Crossing the many bridges between house and techno with relaxed dignity, Jim River’s, a rare mix of educator and entertainer for the first time gives us a unique insight into his production regime. From the ideas and setup to creating a workflow involving both Ableton Live and Logic Pro. So sit back and enjoy nearly two’s hour of this techno pioneer skillz….
After his interview with Chris, Swedish native and uplifting trance star is back, this time with a monster course – ‘How To Make Uplifting Trance’. Bjorn shows from the first kick to the last effect, how to produce an uplifting 138 monster in this 7 hour course in Cubase 8. He starts by looking at how to write a main theme, builds the drums and basslines, then moves to some truly great lead layering tricks and tips and finishes off adding in some serious effects and finally mixing. Learn from one of the hottest trance producers in the world today!
‘Make The Streets Go Pop’ is the hot new loop arsenal. It features five intense and radio ready, Hip Hop/Pop/R&B Construction Kits inspired by the music of Billboard-topping artists such as Katy Perry, Justin Beiber, Connor Maynard, Miley Cyrus, Nelly, and Jason Derulo. These artists have been infusing popular, street-edged, new school Hip Hop sounds into their repertoire of Pop music tracks. Packed with over 1.2 GB of big drums, smooth basslines, rich pianos, lush strings and synths, this pack is a must-have for today’s Hip Hop, Pop and R&B producer.
In this all new ‘How To Make Moombahcore’ guides you through this bass heavy, genre infusing style. This 5 hour, 17 video, 110 bpm monster takes it’s cues from house music, dancehall, reggaeton and even a sprinkle of dubstep. As is common with all courses, expect the dirtiest of baselines, the punchiest of drums, the fullest of chords, and the most glorious arps. Using just FL Studio 12 plugins you will be programming Harmor for ‘Growl’ and ‘Rhythm’ basses, and Sytrus for added low end FM Basses. Then, moving onto creating lead lines, soaring risers, complex arranging of drops and finally mixing and mastering. This is a meaty course, ready to take your skills to the next level!
Learn how to count bars, record, structure a song, and even what equipment to buy to get started, and make beats. Learn the basics of how to make beats step by step! Do you have a burning desire to produce music, but don’t know where to start? Would you like to find out what producers around the world are doing to make beats? Well you are in the right place. This course is designed to teach someone with absolutely no experience the basic fundamentals of music production and how to make beats from scratch.
‘Make It Nazty’ gives you over 140 Urban Club Sounds for your productions. These kits are influenced from Tyga, Jay-Z, Kanye West, Treal Lee & Prince Rick, and many more. This pack is packed with club synths, arps, drums and percussion to make your music fill the clubs. These 5 Construction Kits give you enough material to arrange, edit, slice and chop to give you the essential sounds to make the club go wild! All samples are cleared for personal and commercial use, and are supplied in a range of formats to suit the needs of your project. These elements can be recombined and re-arranged to meet the needs of your production. All Sounds and Samples are Royalty-Free for you to use in commercial productions or even for DJ/Remix purposes. You can use these samples in as many ways as you desire. These Construction Kits are supplied in 24-Bit WAV, MIDI formats.
New for 2014, and what a way to start the year with none other than Sonic Academy’s favorite Italian ‘Gigi Barocco. This time showing you how to take a demo and turn it into a fully blown EDM radio hit. This is how the pros take thier productions to the next level. So enjoy this 2 hour production masterclass and gain an insight into how turn your production from demo to release ready monsters. Please Also Note – this is an Artist Series course, and as such there may quite a few 3rd party plugins used during the creation process
