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Zebra 2 | Total Dubstep Devastation in 6 Easy Steps

Music Tech Tutorials — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 01:17:25 +0000

Behold the twenty faces of dubstep insanity: This step-by-step tutorial shows you how to unleash Zebra 2′s stunning power for your low-end needs (and beyond).

Ableton | How To Make a Skrillex-style Bassline with Operator

Music Tech Tutorials — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 01:11:48 +0000

This is a non-comprehensive Ableton tutorial demonstrating a method of achieving a Skrillex style bassline. This method is basSically a matter of collecting loads of crafty little bass sounds an chopping them about. One thing that I failed to mention here is that it you shouldn’t worry about the sub bass/lower bass as it is always easy to add in a simple sub bass afterwards…that’s pretty much the secret of having PHAT ass bassline

Ableton | Granular Synthesis with Sampler

Music Tech Tutorials — Sat, 23 Apr 2011 23:13:18 +0000

Logic | How to make a “Deadmau5″-esque Synth

Music Tech Tutorials — Sun, 17 Apr 2011 23:22:32 +0000

Logic | How to make a Deadmau5 sound/style

Music Tech Tutorials — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 23:21:09 +0000

Massive | How To Make A Dutch House Lead Synth

Music Tech Tutorials — Mon, 11 Apr 2011 23:26:14 +0000

In this tutorial I will show you how to make the lead synth Afrojack uses in Take Over Control. This is a typical dutch house lead synth that can be made in Ableton Live using Massive.

Native Instruments Traktor Pro Tips | Syncing to Maschine | With The DJ Podcast

Music Tech Tutorials — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 09:36:58 +0000

LoopTV bring you this useful video from ‘The DJ Podcast’ on how to sync your Traktor Pro software to Native Instruments hardware Maschine controller. In this episode Peter runs through the main steps rehired to sync to a virtual external midi source so you can bring much of Maschine’s functions to your Traktor setup

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Music Tech Tutorials — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 09:36:57 +0000

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Ableton Live | Sampling | Re-Chop That Sample | Drake – Fancy (Ft. T.I. & Swizz Beatz)

Music Tech Tutorials — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 09:32:22 +0000

Plugin | Reaktor | Additive Synthesis

Music Tech Tutorials — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 15:23:20 +0000

Native Instruments have just launched their latest Reaktor Synth called Razor and it is causing quite a stir in the sound design and production communities. So what makes this synth so exciting? Well it is down to a process called additive synthesis.

Put in the plainest terms possible, additive synthesis is the summation of simple tones to create more complex ones.

The sound is constructed from partials (or frequency components) firing in parallel, changing amplitude and even frequency over time. Additive synthesis is a very powerful sound design tool because the many micro-variations in the frequency and amplitude of individual partials mirrors those that makes natural sounds so rich and lively, and the resulting sound remains clear and precise at all times, even when heavily modulated.

This video demonstrates how to go about building an additive synth in Reaktor plus an overview of some of the other techniques that you will learn on the Point Blank Online Sound Design course ( http://www.pointblankonline.net/sound-design-course.php ). Even this fairly simple example consisting of just 8 partials, you can begin to hear how an additive synth can create an impressively rich and malleable sound. So when you think that Razor’s additive engine consists of up to 320 partials you can start to see why everyone is so eager to get their hands on it!