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How to design your perfect modular system: oscillators
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How to create unique pads using Ableton Live's Spectral Time device
Create unique pads and drones to use in your songs
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How to create a lush ambient chord progression
In this tutorial we show you how to write a harmonically engaging four-chord cycle for use in ambient soundscapes
How to get the 80s synth pop sound
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Just Her: 5 things I've learned in music production
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Music theory basics: why diminuendo and crescendo still mean something in modern music production
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