Gera Gerc is a Ukrainian artist, rapper, a prominent representative of Ukrainian hip-hop scene, a member of Artist Rescue Production Crew and Nokturn’s frequent collaborator. We decided to join our forces to give you a fresh portion of 50 new and original vocal samples, screams, vocal effects, grunts, ad-libs and many more. Enjoy!
Top International Producer and DJ Glimpse takes you through how to use Found Sounds and Field recordings in your music. In this course Glimpse demonstrates how he collects everyday sounds, such as Frying a sausage to kicking a bin and uses them in his music, to give the tracks a totally unique style and feel. See Glimpse build a full track with just found sounds, you will have never have seen anything quite like this before and you will be amazed at how many sounds we hear every day can be used in music production, with the aim to get you thinking out side the box with your music and really take your creativity to the next level.
Ableton has introduced LoFi HipHop, an extensive collection of lo-fi sounds, samples and loops that is all about texture and feel. Lo-fi hip hop celebrates the unpolished – it gives happy accidents, sonic artifacts, warped tape and dusty old samplers their time to shine. Comakid created this Pack with that wonky aesthetic in mind. It has all the elements you need to make fully-formed tracks, or just add a little lo-fi haze to your projects. This Pack contains a wealth of sounds – 15 Drum Racks, 78 Instrument Racks, 9 Effect Racks, 278 MIDI clips, 174 audio loops and 278 one-shot samples. There’s plenty of sampled hardware to play with, including Junos, a selection of Korg synths, Casio keys and guitar loops sampled from wobbly cassette players. All these sounds were created especially for this Pack, complete with sonic peculiarities. You’ll find wavering synths, fuzzed out bass, degraded kalimba, and a plethora of percussive sounds. Add some extra atmosphere to your music with ambient textures such as birds, street sounds, tape noise and water.
Go beyond the usual breakbeats with loops, one-shots, full multi-sampled kits, and effected drums from the electronic drumming master, Drum n’ Bass, Jungle, Dubstep, House, Rock, even Metal – the list of electronic genres that benefit from the tightest and most energetic breakbeats is never-ending. With Madder Beatz, Pendulum’s KJ Sawka takes things to another level: as a master acoustic drummer and electronic musician, Sawka provides loops, one-shots, and multi-mic’d drum kits that sound immediately in the pocket and are ready to fit into any of your tracks. If you’ve been looking for a balance in your music between the human feel of a breakbeat loop and the customization of your own MIDI programmed drums, then this is the pack for you. Start with some heavy kicks and snares and add hats and toms to taste – or build a custom backbone from multi-mic’d kits and spice it up with perc loops.
Whether you’re adding a tabla loop to your melody or exploring the classical raga scales played on the sitar, Indian Raga samples master musicians of Indian classical music Ragas are melodic forms in Indian classical music with characteristic ascending and descending rules that distinguish them not just as modes or scales, but as distinct personalities. Each Raga has specific defining features which emphasize certain notes and passages, giving them character and depth. For the Indian Ragas pack, musician Keli Marks (Manohara) traveled across India and recorded master musicians playing a range of instruments. The pack includes tuned percussion instruments tabla, dholak, kanjira, and duff, string instruments sarangi, sitar, and sarod, the bansuri flute, and female vocals and chants. Samples include longer melodies, short phrases, intonations and ornamentations, and effects. Instrument racks for sitar lead and tanpura sounds are also included, to add a sound bed and custom solo or melody to your track.
The original dub delay plugin and still the best! Dubstation 2 takes our most popular product and adds a whole raft of new features, including a dual mode for separate control over the left and right delay times, ping-pong, a new feedback saturation algorithm, and an LFO. Along with an all-new procedural and Retina-friendly user interface and (FINALLY!) ProTools compatibility, this represents a major leap forward for one of our signature products. All those bells and whistles aside, the heart of Dubstation is our painstaking bucket-brigade delay model. Often imitated, but never duplicated, Dubstation has been the go-to plugin for that sound for over a decade, used in thousands of commercial productions, and with good reason. With the addition of the LFO and saturation controls, Dubstation has moved in to the realm of tape delay emulation as well, and is a sonic Swiss Army knife for delay.
This week we proudly another ‘How To Make’ techno tutorial and again he’s making it Dark! With its pounding driving kick and filthy gritty synth line created in Repro, this is one for the warehouse. A sinister late-night track for all you techno headz out there. Harvey keeps it simple building the clips up in Ableton’s session view before arranging them out, recording them live so they can be tweaked further in the arrangement page and then mixing down and fine-tuning. This course is all about getting great sounds at source level that really pay off when it comes to workflow and getting results fast. Check it out.
