Electronic Dance Music News, DJ Gear & Tech, South Africa
Creating percussion sounds from scratch with FM synthesis Let’s explore using FM synthesis to create a huge variety of drum and percussion sounds from scratch. We’ve looked at the more traditional electronic percussion synthesis methods, using white noise and applying subtractive methods to shape the tone and envelope of the sound. Using FM to create […]
Creating melodies and random leads using Arturia Pigments 2 Arturia Pigments 2 is currently free on a temporary license, so let’s create melodies and random leads using the plugin. Arturia Pigments 2 has several really awesome features for creating both melodies and random leads. We’ve looked at several examples of these random Sine leads, some […]
Voltage Modular Nucleus is currently free – How to get started… Let’s investigate Voltage Modular Nucleus – the modular synth plugin that is currently free while the world is on lockdown. Voltage Modular Nucleus is a watered-down version of the modular synth plugin. It’s currently free while the world is on lockdown, so let’s look […]
How to create randomized Forest Psytrance synth sounds Let’s look at a couple of techniques for creating randomized Forest Psytrance synth sounds in Serum and other plugins. For these random Forest Psytrance synth sounds, there’s usually two ways I go about it. The idea is to create random pitch modulation using sample & hold and […]
Steinberg Cubase Mixing Console Tips & Tricks There are a ton of features that make the Steinberg Cubase Mixing Console such an invaluable tool, let’s investigate. One of my most used features, although not a huge game-changer I will admit – is the visibility controls within the Steinberg Cubase Mixing Console. This allows you to […]
Understanding Cubase Control Room Cubase has an incredibly nifty feature that goes under the radar to a lot of users – The Cubase Control Room channel. The concept is simple, the Control Room is an extra channel that exists outside of the project, which you can load plugins such as analysers and other helpful tools […]
Advanced audio editing tips and tricks for Cubase Today we’re looking at some advanced audio editing tips and the amazing capabilities that set Steinberg Cubase apart from the competition. Steinberg Cubase’s audio editing capabilities are extensive and will probably need several tutorials to cover everything, however today I want to cover a few of the […]
Beginner’s guide to preferences and MIDI in Steinberg Cubase One of the greatest aspects of Steinberg Cubase is the ability to fine-tune the preferences to suit your exact needs. For beginners to the Steinberg Cubase platform, a lot of the preferences and setup options can be daunting, the fear of potentially messing something up by […]
How to create Formant-like sounds without a Formant Filter Today’s music production tutorial deals with creating Formant-like sounds in a plugin that doesn’t have a dedicated Formant Filter. One thing that newcomers to u-he’s Hive 2 might be underwhelmed by is the lack of dedicated formant filter types – however, the versatility of the filters […]
Techniques for creating Hitech Psytrance leads and effects Today we’re delving into the darker side of Psytrance, let’s look at a couple of techniques for creating Hitech leads. The main idea here is to create a patch with a variety of macro controls and random generators and then record a long passage of the synth […]
