Top 10 Mixing Mistakes to Avoid

HiDERA | 24 August 2025 | 347 MB

Stop sabotaging your mixes! This practical, informative mixing video course from pro producer Larry Holcombe highlights the most common pitfalls that can derail your mixes and shows you how to avoid them. Instead of chasing endless fixes, Larry helps you develop better habits, sharper ears, and a clearer vision for every project. The result: cleaner, more balanced mixes that translate across any system. These mixing videos are designed for anyone looking to improve the sound, effectiveness, and speed of their mixes. Larry begins by showing you how to define a clear vision for your mix and set proper gain staging from the very start. With these foundational skills in place, you’ll make more confident decisions and avoid costly mistakes early in the process. Next, Larry covers essential workflow tips, such as when to solo tracks (and when not to), how to avoid being fooled by loudness, and how to streamline your process for consistent results. You’ll also learn how to manage compression effectively, choose the right tools for controlling transients, and prevent over-processing, which can sap the life out of your music.

Ableton 12 Creative Resampling

HiDERA | 24 August 2025 | 375 MB

In this Ableton Live 12 video course, discover how to transform loops, bass lines, and textures. You’ll learn practical resampling techniques that unlock new sounds, inspire fresh ideas, streamline your workflow, and more! Instead of relying only on stock loops or predictable sounds, Thomas Cochran teaches you how to transform audio into fresh ideas, textures, and grooves that make your tracks stand out. These Ableton Live videos are designed for Ableton Live users looking for new inspiration and sound design techniques. The Ableton course begins with a video on melodic resampling, where you’ll learn to chop synth loops in Simpler and rearrange them into new compositions. From there, Thomas dives into bass resampling, demonstrating how filters, modulation, and compression techniques can turn a simple bassline into a polished, powerful sound.

Leap RnB Licks For KONTAKT 8

HiDERA | 25 September 2024 | 372 MB

Leap is an ultra-fast and playful way to play and manipulate loops. Spark fresh ideas, sprinkle in expressive performance effects, or just jam. Breathe new life into your sample collection or try something totally fresh with our new Leap Expansions series, starting with 12 curated packs for specific genres and styles.

Top Dance Music Production Mistakes

HiDERA | 20 June 2025 | 342 MB

Join dance music guru Larry Holcombe for a can’t-miss video course on common mistakes in dance music production. If you’re struggling with your dance tracks, it’s a good chance one or more of these topics is the culprit. You’ll discover all kinds of pitfalls to avoid when it comes to arrangement, sound selection, effects, sample pitch, rhythmic feel, and much more. By the end of this dance music production course, you’ll be ready to implement all of these ideas right away, and your tracks will begin to improve immediately. These music production videos are designed for those that have a basic understanding of their DAW and would like to improve the quality of their songs and beats. Larry welcomes you to and begins the course with a discussion about sound selection, explaining how high-quality samples really do make a big difference and providing examples of both weak and strong sounds so you’ll know how to spot problems. Then it’s on to mix composition, and you’ll hear how filling up a song with too many elements can make things sound muddy.

Cubase: Programming Realistic Drums

HiDERA | 21 June 2025 | 365 MB

Getting tired of trying to record great-sounding drum tracks at home? It’s certainly not an easy task. In this Cubase video course, Cubase expert Gary Hiebner walks you through the process of building a virtual drum track that sounds 100% authentic and mix-ready professional. From selecting and tweaking sounds to programming, editing, quantizing, creating multiple outputs, and more, you’ll learn all you need to know to get awesome results. By the time you’re through with this Cubase course, you’ll be completely ready to start programming your next drum track right away! These Cubase videos are designed for Cubase users who’d like to start using virtual drums. Gary begins by showing you how to add drum instrument tracks with a MIDI part or pattern. You’ll also see how to set up your MIDI devices properly and learn the difference between instrument tracks and drum tracks. Then Gary illustrates the differences between the Key Editor and the Drum Editor, showing why and how the Drum Editor is often a better choice when working with drum tracks.

Circular v1.0.2 KONTAKT 8

HiDERA | 22 June 2025 | 9.5GB

From sketch to score in seconds

Circular begins with a single note, but it never stays there. It moves, shifts, and evolves into a living, cinematic sequence. With four fully independent layers, each step becomes a canvas — modulating pitch, filter, and effects in real time. What starts as a simple sketch quickly transforms into a motion-rich score, giving you the speed to compose fast and the depth to create something truly your own.

Alkane Explained®

HiDERA | 27 July 2025 | 985 MB

In this in-depth Alkane video tutorial series, production guru Alberto will take you on a detailed exploration of the plug-in, explaining each parameter and component fully and providing plenty of real-world examples so you can hear it in action. You’ll see that, regardless of genre, Alkane can help impart punch, clarity, and character in your mixes with an unparalleled level of control over saturation while still remaining intuitive and easy to use. By the time you’re through with this Alkane course, you’ll be ready to start using Alkane like a pro on your very next project! These Alkane videos are designed for new Alkane users. Alberto begins with a quick overview of the series, explaining what Alkane is/does and discussing the piece (an original video game score) he’ll be using for demonstration purposes in this course. He then provides a thorough tour of the interface so you can understand the signal flow through the plug-in as well as the location of all the various sections and components. Once you’re familiar with the basic layout, Alberto pulls out the magnifying glass and gets into the nitty-gritty a bit, analyzing the various controls and parameters and demonstrating what they do and how they affect the sound.