Maschine & Logic Part 1: Routing Multiple Outputs
Maschine is a powerful tool as a standalone unit, but once it’s running inside your DAW and can take advantage of the extra features, it becomes extremely flexible. In our new tutorial series, course...
View ArticleMaschine & Logic Pro X Part 3: Automating Maschine
Maschine is a powerful music-making tool in its own right, but when used within a DAW it can add a huge amount of flexibility to your mixes. However, it’s not always clear how Native Instrument’s...
View ArticleLogic Pro 1: Production – Vocal Comping
Vocal comping is a powerful feature that allows multiple vocal takes to edited to a single track by highlighting the best moments of each take. What was once a laborious process has been hugely...
View ArticleLogic Pro 1: Production – Filter & Routing
In the latest video from our Logic Pro 1: Production course preview series, tutor Paul Crossman looks at routing select tracks into a bus for a classic production trick. DJ-style production techniques...
View ArticleLogic Pro 1: Production – Direct Video Response (DVR) Example
Every second week of their course, our online students receive a one-to-one personal feedback video from their tutor, who’ll break down their project, go through each element and explain how it could...
View ArticleTop 3 Logic Tutorials 2014
Logic Pro is a complex beast, with over 20 years of variations on hard drives across the world. With version X hitting the net last year, it spawned a whole new series of guides and tutorials as well...
View ArticleLogic Pro X 10.1 – What’s New? FFL!
Logic Pro X was, visually at least, one of the biggest overhauls of its interface since Apple bought the popular DAW back in 2002. Some users felt it was style over substance and that the key elements...
View Article10 Best New Things About Logic Pro X 10.1
For all Logic Pro users, the unveiling of Logic Pro X 10.1 was both an exciting and daunting prospect. Some were skeptical, and weren’t keen on the new look in the latest version of the DAW, but at...
View ArticleStem Mixing in Logic Pro X: Bass Management
When mixing your own music, bouncing down to a collection of key stems can help you avoid over-mixing your track. Committing to certain sounds and notes will allow you to focus on the mix and overall...
View ArticleLogic Pro Tutorial: Mixing with Stems Part 3 – Mastering
When mixing your own music, bouncing down to a collection of key stems can help you avoid over-mixing your track. Committing to certain sounds and notes will allow you to focus on the mix and overall...
View ArticleLogic Pro X Tutorial: Stem Mixing Part 1 – Drums and Percussion
Having a competent studio at home is now a viable option for most producers, but mixing that final 10% can often require serious investment in monitoring, acoustic treatment and the best plugins and...
View ArticleLogic Pro X Tutorial: Stem Mixing Part 2 – Synths
As more and more producers work in the box and as technology and production tools improve, it’s possible to almost completely produce a track at home. But without the right acoustic treatment and...
View ArticleLogic Pro X Tutorial: Stem Mixing Part 3 – Vocals
Stem mixing is becoming more and more popular as many producers can get their track 80% of the way there at home, but need an acoustically treated room and high-end plugins and hardware to give it the...
View ArticleLogic Pro X Tutorial: Sampling in Alchemy
When Camel Audio’s Alchemy was bought by Apple, many wondered if it would end up replacing Logic’s stalwart sampler EXS24. Instead, it’s ended up running alongside it, offering flexible sample...
View ArticleLogic Pro X Tutorial – Making a Track Part 1: Creating Templates
While there are many schools of thought on how to set up your DAW, every producer is different. Some start with drums, others with melody, but it’s often the case that once you get going you reach for...
View ArticleLogic Pro X Tutorial – Making a Track Part 2: Optimising Your Workflow
Moving quickly when making music is vital to ensure your ideas aren’t lost. Setting up signal chains you use a lot in advance, saving your sounds as templates and being able to quickly audition sounds...
View ArticleLogic Pro X Tutorial – Making a Track Part 3: Finalising Your Track
There are no one-size-fits-all solutions to what to do with your master buss. In fact, some producers and engineers make sure there’s nothing on it at all. If you do decide to EQ and limit your...
View ArticleMix Deconstruction w/ JC Concato (FFL!)
There are a lot of variables that go into a mix. The plugins or hardware chosen on each element, their settings and the overall tricks and techniques applied to the mix all go towards giving it its...
View ArticlePB Guest Artist & Speaker Round-Up, Inc: MJ Cole, Ferry Corsten, Catz ‘n Dogz
At Point Blank, we pride ourselves on our real world industry connections and frequently invite leading and influential figures to speak to our classes. Offering tips, insights and guidance gleaned...
View ArticlePoint Blank Sound Design Tutorial Series: What is a LFO?
We’re back with a brand new tutorial series to help you get the most out of your productions. In this series, Point Blank course developer and instructor Chris Carter will be showing us the basics of...
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