Digital Audio Terms & Standards

SYNTHiC4TE | Feb 27 2018 | 95 MB

The NLE AudioPedia series, our video-based audio encyclopedia, is a comprehensive dictionary of audio terminology. It’s an invaluable resource for sound engineers, musicians, students, educators and all audio enthusiasts. This first installment is about Sound Waves and Hearing. AudioPedia – noun | Au·di·o·Pe·di·a | [aw-dee-oh-pee-dee-uh] An animated, short format video informational resource explaining in plain English all aspects of audio: acoustics, mixing, mastering, recording, digital audio terms, microphones, recording, and more.

Sound Waves & Hearing TUTORiAL

SYNTHiC4TE | Feb 27 2018 | 160 MB

The NLE AudioPedia series, our video-based audio encyclopedia, is a comprehensive dictionary of audio terminology. It’s an invaluable resource for sound engineers, musicians, students, educators and all audio enthusiasts. This first installment is about Sound Waves and Hearing. AudioPedia – noun | Au·di·o·Pe·di·a | [aw-dee-oh-pee-dee-uh] An animated, short format video informational resource explaining in plain English all aspects of audio: acoustics, mixing, mastering, recording, digital audio terms, microphones, recording, and more. Created by our audio expert, AudioPedia is the ultimate audio reference tool.

Advanced Synthesis MatrixBrute TUTORiAL

SYNTHiC4TE | Feb 26 2018 | 0.98 GB

MatrixBrute truly offers limitless possibilities. Thankfully, synth expert Marc Doty is back with an advanced look at this very complex instrument. Join him, and dive deeper! There’s no doubt about it: The Arturia MatrixBrute is one of the most powerful analog monophonic synthesizer around. In this course, synthesist expert Marc Doty opens up his bag of tricks and reveals new ways to use the MatrixBrute to create amazingly cool sounds! Here are some of the things you will learn in this course: a special technique to give a bass boost to any sound, how to go beyond the standard ADSR and generate complex envelopes, a trick to add delay when the effect section is already in use, how to do additive synthesis with your MatrixBrute, the theory and science of creating human voice-like sound, a workaround to use the monophonic sequencer polyphonically, how to synthesize full drum beats… and more! The course ends with a demonstration of emulating well-known classic synths such as the Minimoog and Korg MS-20.

Orchestration Prep TUTORiAL

SYNTHiC4TE | Feb 26 2018 | 81 MB

So you recorded your MIDI score and can’t wait to hear it played by a live orchestra. What’s the next step? Join music composer in this course, and learn how to transform your MIDI data into a usable score for orchestra. Nowadays, orchestral music recorded with MIDI in a DAW can sound fantastic, but there’s nothing like music played by real musicians. In this second instalment of the Orchestral Session series, music composer Olajide Paris covers the special preparation work needed to transform your MIDI score into data that a notation program can use. In this course,  covers essential techniques and strategies to speed up your orchestration prep work. Topics such as when to use region-based vs. event-based quantization, how to deal with dedicated runs libraries so they correctly translate to the score, or how to consolidate MIDI parts are all covered. Olajide also discusses how to create individual parts from ensemble patches, what important housekeeping steps need to be done before exporting, why you should know about the alternative music XML format, and more…

Advanced Track Production TUTORiAL

SYNTHiC4TE | Feb 26 2018 | 332 MB

Ableton Live 10

House legend is back with another Ableton Live 10 course! Watch him create an old-school House track right before your eyes, and learn lots of pro techniques along the way. House music is as big as when it was invented in Chicago in the early 80s. And with a DAW like Ableton Live 10, it’s a lot of fun to produce! From beats, to melodies, to the drop, this Ableton Live course —by legendary dance music producer will take you through all the steps in creating your unique house track… or whatever EDM genre you are producing! Starts by explaining how to build the foundation of any dance track, the kick drum. From there, he creates a slamming beat with classic TR-909 sounds, percussion elements, effects, and he gives the beat more edge using some clever processing. After adding an arp synth line with Ableton’s new Wavetable synth, some disco strings, and that famous M1 Bass sound (popularized by StoneBridge), Olav is ready to build an arrangement. This is where you discover tips to create perfect intros, breaks, white noise effects, and exciting build-ups, complete with snare rolls and automation… all leading to that moment everybody’s waiting for: the drop!

How To Make Psy Trance TUTORiAL

SYNTHiC4TE | Feb 25 2018 | 6.75 GB

Hold on to your hats because this week Sonic Academy’s bringing you an epic monster of a course, proudly welcoming back psy-trance maestro Protoculture in How To Make Psy-Trance under his other alias Shadow Chronicles. This incredible insight into Nate’s methods in Cubase, is a 7 hour journey where you get to watch a true master of his craft at work. Without holding your hand, there are heaps of pro tips and tricks to be gleaned from this course as we witness the creation of a world-class track completely built from the ground up. From the first kick to layering basses and percussion through to creating awesome synth lead lines, extensive automation techniques and fx details, this track has it all, right through to the polished final master.

Analog Brass & Winds Explained TUTORiAL

SYNTHiC4TE | Feb 23 2028 | 305 MB

Studio pro gives you the goods about Analog Brass & Winds virtual instrument! Learn all about this incredible instrument’s features and functions, as well as creative ideas. Eli welcomes you and then explains the instrument’s GUI and Main Windows in detail, followed by videos on working with Presets and the powerful Envelopes. Global and Layer Effects are then revealed, and Eli shows you how to set them up and use them effectively for endless sonic options. Videos on LFO Based Rhythmic Modulation and Step Sequencer Rhythm Generators are next, and after watching, you’ll have the skills needed to truly morph and create interesting new phrases and rhythms! The Arpeggiator is now revealed, and you’ll see what you need to know to create complex parts quickly and easily, followed by how to use and edit macro parameters and assignments, and how to use MIDI Learn to control parameters from external hardware knobs and sliders, and more!