Insider Guide to Today Music Biz TUTORiAL

P2P | Jan 30 2016 | 1.20 GB

If you are looking to do something big in the music business, something great, getting your head around the big picture is one of the most important elements of success. It’s not about marketing and promotion, how to make records, how to book a tour, or how to manage your social media. Those are all important pieces of the puzzle if you want to be successful. But it’s been Steve Rennie’s experience—from working in the music biz over 36 years—that if you can understand how the music business works, what’s really important, then the rest of the pieces will fall in line.

Virtual Guitarist IRON Explained TUTORiAL

SYNTHiC4TE| Jan 30 2016 | 200 MB

In this in-depth tutorial series, computer music guru shows you how to get rocking with this innovative and expressive new guitar instrument from UJAM, Virtual Guitarist IRON! starts off with a brief primer on power chords, then dives right into the GUI. Then he shows you how IRON translates notes and chords into two-note power chord voices. That leads into a demonstration of the Common Phrases that you can use to get creative with your guitar parts. continues by exploring the layout of the Common Phrases and Style Phrases sections and using them to record an original chord progression in real-time. Then he shows you the Performance Controls, which you can use to alter the rhythms and grooves generated by the Style Phrases.

Beat Making with MASCHiNE TUTORiAL

kEiSO | 29.1.2016 | 607 MB

MASCHINE is the go-to technology for making beats. This course is your go-to guide. Join producer and instructor JK Swopes as he demonstrates how to create beats using MASCHINE’s built-in sounds, expansions, and samples. He covers basic rhythmic theory, and MASCHINE’s main features for altering the sounds of a performance, including swing, quantization, and velocity. Next, he moves into making beats with the built-in sounds and official MASCHINE expansions, and creating melodies, drum parts, bass lines, and percussion tracks. He also demonstrates how to add variety to your patterns and arrange your patterns into a full song structure.

10 Common Compression Mistakes TUTORiAL

SYNTHiC4TE | Jan 25 2016 | 123 MB

“Every mistake is an opportunity to learn.” This course addresses 10 common compression mistakes and shows you how to correct them. Let US make the mistakes so YOU don’t have to! Compression is difficult to understand. There are a lot of moving parts and this makes it difficult to learn, especially when you’re applying it to tracks in real time. That’s because Compression is a dynamic, fluid process that is influenced by changing input levels, musical genres and the kinds of tracks being processed. Things get even more complicated because compressors have many different kinds of interdependent controls that can quickly lead to serious audio problems. That’s why we created this “Common Compression Mistakes” course. We show you the mistakes and you get to learn from them!

Workflow for Finishing Tracks TUTORiAL

P2P | 23 January 2016 | 613 MB

So many of us have rough recordings or bare bones song ideas just sitting on our hard drives, waiting to be finished… This course provides strategies for completing those tracks and releasing them to the world. It’s based on industry pro Evan Sutton’s own workflow for being a more productive, prolific music producer. Evan starts with the music production tools that can make it easier to see a song through to completion, such as templates, presets, and foolproof hardware setups. Next, he gets into the heavy lifting, mixing both songwriting and production techniques with tips for dealing with the psychological factors that may trip you up when completing a song. He wraps up the course with techniques that help to clear the final steps of song completion, including building transitions, adding ear candy, mixing strategies for increased efficiency, and simple mastering techniques, whether you choose to master your tracks yourself or hire a professional.

The Art of Audio Recording:

Introduction to Recording TUTORiAL

P2P | TUTORiAL | 853.87 MB

The recording process is a fantastic audio journey. It’s guided by the audio engineer who nurtures a sound from its acoustic inception, emanating from the musician’s instrument as it travels through the air… to the proper microphone placed in an exact position… through the cable to the chosen pre-amp… then into the dynamics processors… through the mixing console’s channel strip where it gets sculpted and shaped and given perspective… until it finally meets up with the other sounds whose journeys have followed completely different paths to the final mix.

MOXF In and Out TUTORiAL

P2P | 18.01.2016 | .FLV | 1.55 GB

The essential – if in fact, only – video that gives you the low-down on Yamaha’s innovative MOXF. The MOXF is a mix of the flagship Motif XF and ‘Motif-on-a-budget’ MOX keyboard workstations. What the “F” is all about is “Flash” memory, a format that lets you burn new sample data onto an optional non-volatile memory card for permanent data storage and recall. This option opens the door to huge amounts of data storage and management thereof and MOXF In & Out is focused on all the many the opportunities afforded by this new facility.