Gain staging is a slightly controversial and confusing subject. But it’s important enough that there are lots of articles and videos made about it. Often with conflicting advice. Which makes it even more confusing to those of us with no decades of audio engineering behind us. …

Black Friday deals are upon us. I will not list my top 5 deals here or something like that. There are plenty of them all over the internet. …

Retrospective recording arrived in Studio One 5.1 and what it does is quietly recording whatever you play on your MIDI keyboard. …

I got tired of not having a webcam on my desktop PC and bought a Logitech Brio webcam (affiliate link). Among other features, it has support for Windows Hello (logging in with your face).

I wasn’t even sure if I’m going to use this feature but when Windows declared that…

Studio One has a lot of depth. Sometimes, it also means that you must dig deep to find something fairly simple. I’ve written how an auto-pan feature is “hidden” in the X-Trem (tremolo) plugin. Now it’s time for a band-pass filter sweep.

If you prefer learning from the video tutorials…

Thanks to a nudge and a small donation from one of the users, I’ve added track grouping and an additional sorting option to the Spotify Playlist Sorter.

Grouping

Grouping lets you group tracks by artist, album, or release year, and then tracks are sorted within each group according to the “sort by” criteria.

Sorting by album track number

There’s an additional sorting option letting you sort by the album track number. This is useful when grouping by album to preserve the album track order in a playlist.

Additionally, when sorting by release date, album track number is used to resolve “ties”. This means that when tracks have exactly the same release date, they will be sorted by their respective track numbers (not randomly as it was previously).

Check the updated Playlist Sorter for Spotify and spread the word if you find it useful.

For a long time, I didn’t have a serious hobby. Though I always wanted to make music. …

I’m happy to introduce marker.js Live — a JavaScript library for displaying dynamic interactive image annotations in your web apps.

Genesis

First, there was marker.js (v1). Then it got a feature to render annotations in a separate transparent PNG (without the original image). Then there was marker.js 2 and it could…