Tips from EQ magazine

Here's an article from EQ magazine outlining a rather methodical approach to creating a dance-type track. It's aimed at more experienced  users (it refers to a couple of concepts we didn't cover, for example the oh-so fashionable sidechain compression), but it might still be useful.

Here's a very practical article on tidying up your sloppy playing using Key Edit or similar. Some good tips, expecially for those of us with less than outstanding keyboard skills.