I want to address a common mistake that many of us have made, myself included, in our Kontakt libraries these days. That would be, proper use of the "dynamics" parameter in many a sample library interface these days. But before we can make sense of it, we need to rewind and cover some basics. Let's talk scoring!

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The other day I was listening on an epic music YouTube playlist and a new track from one of my favorite channels came up. No further than two lines down I found some comments about predictability of tracks being added to the YouTube epic scene. The time has come, I thought to myself. I have always wondered if this...

There's something about an album that follows a story that makes it consistently better than most normal albums. Why is that? What is it about concept albums that make them so fresh time and time again? In this post, I'll explain. 

Most music these days follows some kind of formula. In scholarly discu...