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Explore our collection of electronic music production guides, tips, and tutorials. Learn about sound design, mixing, synthesizers, sample packs, and creative workflows to take your productions to the next level.
Free Sample Packs and Diva Presets: How to Get Real Value from Them
A four step process for turning free Diva presets, Serum 2 presets and sample packs into sounds you actually use, with the free Glow and After Dark presets as worked...
How to Choose Music Samples That Define Your Sound
A practical way to choose samples on purpose: know what you are looking for, judge quality fast, test in a real track and keep a library that sounds like you.
Glow: New u-he Diva Presets for Melodic House
Glow is 125 u-he Diva presets for melodic house from my own productions: 16 arps, 19 basses, 24 leads, 25 pads, 16 plucks and 25 SFX, plus how to use...
Sound Design for Beginners: 5 Essential Techniques to Learn First
A beginner friendly guide to sound design: the five techniques to learn first, with starting values for filters, envelopes, LFOs, samples and effects, plus a simple practice routine.
Techno Music Production Tips: 7 Studio Secrets from Berlin
Seven studio habits for techno: build the groove first, nudge timing without phase problems, arrange for DJs, modulate slowly, glue with saturation, share reverbs and stage your dynamics.
Berlin Techno Sound Design: Capturing Underground Club Energy
How to design the core sounds of Berlin techno: a tuned, driven kick, the rumble, metallic percussion, dub chord stabs, hypnotic sequences and city textures, with settings you can use...
How to Layer Synths for Deep, Atmospheric Electronic Music
How to layer synths without mud: give every layer one job and one frequency range, contrast timbres and envelopes, move layers at different speeds and glue them on a shared...
Free Sample Pack Roundup: What's Actually Worth Downloading in 2026
Seven free sample sources that are still free in 2026, what each is good for, how to test a pack in ten minutes, plus free Diva and Serum 2 presets...