Join DJ and producer in his Berlin studio, as he creates a deep and grooving tech house track from scratch. The course gives you the chance to watch an established producer at work, and benefit from his vast amounts of production experience in the electronic music industry.
Mainroom Tech House’ delivers over 1 Gb of sounds for your next full track production. Loaded with 10 construction kits this collection features booming sub grooves, mainroom beats, catchy melodic hooks, classic key and organ loops, body-moving top and percussion sounds, effects and MIDI files for instant and easy sounds layering. Each Construction Kit offers full mixes and all components broken out into constituent parts for maximum programming ease. Served with WAV formats – this collection is ready for instant drag & drop action into any DAW or sampler.
Acid Tech, a euphoric selection of rolling and authentic house music sounds that strike a perfect balance between nostalgic joy and heady futurism. Incite warehouse dancefloor frenzy with these 100% royalty free audio experiments! Modern Tech House weighs in at 794MB of content. Including loops, one shots and sampler patches to ensure your next Tech House exploration is packed to the rafters with irresistible grooves and infectious riffs. Over 325 loops are included, ranging from smooth yet weighty basslines, bouncy, driving drum patterns, scintillating melodic vocals, thick, swelling pads and synth licks a plenty and professional audio ammunition you need to give your tracks the club seal of approval in no time. One Shot samples include drum hits, bass shots, foley, FX and synths, all ready to be loaded up and sequenced in your favoured DAW in heartbeat. The hits have been mapped to 44 soft sampler patches for all common formats (NNXT, Halion, SFZ, Kontakt and EXS24), all ready to be loaded up and played on your MIDI keyboard for instant inspiration and experimentation. Rolling out at a steady 125bpm, Modern Tech House is ideal for House, Tech House and many other dancefloor oriented styles. As standard, all musical content is key-labelled for instant integration in your tracks
New set of tips that take an in-depth look at what’s happening when we use our synths. These set of tutorials are not only a must for those starting out into the world of synthesis but also super useful for those already accustomed to sound design. Straight forward take on this subject accompanied by visual scopes and analysers delve into the fundamentals of what is happening under the hood when we dial in a waveform, add more voices and use modulation to change the volume, pitch and tone of our sounds. In short, the areas covered in these tech tips will give you the basics of what’s going on when you turn the knobs on your synth giving you a better understanding of how to create the sounds you want. Check it out, share it with your synth-loving pals and take your skills to the next level!
With his technical mastery of production and highly critical ear, Proxima is one of the leading figures in Drum & Bass today. His music rapidly caught the attention of popular labels, leading to his first release on Renegade back in 2008. Since then, he has been a regular artist on the roster of Tempa, Shogun Audio and more recently Icicle’s label Entropy. In this online course, Proxima takes students on a journey as he sculpts a twisted Neuro Tech DnB track from scratch. Practically every one of the musical parts, including basses, leads, FX and even drums, are created using Live Suite instruments like Analog, Operator, Collision and Wavetable. Students can therefore expect to be treated to a huge wealth of sound design expertise and insight, as each sound is carefully crafted from an initialised state. In addition to sound design, Proxima shares his invaluable mixing and arrangement tips, showing how to achieve a perfect balance throughout a track. Using audio processing and automation to great effect, he demonstrates how to juxtapose sounds to create melodic and rhythmic interest, whilst delivering a satisfyingly gnarly and devastating groove, guaranteed to have a dancefloor rocking!
Welcome to Tech Tips Volume 50!! That’s over 500 Tech Tips now available to watch on Sonic Academy! For this 50th celebration we’ve asked some familiar Sonic Academy faces to come back and share their favourite tips including Protoculture, Dom Kane, Owsey, Dirty Secretz, Bluffmunkey, King Unique, P-LASK, and of course our very own Chris Agnelli and Phil Johnston. Get some awesome workflow tips from the pros to take your skillz to the next level! Check it out!
Variavision Tech House – a cult exploration into the technical side of House, featuring rolling bass, chunky drums, crisp percussion and funky melodies. This collection comes direct from Italy’s Variavision and is ready to be put to work in your next Tech House track. Variavision Tech House is brand new royalty free sample collection of over 700mb and fuses the modern Tech House sound with analogue goodness, mixing in some classic 80’s retro vibe for good measure. The collection features 200+ loops including classic Moog bass lines, floaty Wurlitzer riffs, warm Rhodes piano, bright Korg M1 piano, chunky guitar-licks, retro synths and a booty load of jackin’ drums & percussive grooves. Add to that an inspirational selection of stuttered vocal cuts, FX sweeps and falls, robotic glitches, big exploding impacts and laser sounds you have everything you need to build full Tech House productions.
