How to create Drum Loops & your own Sample Packs from other Apple Loops and samples inside of Logic Pro X. You can still use these techniques in other DAW’s as well.
How To Make Pop with an awesome track ‘Get Gone’ featuring Stella Jones on vocals. Starting with a blank template in Cubase, Austin builds this song from the ground up with a simple but catchy chord progression followed by synth pad and lead sound design using multiple layers and percussive elements to get the initial feel and groove. Always keeping the vocalist in mind, Austin continues to build the track with wide variety and interest using further sound design, automation of filters and effects so there is plenty for the vocalist to work from. Once the instrumental is completed we get a fascinating insight into the production process as Austin chats with Stella Jones discussing how they collaborate, even though they are in different locations highlighting the pros and cons and giving a ton of tips and tricks on how to make this sort of artist relationship work. Finally, we bring in the vocals and process the stems adding some dope techniques to help them shine before mixing and mastering to complete the song.
Volume modulation plugin in How To Use Gatekeeper. Gatekeeper is the cutting edge of volume modulation. Capable of sample-fast transitions and equipped with a unique variable smoothing algorithm, Gatekeeper allows for drastic, punchy gating and sequencing while keeping the output smooth. In this two-part tutorial 2Scoops firstly looks at the user interface and controls before showing us how he would use the plugin for his own tracks. Loaded with some awesome presets, Gatekeeper is definitely one of those plugins were messing around with the various parameters and their combinations can give you some truly unexpected and creative results. Go check it out!
This is not a video about production! Specifically, this is aimed at you if you are comfortable at creating beats and producing but not sure how the music side of things works? This course uses examples from the EDM genre, although the techniques discussed here can be used to produce any music in a pop style. The course will make use of Logic Pro X on an apple mac, but there is no reason that you can’t reproduce anything I do and show you here on another comparable DAW, on any computer.
Does this man ever stop playing about with vintage synths? The answer is a resounding no, so we’re stoked to welcome back for another How To Use course – and this time he’s lifting the lid on the iconic Fairlight /Arturia CMI V and helping us get our heads around this groundbreaking synth. Peaking in popularity back in 1982 this synth paved the way for the DAW’s we use today and only setting you back a mere £30,000 – it was a fairly exclusive piece of kit, but as you’ll see in Matt’s introduction video it’s influence on modern music is paramount with nothing else coming close to what this machine was capable of at the time.
In this course you will learn how to build triads chords (major and minor) and also four notes chords adding the dominant seventh and the major seventh notes to them. Some knowledge in music is desirable, but not mandatory. We will start from the early beginning presenting the musical notes and how to locate them on the keyboard or piano.We will teach you everything about flats and sharps, diatonic scales, clefs, the basic on music notation, intervals, so you can understand the rules and will be able to read a note or a chord on a music sheet. Then we will build together the cycle of fifths and fourths and understand the relationship to the different tonalities and you will learn how a music transposition works. Then we will build all the major and minor chords and their inversions at the twelve keys and finally apply them to a small part of pop music.
Most DAW’s will have equivalent stock plugins that can recreate the sounds produced, so whatever your budget you can follow along. In this 7 hour course, we first lay down the kick and bass backbone before adding ambient textures and effects, driving percussion and awesome layered lead lines. As the track and CPU level grows we commit to rendering to audio and organise the different elements before arranging with extensive use of automation to build up to drops and an arpeggiated breakdown creating a track full of texture, risers, sweeps and impacts. Always tweaking and editing to improve, we finish off with a mixdown and then export the stems to complete a master and finalise the track.
