Building Instruments: Ableton Live Samplers

HiDERA | 21 December 2024 | 303 MB

Join Ableton guru Stephen O’Connell for an engaging course that teaches you how to construct your own instruments using Ableton Live. Understanding the intricacies of Ableton Live’s three samplers will equip you with the skills to craft unique custom sounds for your productions, enabling your music to stand out from the crowd. From different sampling playback modes to filters, modulation, and more, it’s all covered! These videos are designed for Ableton Live users who are interested in sampling. Stephen begins with an overview of the three samplers we’ll be talking about in this course (Simpler, Drum Rack, and Sampler) and discusses the goal of the series. Then it’s off to the races, and he starts covering Simpler, beginning with the interface and showing how to load your first sample. You’ll then learn about the different playback modes, the ASDR envelope, loop position, and more.

Circular v1.1.0 KONTAKT 8

HiDERA | 18 November 2025 | 9.5GB

From sketch to score in seconds

Circular begins with a single note, but it never stays there. It moves, shifts, and evolves into a living, cinematic sequence. With four fully independent layers, each step becomes a canvas — modulating pitch, filter, and effects in real time. What starts as a simple sketch quickly transforms into a motion-rich score, giving you the speed to compose fast and the depth to create something truly your own.

Soul Choir LEAP EXPANSiON

HiDERA | 17 September 2025 | 239MB

Soul Choir Explore rich, organic vocal textures that deliver warmth, depth, and human emotion – soulful harmonies, vibrant vocal riffs, and expressive ad-libs.

Top 10 Mix Tips!

HiDERA | 16 March 2025 | 420 MB

Ready to improve your mixes but aren’t sure where to start? Start here! This mixing tips video course teaches you 10 indispensable mixing tips that will help transform your mixes in no time at all. Mixing wizard Larry Holcombe breaks down topics like mix organization, sidechain circuitry, low-end control, using a reference track, and more in an easy-to-follow manner with plenty of demonstrative examples. You’ll begin to see notable improvements in your very next mix! These mixing videos are designed for intermediate-level mix engineers looking to improve their mixes. Larry begins by focusing on mix organization, consolidation of parts, and gain staging, ensuring that you’re starting off on the right foot. Then he explains how to group the tracks into busses and add metering to properly visualize frequency and loudness. You’ll also learn how to use internal sidechain EQ to make sure your compressor isn’t getting gummed up by responding to unwanted sounds. Next, Larry focuses on the low end, demonstrating how to obtain a thicker bottom by taming a bass resonance and adding a general low-end boost.

Creative Mixing with Clipping Explained®

HiDERA | 05 October 2024 | 216 MB

Join mixing wizard Thomas Cochran for a fun, exciting tutorial series on using clipping in various creative ways. You’ll be amazed at how this technique can elevate your mixes in numerous ways, especially if you’ve always avoided clipping (as instructed when you started recording) and never experimented with the idea. This course covers everything from adding grit and saturation to an instrument to preventing the need for over-limiting on your master bus, among other useful tips. By the end of the course, you’ll be ready to begin using these techniques right away on your very next production. These mixing videos are for those who are new to the topic of intentional audio clipping. After welcoming you to the course, Thomas begins by showing how clipping can be used on electronic drums to add saturation and increase energy. This can really help bring a stale drum beat to life. Next, you’ll learn how to apply clipping to acoustic drums, primarily for taming peaks rather than saturation.

Cubase: Ambient Texture Sound Design

HiDERA | 11 May 2025 | 462 MB

Looking for some new pad sounds for your ambient-style productions in Cubase? We’ve got you covered! In this Cubase video tutorial series, sound design guru Gary Hiebner shows you how to design your own lush, ambient pads using what you already have in Cubase, including VIs like Retrologue and Padshop, along with sampling/resampling techniques and other tips. By the end of this Cubase sound design course, not only will you know enough to start designing your own unique pads and ambient textures for your very next track, you’ll also be much more familiar with these instruments in general, making sound design quicker and easier overall. These Cubase production videos are designed for Cubase users familiar with Cubase and looking to learn how to create new pad sounds. To kick things off, Gary briefly discusses pads in general, explaining what they are and how they’re typically used in most productions. He then familiarizes you with the virtual instruments in Cubase that he’ll be using throughout the course. Then he concentrates on using pads for a song’s intro, demonstrating how to layer various synth pads together to create a complex, evolving sound.

Playbeat 4 Explained®

HiDERA | 11 May 2025 | 132 MB

Join veteran Groove3 instructor Larry Holcombe for a detailed look at Playbeat 4, the AI-powered drum instrument from Audiomodern. You’ll learn various ways of creating grooves, customizing drum sounds, playing and sequencing the sounds, exporting beats, and much more with this powerful and intuitive beat-making tool. By the time you’re through, you’ll be familiar with all parameters and how to adjust them to get the sounds you want quickly and easily. These videos are designed for new Playbeat 4 users. Larry welcomes you and begins by giving you a tour of the plugin’s interface so you’ll know where everything is laid out as we progress through the course. Then you’ll see how to use various types of randomization (random, remix, smart, temporary) to quickly create grooves and add all kinds of variation.