe, simplified. To help you find the right sounds for your specific style, Select comes in three curated editions: Band: Get sampled guitars, keys, bass, drums, and studio effects – perfect for songwriting sessions and jamming new ideas. Beats: Designed for…
For younger producers who may never touch an analog desk, what can they learn from working with these emulations? They can learn that you can use these plugins as tools to shape a sound. The only way of learning is by doing – messing around with a plugin…
Every serious player knows that plateau—that moment when you’ve mastered your scales, your alternate picking is clean, but you feel like you’re missing the “soul” in the wires. You’ve spent hours in the woodshed, yet the bridge between intermediate skill and pro-level artistry feels miles wide. What if…
Common questions and answers about Expansions Do I need a Maschine or Kontakt to use these sounds? No. Every Expansion includes WAV samples that work in any DAW (Ableton, FL Studio, Logic, etc.). You can also use the free Kontakt Player or Massive X Player to host the…
Picture your first real band rehearsal. You know the songs. You have been practicing the parts. But the moment everyone starts playing at once, something shifts. The bass is doing something you did not expect. The drummer pushes the tempo in the chorus. The other guitarist is playing…
Pro tip from David Mayer: I ALWAYS bounce one MP3 per numbered DAW session, so I know exactly what I worked on without having to open the DAW (those MP3s have the same name as their originating session). Subsequently, some projects might have 50 saved versions, but they’re…
