Breaking Beats in Ableton Live TUTORiAL

TEAM SYNTHiC4TE | Sept 03 2014 | 1.38 GB

Discover how to create the exact kicks, snares, hi hats and organic percussion sounds that you envision for your music! Not only will you see new processing and layering techniques for maximum punch; you’ll also see how you can craft your own sounds completely from scratch using synthesis! Plus beat programming, tempo changes, fills and drum transitions that will give your tracks plenty of unique character. 39 high quality tutorial videos a wide range of drum and percussion sound design techniques and beat programming techniques in more than 4 hours of content Proven techniques used by top producers See Step by step, over my shoulder as I walk you through exactly how to create each sound Techniques: Layering samples, FM Synthesis, Creating Drum Design Racks, Pitch Envelopes, Drums Fills, Drums Transitions, Tempo Changes, Drums FX Processing

Addictive Drums 2 Explained TUTORiAL

Team SYNTHiC4TE | August 31 2014 | 336.6 MB

YOUR NEW ADDICTION

Todd Tatnall returns with a new series on XLN Audio’s Addictive Drums 2! Learn all about this world-class virtual drum software package inside and out, as well as creative uses and tips & tricks. Todd starts with detailed videos giving you a solid Overview of the AD2 GUI, How to Register and Install it, as well as an in-depth look at the Stand Alone version of Addictive Drummer 2. Todd then breaks down the Gallery and Explore Pages, followed by the Kit, Edit, FX and Beats Pages, so you know exactly where to find all the important features and functions, and how to use them. Continuing on, Todd now reveals the Mixer Section, and How to Route, Mix and Send different signals to different places within AD2 for further Applying of Effects and Outputs. The Audio Recorder and Snapshots are then explained, allowing you to Grab Drum Hits and Loops as Audio, and Save Current Settings Using Snapshots.

Grit Kit FX Drums KONTAKT

SYNTHiC4TE | August 24 2014 | 3.83 GB

This unique drum kit library begins with a simple, efficient acoustic 6-piece drum kit. It’s your all-around basic stereo jazz set, with kick, 14″ snare, 10″ snare, floor tom, mid and high toms, hi-hats, ride-crash, large and small splashes. This fully playable and functional drum kit offers a warm sound, with 12 round-robin variations per layer and fully responsive dynamic layering. Built into an easy to use preset with tons of built-in FX options, this by itself can serve as a great “plug and play” drum kit instrument for just about any style of music. But that’s just where we get started. From that raw essence, we’ve used all manner of strange and mysterious sound design tricks, hacks and evil science to build a killer collection of 15 complete special FX drum kits, exploring decayed, demolished, destroyed and generally degenerated percussion sounds. We take you from lo-fi retro-lounge combos, to brutally overblown and shredded death kits, to crisply stuttering glitch kits and beyond.

Soundstrips Manley Tubes Rule DOCU-SYNTHiC4TE

SYNTHiC4TE | July 10 2014 | 458 MB

This video is a documentary made by Alain Le Kim from Soundstrips. It is a complete journey in the Manley factory, explaining what the equipment is made of and how those pieces of gear are built.
EveAnna Manley runs Manley Laboratories with an incredible amount of energy. The factory, located in Chino, California, 30 miles East of Los Angeles, is bustling with activity and employs about fifty people. On the T-shirts that she herself designs for the company, EveAnna has written : Built in Chino, not China. In these times where it has become the norm to delocate manufacturing in China, Manley is indeed an exception. Everything is done in-house, including the transformers used in the circuits. The products coming out of Chino are « built like tanks » as many people like to say. It would be more appropriate to say built like Aston Martins, since these are not only well built but refined pieces of equipment. With her energy, disponibility and generosity, it is not surprising that EveAnna’s friends are great people. We drove three hours to go visit artist Jim Messina. The reason ? fetch a collection of old vinyls that he offered her ! Jim opened his private studio to us and offered us an incredible lesson in the art of producing and recording music. He an EveAnna went through all the Manley gear he uses, and they discussed the best way to take advantage of their vast possibilities. Jim’s studio is a dream place, with rows of gears on his line of racks. Vox Box, Elop, Massive-Passive, Slam, everything was discussed to length, before we had to drive back to Chino.

EZdrummer for PC Explained TUTORiAL

SYNTHiC4TE | Sept 28 2013 | 289.83 MB

MAKING DRUM TRACKS JUST BECAME EASIER

Toontrack EZdrummer is a fabulous tool for creating realistic drum tracks, fast and easy. In this series, EZdrummer guru Mark Struthers shows you how to get this virtual instrument up and running on PC, as well as all of its features and functions. Mark starts out with detailed introduction and PC installation tutorials, then covers how to setup the Toontrack Solo application. Next, latency and buffer sizes are explained, followed by the EZdrummer user interface. Mark then shows you how to audition grooves, adjust humanize, velocity and tempo parameters, user grooves, expansion packs, the EZPlayer, working within a DAW and how to use multiple outputs.

Highland Harps KONTAKT MERRY XMAS

SYNTHiC4TE | 25.12.2013 | 2.56 GB

Continuing our Plectra Series of plucked, picked and strummed string instruments from around the world comes this collection of traditional folk harps! Featuring the lyre, lap harp, and celtic harp, this KONTAKT 4 sample library evokes images of the Irish countryside, Appalachian splendor, tall tales and a heart mug of mead beside a crackling fire. The intimate, close-miced sound is ideal for traditional, folk, medieval and Renaissance music as well as modern scores in any number of styles.

Dobro Solo KONTAKT MERRY XMAS

Team SYNTHiC4TE | MERRY XMAS | 1.96 GB

Welcome to Natural Acoustic Series – a studio collection of high-end deep-sampled acoustic instruments.
Dobro is a passionate, deep-sampled (+2.100 samples) pristine sounding American Dobro. We recorded the Dobro in great detail, including hundreds of natural fret and release noises, real note bends up/down. In addition we also recorded natural strum samples, so you can play everything in a strummed fashion. Dobro comes with 18 core patches divided into natural, morphed and synthetic categories. The natural category contains things natural dobro, tenor and piccolo dobro – whereas the morphed category contains the Dobro mixed with other instruments (ex. Grand Piano, Steel String Guitar, Mandolin and more exotic type of instruments. The synthetic category contains the Dobro mixed with different type of synths.