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Tutorials for music software

How to set a compressor

When I used to live in Hawaii, there was this certain drum n bass dj who came up to me and asked, “What setting do you use when you use a compressor?” I responded by saying, “Well it all depends on what I am compressing.” He then seemed rather irritated that I didn’t divulge some [...]

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How to use Kontakt 3 in Logic Studio

Logic 8 has made it easier, to use multi-timbral and multi-output instruments. You no longer need to open up the environment to route and create auxiliary channels in order to use multi-out plugins. This tutorial assumes that you know how to load samples in to Kontakt 3 and assign the sample to the different outputs [...]

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Missing EXS files after Logic Studio Upgrade

Apparently this is a common problem. After upgrading Logic from 7 to 8, things get broken. During the upgrade things get moved around and because logic depends on a lot of garageband content, some of these files ended up missing. I looked for some way online to fix the problem. Most said to reinstall Logic or to use a program called pacifist to dig out the needed files from the

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