Musikality Net

Hi there, Musikality is back and is back for good . Since I don’t have much time anymore, I’ll write less frequently and shorter posts, but I guess that’s better than nothing.
Lately, I’ve been mixing my new album (http://raskolnikovsdream.com). If you listen to my pieces you’ll see that I layer a lot of sound [...]

Today we’re going to write a few basic things about compressors and limiters.
First of all, a compressor is a device that reduces the signal volume by a ration, once the signal exceeds a certain threshold. A typical compressor will have the following settings: Ratio, threshold, input gain, output gain, soft knee or hard knee, attack [...]

In this article we are going to talk about the various types of EQ, so that those of you who are beginners in mixing, will get a quick grip of what is going on.
First of all, we must understand that equalizers are filters. Their job is to attenuate or amplify frequencies.
Note that in this tutorial [...]

In this article, we will use Absynth to understand what harmonics and waves are all about. Absynth allows you to see both the waveform and its harmonic content. So let’s take a look.
First we will create a sine wave

Now, let’s take a look at its harmonic content

Now, let me help you understand what this thing [...]

Today we are going to talk about a topic that causes great confusion to beginning computer musicians: synthesizers and their components
When you start learning about this stuff you’ll eventually have to choose your first synthesizer, be it virtual or physical. Most of the music you’re going to write is based on a some type of [...]

In the last post, we talked about audio. Now, we’re going to talk about the brother of audio in writing music: MIDI
MIDI stands for Musical Instrument Digital interface. It is a protocol defined in 1983.
What it is very important to understand, is that MIDI is not sound. Midi represents events. All vst instruments use MIDI [...]

In this post we will talk about some of the first things one should know before he starts making music on a computer: what is audio? We will try to present the fundamentals of audio, without delving into much detail, so that we don’t cause too much confusion.
Sound is nothing more than a wave transmitted [...]