Do you have a lot of ideas for hooks of a song, but you get stuck on how to take that hook and turn it into a complete and finished piece of music? This week James will share some tips and concepts on how to take a hook and sculpt it into a finished piece of music.
The aim of this video is to show you that we can easily reproduce sounds from scratch without any audio samples already made. By just using our ears and some knowledge in sound synthesis.
We first load into Photosounder a sound of HAL 9000's voice, which is turned into an image, and we first play it back into a sound at its original rate. Then the Time resolution knob is turned down a notch and the image-sound is played about 3 times slower, without any change in pitch. Then the...
Here is a great trick for making your drums sound really big and it's simple to do. It's called Parallel drum compression. We will be using some drum sounds we recorded with Apogee's Quartet recording into Auria on an iPad. using only four mic's AKG D112 mounted inside the Kick, Shure SM57 on the...
In this tutorial we show you how to use the freely available audio editor 'Audacity' to quickly isolate and extract a kick drum from a drum loop for use in your own tracks!
This Go Deeper video dives into one of the many useful things you can do with Sonar's powerful AudioSnap feature. Here, a poorly recorded kick drum track is salvaged by converting the performance to a MIDI triggered kick drum in Session Drummer 3.
Over the years we have been frequently asked about this topic so we decided to make a tutorial video. Side Chain Compression is an important production technique in many forms of electronic music but it is probably most used in house music and most notably by Daft Punk and other french disco house...