Cryo offers an extensive collection of depressing drones, haunting plucks, dystopian hits and frightening growls with a versatile and intuitive engine like few others. Cryo is a handy tool for every sound designer and cinematic composer. Download Cryo for Kontakt today.
Tech Tips Volume 33. Over these ten videos we get to see Paolo recreating some of the sounds from his tracks, check out some cool tips using his favourite plugins within Logic Pro X, use an unlikely source for creating awesome vocal chops, and also have look at a different way of using sidechain compression. There’s also a handy video to help with organisation and file management, so you can focus more on getting your tracks completed. As with all our ever popular Tech Tip videos, this one’s all about making the DAW and plugins do the hard work for you, so you can get on with having fun and making some awesome sounds!
How To Make Melodic Techno, and proudly welcomes back techno and house fusion producer to show you the ropes with this increasingly popular genre. In this creative and experimental two and a half hour course, Christian takes us step by step through the process of building this epic track. From the initial set up, through to building a simple, driving groove, to using Ableton’s full sequencing potential to create melodic phrases that can be edited and automated with various effects, all resulting in something truly unique. Bursting with pro tips and tricks, Christian shares the tools he uses while emphasising how versatile these techniques can be in creating your own unique sound and getting the software to do the hard work, so you can get on with having fun!
Uplifting Trance delivers a collection of positive, dance party ready instrumental tunes that are just perfect for an Ibiza club vibe. Great to get the night started and even better to greet the sunrise. With classic and cutting-edge synth lines, chord progressions and ear candy sound FX, just add vocals and Uplifting Trance will give you that anthemic high. Uplifting Trance delivers a collection of positive, dance party ready instrumental tunes that are just perfect for an Ibiza club vibe. Great to get the night started and even better to greet the sunrise, this Elastik-based library provides over 1.5 GB of samples and features 10 construction kits. Each kit is supplied with between three and six song sections and, with separate loops for individual drum and percussion elements as well as pre-mixed drum loops, it is easy to build up and then break down. With classic and cutting-edge synth lines, chord progressions and ear candy sound FX, just add vocals and Uplifting Trance will give you that anthemic high.
In this 19-part video course is a thorough walkthrough of Native Instruments’ Komplete Kontrol MK2. With a focus on getting creative ideas down in a practical and efficient way using the hardware the tips and techniques provided in this course will advance your knowledge and save you time in your sessions. By the end of this course you’ll be a confident user of all the key features of Komplete Kontrol MK2 including using it with NKS Software, all the MIDI features, all the Smart Play features and more.
With the release of the Maschine MK3, Native Instruments have upped the ante with the extent to which production tasks can be carried out directly from the hardware making it less like a midi controller or beat machine and more of a production instrument. This course is designed to help you take full advantage of these features, presenting new and practical opportunities to streamline your workflow and – more excitingly – enjoy a more naturally creative production process. In this 20-part video course, experienced sound designer, JS shows you how to use the Maschine MK3 to write, record, edit, mix, arrange and more – all directly from the hardware.
Pulsor Suite contains a couple of Max for Live virtual instruments: Pulsor and Pulsor 2. With them you can create amazing soundscapes, resonant lead synths, evolutive basses, unorthodox percussive sounds, rhythmic textures, distorted noises and endless variations of the weirdest and uncharted sounds you can imagine.
