Create Your Own Sample-based Virtual Instruments in Logic Pro and Kontakt. In this course, we look at all the common elements of sound design using samplers. This course will help you to really understand how to construct exactly the sounds you are looking for for your sample-based virtual instruments.
If you’re a Cubase user that’s new to MIDI or simply have a limited knowledge of it, you don’t know what you’re missing! MIDI is an extremely powerful tool with dozens of features that can speed up your workflow, increase your creativity, and plenty more. In this Cubase video course, MIDI expert Gary Hiebner teaches you all you need to know about using MIDI with Cubase. From simple note input to creating custom expression maps and more, Gary runs the gamut. These videos are for new and intermediate Cubase MIDI users. Gary begins with an overview of the MIDI functionality in Cubase and explains what all we’ll be covering in the course. Then it’s down to business with the first topic: velocities. Learn what velocity in MIDI is, what it does, and how you can edit it. Then, explore CC1 modulation and see how it works with various instruments and how to assign it. CC11 expression follows, and you’ll see how to add an expression lane, how it differs from CC1 modulation, and how they can be used together.
Welcome to the Music Producer’s Guide to Ableton Live, a complete guide to one of the most popular Digital Audio Workstations, as used by top producers, DJs, musicians and bands the world over
A good vocal has the power to transform a decent track into an unforgettable global hit, and this course will provide all the knowledge you need to write, record and process your very own vocals. Delivering the tutorials is Ian Bland, a hugely respected producer who has remixed the likes of Prince, Bizarre Inc and Queen, re-working and mixing some of the most famous voices in pop. He also worked with an array of talented vocalists in the flesh, including Diane Charlemagne (famously the vocalist for both Goldie and Moby) and Debbie Sharp, with whom he had two UK top 40 hits as part of legendary 90s rave outfit Dream Frequency.
Latest release comes in the form of VocalSynth 2, an immersive vocal experience with an impressive flexibility that allows it to adapt to a wide range of situations. The plugin comprises five powerful vocal tools, including a Vocoder, Talkbox and several modules for applying the sonic qualities of real life or digital vocal effects. On this course, you’ll be taken through each part of the software and then shown a series of practical studio applications, to help develop a good understanding of VocalSynth 2 and learn how to achieve great results in your music. The course begins with Joshua Casper giving an overview of the plugin architecture and main graphical editing facilities, before getting stuck into each of the five main synth modules, beginning with the all new Biovox, which uses modelling of a human vocal tract to simulate multiple biological characteristics, including nasality, vowel shapes, formants and breathiness. He then works through the remaining vocal synth sections, every one of the effects and then MIDI and sidechain modes.
Compose Music like a Pro in any Genre, with the FREE Online Music Platform – BandLab In this BandLab Songwriting course, you will learn through doing. By following a structured songwriting process you’ll create a professional sounding song in any one of 60 modern genres including Hip Hop, Trap, RnB, House, Rock, Pop and many more. You need no musical or technology skills, just a love of music, a passion for learning and the desire to express your creativity. Step-by-step video tutorials backed by simple aims and objectives will enable you to progress at your own pace creating the music that you love.
Plug-in suites and bundles are certainly attractive for many reasons. You get good bang for your buck, a collection of plug-ins that are designed to work together, and a well-organized layout for those plug-ins. However, with so much power and depth available, there’s usually a pretty steep learning curve involved. That’s where this Neutron 4 video course comes in. Veteran Groove3 instructor Eli Krantzberg takes you through the key components of iZotope’s Neutron 4 mixing suite, teaching you what you need to know to start using each of the 8 modules and demonstrating them so you can hear them in action. By the end of the course, you’ll be well-versed in the suite and ready to start making it a part of your daily workflow. These videos are for new Neutron 4 users.
