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This week, Sample Focus is partnering with Polyverse to offer our community some of the most innovative plugins for sound design, mixing, and deep real-time modulation.
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Drum and bass covers a lot of ground, and each subgenre shares a set of technical demands, with tight drums and well-mixed bass that deliver weight and precision.
However, creatively, it’s extremely diverse, and you need to fill your lock...
Is there such a thing as the "perfect" stereo image?
Are width and punch mutually exclusive?
When does a wider mix become too wide?
Do all songs need to feel wide and expansive?
Are there sounds that should feel wide?
And what about my...
At Sample Focus, our goal has always been to make the lives of producers who use samples as easy and creative as possible.
This is why we built a community-based library with tens of thousands of sounds, carefully curated and in constant e...
Drum and bass subgenres have multiplied like nothing else in electronic music. So how do you produce different DnB subgenres?
There’s a lot to it, as it happens, despite the unifying factors being the 170 to 180 BPM drum loops, and of cour...
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The writers behind this newsletter.
Marco Sebastiano Alessi is a writer and music producer. He's the founder of Naviar Records.
Sam Jeans is a freelance writer interested in the intersection of sound, tech, and culture, from music production techniques to new audio technologies.
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