James T Music Production Tools, Tips & Tricks

In this in-depth tutorial with mixing engineer and educator Michael White, you will learn how to take full advantage of the V-Series, a collection of three vintage-modeled plugins based on legendary Neve modules.

KeyFinder is an open source key detection tool, for DJs interested in harmonic and tonal mixing. Designed primarily for electronic and dance music, it is highly configurable and can be applied to many genres. Personally I use this to find out the key of my own tracks and vocal acapellas. 

Akaizer is a freeware application for Windows / Mac OS X / Linux which can time stretch and/or pitch shift any WAVE or AIFF sound file in the style of the 'cyclic' time stretch, which featured on old Akai sound samplers, like the S950 / S1000 / S2000 / S3000 series. This is ideal for DAW-based music producers who want that classic metallic-sounding effect, as used in many old school Hardcore / Jungle / Speed Garage tunes from the 1990s, without the need for an actual Akai sampler.

An incredible tool for learning synthesis. Everything I have done so far in music production I have taught myself. I have dived in on Syntorial and is proving to be a massive help  so far and the fact I can learn in my on time (when I get time) is even better! Anyone wanting to learn synthesis get involved!!