Pigments Sound Design Explained®

HiDERA | 23 January 2022 | 338 MB

Studio wiz presents in-depth Pigments video tutorials! This plugin is a sound designer’s dream, and this course will teach you how to harness its formidable sonic prowess and bend it to your will. Thomas demonstrates many effective concepts and techniques with a series of real-world applications, so you’ll be able to put your newfound skills to work right away! These videos are for those who already know their way around Pigments. If you are new to Pigments, start with Pigments Explained® here first. Thomas welcomes you and starts off by demonstrating how to create several bass patches. First up is an analog-sounding bass stab patch utilizing the analog oscillators and filter models. Then discover how to use amplifier and notch filter modulation to build a distorted bass tone. A chomp bass and a wavetable house bass round out the section, illustrating the use of the function controls and amplifier envelope modulation, respectively, among other tricks.

Reading Music Explained®

HiDERA | 22 January 2022 | 158 MB

Music expert presents a comprehensive set of video tutorials on reading music! If you’ve always been baffled when looking at a piece of music, and you wished you could better communicate your ideas to other musicians, this is the course for you. Eli takes you from the very beginning and walks you through the process, step by step, so it’ll be a pain-free journey! There are even exercises along the way to make sure you’re understanding the new information! These videos are for beginners wanting to learn the art of reading and writing music on a staff. Eli welcomes you and begins with the note names on the staff in the two most common clefs of all: treble clef and bass clef. Next, discover the anatomy of a note, including what information it conveys, and how it does it. Also learn how time is measured in music as you explore the world of rhythm.

The Room & Acoustics TUTORiAL

HiDERA | 26 January 2022 | 567 MB

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Studio super genius Dave Askew breaks down the things you need to know for a solid foundational understanding of room acoustics, and how to set up your studio for better sound and mixes! Dave starts out with why it’s important to have good acoustics in your studio and gives an in-depth overview of the basics of sound. He then covers over the course of the series, speaker selection and placement, listening positions, understanding your room, acoustical treatment and more. See the individual tutorial descriptions below for detailed info. If you have a studio, this info is priceless and will make for a better mixing and listening environment and ultimately, better sounding songs and productions. Watch “Home Studio Know-How: The Room & Acoustics” today!

Programming Drums in Logic Pro

HiDERA | 29 October 2021 | 180 MB

Studio expert presents comprehensive Logic Pro drum programming video tutorials! If you’ve always wanted to free yourself from the chains of pre-recorded loops and beats and get creative and specific with your drum tracks, this course is the one to watch. Sam takes you through the basics and continues on with more advanced features and functions, demonstrating different ideas and techniques in various musical context so you can hear them in action. These videos are for those new to the subject of drum programming. Sam welcomes you and begins by familiarizing you with some basic Logic features that will be essential throughout the course, including changing the tempo/time signature, creating timeline loops, and navigating the timeline. Then you’ll begin to build beats from scratch by clicking notes in the piano roll MIDI grid and manipulating them in various ways. Also explore the topics of choosing a software instrument, quantization, changing note velocity, applying “swing,” incorporating ghost notes, and more!

FUNK GUITARiST EXPLAiNED®

HiDERA | 7 January 2022 | 316 MB

Studio wiz presents comprehensive Native Instruments SCARBEE FUNK GUITARIST video tutorials! If funk guitar is your thing, SCARBEE FUNK GUITARIST from Native Instruments is tough to beat. With its massive collection of grooves, fills, and voicings, it’s a tour de force of guitar samples, and this video course will help you quickly produce stellar tracks, as well as dive deep into the more advanced settings. Larry covers all the features thoroughly and demonstrates them in action with two example tracks – disco and soul – so you can really hear the plugin’s capabilities in a musical context. These videos are for new SCARBEE FUNK GUITARIST users. Larry welcomes you begins by providing an overview of the plugin and its purpose, followed by a tour of the interface so you know your way around. Then, explore the Combi Tab, with which you have access to the Humanize and Swing knobs, as well as the ability to select different pickups for tonal variation. Larry also demonstrates some of the Combi presets and details how to save and load them.

Pigments Explained TUTORiAL

HiDERA | 7 January 2022 | 721 MB

Pigments is here! Synth wiz takes you on a journey into this cutting edge virtual synth, covering all of its features and functions, as well as how to design Bass, Lead, and Pad sounds from scratch. Tyler begins by welcoming you and then jumps right in with what this new synth is all about, plus an in-depth overview if the Pigments interface. Next, Tyler explains the 2 biggest parts of this synth, the Analog Engine, which is a 3-oscillator analog emulation, and then its digital counterpart, the Wavetable Engine, which allows for amazing sounds from a very open ended form of synthesis. Throughout the rest of the video tutorials, Tyler covers topics such as the Filters, Modulations and Routing, Sources and Groups, the powerful built in Sequencer, the great sounding Multi-FX, and how to understand Pigment’s Preset Management system, and effectively use the Browser to save and load the stock presets as well as your own! Wrapping it up, Tyler gives you videos on sound design with Pigments, showing you how to create Bass, Lead and Pad sounds all from scratch, enabling you to wrap your mind around the seemingly endless options for creating sound with Pigments.

CLOUD SUPPLY Explained®

HiDERA | 3 December 2021 | 190 MB

Production guru presents comprehensive CLOUD SUPPLY video tutorials! If you’re ready to get inspired and create with Native Instruments’ newest addition to the PLAY series, CLOUD SUPPLY, this video course is for you! Intuitive as it is, there’s a lot under the hood of this plugin, and Eli walks you through it all – from basic preset auditioning to serious tweaking – with plenty of audio demonstrations along the way. These videos are for new CLOUD SUPPLY users. Eli welcomes you and starts with an in-depth overview, explaining the instrument’s interface and describing what each section does. Then you’ll learn how to use the Layer browser creatively and generate randomized functions and variations on the basic presets. Explore the LoFi processes and wavetable-based layers in the Sounds view and learn to apply some LFO modulation to morph the waveforms.