How to music production

It’s MusicTech’s guide to everything you would like to understand about music production: from recording to mixing to mastering. Welcome to our Beginners Guide

How to music production

Are you new to music production? Or are you returning to music-making and wish a refresher in certain aspects of recording, mixing and mastering?

If either of these applies, then you’ve come to the right place. We’re getting to explain all of the most principles of music technology and music production in as straightforward how as possible.

Read the subsequent and you ought to be during a good place to start out (or restart) your music-making, whether as a hobby, semi-professionally or maybe as a career.

So Where Do We Start?

The basics of a composition or song are its constituent parts i.e. the instruments (guitar, drums, bass, keyboards and so on) and the vocals. These are the ‘tracks’ and therefore the core of the music production process is just how you get the sounds together for every track, arrange them, mix them together and make them sound ‘professional’.

The device that permits all of this – and which has become the guts of the 21st century studio – is that the humble computer: a Mac, PC or increasingly, portable devices like tablets and iPads.

Top 10 Best Music Production Software – Digital Audio Workstations

  1. Ableton Live
  2. Fl Studio
  3. Apple Logic Pro X
  4. Avid Pro Tools
  5. Propellerhead Reason
  6. Apple Garageband
  7. Steinberg Cubase
  8. Cockos Reaper
  9. PreSonus Studio
  10. Acid Pro