Transform your Ableton arrangements into something you can perform live. Learn how to effectively take your production from Arrangement view to Ableton’s Session view without losing control. From there you can get even more creative with various effects processing tips, tricks and optimisation techniques to make performing live exciting and fun.
Platinum Acoustic Guitars – a glorious collection of upbeat guitars riffs, chords and rhythms to create a rich melodic tapestry of music. These royalty-free loops work as building blocks for your own indie-pop masterpiece, or equally bring a live glow to your existing productions. Platinum Acoustic Guitars gives you hundreds of polished Loops, expertly played to enable you to construct rhythm, lead and arpeggio combinations as you see fit. Every Loop has its own individual tone and texture, giving you a huge variety of sounds in popular musical Keys which flow together. Every section of your song is covered, from softly plucked Arpeggios, to muted Rhythms, to solidly strummed Chords – at a range of Tempos to suit your musical style. Platinum Acoustic Guitars bring the power of this classic instrument to your fingertips, delivering a shimmering energy for songwriters everywhere.
Superior Drummer 3 for Electronic Music? Yes! Adam Pollard aka Multiplier, takes you on an epic journey into using Toontrack Superior Drummer 3 for Electronic Music production in these creative and informative video tutorials. Adam welcomes you and gives an overview of what this series is all about and what to expect. He then jumps right in and covers topics such as electronic drum structure, what to listen for when choosing electronic drums, and creating a standard electronic drum pattern. Next you’ll look at how to import drums and save kits, create a build up using grooves and velocity, how you can use Tracker to learn unfamiliar genre rhythms, layering percussion over a bassline, use drum bleed as texture, tune kicks, offset claps and snares, humanize electronic drums with hit variation and more.
Plugindoctor fills a longstanding gap in the market: a cross-platform and cross-bitformat plugin analyzer for VST and AU plugins. Whether you are a plugin developer yourself who wants to thoroughly test the audio quality of your latest and greatest product, or a power user who wants to understand in more detail what exactly a specific plugin is doing to your precious audio material, Plugindoctor will help you find out!
Amid the rust, rot, and decay of post-industrial cities emerges a new strain of techno – turbulent, and untamed. Shaking the walls of warehouses across the UK, its inspiration can be found in the clang of 70s post-punk and industrial, as well as in the tougher elements of rave and hardcore culture. Uncompromising to the end, CARBON DECAY fuses broken, primitive rhythms with meticulous sound design – an aesthetic pioneered by artists such as Blawan, Surgeon, Karenn, and the British Murder Boys. CRAFTED CHAOS CARBON DECAY bursts with pummelling kicks, shattered hi hats, and barbed rhythmic sounds – packed into kits for BATTERY and MASCHINE. Expertly designed synth presets for MASSIVE and MONARK give you analog-style basses, alien stabs, and shifting, organic textures for creating primal techno grooves. Loops created using some of the most revered analog synths and drum machines were pressed to vinyl as locked grooves and carefully sampled for a deeply authentic sound.
Max for Live Essentials – Sound Generation, a tutorial course on sound generation with the devices within the Max for Live Essentials Pack. The first course in a 2-part series, you will begin to explore the Audio, MIDI, and Instrument devices that go beyond the standard array of devices that come with Ableton. The devices within the Max for Live Essentials Pack are incredibly powerful. A lot of these devices offer new approaches to audio processing, device control and melodic and rhythmic generation not available in any other plugin devices. This course focuses on sound generation. As such the devices covered; Buffer Shuffler, Bass, Poli, Multi, and the various Drumsynth modules allow you to expand your arsenal of sound generation possibilities in new and exciting ways. No matter what genre of music you are producing, this course and these devices are essential!
Liam O’Mullane (a.k.a.The Sound Tutor) is back with some power-user tips and tricks for Native Instruments’ Maschine. So power-up your Maschine production chops with this expert 23-tutorial course! Native Instruments Maschine is the premiere hardware/software hybrid, live performance, production tool in the electronic music universe. Mastering its many controls, performance options and sonic possibilities can be a daunting task, unless… you’ve got a great instructor like electronic music producer Liam O’Mullane. In this deep “Tips and Tricks” course, Liam opens up his ultra-secret Maschine playbook as he divulges some of his favorite performance/production techniques. You learn how to create authentic breakbeats along with an abundance of other rhythm track, bass, pad and cool ambience effects. There’s also a very deep collection of videos that zoom in on creating your own, powerful samples including some cool discordant sounds to awesome 8-bit arpeggiated masterpieces. Then, Liam shares some of his sample manipulation tips where you see how to time-stretch, stutter-edit and scratch.
