LEARN
A collection of quick tips and in-depth info to help you along your production music journey. More added all the time!
Welcome to LEARN! We’re in the midst of compiling some of our most helpful resources throughout the years. You’ll find tips and walkthroughs on all sorts of music production information. We’ll add more each week, so be sure to bookmark this page and visit often!
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- Cue Breakdown
- Cue Walkthrough
- Ominous Tension
- Priorities
- FL Studio
- Thomas Newman
- Pro Tools
- Getting Started
- Reaper
- Izotope
- Song Form
- Reason
- Cubase
- Procrastination
- Noisy Audio
- Publishers
- Library Music
- Dramedy
- Studio One
- Light Tension
- Ableton Live
- Goals and Planning
- Digital Performer
- Tension Cue
- Logic Pro
- Intrigue Tension
- Accountability
- Routines for Success
Topic Tags
What outlets should I submit my cues to in order to receive publishing or placements?
Here we are at the end of our journey! How'd I do on my quest to write at least 1 cue per week? What are the lessons I learned along the way? What's next for the channel? I answer all of these questions, as well as unpack an intrigue tension cue featuring my own custom Omnisphere patch on this final, super-sized Week 52 Check-In.
If you write any kind of tension music, you need these two items in your arsenal. Plus, I unpack an intrigue tension cue titled, "Incision Decision."
I break down my light tension cue, “Through the Barrens”
On today's episode, I finally lay to rest which is the best DAW for production music composers!
02:29 – Composers love talking about DAWs
04:33 – Pro Tools
10:28 – Logic Pro
17:51 – Cubase
23:39 – Ableton Live
31:30 – Honorable Mentions (Reason, FL Studio, Reaper, Studio One, Digital Performer)
42:16 – The Verdict: Which DAW is the Best?
I discuss why I use the same song form on nearly every production music cue, and I unpack that form on a recent flamenco-infused dramedy cue.
In this 52 Cues Quick Tip, I show you how I clean up noisy audio using the Spectral De-Noise tool in Izotope RX!
Join me in this in-depth look at the sounds, arrangement, and libraries for my ominous tension cue, "Evolving Intent," recently featured on Oxygen's "Dying to Belong"
"Evolving Intent" © 2017 Unified Sounds
In the first of a series of deep dive videos, I take an in-depth look through the sounds, patches, and arrangement of my library track, “Like a Bawse” recently featured on the NFL on CBS.