Ozone 12 Mastering Explained®

FANTASTiC | 17 October 2025 | 869 MB

“Ozone 12: Mastering Explained®” is designed for producers, mixing engineers, and musicians who want to move their final mix sound up to that professional level. In this Ozone 12 video course, mastering expert Larry Holcombe guides you through the tools and modules in Ozone 12, demonstrating how to balance, polish, and enhance your tracks for clarity, punch, and loudness across any genre. You’ll learn practical techniques for low-end control, mastering chains, multiband processing, and limiting that can help your mixes translate anywhere. These Ozone 12 videos are perfect for new Ozone 12 users. The Ozone course begins with lessons on Bass Control applied to both indie and dance tracks. Larry shows how to shape the low end for clarity, balance, and punch, ensuring the kick, synths, and bass coexist without muddiness. Next, you’ll explore the Unlimiter module for restoring dynamics to over-compressed mixes, as well as Stem EQ and multiband compression techniques for sculpting the low end of a kick or balancing a dense rock track. Larry provides hands-on demonstrations for achieving power and clarity without sacrificing the musicality of your mix.

Harmony Concepts Explained

P2P | 15 December 2025 | 3.21 GB

Music Production: Harmony Concepts Explained is a practical, modern approach to harmony for producers who want better chords, stronger movement, and more emotional impact—without getting buried in traditional music theory. Instead of focusing on rules, this course breaks down real harmonic techniques used in modern productions and shows how to apply them directly inside Ableton Live. You’ll learn how harmony shows up in voicing, motion, rhythm, texture, and sound design—not just chord names. You’ll explore tools like Ableton’s Scale Mode, Chord Tool, Auto-Filter, arpeggiators, vocoders, and MIDI techniques to create harmonic interest fast—even if theory has never clicked for you before. Each lesson introduces a concept, demonstrates it musically, and then shows how it can be bent, combined, or pushed further.

DECODA Explained®

HiDERA | 14 June 2025 | 110 MB

Join veteran Groove3 instructor Larry Holcombe for an informative video series on DECODA, the new plug-in from zplane that makes learning songs easier and quicker than you thought possible. From playback controls like looping and speed to input FX (amp simulation, etc.), tempo beat grids, MIDI editing, and more, it’s all covered here! By the time you’re done with the series, you’ll be ready to start using DECODA right away to learn that huge pile of songs for your next gig! These DECODA videos are designed for new DECODA users. Larry begins the DECODA course with a brief overview of what DECODA is, followed by a quick tour of the interface, so you can see how everything is laid out. Then you’ll learn about project navigation, which allows you to quickly go to a specific song section, loop sections, and more. Playback controls are covered then, and you’ll see how to change playback speed, enable looping, etc.

Velvet Explained TUTORiAL

HiDERA | 14 June 2025 | 80 MB

Are you getting tired of dealing with those harsh sibilances in your vocal tracks? If so, iZotope’s Velvet is the answer. In this iZotope Velvet video course from production guru Eli Krantzberg, you’ll learn everything you need to know about getting smooth, clean vocals in no time with this smart de-esser, as well as some other useful tips and tricks in the process. Say goodbye to those nasty sibilances and clicks for good! These iZotope Velvet videos are designed for new Velvet users. To begin, Eli welcomes you and provides a quick overview of what exactly Velvet is, what it can do, and how it works. Then you’ll learn how to adjust the sibilance detection controls and dynamic EQ bands to isolate the sibilant part of a signal. This is followed by a look at the tonal channel controls – Lift and Tame – and how they can reduce or enhance specific frequency ranges to more closely match a selected target profile.

Studio One 7: New Features Explained®

HiDERA | 14 June 2025 | 223 MB

If you’re looking forward to getting the most out of the new Studio One 7 update, you’re in the right place! In this Studio One 7 video tutorial series, Studio One wizard Eli Krantzberg breaks down all the shiny new features and updates, providing plenty of examples and usage scenarios along the way, as well as several tips to help maximize efficiency. From brand new components like Launcher (grid-based music production) and Deep Flight One (virtual instrument) to other updates and enhancements, it’s all covered here in detail, so you’ll be ready to hit the ground running! These Studio One videos are designed for those familiar with Studio One but new to version 7. Eli begins the series by demonstrating the new Splice extension, with which you can work with content from Splice (a huge sample library) directly within the Studio One browser. Next, Eli introduces you to Launcher, a new grid-based production tool that employs a non-linear approach through the use of cells, scenes, and playlists. You’ll learn how to populate the cells by dragging and dropping them from the timeline, Loops browser, or Splice browser, as well as by recording directly to a cell and copying events to other cells.

KORG SQ-64 Explained®

HiDERA | 13 December 2025 | 4.46 GB

“KORG SQ-64 Explained®” is perfect for anyone who wants to master the powerful features of KORG’s renowned SQ-64 sequencer. With plenty for beginners and experienced user alike, this KORG SQ-64 video course from production expert Alberto will take you from basic setup and functionality to advanced sequencing techniques, enabling you to harness the full potential of this versatile instrument. Whether you’re working in a studio or performing live, this course will guide you through every aspect of the SQ-64 and how it can elevate your music production. These videos are designed for new KORG SQ-64 users. To begin, Alberto Rizzo Schettino provides a thorough introduction to the KORG SQ-64, covering its layout, features, and intuitive workflow. You’ll learn how to set up the device, use the sequencer in various modes, and incorporate advanced modulation and pitch features to create complex, evolving sequences.

Sibelius Updates Explained®

HiDERA | 08 December 2025 | 498 MB

(12.2025 Updated)

Notation pro brings you a detailed AVID Sibelius video tutorial series! Learn all of the new features and functions found in Sibelius updates and how to use them when creating your scores. These videos cover all the point updates for Sibelius and are designed for those who already know how to use Sibelius, but just want to learn about the new features added. Doug welcomes you and starts of with the cool new features added to Sibelius such as MIDI File Import, Auto-Assign, new articulations and playing techniques for string parts, how to explode a 4 part MIDI brass track to 4 separate instruments, and when naming tracks based on the libraries used, how you can add group naming to make importing into Sibelius a breeze. Auto-Optimize is then covered and you’ll see how this behind-the-scenes feature automatically keeps staff spacing looking great, plus how to both override and remove overrides when scoring. The new dotted and dashed ties, tie into ties and laissez vibrer ties are shown and explained, as well as the new key commands and engraving choices that are available.