Tech Tips Vol.1 TUTORiAL

P2P | 29 December 2012 | 140 MB

This Sonic Academy Tech Tip will expand Ableton Live for you. We show you how to add and use a third-party VST Vocoder (TAL Vocoder), vocode audio tracks and use a MIDI track to change the pitch of the notes.

Tech Tips Vol.96 TUTORiAL

HiDERA | 15 January 2025 | 1.6 GB

It’s a new year, and we’re kicking things off in style with a new set of Tech Tips! In these ten new tips, Nate uses the DAW to do a lot of heavy lifting by generating epic evolving drones and melodies perfect for ambient music and background atmospheres in your tracks. Using Bitwig’s powerful modulators and Polygrid functions, we create seemingly complex patches and pleasing synth sound designs. Once we throw them into huge reverbs and delays, the outcome is mind-blowing! Although these tips showcase Bitwig’s capabilities, if you have access to LFOs, many of the ideas generated here can be replicated across different DAWs. The possibilities are endless, and as Nate shows, it’s just a case of experimenting and having fun! Check it out!

Leftfield House Essentials

P2P | 13 November 2024 | 2.45 GB

Welcome to Tech Tips Volume 93 with Sensho! Following on from his popular How To Make Leftfield House course, Sensho’s back with a set of Tech Tips, showing you how to get the grooves and sounds essential for this type of genre. We check out how to choose and chop up drum breaks and create unique grooves and clap loops before diving into some epic sound design using ANA 2, building the ground-work for pads, melodics and bass patches that can be tweaked to suit your tracks – whatever genre you’re into. Packed with awesome workflow hacks to make the most of your DAW, this set of Tech Tips will help raise your production game! Check it out!

Future Rave TUTORiAL

Techside | 22 June 2023 | 2.45 GB

Following on from Protoculture’s Sound Design Tech Tips for Future Rave, we now bring you the full How To Make Future Rave course ! Over the next three hours of tutorials, Nate builds this absolute classic Future rave track from scratch – firstly looking at what defines the genre before piecing together our elements designed in the Tech Tips course. We then move on to arranging the layout before adding effects, ear candy and automation and then finishing off with a mixdown and master. Simple to follow along using only Sonic Academy and free or stock plugins – with both courses combined, you literally have everything you need to nail this genre and produce your own hard-hitting epic Future Rave track !

.:Tech Tips Vol.69:.

FANTASTiC | 17 August 2022 | 640 MB

Haterade’s back with us this week to with a new set of Tech Tips that tackle a subject that can be the most tricky part when making a tune – the arrangement. Over these ten videos, we look at some basic fundamentals of structure and methods when arranging that are important to learn so you can then manipulate and break them to your advantage. We look at the importance of transitions and dynamics within a track before moving on to a practical, real-world example. If you’re getting fed up of listening to that 8 bar loop over and over, then definitely check this one out!

Tech Tips Vol.79: Bass Theory

HiDERA | 26 October 2022 | 683 MB

Welcome to Tech Tips Volume 79 – Bass Theory. Over these ten videos, Ableton certified trainer takes a deep dive into one of the most fundamental areas in dance music – the low end. We start by looking at the different frequencies certain bass elements occupy before designing our own adaptable classic bass sounds to use in our tracks, including the Reese Bass, Analog Moog-Style Bass, FM, Acid and more. This course uses Ableton Live and ANA 2, but all the techniques shown can be transferred to any synth of your choice. Check it out, and learn how to create your own unique bass patches to be the foundation of your tracks!

Tech Tips Vol.66 TUTORiAL

HiDERA | 20 November 2021 | 1.9 GB

..:: Lo-Fi Essentials ::..

Continuing on with our ‘Essential’ Tech Tip series along with the release of our awesome ANA 2 Lo-Fi preset pack, we welcome back Owsey to look at the tools and techniques used to create a downtempo, chilled and classic lo-fi track. After Chris gives us the lowdown on what this genre is about and where it stemmed from, Owsey picks apart a track he’s created for this course, giving us an insight into the creation and processing involved in achieving a lo-fi feel. From sampling, drums, sound degradation, live instruments, synths, vocals and FX, this is a masterclass in creating your very own relaxing, old skool sound. Go check it out!