Ableton 12: Creative Sends & Returns

HiDERA | 06 September 2025 | 465 MB

Ableton Live 12: Creative Sends & Returns is a fun, informative Ableton Live video course from Live pro Thomas Cochran that demonstrates how to transform your mixes using creative send and return effects. By thinking beyond standard mixing approaches, Thomas shows you how to use reverb, delay, distortion, compression, and more in innovative ways that add depth, energy, and dimension to your productions. When you’re through, you’ll have a whole new arsenal of techniques to help your tracks stand out and grab the listener. These Ableton Live 12 videos are designed for Ableton Live users. The Ableton course begins with practical techniques for making reverbs stand out, including distorting them to cut through the mix. You’ll also see how parallel distortion can be applied creatively to bring more punch and presence to specific sections of your track.

Upwards Compression Explained®

HiDERA | 06 September 2025 | 265 MB

Learn Upwards Compression step by step: add clarity, presence, and dynamics to your mixes with FabFilter, OTT, and advanced mixing/mastering techniques. Join producer and educator Larry Holcombe for a focused video course on upwards compression, one of the most powerful, yet often misunderstood, mixing and mastering techniques. Unlike standard compression, which tames peaks, upwards compression raises the quiet details, bringing subtle textures and nuances to the forefront while preserving transients and punch. Through practical, real-world examples, Larry demonstrates how this approach can add depth, excitement, and balance to any mix. These upwards compression videos are designed for users new to the concept of upwards compression. This compression course begins with an introduction to the fundamentals of upwards compression, including how it works and why it differs from traditional downward compression. Using a classic DnB funk break, Larry illustrates how lifting quieter elements makes grooves feel more alive and detailed.

ACE Studio Explained®

HiDERA | 24 May 2025 | 246 MB

A comprehensive look at ACE Studio – the popular AI-powered virtual vocal generator that allows you to create studio-quality vocals from MIDI and lyrics. You’ll learn all you need to know to create stellar vocals, from using the Clip Viewer to drawing in melodies, entering lyrics, editing pitch, and much more. By the end of the course, you’ll be ready to start using ACE Studio in your very next production. These ACE Studio videos are designed for new ACE Studio users. Eli begins with a brief overview of the app, looking at the main preferences and examining the different parts of the interface, such as the transport, library, arrangement view, clip viewer, etc. Then you’ll get a ground-up course on using Clips – the basic containers that hold MIDI notes or audio tracks – including how to create, move, split, resize, separate them, and more. This is followed by a look at how to save your work.

Nuendo 14 Update Explained®

HiDERA | 24 May 2025 | 1.4 GB

Join expert Gary Hiebner for a Nuendo 14 video course covering all its updates and added features. In this extensive Nuendo course, Gary will walk you through all the new additions and features found in 14 and demonstrate how they can be used to help improve all aspects of your process – from time-saving improvements and technologies to new effects, system integration, and more. By the end of this Nuendo 14 course, you’ll be completely up to speed and ready to make use of any and all of these features starting with your very next song. These videos are for Nuendo users wanting to get fully comfortable with Nuendo 14 quickly. Gary welcomes you and begins with the Range Selection tool, illustrating its new capabilities for moving, selecting, and editing items in various ways. Then you’ll learn how the Adaptive Background Attenuation tool can create automatic ducking effects so that a foreground signal can be heard clearly over background material. Gary also explains how the ADE Dialogue Transcriptions feature can transcribe spoken word from an audio source and create a marker for reference.

Knifonium Explained®

HiDERA | 24 May 2025 | 276 MB

If you’re a lover of rare analog synths, you’re probably already aware that Brainworx has released a stellar virtual recreation of the Knifonium by (hardware version by Knif Audio). In this Knifonium video course, analog synth expert Stephen O’Connell will walk you through all the features and parameters of this amazing instrument and show you how to coax the incredible, massive sounds for which the hardware version is so highly revered. Equally at home in a film score, a hip-hop track, or other synth-heavy genres, once you complete this course, you’ll be ready to start gracing your tracks with its heavenly tones on your very next project. These Knifonium videos are designed for new Knifonium users. Stephen begins with an overview of the course, discussing the original instrument’s history and mystique, along with some of the features that make it stand out from the rest. Then he covers the interface so you get a good idea of where all the components are and how everything is laid out, so you’ll have no problems following along as we proceed. Stephen also shows you how to manage (load, save, favorite) the impressive collection of presets included with Knifonium.

Ethereal Earth v2.1.2 KONTAKT

HiDERA | 04 September 2025 | 1.3 GB

An inspiring instrument that combines a variety of acoustic instruments from around the world with digital synthesis, layers of organic sound recordings, and effects processing.

NI EXPANSiONS v2026.03

FANTASTiC/HiDERA | 03 March 2026 | 9.96GB

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