Soundstrips Manley Tubes Rule DOCU-SYNTHiC4TE

SYNTHiC4TE | July 10 2014 | 458 MB

This video is a documentary made by Alain Le Kim from Soundstrips. It is a complete journey in the Manley factory, explaining what the equipment is made of and how those pieces of gear are built.
EveAnna Manley runs Manley Laboratories with an incredible amount of energy. The factory, located in Chino, California, 30 miles East of Los Angeles, is bustling with activity and employs about fifty people. On the T-shirts that she herself designs for the company, EveAnna has written : Built in Chino, not China. In these times where it has become the norm to delocate manufacturing in China, Manley is indeed an exception. Everything is done in-house, including the transformers used in the circuits. The products coming out of Chino are « built like tanks » as many people like to say. It would be more appropriate to say built like Aston Martins, since these are not only well built but refined pieces of equipment. With her energy, disponibility and generosity, it is not surprising that EveAnna’s friends are great people. We drove three hours to go visit artist Jim Messina. The reason ? fetch a collection of old vinyls that he offered her ! Jim opened his private studio to us and offered us an incredible lesson in the art of producing and recording music. He an EveAnna went through all the Manley gear he uses, and they discussed the best way to take advantage of their vast possibilities. Jim’s studio is a dream place, with rows of gears on his line of racks. Vox Box, Elop, Massive-Passive, Slam, everything was discussed to length, before we had to drive back to Chino.

EZdrummer for PC Explained TUTORiAL

SYNTHiC4TE | Sept 28 2013 | 289.83 MB

MAKING DRUM TRACKS JUST BECAME EASIER

Toontrack EZdrummer is a fabulous tool for creating realistic drum tracks, fast and easy. In this series, EZdrummer guru Mark Struthers shows you how to get this virtual instrument up and running on PC, as well as all of its features and functions. Mark starts out with detailed introduction and PC installation tutorials, then covers how to setup the Toontrack Solo application. Next, latency and buffer sizes are explained, followed by the EZdrummer user interface. Mark then shows you how to audition grooves, adjust humanize, velocity and tempo parameters, user grooves, expansion packs, the EZPlayer, working within a DAW and how to use multiple outputs.

Highland Harps KONTAKT MERRY XMAS

SYNTHiC4TE | 25.12.2013 | 2.56 GB

Continuing our Plectra Series of plucked, picked and strummed string instruments from around the world comes this collection of traditional folk harps! Featuring the lyre, lap harp, and celtic harp, this KONTAKT 4 sample library evokes images of the Irish countryside, Appalachian splendor, tall tales and a heart mug of mead beside a crackling fire. The intimate, close-miced sound is ideal for traditional, folk, medieval and Renaissance music as well as modern scores in any number of styles.

Dobro Solo KONTAKT MERRY XMAS

Team SYNTHiC4TE | MERRY XMAS | 1.96 GB

Welcome to Natural Acoustic Series – a studio collection of high-end deep-sampled acoustic instruments.
Dobro is a passionate, deep-sampled (+2.100 samples) pristine sounding American Dobro. We recorded the Dobro in great detail, including hundreds of natural fret and release noises, real note bends up/down. In addition we also recorded natural strum samples, so you can play everything in a strummed fashion. Dobro comes with 18 core patches divided into natural, morphed and synthetic categories. The natural category contains things natural dobro, tenor and piccolo dobro – whereas the morphed category contains the Dobro mixed with other instruments (ex. Grand Piano, Steel String Guitar, Mandolin and more exotic type of instruments. The synthetic category contains the Dobro mixed with different type of synths.

Tracking Rock Bass TUTORiAL

SYNTHiC4TE | Oct 10 2013 | 222.56 MB

BASS FOR YOUR FACE

Kenny Gioia returns with another installment of Tracking Rock, this time focusing on the lowest of frequencies, bass guitar. You’ll see how
to track bass guitar from top to bottom and everything in between.Kenny starts with an introduction where he introduces you to the song and outlines the videos to come.

FM8 Explained TUTORiAL

SYNTHiC4TE | Sept 15 2013 | 729.2 MB

LOOK BEHIND THE CURTAIN OF NATIVE INSTRUMENTS FM8

Unleash the true power of Native Instrument’s FM8 virtual synth! FM8 master Al Swettenham breaks this monster synth down, step by step, so you can grasp the amazing power and creativeness of FM synthesis. Al begins with the important basics such, as an introduction to the synth, a detailed overview and how to use the main Browser & Attributes page as well as the Master page. Next, Al jumps into FM8’s powerful effects and arpeggiator and introduces you to “Expert Mode” as well as the “Easy / Morph” page. Al then reveals the Operators and Envelopes sections, advanced synthesis and routing and finishes up with custom FM8 sound design.