Smart Tempo Demystified

FANTASTiC | 14 December 2018 | 268 MB

Apple’s Logic Pro X powerful Smart Tempo feature was greatly improved in version 10.4.2. Join audio expert in this course, and get up to speed with everything this sophisticated tempo detection feature has to offer! Logic Pro X has always been very good at manipulating time. With Smart Tempo, Logic takes its tempo manipulating capability to another level. It’s now possible to record a music performance (audio or MIDI) without a click track and have Logic create a tempo map automatically, or have Logic flex the recording to match the tempo of your project. In this updated course, Logic expert Joe Albano explains everything you need to know about this powerful tempo detection/analysis feature. To put Smart Tempo into context, Joe starts with a brief Logic tempo handling history lesson and gives some background on important tempo manipulation concepts. An in-depth description of the Smart Tempo Modes is next. Here, you discover the difference between Keep, Adapt, and Auto modes, and you see them all in context with real-life recording and editing examples.

KONTAKT 7 Demystified

Team DECiBEL | 27 November 2022 | 634.7MB

21 Videos / 1h 56m

Kontakt 7 has tons of creative features that most of us never use! This course will inspire you to dive deeper and explore all the sound design tools this powerful Native Instruments sampler has to offer. Have fun! There are many reasons why Kontakt is the most popular software sampler in the world. With its huge library of ready-to-play instrument, Kontakt offers instant inspiration to composers and music producers of all genres. And when you get under the hood, things get even better because you can create unique instruments of your own… Rishabh starts the course with an overview of the new browser and user interface. You learn about snapshots, Aux sends and Kontakt Script presets. Explores everything that is new in the Factory Library, from the Acoustic and Orchestral to Choir, Synth collections, and more…

SWAM Audio Modeling Demystified

FANTASTiC | 09 February 2022 | 615 MB

SWAM 3 technology is here, and it’s a great way to create the timbre and expressivity of real instruments. It uses both physical and BEHAVIORAL modeling to create a realism that is truly astonishing! Check it in this 23 video course. Sample libraries, traditionally, are the main source of sound when creating orchestral scores in a DAW. They are all vast collections of pre-recorded audio snapshots that are actuated and strung together using MIDI velocities and articulation sets. SWAM, however, is completely different. You see, live musicians don’t play in sampled snapshots. Quite the contrary, they are expressive, emotional artists who infuse every individual note, continuously, with musical feeling. That’s where SWAM excels. It utilizes an advanced physical modeling technology that allows (and actually requires) the synthesist/producer/performer to continuously input their musical expression via MIDI control into the SWAM instruments to be ultimately rewarded with amazingly realistic and very human musical results achieving a verisimilitude that you just can’t get from a sample library.

MASSiVE Demystified TUTORiAL

SYNTHiC4TE | July 01 2018 | 1.00 GB

If you use Massive to design sounds for your music, you may not be using Massive to its full potential to create captivating sounds for your songs. This 12 part tutorial series will uncover how to use every single feature of this extremely powerful wavetable soft synth

Reason Europa Demystified TUTORiAL

SYNTHiC4TE | 01 June 2018 | 232 MB

Europa is brand new in Propellerhead’s Reason 10, and it’s an absolute beast! Get ready to demystify this shapeshifting instrument in this revealing course by synthesis expert! Offering wavetable synthesis, FM capabilities, physical modeling and more, Europa is the most advanced synthesizer available in Reason. In this course, sound designer Rishabh Rajan digs deep into this unique and very modern instrument and explains how to get the most of it. Rishabh starts the course with a detailed explanation of Europa’s signal flow. He then moves to the heart of Europa: the three powerful and versatile sound engines. You learn about the wave section, the modifiers, and how the Spectral Filter does a lot more than filtering. You also discover the extensive modulation possibilities offered by the Harmonics section, and you learn why the Unison section is one of the best available in any soft synth.

Digitone Demystified TUTORiAL

SYNTHiC4TE | May 03 2018 | 1.02 GB

A deep synth like Elektron’s Digitone requires an in-depth course! Watch this 20-tutorial course by artist and trainer Thavius Beck, and learn to get creative with this modern-day FM synth monster. Frequency Modulation (FM) synths are often described as being unintuitive and complex to program. Elektron’s Digitone was designed from the ground up to make FM synthesis more accessible but still amazingly powerful. In this course, synth expert Thavius Beck takes an in-depth look at this unique FM/subtractive hybrid to help you get the most out of it. First, Thavius covers the basic of how FM synthesis works. You learn all about algorithms, frequency, operators, the relationship between carriers and modulators… all that fun stuff! After explaining how to start a new project from scratch, Thavius dives into sound design. You learn to create all kinds of sounds using envelopes, LFOs, filters and the on-board effects. Of course, Elektron’s legendary step sequencer is also covered in detail…

Dance Music Styles Demystified TUTORiAL

SYNTHiC4TE | 27 October 2015 | 318 MB

In this Ableton Live course, legendary producer Olav Basoski demystifies several dance music genres from House to Trance. See how they’re similar and what makes them unique, in this 28-tutorial dance music exposé. What is House Music and how does it differ from Deep House?, What determines whether a track is EDM Standard or Hard Style?, What type of techniques are used to create Techno and Trance? All these questions and more, are answered in this Dance Music Styles Demystified course by dance music producer and educator, Olav Basoski. You learn how different genres have different kinds of beat constructions, melodic shapes, bass lines, musical parts and breakdowns. He explains the “little” but very important subtle things that give each dance music style its very own, unique sound.