Producing Amapiano Explained®

HiDERA | 14 December 2024 | 197 MB

Join veteran Groove3 instructor Gary Hiebner for a comprehensive course on producing a song in the Amapiano subgenre. This popular style, which originated in South Africa in the 2010s, combines elements of deep house, jazz, kwaito, and more in a unique and compelling way. You’ll learn about all the conventions and elements commonly found in this style, including instrumentation, arrangement, processing, and mixing ideas. By the end of this Amapiano production course, you’ll be well on your way to creating your first Amapiano hit! Gary starts off with an overview of the Amapiano genre, including its common features and what all will be covered in this course. Then it’s off to the races, and Gary begins by focusing first on programming a kick pattern, designing the kick sound, and adding a hi-hat pattern and a shaker. Then he finishes establishing the core drum track by adding snare, claps, and rimshot, the latter of which features a counter rhythm to generate musical interest.

Guitar Styles Explained®

HiDERA | 04 May 2025 | 1.2 GB

Ready to learn something new on guitar? Well, step right this way. In this video guitar lesson collection, you’ll get the lowdown on seven different styles, including tone/gear advice, chord voicings, scales, licks, riffs, and more. Whether you want to start making use of dropped tunings for a grunge sound, are curious how rockabilly players perform those flashy pull-off licks, or can’t quite get a grip on the reggae feel, it’s all here. The course kicks off with Celtic Guitar, in which you’ll learn about modal melodies, 6/8 time, jigs and reels, DADGAD tuning, and more. Then, in Funk Guitar, Tom Kolb will show you the must-know chord voicings and techniques of this energetic style, including skank lines, scratch rhythms, and syncopation, among others.

Serum 2 Sound Design: Bass Synths

HiDERA | 4 May 2025 | 183 MB

Looking for some fresh bass sounds for your next production? Why not design your own from scratch? In this Serum 2 video course, electronic music expert Thomas Cochran shows you how to do just that with Serum 2, the hybrid softsynth powerhouse from Xfer Records. You’ll not only learn how to create five different usable bass patches, but you’ll also gain a deeper understanding of Serum 2 and synthesis in general. These Serum 2 videos are designed for Serum 2 users looking to expand their sound palette in the bass realm. To start, Thomas shows how to build a vintage-sounding synthwave bass patch using the new Serum 2 wavetables and the sampler engine, demonstrating the powerful capabilities of each. This is followed by a plucked house bass sound, which Thomas creates by stacking multiple instances of the new warp modifiers – an enormous untapped resource in the sound design realm.

Equinox Explained TUTORiAL®

HiDERA | 21 April 2025 | 196 MB

With Equinox, iZotope has thrown down the gauntlet on reverb plugins, creating one of the most flexible and powerful algorithmic verb plugins ever. With this Equinox video course, Groove3 instructor Eli Krantzberg will walk you through the plug from front to back, leaving no stone unturned and demonstrating how to harness its potential and completely transform your mixes and your thoughts about reverb altogether! Don’t believe us? Just watch! These Equinox videos are designed for new Equinox users. Eli begins with a broad overview of the plugin, giving you the lay of the land and providing a brief demonstration of its sound and potential. Then you’ll dip your feet into the reverb pool, as Eli shows you how to use several macro-style controls to get a great-sounding space with little fuss for those times when you don’t need to get surgical or fancy. You’ll also see how to work with presets using the intuitive filtering, tag, and search systems. Next, you’ll begin to explore some parameters for more specific control of your reverb, starting with the tail attack, which allows you to affect the onset and anomalies of the verb’s tail. Eli also shows you how the damping and crossover controls can be used to dampen and change the tail’s length at various frequencies, while Suppression and Delay allows for manipulation of the verb’s ducking or bloom qualities.

Pro Tools Things You Should Know

HiDERA | 21 April 2025 | 215 MB

Join Pro Tools expert Thomas Cochran for a Pro Tools video course filled with handy and useful tips to improve your workflow, save time, and take advantage of little-known secrets. By the time you’re through, you’ll be ready to implement any or all of these ideas on your very next Pro Tools session and wonder how you ever managed to get by without them. These videos are designed for intermediate Pro Tools users who would like to increase their workflow efficiency and improve their familiarity with some of its hidden gems. Thomas welcomes you and begins by introducing you to clip-based editing, which is a great way to adjust or fix certain elements of a performance, for instance, before applying processing to the entire track. Then he covers the Lo-Fi plugin, demonstrating how it can help to easily and quickly place sounds within a mix.

Addictive Drums v2.6 Explained®

HiDERA | 21 April 2025 | 320 MB

Looking for incredible-sounding virtual drums? Addictive Drums 2.6 has you covered! But when it comes to learning how to use it, we have you covered! In this Addictive Drums 2.6 video course, you’ll learn many ways of generating phenomenally realistic drum tracks for your productions, regardless of genre. Production wiz Eli Krantzberg will show you all the parameters and controls, so that by the end of the course, you’ll be ready to start using this amazing instrument right away! These videos are designed for new Addictive Drums users. Eli starts with a flyover of the interface, familiarizing you with the plug-in’s layout and appearance and briefly demonstrating some of the things it can do. Then he shows you how to work with presets, including locking the tempo as you audition them, using the keyboard shortcuts to navigate them, filtering them, saving your own, and more. This is followed by a look at the Explore page, where you can access the presets as well as audition different expansions and switch mix settings while previewing beats.

Scene Nightshade KONTAKT 8

HiDERA | 18 April 2025 | 728 MB

A Sinister Scoring Palette

Eerie synths, droning strings, and haunting choir clusters for horror soundtracks. Blend smoothly between 16 hybrid sound layers, effects, and controls using the XY pad. Easily stay in key with an extensive selection of scales and modes. Part of the Scene series – smart and streamlined instruments for premium, cinematic sounds.