Welcome to this video overview of Rounds, a poly timbral synthesizer developed by Native Instruments for Reaktor and available now in Komplete 10. Rounds is a REAKTOR-based synth that combines digital and analog synth sounds with complex, sequenced sound shifting capabilities. A near-limitless array of new sound and texture.
This tutorial, walks you through a features overview of the new synth – Kontour, a new Reaktor Ensemble in Komplete 10. Kontour has to be one of the more unique synths I’ve ever used. It was created by Stephan Schmitt, the founder of Native Instruments, and it is a really unique take on synthesis. It is marketed as a very expressive synth that is a sound designers dream, and I gotta say, it really is! Kontour is essentially a phase modulation synth. So it sounds a little like an FM styled synth. However, it does not use operators and ratios, it does come equipped with two oscillators. The Oscillators in Native Instruments Kontour are generating sine waves. These then run through a pair of Sine Shaper distortion modules to help beef up the sound. Those then go out to two different filters, a Comb Filter and a State Variable Filter.
In this video I show how to emulate the NES pulse channel, which is responsible for many of the system’s most iconic sounds effects, from the Galaga-style sounds previewed at the beginning of the video, to the jump and fireball sound effects from Super Mario Brothers.
While genre does not affect many mixing techniques, EDM (electronic dance music) has unique challenges. Artists want their songs to sound loud, wide, and heavy, without suppressing their unique texture or competing with the underlying rhythm. In this course, Colin Fisher teaches advanced mixing techniques specifically suited to the EDM environment. He’ll touch on loudness and dynamics, headroom and gain, and processing with compression, limiting, and clipping, as well as show how to manipulate stereo and frequency placement like the pros do. The end result is a fat, wide, and full sound that will help your tracks break through.
Soundtoys aren’t your ordinary plugins. They are designed to inspire creativity in your audio processing and sound design. Join trainer as he shows these “toys” in action and explains how they work! The team at Soundtoys has long been known as makers of some of the most innovative audio plugins. And though they’ve been on the market for a few years now, we’ve discovered that many producers don’t really know what makes them tick… and how to have fun using them! So in this course, by the ever-knowledgable Joe Albano, you are in for an audio journey where you learn all about these audio “toys”, their unique controls and hear them in action.
Learn how Hollywood’s Premiere Audio Engineer creates Sonic Space in his film and music mixes. Some mixes sound flat and boring. Others give the illusion that you’ve been enveloped in a vast 3D universe where every sound and every track exists and flourishes in its very own sonic space. These are the mixes that really stand out from the crowd and capture our imagination.
In today’s advanced video tutorial, we will discuss how you can setup and mange Instrument routing in Kontakt. We will go over Insert and Send Effects, Instruments and Groups as well as the new bus system introduced in Kontakt 5.
