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A Teacher’s Guide to Live Streaming Your Classes

The need for streaming courses to students online has never been greater. This guide is aimed to help teachers and lecturers navigate the often difficult and technical transition of delivering your normal face-to-face lessons as live streaming courses for your students. We will discuss the following: Do I need a video streaming solution? A typical streaming setup ‘How to’ stream to Facebook, YouTube & Zoom What’s the best streaming

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Learning Piano for Bedroom Producers

Learning to produce your own music can be one of the most fulfilling things you can do as an artist. There’s no better way to

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Preparing WAV Samples For Triggering from V-Drums

While V-Drums modules offer the most in-depth editing and customization you can imagine, there are times when only the exact sound will do. Enter WAV

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How to Record the Roland TD-50 V-Drums

This article covers the best and easiest way to record TD-50 and TD-50X series V-Drums. As of April 2021, TD-50X module kits include: VAD-706, TD-50K/KV/KVX

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Vince Watson Talks Roland Gear, Analog vs Digital, and the Origins of Techno

Think you’ve got an impressive synth collection? Wait until you see the hardware that Vince Watson is packing. The floor-filling techno DJ told Roland about

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10 minutes with Jamie xx

DJ, producer, solo-artist and prolific remixer, Jamie xx is also one third of Mercury Music Award winners, The xx. While the band fused beats, breaks

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Improve Your Aural Skills With Piano Partner 2

The Roland Piano Partner 2 is a free piano app designed to help you learn piano and develop your aural skills. Developing your aural skills

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Craig Blundell On The Exciting Challenge Of Drumming For Steven Wilson

Video Interview Exclusive: Craig Blundell on joining Steven Wilson and gigging the Roland TD-30 & SPD-SX As a battle-tested session warrior, Craig Blundell doesn’t do

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How To Combine Sound Modules for more Triggers and Sounds

Upgrading or building a monster dream kit? Combining several drum sound modules together is easy and a great way to expand any electronic drum kit

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What is the difference between MIDI and AUDIO?

MIDI is one of the most versatile and useful aspects of modern music making and also one of the most misunderstood. Present in a huge

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Computer Music Production for Beginners: Mixing

In past articles, we’ve looked at creating music with your computer setup. This week, we’re going to look at taking those recordings and polishing them

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Do You Want Killer Backing Tracks for Your Looper?

You have just finished recording a new song with a great multi-synth backing track that you’d really love to perform live. Sure you could hire

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How To Get FREE Patches and Loops at BOSS Tone Central

BOSS Tone Central is an online library of free, downloadable content made available for users of selected BOSS Multi Effects, Synthesizers and Loop Stations* By

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How to Guide: Signal Chain for Your Pedalboard

So you’ve amassed a collection of cool effects pedals, and now you want to assemble them onto a pedalboard, but you’re stuck on what order

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Are You Wasting Money In Your Home Recording Studio?

Paul White, Editor-in-Chief of Sound on Sound Magazine, shares tips to help you spend more efficiently on your home recording studio Home studios are wonderful

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Roland Percussion History

Take a stroll through the history of Roland Drum and Percussion from its beginnings with the original Octapad through to the modern day V-Drums, sample

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BOSS Pedals of the Pros

The Top Ten BOSS Pedals Found On Concert Stages Worldwide In the world of guitar effects, guitarists are certainly spoilt for choice in the present

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How to Use Hybrid Drums to Give Yourself a Competitive Edge

Although the word ‘hybrid’ is widely used in drumming circles, the technology involved in bringing acoustic and electronic drums together often feels reserved for those

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Synthwave, Sci Fi And Sound Design

Synthesizers and science fiction seem made for each other. Strange alien noises, the pulse of futuristic streets, epic pad sounds representing distant planets…shaping the sounds

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Developing the Brown Sound

The BROWN sound…ultimate Rock guitar tone! Guitarists have used BROWN as an adjective for guitar tone ever since the phrase emerged back in the late