Audio editing and music production guides

Practical steps, ways to check your results, and feature limitations. Choose a guide for the task you want to complete.

Tool comparisons

Compare workflows, processing options, and usage conditions for your project.

Arrange LA Studio floating windows: dragging, minimizing, and switching views

Arrange Playlist and Piano Roll, drag and resize panels, distinguish minimize from close, and recover hidden views using the available shortcuts.

Browser audio processing and practical troubleshooting

Understand Web Audio, AudioWorklet, WASM, and WebGPU, then distinguish model loading, memory limits, and playback glitches.

Build your first four bars in a browser DAW

A concrete four-bar exercise covering audio import, MIDI, mixing, and saving at 120 BPM.

Check pitch detection, vibrato, and formant edits

Correct octave and split-note errors, then assess vibrato, vocal character, and timing separately.

Check WAV, MIDI, and stem exports before delivery

Verify export range, sample rate, MIDI instruments, and stem alignment before using files elsewhere.

Choose between a browser DAW and a desktop DAW

Compare installation, instruments, offline access, collaboration, and saving requirements without unsupported rankings.

Convert audio to MIDI as a transcription starting point

Convert humming, guitar, or piano, then correct extra notes, durations, and octave errors before arranging.

Find a song’s BPM and key, including half-time and double-time results

Check tempo against the beat, compare half/double-time candidates, and practice with a downloadable 120 BPM click track.

Generate an AI loop and check its bar boundaries

Understand Loop Forge quotas and cloud processing, write a focused prompt, and check tempo and loop seams.

Home recording checklist: input, clipping, and latency

Use a short test recording to verify microphone permission, input selection, monitoring, and headroom.

LA Studio mastering: local chain building and reference matching

Find AI MASTER, understand its analysis limits, distinguish local and cloud processing, and check the export.

Make an instrumental backing track and check vocal bleed

Create a backing track in LA Studio, choose Standard or HQ separation, export WAV, and check the places where vocals remain.

Make an original VOCALOID backing track with browser MIDI and a WAV handoff

Build chords, bass, and drums with the piano roll and GM instruments, check tempo and key, then export a backing WAV for your vocal production setup.

MIDI exercise: program four bars of drums and chords

Place a simple kick/snare/hat pattern and enter a C–Am–F–G chord progression.

Moving from GarageBand to a browser: record, program MIDI, and export in LA Studio

Rebuild a small music project in LA Studio: prepare audio, create a project, record, choose GM instruments, program MIDI, and check your export.

Parametric EQ explained: frequency, gain, and Q in LA Studio’s five-band rack

Understand frequency, gain, and Q using the Device Rack’s five fixed EQ bands, their actual ranges, graph gestures, and audible result checks.

Play guitar through NAM: check input, model, and cabinet IR

Set up browser NAM and diagnose doubled monitoring, duplicated cabinet filtering, and latency.

Prepare Lyria 3 Pro music for an editing workflow

Separate Google’s announced capabilities from the practical checks needed before editing a generated track.

Prepare sheet music for OCR and check the resulting MIDI

Prepare a readable score image, check accidentals, bar lengths, and tuplets, and understand what MIDI does not preserve.

Reduce recording noise without damaging speech

Identify the noise first, compare matched levels, and listen for damaged consonants, breaths, and phrase endings.

Roland Melody Flip: prepare exported MIDI for editing

Understand Melody Flip from official specifications and check exported MIDI in a DAW.

SAM Audio versus fixed stems: different inputs and goals

Distinguish Meta’s text, visual, and time-span prompts from a fixed six-stem music workflow.

Save and share: project files versus audio exports

Check cloud-save requirements, verify completion, and test a shared link in a separate browser context.

Set vocal reverb and delay without losing clarity

Understand decay, pre-delay, and wet level, with a worked delay-time calculation at 120 BPM.

SoundFonts and MIDI: diagnose a silent instrument track

Understand SF2 instruments, MIDI note data, format compatibility, and why playback changes between systems.

Start a podcast in your browser: recording, noise removal, editing, and WAV/MP3 export

Record a spoken episode, clean individual takes, edit, and export WAV or MP3. Check free export settings, Pro batch denoise, and incomplete results.

Start AI music generation: modes, credits, and revisions

Check Music Generator requirements, describe a background-music brief, and evaluate the generated result.

Suno Voices and v5.5: verified feature notes and editing preparation

Check official Suno updates and plan terms, then prepare an exported recording for further editing.

Use autotune for subtle correction or a hard-tuned effect

Analyze a vocal, check the key, preview corrections, and render while understanding free limits and cloud modes.

Use six-stem separation for practice and remix preparation

Work with vocals, drums, bass, guitar, piano, and other stems; check leakage before muting or rebuilding a mix.

Vocal harmony versus doubling: pitch and thickness

Separate octave/fifth harmony from doubling and check preview, Pro rendering, and fit with the backing.

Vocal mixing order: level, EQ, compression, and space

Start with faders, then decide when EQ, compression, and ambience actually help the vocal.

What to check before using VST plugins with a browser DAW

Distinguish browser instruments from native VSTs, check the bridge connection, and verify recording and export.