Multi-instrumentalist, Winner of Metapop Michael Brun Remix Contest 2018, Gold medalist in Vocal Performance at the WCOPA 2008, Mix Engineer.
Milton Foster is a multi-instrumentalist, composer, songwriter, music producer and mix engineer, who was born and raised in Kingston, Jamaica. He has accumulated several accolades at the national level for excellence in the areas of Speech, Drama and Music.
He has had the privilege of performing with and composing for highly regarded Jamaican theatre and musical groups. As a self-proclaimed lover of different cultures, Milton seeks to create music that encapsulates his cosmopolitan musical interests that embrace several of his Pop, RnB, Classical, Latin American, and Caribbean influences. He is ready to spice up your productions with his Caribbean zeal and to bring to fruition all your compositional, music production and mixing needs.
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Interview with Milton Foster
Q: What's your typical work process?
A: My typical work process for music production involves sitting down in front of my keyboard to compose a chord progression as the starting point of my compositions, or very often scanning through my library of samples to develop a compositional idea from scratch. My DAW of preference for composition is FL Studio, seeing that I have worked with this DAW for around 7 years, but I also enjoy the speed with which compositions come to life with Native Instruments Maschine software and hardware, so this tend to be a good starting point to flesh out some production ideas as well. For mixing, in my opinion, you can't go wrong by using Pro Tools, as it's design facilitates relatively easy and quick manipulation of audio files (provided you have a deep enough understanding of audio signal flow). I tend to meticulously name and organize per category the different tracks in my Pro Tools session in order to make session navigation more fluid. From there, I clip gain the clips to provide a level that won't clip analog or analog modelled software on the way in for processing. All of my editing occurs in the box currently.
Q: Tell us about your studio setup.
A: My studio setup consists of: Hardware Macbook Pro 2018 (Quad Core i7, 16 GB of RAM), Native Instruments Maschine MK3, Focusrite Scarlett 6i6, Native Instruments Komplete Kontrol A61, Yamaha HS8 Monitors, KRK 6400 Headphones, Sennheiser 280 Pro Headphones. Software Pro Tools 2019, FL Studio 20, Logic Pro X, Native Instruments Komplete 12 Ultimate, Soundtoys 5, Waves Platinum Bundle, Melodyne 4 Editor, iZotope RX 7, iZotope Creative Suite
Q: What other musicians or music production professionals inspire you?
A: Jaycen Joshua (Mix Engineer), Dave Pensado (Mix Engineer), Diplo (EDM Producer), Alexander Lewis (EDM Producer), Major Lazer (Music Production Collection), Bob Marley (Recording Artist), and Masego (Recording Artist).
Q: Describe the most common type of work you do for your clients.
A: Full music productions
I was the Music Producer in this production
- Full instrumental productionContact for pricing
- Mixing EngineerAverage price - $300 per song
- Programmed drumAverage price - $150 per song
- Vocal TuningAverage price - $75 per track
- Vocal compingAverage price - $75 per track
- Sound DesignContact for pricing
Mix rate includes up to three mix revisions. High track counts & additional revisions may cost more. Typical turnaround is 10 days or less for a single song.
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- NI Maschine
- Pro Tools
- Native Instruments Komplete 12 Ultimate
- FL Studio
10% of any project for first time customers