Beginner Guitar Explained®

HiDERA | 20 April 2025 | 2 GB

So you’ve decided to learn guitar! We commend you on your choice and have just the course for you. In this 12-lesson series, pro guitarist Doug Boduch will walk you through the process from the very beginning, teaching you everything from the parts of the guitar and basic technique to learning chord progressions, strumming patterns, scales, and licks! By the end of the course, you’ll be well on your way to playing your favorite songs and learning your favorite licks and solos. These videos are designed for complete beginners. The course begins with your first five lessons, in which you’ll learn important info such as the parts of the guitar, basic playing technique for both hands (pick hand and fret hand), the note names of the open strings and first few notes, and some chords as well. By the end of these first five lessons, you’ll be playing your first little song.

Knifonium Explained®

HiDERA | 24 May 2025 | 276 MB

If you’re a lover of rare analog synths, you’re probably already aware that Brainworx has released a stellar virtual recreation of the Knifonium by (hardware version by Knif Audio). In this Knifonium video course, analog synth expert Stephen O’Connell will walk you through all the features and parameters of this amazing instrument and show you how to coax the incredible, massive sounds for which the hardware version is so highly revered. Equally at home in a film score, a hip-hop track, or other synth-heavy genres, once you complete this course, you’ll be ready to start gracing your tracks with its heavenly tones on your very next project. These Knifonium videos are designed for new Knifonium users. Stephen begins with an overview of the course, discussing the original instrument’s history and mystique, along with some of the features that make it stand out from the rest. Then he covers the interface so you get a good idea of where all the components are and how everything is laid out, so you’ll have no problems following along as we proceed. Stephen also shows you how to manage (load, save, favorite) the impressive collection of presets included with Knifonium.

Nuendo 14 Update Explained®

HiDERA | 24 May 2025 | 1.4 GB

Join expert Gary Hiebner for a Nuendo 14 video course covering all its updates and added features. In this extensive Nuendo course, Gary will walk you through all the new additions and features found in 14 and demonstrate how they can be used to help improve all aspects of your process – from time-saving improvements and technologies to new effects, system integration, and more. By the end of this Nuendo 14 course, you’ll be completely up to speed and ready to make use of any and all of these features starting with your very next song. These videos are for Nuendo users wanting to get fully comfortable with Nuendo 14 quickly. Gary welcomes you and begins with the Range Selection tool, illustrating its new capabilities for moving, selecting, and editing items in various ways. Then you’ll learn how the Adaptive Background Attenuation tool can create automatic ducking effects so that a foreground signal can be heard clearly over background material. Gary also explains how the ADE Dialogue Transcriptions feature can transcribe spoken word from an audio source and create a marker for reference.

ACE Studio Explained®

HiDERA | 24 May 2025 | 246 MB

A comprehensive look at ACE Studio – the popular AI-powered virtual vocal generator that allows you to create studio-quality vocals from MIDI and lyrics. You’ll learn all you need to know to create stellar vocals, from using the Clip Viewer to drawing in melodies, entering lyrics, editing pitch, and much more. By the end of the course, you’ll be ready to start using ACE Studio in your very next production. These ACE Studio videos are designed for new ACE Studio users. Eli begins with a brief overview of the app, looking at the main preferences and examining the different parts of the interface, such as the transport, library, arrangement view, clip viewer, etc. Then you’ll get a ground-up course on using Clips – the basic containers that hold MIDI notes or audio tracks – including how to create, move, split, resize, separate them, and more. This is followed by a look at how to save your work.

Sibelius Updates Explained®

HiDERA | 19 May 2025 | 464 MB

(05.2025 Updated)

Notation pro brings you a detailed AVID Sibelius video tutorial series! Learn all of the new features and functions found in Sibelius updates and how to use them when creating your scores. These videos cover all the point updates for Sibelius and are designed for those who already know how to use Sibelius, but just want to learn about the new features added. Doug welcomes you and starts of with the cool new features added to Sibelius such as MIDI File Import, Auto-Assign, new articulations and playing techniques for string parts, how to explode a 4 part MIDI brass track to 4 separate instruments, and when naming tracks based on the libraries used, how you can add group naming to make importing into Sibelius a breeze. Auto-Optimize is then covered and you’ll see how this behind-the-scenes feature automatically keeps staff spacing looking great, plus how to both override and remove overrides when scoring. The new dotted and dashed ties, tie into ties and laissez vibrer ties are shown and explained, as well as the new key commands and engraving choices that are available.

Control for Pro Tools Explained®

HiDERA | 19 May 2025 | 367 MB

Studio pro Doug Zangar presents in-depth AVID Control video tutorials! Learn everything you need to know to use the free iOS AVID Control app to control your Pro Tools sessions, including mix and edit windows, transport controls, writing automation, toggling folders open and closed, keyboard shortcuts and more. These videos are designed for both new and intermediate AVID Control users. Doug greets you and starts at the beginning with how to find the free iOS app on Apple’s App Store, and the free Eucon Control software download on AVID’s website, and how to install them correctly. Once that’s done, you’ll then get a detailed overview of the AVID Control interface, as well as how to customize its look and feel via its many settings. Doug then goes through all the different available pages throughly, including the Mixer View, Tracks View, Channel View, Meters View, and Soft Keys, showing what they do and how to use them effectively in your Pro Tools sessions. Not stopping there, you’ll watch and see how to toggle folders open and closed in Mixer view, Tracks view, and with Soft Keys, as well as how to arm and record multiple tracks with AVID Control, and record volume, pan and send gain automation using AVID Control as the controller.

Elysium Explained TUTORiAL

HiDERA | 16 February 2025 | 204 MB

In this Elysium video tutorial series, synth expert Larry Holcombe will show you how to create amazing, unique textures and sounds for your own productions with this collaborative virtual instrument from Native Instruments and Wide Blue Sound. You’ll learn how to blend different sounds from the two main layers (Perc and Synth), add all kinds of otherworldly built-in effects and modulations, bring the sounds to life with ever-evolving modulation sequences from the Phrase Sequencer, and more. These Elysium videos are designed for new users. Larry begins by welcoming you and providing a brief overview of the interface, so you’ll quickly gain an understanding of Elysium’s basic layout and structure. Then he moves on to the Perc channel, which is where you can select the percussion sound source with the Morph and Bass layers and tweak further with the Filter, Pitch, and Flux controls. The Synth channel follows, and you’ll see how to select the sound sources to layer together and customize further with the Pan, Tone, and Pitch controls.