Every producer wants that one thing that does it all in the studio. Whether you’re a complete beginner or a seasoned veteran, the promise of a piece of hardware that allows you to make professional-sounding music no matter your ability level is extremely alluring. Few companies understand this quite like Native Instruments, whose Maschine set the blueprint for a system that seamlessly combines hardware and software into one package.

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 Generals in Intelligence Performance and Perfecting Sophistication best known, as GIPPS is an emerging Pretoria based design house founded in 16/11/2006. The story of GIPPS begins years before it the actual lifestyle brand it has become presently. In 2002 founder and head designer Simon “GIPPS” Maleka used to hand make bags from worn out jeans and shirts in effort to become cool and stylish to fellow friends and pupils. The innovative bags became a hit amongst his crowd and also spark an interest outside his cycle, pushing him to start selling them under the name MASTA C for extra pocket money. 

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Many people confuse INSERT effects with SEND effects. What are they, and where do you place them in a DAW during a mixdown project?

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In a day and age where making music is as easy as turning the switch on your computer ,one would ask yourself why would you want to make music without a computer, there are many advantages to creating music without a computer, although the learning curb of producing music on computer is much more easier the challenge of tweaking knobs and analoque limitations will bring out creativity that will differentiate your sound from all the numbers being churned out by late night coffee chucking computer sessions.

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