Electronic Dance Music News, DJ Gear & Tech, South Africa
Modern Progressive Psytrance bass is about tails, glides and hits I’ve covered a wide variety of techniques for creating Psytrance bass, so today’s tutorial covers a few viewer requested bass tricks – the modern Progressive Psytrance bass. The first tip deals with when you’re using Psytrance bass patterns that have longer tails, often when using […]
Novation Hack Series tutorials can help your sound design The Novation Hack Series tutorial videos are a host of new tutorial videos dealing with some complex and experimental sound design techniques. The video tutorials feature some tips and tricks for synthesis and the concepts are not limited to Novation gear, they can be applied to […]
Let’s create some high-energy Mad Tribe style Psytrance leads Mad Tribe style Psytrance leads will have your tracks flying high with psychedelic sounds. Mad Tribe is the high-energy collaboration project between two very well established Psytrance producers, Mad Maxx and Space Tribe. Both Mad Maxx and Space Tribe have been involved in the scene since […]
How to make WAIO style psytrance leads and transitions WAIO style psytrance leads are one of the signature sounds of the legendary Brazilian-born Psytrance producer. WAIO needs no introduction to lovers of the genre so let’s create one of his signature style leads and transition effects. WAIO’s deep and immersive sound makes great use of […]
How to make Electric Universe style running lead synths Electric Universe is a legend in the scene and was hailed one of the top Psytrance projects of the 90s. The Electric Universe sound can be characterized by high-energy bass and synth lines, and in the early days, when Rock guitar was a thing in Psytrance, […]
Cancelled fundamental bass technique revisited – in xFer Serum! Today we are revisiting the “cancelled fundamental” technique we addressed in the Vini Vici & Astrix Adhana style bass tutorial. When initially attempting to recreate this sound in the xFer Serum plugin I was unsuccessful based on the fact that I was somewhat over-complicating things. I […]
Sonic matching, level referencing and the final mixdown process [VIDEO] One of the most daunting processes in production is the final mixdown, a technique called sonic matching changes all that. The final mixdown is one of those tasks that producers procrastinate to the bitter end, based on the fact that they’re either not confident in […]
How to create the classic acid main lead sound for your track Following on from last week’s tutorial, we’re tackling creating an acid main lead sound in one of my new favourite plugins. The basic concept is running a very simple oscillator through a series of filters, one of which is being modulated. The result is […]
How to make groovy bass MIDI patterns for your tracks Winter has hit South Africa properly, all the more reason for some music production tutorials to warm up the studio and what better way than to look at bass MIDI patterns. Today we’re going back to basics and discussing a technique I use to quickly […]
