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If you love the sound of the talkbox, but grapple with the practicality of the hardware, we have some top tips for recreating the classic sound with plugins

If you’ve got Logic, you’re already more than capable of recreating Skrillex’s manipulated reverb, Billie Eilish’s formant shifting and much more…

We get creative with an effects chain inspired by Jon Hopkins, and a heavy dose of felt piano

Aperture heralded a new approach for Styles, but its sounds clearly cribbed from the minimal techno playbook

Get the technical know-how required to make great remixes with these essential techniques

Learn to play acoustic and electric guitar in record time with our guide to easy-to-read notation

We create our own transient-heavy synth bass with leanings towards the trance-heavy sounds of the 90s. ‘Drop Dead’ you exclaim? No way! We were Born Slippy!

We lift the bonnet on a foundational piece of synth genius, and demonstrate how you can achieve its distinctive sound yourself in your DAW

Don't let your software arsenal overwhelm you - sometimes the best route to creative success is to mine just one instrument

The A major pentatonic, A minor pentatonic and Mixolydian are great places to start and we'll show you how