Massive lives up to its impressive name. Learn how to program this feature-rich virtual instrument in this revealing tutorial by synth specialist. Not big… Not huge… Nor gigantic… But MASSIVE! That’s exactly what this awesome powerhouse synth is all about! However, a massive synth needs a bit of massive explaining.
Introducing Kinetic Energy – follow-up to their first Reason ReFill amazing Antidote Rack Extension. While Antimatter was focused on new-school pads and atmospheres, Kinetic Energy is focused on raw motion and movement. Every patch in Kinetic Energy has a single goal – inspire you instantly. All 100 Combinator patches are cutting-edge sequences or arpeggios, perfect for song-starter material or just to bring an element of motion to your mix. Kinetic Energy offers everything from bubbling electro arps, deep chordal layers, eclectic synth harps, to heavily-crushed bass riffs.
The art of mixing drums has always been the Holy Grail of audio engineering. Watch this Cubase course by the talented producer, and see how he gets his drums sounding just right! Mixing live drums is not easy. With all those mics, tracks and bleed it’s hard to get each part of the kit sounding punchy, clean and clear! And once they sound good, then there’s the issue of getting them all sounding together as one solid unit! This Cubase course, explains the whole drum mixing process from setting basic levels, dealing with phase issues, using filters, EQ compression and more. And every step of the way, Eyal generously shares his production knowledge, while concisely explaining the audio insights behind his awesome-sounding drum tracks.
In this template, Dennis shows us how to build a driving uplifting club trance production with rolling basslines. You get an insight on the processing of the individual channels, through the use of EQ, compression, distorsion, delay, reverbs and more. Layered Leads & Basslines Did you know you can get fatter lead & bassline sounds by layering different channels together ? This template is a great example of layering done the right way. For instance, this template has several layers for the main lead (5 layers using different presets) and for the bassline (Hi Bass, Mid Bass 1, Mid Bass 2, Sub Bass). This is a great technique to make your key elements stand out and sound stronger in the mix.
For the 2010 world cup we brought to you the amazing Vuvuzela library. Now in light of the 2014 world cup, and by popular demand, we are proud to bring to you STADIUM INSTRUMENTS – an in depth collection of over 300 traditional and morphed stadium sports inspired instruments. This library is the most complete collection of traditional and morphed stadium crowd instruments. The core of the STADIUM INSTRUMENTS library is centered around blurring the line between music and sound design, which is defined in the hundreds of morphed sounds we created, each of which fits all genres of music production. In creating this product, we used the traditional sounds of various instruments generally found in sporting events and stadiums to produce and mutate new cutting-edge morphed instruments. To top it off, there is a small collection of acoustic instruments untreated for your pleasure. Whether looking for an awesome collection of instruments that blur the line between music and sound design, or looking to be part of the crowd while watching your favorite world cup football team on TV, STADIUM INSTRUMENTS is the prefect solution.
iZ RX Loudness Control software delivers loudness control and management designed to meet global broadcast specifications. Follow along with studio expert Scottie Dugan and learn your way around this vitally important plug-in and get your song’s and production’s levels up to par! Scottie begins by explaining why there is a need for loudness control in broadcast, and how RX Loudness Control serves that need. Next, he covers Compliance, what it means and what you need to measure it. That leads directly into all of the Meter and Measurement Options, and how to get instantaneous feedback when working with Multiple Loudness Standards. Scottie then shows you how to use History View to pinpoint problem spots in your mix and then he goes through the manual settings, so you can create your own loudness settings, save the preset, and export your compliant audio file for delivery.
Cakewalk’s hybrid oscillator and sample based software instrument Rapture Pro is taking the computer music world by storm, and Will Sprawls shows you how to sail through it with ten video tutorials cover every aspect of this exceptionally flexible virtual instrument. Will begins with a complete overview of this plug-in and all of its features. Next, he explores the powerful Browser and Instrument sections. From there, Will moves right into Performances and the powerful main oscillator and performance functions available in each patch. That leads into discussing the Vector Mixer, and then the Modulation Matrix. Moving on, Will goes in-depth into all the possibilities of the Envelopes, LFOs, and Step Generators. Then Will covers the effects and filters available to you. Finally, the series ends with a video about the Master EQ and Step Generator.
