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.

Electric Keys: Reeds Duo KONTAKT

HiDERA | 11 April 2025 | 4.40 GB

An Electric Piano Whirlwind

Reeds Duo is a pair of authentic emulations of two iconic electric pianos – loved for their snappy attack, expressive growl, and unmistakable warmth. Unlike their tine-based cousins, these instruments use vibrating reeds to generate sound, resulting in a tone that ranges from buttery smooth to soulful and gritty depending on how you play. Jade and Ivory capture these nuances in stunning detail, letting you explore everything from subtle, intimate melodies to driven, expressive chords – making them ideal for soul, blues, rock, pop, funk, and beyond.

KORG Modwave Mk II Explained®

HiDERA | 06 April 2025 | 7.91 GB

Join synth expert Alberto Rizzo Schettino for an intensely thorough look at KORG’s formidable Modwave Mk II hardware synth. KORG went deep with this synth, and the possibilities within are truly mind-boggling. You’ll not only learn about the common components, such as the oscillators, filters, envelopes, etc., but Alberto will investigate two other unique aspects of this synth – Kaoss Physics and Motion Seq 2.0 – at length, providing you with a nearly inexhaustible supply of modulation and motion capabilities and sound design magic. These videos are designed for new Modwave Mk II users. Alberto begins by welcoming you and providing a quick overview of what the Modwave Mk II can do. This is followed by an examination of the block diagram, so you’ll have a good idea of how signal flows through the instrument, and a quick flyover of the main components and sections of the synth, giving you the general lay of the land before we get into specifics. You’ll then see how to quickly browse through the many excellent presets to audition the sounds and/or find a jumping-off point for creating your own patch.

Top 10 Mastering Tips

HiDERA | 06 April 2025 | 226 MB

Are you somewhat new to mastering and ready to take it to the next level? In this mastering video course, veteran Groove3 instructor Larry Holcombe will show you 10 must-know tips and ideas for transforming your masters quickly. Not only will you learn crucial concepts like creating a solid low end and suppressing resonances, but you’ll also get several workflow tips that will start to save you time and get results right away! By the end of the course, you’ll be able to implement all these concepts in your very next production. These videos are designed for those looking to improve the sound and efficiency of their masters. To begin the course, Larry shows how you can use Saturn 2 for focused, dynamic saturation in the mastering chain, resulting in more punch and a richer tonality. Then you’ll see how aiming for the same master levels each time can save you time when setting up a new session.

Using AI for Music Production

HiDERA | 02 February 2025 | 280 MB

Join music production expert Larry Holcombe for an engaging, comprehensive video course on using AI for music production. If you’re curious about creating music with AI, this course is definitely for you. Larry covers many different AI sources and plugins, describing how they can be used and demonstrating how to take advantage of their AI tools in numerous ways – from creating new content (lyrics, chord progressions, etc.) or improving/rearranging existing content to replacing vocals, creating samples, and much more. By the end of this music production course, you’ll be ready to start using these AI tools and concepts in your very next production. These music production videos are designed for those new to AI for music production. Larry welcomes you and briefly introduces some of the topics you’ll look at throughout the course, but then jumps right in, showing you how to quickly generate four different song snippets with Udio. You’ll then see ways to extend these ideas and flesh them out with other sections like intros, bridges, and more. Next, you’ll learn how to use Udio’s Remix feature to generate new ideas from an existing track, which can then be bounced out as a stereo WAV file or individual stems or tracks. Larry then demonstrates how to use the previously created sample and generate a new beat in Logic Pro (with Serato Sample) that’s ready to send to a rapper!