Music Production – Page 2 – tadaoto

Screen combining multiple color-coded songs into one long audio file with overlapping crossfades

How to Join Multiple Songs into One Seamless Audio File

A video timeline showing a looped middle section of background music and a fade-out at the end

How to Match Background Music to Video Length: When to Cut, Loop, or Fade

A home recording setup reducing air conditioner and computer fan noise while cleaning up a voice waveform

How to Reduce Noise in Home Recordings: Before and After Recording

A finished track from a DAW being converted into several audio file formats for different uses

How to Convert Music from Your DAW to WAV, MP3, M4A, and FLAC

Several audio waveforms with different levels being adjusted to the same perceived loudness

How to Match the Loudness of Multiple Songs and Background Music Tracks with LUFS

A comparison between key changes that move pitch up or down and tempo changes that alter the spacing between notes

Key Change vs. Tempo Change: Understanding Pitch and Speed Separately

Landscape, square, and vertical waveform and spectrum videos created from a song made in a DAW

How to Make a Music Video for YouTube and Social Media

Screen crossfading the end and beginning of a background music waveform to create a seamless loop

How to Make Background Music Loop Seamlessly: Tips for Hiding the Transition

Music production workspace for checking bass pitch and rhythm in a MIDI piano roll while listening to the recording

How to Use MIDI When Transcribing Bass Lines by Ear

Illustration of a song separated into drum, bass, vocal, and other instrument stems

How to Listen to a Reference Song by Part: Transcription and Arrangement Analysis

Screen adjusting the loudness of a DAW track while preventing clipping

What to Check When Your Exported DAW Track Sounds Too Quiet

Illustration of finding a song's BPM and key from an audio waveform, metronome, and keyboard scale

How to Find a Song’s BPM and Key: Preparing for Transcription and Remixing

A music production screen comparing an audio waveform with a MIDI piano roll

Audio vs. MIDI: How Should You Use Each in Music Production?

A finished audio track being exported in WAV and MP3 formats

WAV vs. MP3: A Beginner’s Guide to DAW Export Settings

Automation curves changing volume, pan, and filter settings over time

What Is Automation? How to Change Volume and Tone Over Time

A song arrangement changing the number of active parts from the intro through the chorus and outro

How to Arrange a Song That Sounds Repetitive: A Beginner’s Guide

A music production setup illustrating the roles of software instruments and effect plug-ins

Software Instruments, Plug-ins, and Effects: What’s the Difference?

A chord progression being assembled with a keyboard and four chord blocks

How to Choose Basic Chords from a Key and Build a Chord Progression

Kick, snare, and hi-hat patterns being programmed with drum pads and a step sequencer

Drum Programming Basics: Start with Kick, Snare, and Hi-Hat

Level meters comparing a quiet audio signal with red clipping peaks

Low Volume or Clipping in Music Production: What to Check

Illustration of reverb creating spatial width and delay creating repeated sounds

Reverb vs. Delay: A Beginner’s Guide to Time-Based Effects

Music production mixing setup with faders, panning, EQ, and compression

Mixing Basics for Beginners: Where to Start

Home recording setup with guitar and bass connected to a computer through an audio interface

How to Connect a Guitar or Bass to a Computer for Recording

Vocal recording setup with a microphone, pop filter, headphones, and audio interface

What to Check Before Recording Vocals in a DAW

Music production setup for entering notes in a piano roll with a MIDI keyboard and mouse

Do You Need a MIDI Keyboard? Choosing the Right Input Method for Music Production

Music production timeline with multiple loop regions arranged into a track

How to Make Background Music Using Only Apple Loops: A Beginner’s Guide

Music production setup with a laptop and MIDI keyboard for creating an eight-bar track

How to Make Your First 8-Bar Background Music Track in a DAW

Trying Every Preset in AIR Music Technology Mini Grand

How to Install Addictive Drums 2 Custom and Choose Your ADpaks

How to Program a Rising EDM Snare Fill

SERENITY by Quiet Music: Beautiful Pads Layered with Ambient Field Recordings

Create Ducking Without Sidechain Routing Using coreFX VolumeFormer

Choosing a Computer for Music Production: Windows or Mac, Laptop or Desktop?

Watch Out for Leftover DMG Files After Updating IK Product Manager

Do You Need a Keyboard for Music Production If You Cannot Play? How to Choose One

How to Import Banks and Presets into Spire and Where to Find Them

How to Import Presets into Serum and Where to Find Them

Addictive Keys Studio Grand Review with Demo Tracks

How Powerful Is iZotope RX 7 for Noise Removal?

How to Create EDM Ducking with or Without Sidechain Compression

Splice Offers One-Shots, Loops, MIDI, and Synth Presets by Subscription

What Is Pre-Production? How to Prepare Before Recording

How to Record Good Drum Takes for Pre-Production in a Rehearsal Studio