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In his second outing on Sonic Academy, LA based sound designer and tutor Echo Sound Works takes us through the in’s and out’s of ‘DUNE 2’. This powerful yet efficient synth has a maximum reserve of 8320 oscillators at full polyphony, yes 8320 possible oscillators (holy moly)…making DUNE 2 is a true unison monster. It is also capable of creating wavetable and FM synthesis, has mountains of quality effects, filters and extensive modulation options. Also on board is a arp come sequencer and a graphical envelope, Synapse like to call Msegs.
The elysia mpressor is capable of fat and freaky sounds with maximum punch, and UAD guru shows you how to use the UAD emulation to capture that signature elysia impresser sound!Brock begins with a description of the original hardware and its signature hard knee compression and negative ratios. The next two videos take you on a thorough tour of of the controls of the UAD mpressor plug-in. After that, he uses the pop-rock track “Brave” and the Significant Others to apply the alpha to drum tracks, bass guitars, acoustic and electric guitars, vocals, and the master buss. Whether you’re new to the UAD elysia mpressor or an experienced user looking to punch up your mixes, watch “UAD elysia mpressor Explained” today!
Welcome to this video overview of Rounds, a poly timbral synthesizer developed by Native Instruments for Reaktor and available now in Komplete 10. Rounds is a REAKTOR-based synth that combines digital and analog synth sounds with complex, sequenced sound shifting capabilities. A near-limitless array of new sound and texture.
This tutorial, walks you through a features overview of the new synth – Kontour, a new Reaktor Ensemble in Komplete 10. Kontour has to be one of the more unique synths I’ve ever used. It was created by Stephan Schmitt, the founder of Native Instruments, and it is a really unique take on synthesis. It is marketed as a very expressive synth that is a sound designers dream, and I gotta say, it really is! Kontour is essentially a phase modulation synth. So it sounds a little like an FM styled synth. However, it does not use operators and ratios, it does come equipped with two oscillators. The Oscillators in Native Instruments Kontour are generating sine waves. These then run through a pair of Sine Shaper distortion modules to help beef up the sound. Those then go out to two different filters, a Comb Filter and a State Variable Filter.
In this video I show how to emulate the NES pulse channel, which is responsible for many of the system’s most iconic sounds effects, from the Galaga-style sounds previewed at the beginning of the video, to the jump and fireball sound effects from Super Mario Brothers.
While genre does not affect many mixing techniques, EDM (electronic dance music) has unique challenges. Artists want their songs to sound loud, wide, and heavy, without suppressing their unique texture or competing with the underlying rhythm. In this course, Colin Fisher teaches advanced mixing techniques specifically suited to the EDM environment. He’ll touch on loudness and dynamics, headroom and gain, and processing with compression, limiting, and clipping, as well as show how to manipulate stereo and frequency placement like the pros do. The end result is a fat, wide, and full sound that will help your tracks break through.
