Tag: MIDI

  • Exploring the Major Scale with Queen and David Bowie’s ‘Under Pressure’

    Exploring the Major Scale with Queen and David Bowie’s ‘Under Pressure’

    + Welcome to Soundfly! We help curious musicians meet their goals with creative online courses. Whatever you want to learn, whenever you need to learn it. Subscribe now to start learning on the ’Fly. The Major Scale (also known as the Ionian Mode) is really common and often used as the scale all others are defined against. It’s the “Do, Re,…

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  • Introducing Our 5 Favorite Synths from NAMM and Superbooth This Year

    Introducing Our 5 Favorite Synths from NAMM and Superbooth This Year

    Let’s face it: It’s basically impossible to keep up with the pace of trade shows through the late winter and early spring. Between the flurry of announcements about monitors, synths, modules, mixing desks, and the endless stream of video demos pouring out, merely paying attention can feel overwhelming, let alone taking meticulous notes on what’s…

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  • These 10 Super Helpful Key Commands in Ableton Live Will Change Your Life

    These 10 Super Helpful Key Commands in Ableton Live Will Change Your Life

    + Master the tools and techniques of producing pro-level electronic music and audio in Ableton Live with Soundfly’s course, Intro to Music Production in Ableton Live. There’s no other way to put it: computers have become a central component of all recorded music, as well as most composed music. Especially when taking on more projects with tighter deadlines,…

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  • The Beginner’s Guide to Setting Up a Home Studio: Free and Affordable DAWs

    The Beginner’s Guide to Setting Up a Home Studio: Free and Affordable DAWs

    + Learning to record and mix at home? Check out Soundfly’s acclaimed online courses on mixing, production, and beat making — Subscribe for unlimited access. Unless you’re recording to high-fidelity magnetic tape or into a four-track recording device, your digital audio workstation (DAW) is a critical element of your home studio. You don’t need a giant mixing…

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  • 10 Tips for Creating More Realistic MIDI Music

    10 Tips for Creating More Realistic MIDI Music

    + Learning to record and mix at home? Check out Soundfly’s acclaimed online courses on mixing, production, beat making and more — Subscribe for unlimited access. Eighty years ago, people could only dream of computers making music. The first machines to do this were as large as a bus and sounded like a dying duck choking on garbage. By contrast, modern…

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  • The Essential Starter Kit for Performing Live with Clicks and Backing Tracks

    The Essential Starter Kit for Performing Live with Clicks and Backing Tracks

    + Learning to record and mix at home? Check out Soundfly’s acclaimed online courses on mixing, production, beat making and more — Subscribe for access. If you’re looking to set up your own laptop rig for live performance using click tracks and backing tracks, you’re going to need quite a bit of gear. Seeing as most of us…

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  • The 10 Most Widely Influential Synths Ever

    The 10 Most Widely Influential Synths Ever

    Get to know these 10 classic synths, and you’ll start recognizing their oscillating tones in all your favorite tracks.

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  • Remixing Special Ed: Reaching Marginalized Students Through Music Technology

    Remixing Special Ed: Reaching Marginalized Students Through Music Technology

    With public funds for arts education being so low, art curricula for those with disabilities are harder to develop, teach, and to come by.

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