Sound design breakdowns, production techniques and honest studio advice from the team behind 97+ packs — written for producers who finish tracks.
MIDI packs are pre-made chord progressions, melodies and basslines you can drop into any DAW and reshape into your own sound. Here's how I use them to go from empty session to finished beat in an hour.
Which Serum 2 bass presets actually work for techno — deep subs, hard distorted bass and rolling basslines — plus the settings I use to make them sit with the kick.
A 2026 reality check on the music trends of 2025: which TikTok and Spotify sounds stuck, and how to produce them today.
Loudness and dynamics aren't enemies. Here's how I build loud masters in stages — gain staging, parallel compression, saturation and soft clipping — so the limiter barely has to work.
Stock sounds are fine for learning and terrible for standing out. Here's how music sample packs and custom Serum 2 presets actually earn their place in your workflow.
The real starting path to Flume and Skrillex-style production in 2026: pick a DAW, learn Serum 2, steal their granular and FM growl techniques, and finish tracks on a schedule.
Our Black Friday 2024 top 10, kept honest for 2026: every pack is still in the store, all Serum banks now run in Serum 2, plus real advice on shopping sales without wasting money.
Presets aren't cheating and they aren't magic. Here's how I load, tweak, layer and reverse-engineer Serum 2 presets, with real settings.
What's inside hip hop sample packs, where to get good free ones, and how to chop and flip samples so they sound like yours — with concrete BPM and mixing settings.
My 2023 top-10 synth VST list, revisited in 2026: which synths held up, what Serum 2 changed, and what I'd actually buy today.
My refreshed 2026 pick of ten royalty-free sample packs that work best on Ableton Push 3, with honest notes on standalone mode and how to load them.
The seven musical modes explained in plain producer language: what each mode sounds like, real songs that use them, and how to apply them in your DAW.