Tribal & Tech House Production in Live

FANTASTiC | 11 May 2020 | 1.06 GB

With almost thirty years in the UK’s dance music scene, Ian Bland a.k.a Blandy has an incredible wealth of knowledge in all things music and production. Blandy, who now owns Maison Records which releases House and Prog-House bangers, is here to take you through the production of a huge tribal/tech-house track in this superb course that spans almost four hours. Beginning with the sound design, Blandy comprehensively describes the creation of the drums, bass, percussion, vocals, synth parts and exciting stabs and sweeps. Next, Blandy discusses his approach to setting out the track with a detailed section on arrangement. In the final section of the course, Blandy demonstrates his detailed and effective mixing and mastering style and compares the completed track to commercial examples. The course is available immediately after purchase and comes complete with the Live project and 100MB of bonus samples, courtesy of Loopmasters. To learn more about the course and Blandy’s high-energy teaching style, check out the trailer and sample modules now!

Advanced Guide To Music Theory

FANTASTiC | 10 May 2020 | 1.21 GB

Following on from the success of the Beginner’s Guide to Music Theory for Producers, this Advanced Guide promises to expand your knowledge of music theory to greatly assist in the creation of more musical tracks. Whatever your level of music theory, there are tonnes of useful techniques and workflows for working both with a keyboard and purely in the DAW, all demonstrated in the production of various popular genres like Hip Hop, House, DnB and Trap. The course begins with a summary of the Beginner’s Course, showing how to create melodic accompaniment and chords to go with a jazzy break, before moving onto the first advanced topic of modulation, meaning moving to a different key, starting off with the relative major and minor. There is also a thorough look at diatonic triad harmonies, covering the ways that triads change when shifted to different positions in the scale, and how this affects the mood of a song. A funky organ phrase is then put together with a House beat, which moves through a series of regular and inverted triads to create a catchy hook.

Psynergy For Spire ALS SBF SPF

HORiZON | December 8, 2014 | 671 MB

Psynergy. 70 Psy/Progressive/Full-On/Goa presets for the Spire synthesizer. Also included are two Ableton Live 9 project files (Psynergy and Psynergy Lite) for the demo track.

Melodic Deep Tech House &

Techno Mixdown (Part 3)

FANTASTiC | 10 May 2020 | 4.89 GB

This tutorial series is an epic journey through the production of a Melodic Deep Tech House/Techno track, covering every aspect of the process along the way, from initial conception to final mixdown (this course is part 3, on mixing down, with creation of sounds and arranging covered in full in parts 1 and 2, respectively). Leaving no stone unturned, the producer Simon Shackleton reveals all of the sound design, audio editing, effects processing, music theory and mixing techniques, so that students receive all the knowledge required to produce professional quality music of their own.

DnB Melodies & FX Masterclass

FANTASTiC | 10 May 2020 | 1.17 GB

The third part in this trilogy of courses from one of DnB’s most talented producers and educators, Reso, sees him giving a masterclass on arranging, with a focus on melodic elements and FX. The 90 mins of streamed tutorials come complete with the Logic project from the course and a bonus 100MB pack of DnB samples from Loopmasters. The course begins with a wealth of tips for how to build the foundations of an intro and breakdown, using mostly existing drums and bass elements from the drop, edited and processed in various ways. Reso then provides a detailed guide to creating, sequencing and processing different melodic phrases and FX, in order to produce a harmonious progression that develops musical themes whilst adding the necessary suspense and growing tension. As well as learning an abundance of sound design, mixing and arranging techniques, entirely with Logic’s instruments and effects, Reso even imparts his process for setting up the master bus, to create a mix-ready track for playing out.

Vintage Soul MULTiFORMAT

FANTASTiC | 26 July 2017 | 940 MB

Vintage Soul is inspired by the album-oriented soul revolution of the early 1970s; the forefront of this sound was RnB and Funk, coming direct from the USA with Gospel influences and richly layered orchestration. You’ll hear the sounds inspired by seminal acts such as Marvin Gaye, King Cutis, James Brown, Aretha Franklin, Sly & The Family Stone, Temptations, Stevie Wonder, Curtis Mayfield, The Delfonics and Al Green. With over 1 GB of content, Vibes Vintage Soul is bursting with Loops, One Hits, Sampler Patches and Rex2 Loops to get your groove on. A wealth of musical influences are waiting to be uncovered; with lush Live Drums, sun-kissed Guitars, hand crafted Percussion and a host of influential Keys – including Rhodes, Hammond, Vibraphone, Clavinet, Piano and more. With every element sprinkled with the 1970s production magic, you’ll be sure to find what you need!

Creative Sampling Techniques

FANTASTiC | 10 May 2020 | 1 GB

Following on from his beginner’s guide ‘The Art of Sampling’, which covers all of the fundamentals of how to sample, ‘Creative Sampling Techniques’ sees certified trainer Rob Jones applying different sampling methodology in original ways to produce all of the musical parts in a Glitch Electronica track within Ableton Live. Whilst the 2 courses work together well as a sequence, producers with sampling experience already may prefer to dive straight in with this set of tutorials, offering more advanced inspiration and tips to develop their workflow. Starting proceedings with a kick and snare groove, powerful drums are constructed using various layering techniques, with unusual foley incorporated to add unique textures to an otherwise simplistic break. To this, Rob adds undulating bass, created from a single sample, shaped and modulated in differing ways to show how many possibilities can arise from a basic oneshot. Similarly, a vocal is taken in several directions, with one featuring tempo-locked stuttering whilst another employs more drastic time-stretching envelopes.