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How to create Astrix-Style Rhythmic Squelch sounds

January 31, 2020 By Dash Glitch

How to create Astrix-Style Rhythmic Squelch sounds A very prominent aspect in Astrix sound is the way he uses rhythmic squelch sounds, let’s look into that. We have looked into various ways of creating a basic squelch sound if you’re familiar with Psytrance – I’m sure you know which sound I’m talking about. The basics […]

Tagged With: astrix, Music production, psytrance, rhythmic, Serum, squelch Filed Under: Tech Tutorials

Creating gated metallic textures in Serum using FM and Sync

January 24, 2020 By Dash Glitch

Creating gated metallic textures in Serum using FM and Sync Let’s combine FM, oscillator sync and Serum’s “Note On Random” feature to create some gated metallic textures. To understand what’s going on in this patch it helps to understand the fundamentals of what oscillator sync is – both in theory and how it is applied […]

Tagged With: FM, gated, Metallic textures, Music production, sound design, Sync Filed Under: Tech Tutorials

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Basic concepts every producer should know about drum programming

January 17, 2020 By IDM Reports

Basic concepts every producer should know about drum programming Let’s discuss a couple of basic concepts to help improve your drum programming… Programming a very realistic percussion rhythm can be tricky at first, however, a lot can be learned from how an actual drummer plays. Here’s a look at a couple of basic concepts that […]

Tagged With: basic, drum programming, Music production, producer, tutorial Filed Under: Tech Tutorials

Nine steps to working through your mixdown methodically

January 10, 2020 By IDM Reports

Nine steps to working through your track mixdown methodically Many producers view track mixdown as tedious, however, if you break it down into steps it becomes much easier. First and foremost is to make sure your project is organized and grouped well, this will save you a lot of time in the later stages, trust […]

Tagged With: dynamics, easy step, eq, mixing, Music production, track mixdown Filed Under: Tech Tutorials

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Workflow tips for crafting a new track from a template

December 9, 2019 By Dash Glitch

Workflow tips for crafting a new track from a template This week’s tutorial video deals with creating a starting point for a track, from a template that we previously created. One of the first things I do when starting a track from a template is to create a “main hook”, for those who don’t know […]

Tagged With: arrangement, main hook, Music production, Phase Plant, track from a template, workflow Filed Under: Tech Tutorials

Let’s expand on creating template projects from scratch

November 29, 2019 By Dash Glitch

Let’s expand on creating template projects from scratch Last week we discussed creating your own template projects from scratch, let’s expand that by adding synths and effects. When creating my template projects, I like to load up most of the plugins that I use very regularly, beforehand. That way I don’t have to break the […]

Tagged With: arrangement, DAW, Music production, template projects, workflow Filed Under: Tech Tutorials

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Creating template projects to speed up workflow

November 22, 2019 By Dash Glitch

Creating template projects to speed up workflow Creating your own template projects is a great way to speed up your workflow. The beauty of creating your own template projects is that you have full control to do things how you’re most comfortable, if you use plugins that you already know then you don’t have to […]

Tagged With: arrangement, DAW, Music production, template projects, workflow Filed Under: Tech Tutorials

UVI Falcon 2 in-depth walkthrough

November 15, 2019 By Dash Glitch

UVI Falcon 2 in-depth walkthrough UVI Falcon 2 recently got released, it introduced several new elements from a new additive oscillator to two Euclidean sequencers. One of the biggest new additions to UVI Falcon 2 is the new Additive Oscillator, it features several nifty parameters for shaping your sound in various ways. The interesting thing […]

Tagged With: Plugin, Production, update, UVI Falcon 2, vst, walkthrough Filed Under: Tech Tutorials

Creating Pads and Atmospheres with Kilohearts Phase Plant

November 1, 2019 By Dash Glitch

Creating Pads and Atmospheres with Kilohearts Phase Plant Creating Pads and Atmospheres using very simple waveforms with Kilohearts Phase Plant. One of my favourite ways of creating pads and atmospheres is to create a stack of very simple waveforms and play with the tuning and unison settings to create variations. Kilohearts Phase Plant is particularly […]

Tagged With: oscillator, Pads and Atmospheres, Phase Plant, sound design, tutorial, waveform Filed Under: Tech Tutorials

Gates and expanders basics for mixing and sound design [Tutorial]

October 25, 2019 By IDM Reports

The basics of gates and expanders for mixing and sound design Gates and expanders work in the opposite way to compressors, instead of decreasing peaks they work below the threshold. In a previous tutorial, we discussed compressors and the theory behind how they work, now we’re looking into gates and expanders, which work with similar […]

Tagged With: dynamics, Gates and expanders, mixing, Music production, sound design, tutorial Filed Under: Tech Tutorials

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