Leftfield House Essentials

P2P | 13 November 2024 | 2.45 GB

Welcome to Tech Tips Volume 93 with Sensho! Following on from his popular How To Make Leftfield House course, Sensho’s back with a set of Tech Tips, showing you how to get the grooves and sounds essential for this type of genre. We check out how to choose and chop up drum breaks and create unique grooves and clap loops before diving into some epic sound design using ANA 2, building the ground-work for pads, melodics and bass patches that can be tweaked to suit your tracks – whatever genre you’re into. Packed with awesome workflow hacks to make the most of your DAW, this set of Tech Tips will help raise your production game! Check it out!

Future Rave TUTORiAL

Techside | 22 June 2023 | 2.45 GB

Following on from Protoculture’s Sound Design Tech Tips for Future Rave, we now bring you the full How To Make Future Rave course ! Over the next three hours of tutorials, Nate builds this absolute classic Future rave track from scratch – firstly looking at what defines the genre before piecing together our elements designed in the Tech Tips course. We then move on to arranging the layout before adding effects, ear candy and automation and then finishing off with a mixdown and master. Simple to follow along using only Sonic Academy and free or stock plugins – with both courses combined, you literally have everything you need to nail this genre and produce your own hard-hitting epic Future Rave track !

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FANTASTiC | 17 August 2022 | 640 MB

Haterade’s back with us this week to with a new set of Tech Tips that tackle a subject that can be the most tricky part when making a tune – the arrangement. Over these ten videos, we look at some basic fundamentals of structure and methods when arranging that are important to learn so you can then manipulate and break them to your advantage. We look at the importance of transitions and dynamics within a track before moving on to a practical, real-world example. If you’re getting fed up of listening to that 8 bar loop over and over, then definitely check this one out!

Tech Tips Vol.79: Bass Theory

HiDERA | 26 October 2022 | 683 MB

Welcome to Tech Tips Volume 79 – Bass Theory. Over these ten videos, Ableton certified trainer takes a deep dive into one of the most fundamental areas in dance music – the low end. We start by looking at the different frequencies certain bass elements occupy before designing our own adaptable classic bass sounds to use in our tracks, including the Reese Bass, Analog Moog-Style Bass, FM, Acid and more. This course uses Ableton Live and ANA 2, but all the techniques shown can be transferred to any synth of your choice. Check it out, and learn how to create your own unique bass patches to be the foundation of your tracks!

Tech Tips Vol.66 TUTORiAL

HiDERA | 20 November 2021 | 1.9 GB

..:: Lo-Fi Essentials ::..

Continuing on with our ‘Essential’ Tech Tip series along with the release of our awesome ANA 2 Lo-Fi preset pack, we welcome back Owsey to look at the tools and techniques used to create a downtempo, chilled and classic lo-fi track. After Chris gives us the lowdown on what this genre is about and where it stemmed from, Owsey picks apart a track he’s created for this course, giving us an insight into the creation and processing involved in achieving a lo-fi feel. From sampling, drums, sound degradation, live instruments, synths, vocals and FX, this is a masterclass in creating your very own relaxing, old skool sound. Go check it out!

Tech Tips Vol.78 TUTORiAL

HiDERA | 12 October 2022 | 1.69 GB

This week we welcome back King Unique for an in-depth look at using Ableton Live for one of the reasons it was designed for hence the name, and that’s using it in a ‘live’ situation. Thanks to social media, performing live is becoming an increasingly popular way to engage with fans even if you’re not on the road. Matt goes through everything you need to know when linking Ableton to your hardware so you can use it as an instrument rather than just a production tool. Here we look at navigating the Session View and how we can make the DAW do a lot of the the heavy lifting to add variation and interest to our clips and loops. Not just useful for playing live, using this method can also be a brilliant way to arrange your tracks when creating tunes.

Tech Tips Vol.75 TUTORiAL

HiDERA | 02 August 2022 | 320 MB

This week we proudly welcome back with a set of quick Tech Tips to help speed up your workflow in Logic Pro! Showcasing some hidden gems that some of you may not be aware of, we’ll help you set up an external synth with its own personalised icon, give you multiple screens to work from, and bring in beat-synced wav files plus loads more! As with all our Tech Tips series, if you can speed up workflow, you have more time to stay in that fun, creative flow!