Designing Sounds That Move

FANTASTiC | 07 December 2025 | 283 MB

Designing Sounds that Move explores practical, musical techniques that make drums bounce, basslines evolve, and synths shift organically over time. If your productions feel static or lack energy, this video course by sound design guru Thomas Cochran will show you how to inject life, movement, and groove into your sounds. Whether you produce electronic music, pop, or hybrid genres, you’ll learn how small modulation choices can dramatically improve the flow and excitement of your tracks. These videos are designed for those new to the topic of sound design. Through many focused lessons, Thomas demonstrates methods for shaping movement with drum layering, pitch variation, tremolo effects, velocity-based modulation, randomness generators, macro automation, side-chain tricks, and more. You’ll see how these techniques apply not just to individual sounds, but to the overall rhythmic and emotional pulse of your production.

Thomas also demonstrates how to introduce expressive motion to bass synths, pads, and leads using randomness modulators, macro automation, side-chaining tricks, and more. Each concept is shown through clear, musical examples you can apply immediately. To close out the course, you’ll see how to employ tools like side-chaining on modulated delays and reverbs for adding unique space to a track and custom automation curves for adding unique types of movements to various sounds.

By the end of this sound design video course, you’ll have a toolbox of creative, repeatable techniques for injecting motion and interest into your productions — turning static elements into expressive, evolving musical ideas. See the individual sound design video tutorial descriptions for more on all that’s covered in this series and ideas on how you can apply these strategies in your own productions. Don’t settle for bland, uninspired sounds … Watch “Designing Sounds that Move” now!

What You Will Learn:
-Layering multiple drum samples to create evolving rhythmic movement.
-Adding pitch variation and sequencing nuance for lively drum and percussion parts.
-Transforming loops and synths with tremolo, stacked modulation, and rhythmic effects.
-Shaping bass and keys with velocity-driven filter movement and randomness modulators.
-And more!

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