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Making your own custom instruments adds an extra layer of originality and uniqueness to your productions and lets your creative voice project more clearly throughout your tracks.

Using Ableton’s Sampler device and it’s powerful synthesis capabilities you can build your own instruments using sounds sourced from a variety of locations, acoustic, synthetic and found sounds.

The devices within the Max for Live Essentials Pack are incredibly powerful. A lot of these devices offer new approaches to audio processing, device control and melodic and rhythmic generation not available in any other plugin devices.

This course focuses on device control. As such the devices covered; Mono Sequencer; Note Echo; Device Randomizer; Map8; MultiMap; XY Pad; Envelope and Expression Control allow you to generate, modify, control and effect MIDI and Audio data within Ableton Live.

Sometimes drums just need more clank.

Metallic Drums is a flavoursome set of samples organised into five separate kits that will add a new edge to your drums and cut right through your mix.

In this class, you'll be working with the Sampler instrument - which hasn't changed much at all since the first version of the Garageband App. It's an instrument that can sample or load any sound you like and lets you play that sound on a keyboard at different pitches. There's also a few ways that you can manipulate the sound including taking advantage of some Smart keyboard features like the chord strips and arpeggiator.

It can be difficult as a beginning vocalist to realize the value of a warm up. A beginner might not know what exercises to do for their warm ups and how long to do them for. As a result, many singers get in the habit of either not warming up enough or “warming up” for so long that their voices are already experiencing signs of tiredness by the time the singers actually want to start singing. What’s more, these habits tend to carry over to when these singers become more advanced and they start dealing with more demanding music.

In an age when production software is more powerful than ever, there’s still something to be said for shutting down the computer and going full hardware with your music making. From the tactile feel of twisting dials and bashing buttons, to the sonic unpredictability that comes from running sound through an elaborate audio chain, there’s something about working with ‘real’ instruments and effects that you just can’t recreate with software and controllers.

Unlock the potential of your softsynths | FREE retro synth plugin | James Wiltshire in-studio video | Morcheeba interview | Analogue synth and drum machine multisamples | and more!

In this pureMix.net exclusive, Grammy Award Winning Engineer, Andrew Scheps, breaks down his stylized mix of The Heavy’s “Since You’ve Been Gone”.

Over the next 19 videos, we welcome back Ableton certified trainer Paul Laski aka P-LASK, as he takes you to the next level on this masterclass journey. If you are a complete beginner or even a seasoned pro, this course has something for everyone.

Electronic Musician is not merely a recording magazine but covers all aspects of music production—performance, recording, and technology, from studio to stage. EM finds the top artists and producers – as well as all the musical trendsetters – and gets them to advise, mentor, and detail their craft. Each issue gives you the tools you need to make better music, from production to performance. Plus tips and techniques, gear reviews, and insights from today’s top artists.

Mix is the world's leading magazine for the professional recording and sound production technology industry. Mix covers a wide range of topics including: recording, live sound and production, broadcast production, audio for film and video, and music technology.

The world of sound design is a fertile industry right now, with different mediums such as film, television and video gaming constantly requiring fresh sonic environments – hence the influx of various different plug-ins and instruments, which are built to cater for those aural visionaries who make a living through building worlds using their music. In our lead feature this month we highlight many of the best tools of the trade to equip you to experiment yourself, we present step-by-step guides to various processes, as well as interviews with those whose careers have been built in the world of professional sound design, quite often by blending it with their music-making process. Elsewhere, we speak to former Stereophonics drummer Javier Weyler, whose company Breaking Waves facilitate the sonic needs of filmmakers in innovative, creative ways. We also talk to mix engineer Giles Barrett about his boat-based studio (yes, you read that right!). Of course we’ve got our usual range of in-depth reviews and an ever-expanding tutorial section – including a brand new Reason series.

This course provides a no-nonsense approach for beginning sound engineers, allowing them to quickly learn to operate a professional audio mixer. The course is great for all beginning band, venue and church sound engineers and it covers all of the basic features of mixing boards and exactly how to implement them. There is no filler in this course. Every minute is packed full of valuable information.

Progressive House is a genre that has captured the hearts and souls of thousands over the past few years. The enthralling melodies, lush chords, and stellar songwriting all play a huge part in how dear this genre is to so many people. But even with how popular Progressive House is, we were surprised to find that there was a lack of high quality presets available for producers… Because of this, we felt that we HAD to make Eclipse for producers like you.

Crush your Learning Curve on Propellerhead's Reason 9 with David Wills' personal tour of Reason's brand new version 9!
Reason has long been a favorite DAW of many engineers and musicians due to it's ease of use but this in depth training course takes you behind the scenes to Reason's POWER tools. A complete suite of production features that equate to a whole studio's equipment locker of gear.