Top Notch Tech House! Inspired by the sounds of Solardo, Patrick Topping, Dennis Cruz, Flashmob, Mihalis Safras, Darius Syrossian, Max Chapman, Hot Creations, Relief, Sola, Moon Harbour Recordings, Repopulate Mars, Glasgow Underground and more.
This week we welcome brand new tutor Austin Hull – hailing from Orlando, Austin has made his mark in the music industry in a pretty short space of time thanks to hard work and self-determination, and since turning professional 2 years ago he’s already worked with over 300 individual artists and started multiple businesses. Over these 11 videos, Austin shares his expert knowledge in this ‘Pop Vocals Special’ to help make your vocals shine. From blending just the right amount of reverb and delay, to stereo widening and thickening up your vocals, we also check out a host of simple but effective techniques and effects to create a ton more interest in your vocal line. Add vocoders, vocal harmonies, and glitched up vocal chops to the mix and you’ll turn the mundane into something far more creative! The beauty of these awesome tips is that they aren’t just limited to vocals, and can be applied to synth lines, drums, FX, just about anything, so go check it out!
“Tech-House Volume 4” is the new pack for Samplesound company. This sound is for all tech house dj and producer. Featuring 224,5 MB of Tech House Bass, Drums, Percussion, One Shot Kick, One Shot Clap, One Shot HH, Top Loops, Vocal and EFX, you can create your tech house style. Inside the folders you’ll found 220 samples in wave format and you can use all in Apple Logic, Ableton Live, Pro Tools, Cubase and others.
For these 10 creative tips in Ableton we welcome back multi-instrumentalist, who shares his techniques in time stretching and resampling to create entirely unique sounds. Using both the samplers available in ANA 2 and along with Ableton’s own ‘Simpler’ device we transform pianos, guitars, vocals, drums, and more into lo-fi pads and textures, embracing the usually unwanted artefacts to get gritty, distorted and ambient sounds to use in our tracks. Whether you’re making a downbeat, chill-out masterpiece or simply looking for your own background ambience or atmosphere to add warmth to your track, WNTER shows us the tools to make entirely new sounds yourself from simple one shot samples or even originally unwanted noise from a recording. A truly creative and inspiration set of tips that’ll help you step away from simply choosing a preset or dropping in a pre-recorded loop, and make your own set of original patches instead.
This week proudly welcomes back Swedish born 138 Trance legend Bjorn Akesson for a brand new course in How To Make Tech Trance. We’re also excited as for the first time here at Sonic Academy this awesome monster of a track is created in Presonus Studio One. Bjorn builds this entirely new tune from the ground up starting with a blank slate firstly creating the drums before moving on to the layered sub and mid bass. We then arrange the basic layout to give the foundation of the track before adding effects, creating the drop and main theme, adding atmosphere, along with a dope acid line and stabs. Throughout this course we check out Bjorn’s easy-to-follow, methodical approach to workflow and organisation along with his clever use of automation lines to create tension and move through the transitions of the breakdown and drop.
