Presswerk is more than emulation of a single hardware compressor. Like Satin, Presswerk is a toolkit, drawing ideas and inspiration from a number sources. It starts with warmth of classic analogue units and adds features only possible in the digital realm. The result is a powerful compressor with a rich feature set and a very musical soul.
Presswerk was designed to fit into any workflow, no matter what task you throw at it. Presswerk gives you the tools for better sound.
Presswerk is a powerful dynamics processor with a musical soul. An easy-to-use interface and a rich feature set give you hands-on control over all details of your sound. Presswerk doesn’t emulate famous compressors, it blends the warmth of classic hardware models with developments that are only possible in the digital domain.
Presswerk has all the features you expect in a compressor…
Sidechaining: Use ducking to create more space in your mixes, or get creative with keying and pumping effects.
Note: For help on how to get Presswerk sidechained in your DAW, please read these instructions compiled by our KVR forum members.
Adjustable compression curve and envelope: Find the best settings, get the most out of your audio using the soft knee, compression ratio, attack and release and other controls.
Loud: Oh yes, Presswerk is more than capable of making your tracks louder.
Soft clip: Roll off those harsh peaks and avoid distortion when output levels get too high.
…plus what we added to enhance Presswerk’s capabilities:
6 special views for better workflow: Drum Compressor, Vocal Compressor, M/S Program Compressor, Easy Compressor, Bus Compressor, Limiter (see the screenshots above).
M/S mode: More detailed stereo signal processing
Dual Phase Rotator (dpr): applies a radio broadcaster’s trick to reduce unwanted asymmetries in the signal. It smears phases, increases headroom a little and adds bass ‘oomph’.
Saturation: This is where Presswerk really shines—adding colour and character to your audio. Apply Saturation sparingly for subtle warmth and transient-taming, or crank it up to create tape overdrive-like effects.
Internal parallel compression: The Mix controls let you blend the compressed and uncompressed signals. This helps preserve some of the original, natural dynamics.
Variable detection topologies:
Feed-forward is modern and ‘surgical’, it tracks the input very precisely.
Feed-back is ‘musical’, loose-sounding and forgiving—like classic hardware.
Interactive continuously analyzes the signal and blends FF and FB accordingly.
Adjust and store global preferences
New midi learn controls
Sounds To Sample Presents SH-101 MULTIFORMAT
Size 830 Mb
Fiending for that sweet 90’s sound but can’t front the dough for the same analog gear used by classic acts like Squarepusher and Crystal Method and modern chart toppers like Com Truise and Boards Of Canada?
Well have no fear worldwide analog aficionados, the S2S crew save the day yet again with their latest all analog production pack, Sounds To Sample Presents: SH-101!
Programmed exclusively from an original Roland SH-101 through an entirely analog recording chain, Sounds To Sample Presents: SH-101 is the only pack you’ll need to recreate the all analog warmth and definition of this defining synth at a fraction of the price!
Over 1000 carefully curated loops and FX, ranging from leads, bass, percussion and acid will assure you that the production pros at S2S squeezed every ounce of analog juice out of this timeless synth for your sampling delight!
An unparalleled collection, from the ever unparalleled professionals at S2S!
This pack contains over 1100 samples
55 Acid Loops
34 Arp Loops
100 Classic Bass Loops
70 Processed Classic Bass Loops
55 Classic Lead Loops
35 Processed Classic Lead Loops
114 Modern Bass Loops
69 Modern Lead Loops
27 Perc Loops
44 Processed Perc Loops
28 Kick One-Shots
29 Snare One-Shots
26 Hi Hat One-Shots
102 Percussion One-Shots
202 Dry FX One-Shots
157 Wet FX One-Shots
11 Native Instruments – Battery 3 Kits
5 Native Instruments – Battery 4 Kits
3 Native Instruments – Maschine Kits
7 Ableton Drum Racks
26 Playable Sampler Instruments for Kontakt / EXS 24 / Reason
The Ultimate Kick 2 Preset Bundle is here – Over 340 amazing presets AND 271 clicks all combined into one pack.
Including
6 X Preset Packs for Kick 2
Kick 2 Presets Vol 1 – Big Kicks
Kick 2 Presets Vol 2 – Ost and Meyer EDM and Prog House
Kick 2 Presets Vol 3 – Future Bass
Kick 2 Presets Vol 4 – Big Room / Festival
Kick 2 Preset Vol 5 – Techno
Kick 2 Artist Presets Vol 1
Description
Kick 2 Presets Vol 1 – Big Kicks
Sonic Academy proudly presents 50 all new preset for ‘Kick’. Simply install to your kick preset folder and you are ready to go! Includes trance, EDM, festival and hard style kicks.
Kick 2 Presets Vol 2 – Ost and Meyer EDM and Prog House
Ost and Meyer have also created 79 brand new clicks, so you can craft your own kicks to fit perfectly with your productions.
Kick 2 Presets Vol 3 – Future Bass
50 Expertly crafted Future Bass Clicks and Presets for KICK 2
Kick 2 Presets Vol 4 – Big Room / Festival
50 Expertly crafted Big Room and Festival Clicks and Presets for KICK 2
Kick 2 Preset Vol 5 – Techno
50 Expertly crafted Techno Clicks and Presets for KICK 2
Kick 2 Artist Presets Vol 1
Contents
Kick 2 Presets Vol 1 – Big Kicks
14 x Trance
13 x Festival
12 x Hard
7 x EDM
4 x Psy *9 x Bonus EDM for KICK 2
Kick 2 Presets Vol 2 – Ost and Meyer
30 x EDM / Progressive House Presets
30 x Deep House / Nu Disco Presets
79 x New Clicks
Kick 2 Presets Vol 3 – Future Bass
50 x KICK 2 Presets
50 x Clicks
Kick 2 Presets Vol 4 – Big Room/Festival
50 x KICK 2 Presets
50 x Clicks
Kick 2 Preset Vol 5 – Techno
50 x KICK 2 Presets
50 x Clicks
Kick 2 Artist Presets Vol 1
10 x Presets – Diskord
10 x Clicks – Diskord
10 x Presets – Genix
10 x Clicks – Genix
10 x Presets – Leon Bolier
10 x Clicks – Leon Bolier
10 x Preset – Sean Tays
2 x Clicks – Sean Tays
10 x Presets – Jerome Isma-Ae
10 x Presets – Spundprank
10 x Presets – Wally Lopez
10 x Presets – Maor Levi
10 x Clicks – Maor Levi
ADSR Sounds The Frequency Spectrum TUTORIAL
Size 207 Mb
A basic knowledge of the frequency spectrum, how it is constructed and represented in your DAWs will set you up to manipulate and understand how sound and digital audio work.
The skills taught in this course are fundamental for anyone wanting to make electronic music. If you’ve got the passion but maybe lack the background, get started with this foundation course on the frequency spectrum now!
Course Overview
This course will explore the fundamentals of sound and the frequency spectrum before moving onto to some essential digital audio theory.
Topics that will be covered:
The basics of sound – Amplitude, frequency, phase, harmonic content, dBs.
Harmonic theory – Fundamental frequency, Harmonics, partials.
Sampling Theory – Sample rates, Bit resolution
Dither
These areas are essential to understand for all areas of audio production:
Synthesis
Sound Design
Mixing
Mastering
Course Summary
► What is Sound. Frequency & Hearing
In these first few videos we will look at the properties of a waveform. These properties represent, in graphical form, sound pressure or voltage level as it evolves over time.
► Wavelength, Amplitude, Phase
Wavelength is the distance between two adjacent points on a waveform. Wavelength and frequency are linked; the lower the frequency or pitch, the longer the wavelength and period, the higher the frequency or pitch and the shorter the wavelength and period.
Amplitude is a measure of the amount of particle displacement in a medium. The more energy you impart the further the particles will travel from their initial resting position. The greater the energy the greater the amplitude and the more intense the sound wave will be.
Phase is used to describe a specific position on the waveform, which is measured in degrees. Most of the sounds we work with are harmonic. They are made up of repeating cyclic waveforms, unless they are some form of noise. We can therefore manipulate and control phase.
► The Harmonic Series
Understanding the harmonic series is essential to understand and do proper synthesis, sound design, mixing and mastering. It allows us to analyse, construct and destruct the sounds we wish to work with.
► Creating sounds by analysing the harmonic series
Using our knowledge of the harmonic series and the tools we use to analyse it can be a very powerful ability in synthesis and mixing. In this video we will construct a basic sound using analysis and additive synthesis.
► Digital Audio Sample Rates
In the next couple of videos we will discuss the basics of digital audio, what you need to know in order get a good representation of a signal. Sample rates, quantisation & bit resolution, aliasing, dither, what’s it all about and why it matters. This video will focus on the conversion process and sample rates.
► Digital Audio Bit Resolution
Continuing on from the previous video, here we will discuss quantisation and bit resolution what they mean and why they are important.
COLOR YOUR SOUND
Spectre is a sound-shaping tool that combines the best features of an enhancer coupled with a graphical parametric equaliser.
Spectre processes the difference between the input signal and the EQ signal, introducing harmonic content to just the part of the spectrum that you want from a variety of saturation algorithms based on classic recording hardware.
Spectre can be used on individual tracks, sub-mixes, the entire mix and is ideal for mastering.
THE ULTIMATE ENHANCER
Spectre does not work like a conventional equalizer. Spectre introduces harmonic content that was not in the original recording, bringing colour and life to the sound not possible with a conventional EQ, this ability to offer almost phantom content across the audio spectrum led us to the name Spectre.
Spectre process the incoming audio with a five parallel band EQ, it extracts the difference between this signal and the dry input and process it through one of the eight saturation algorithms included, then it mixes it back with the dry signal. The result is a signal with character, full of color, with bigger and warmer low frequencies, shiny shimmering highs and powerful mids that any other processor just can’t give you.
8 SATURATION ALGORITHMS
Spectre is more versatile than a simple enhancer as you can choose from eight different saturation algorithms to get different colours. Spectre can go from the warmth of valve to a harsh digital clipper, from creamy tape saturation to a chip bit crusher.
Tube.
Warm Tube.
Solid.
Tape.
Diode.
Class B.
Bit.
Digital.
You’ll find an additional mode which can be really useful: Clean. This mode doesn’t saturate the difference signal, converting Spectre into a parallel EQ where the results feel extremely natural, almost like if there were no process at all. It takes away the harshness of traditional EQ plug-ins and brings in the sweetness of parallel processors.
SOUND
Optional 4x and 16x oversampling modes offer pristine audio quality with no aliasing even with aggressive settings.
With 3 saturation modes: subtle, medium and aggressive you have a quick way of warming up your tracks. Adjust the harmonics with the input and output volume parameters for a more precise control over your music.
Spectre can process:
Mono and Stereo signals.
Left or Right channels only.
Mid / Side channels only.
When we say it’s the ultimate enhancer we really
Chop Gawd and Highfonics bring you the 3rd installment, the Parasite (Stem Kit). Filled with 50 Custom Loops + Stems inspired by: Roy Woods, Post Malone, 6lack, Tory Lanez, 6IX9INE, Trippie Redd, & More.
Rayd makes his everlasting return with the Hemorrhage (Midi Kit). Filled with 50 Versatile Melody & Chord Progression Midi Files inspired by: Migos, Drake, David Guetta, Katy Perry, Diplo, & More.
Brandon Chapa is back with another show, the Circus III Stem Kit. Contains 10 WAV Loops + Stems inspired by: A Boogie, Young Thug, Juice WRLD, Lil Skies, & More.
10 WAV Loops
37 Individual Track Stems
Labeled by BPM & Key
Compatible with any DAW
Masterclass Hans Zimmer Teaches Film Scoring TUTORIAL
Size 6 Gb
Tell a story with music
Hans Zimmer didn’t see a film until he was 12 years old. Since then, he’s scored over 150 films, including Inception, The Lion King, and The Dark Knight. In his MasterClass, the self-taught Academy Award winner teaches how he creates sounds from nothing, composes compelling character themes, and scores a movie before ever seeing it. By the end, you’ll have everything you need to tell your story.
On Demand
Take the class at your own pace and in your own time.
Learn Anywhere
Take classes with you, and access exclusive content only available on iPhone and iPad.
100% Exclusive
In his first ever online class, learn from legendary composer Hans Zimmer. Only available through MasterClass.
31 VIDEO LESSONS
Watch, listen, and learn as Hans teaches his first-ever film scoring class.
CLASS WORKBOOK
A downloadable workbook accompanies the class with lesson recaps and supplemental materials.
LESSON PLAN
01
Introduction
Meet your new instructor, the Academy Award-winning composer of over 150+ films spanning multiple genres.
02
Themes
Hans has created some of the most memorable themes in film. Learn how he creates a theme, and how simplicity is his best tool to maintain a theme.
03
Story
Discover how Hans approaches writing to story and his number one rule for film composers.
SHOW ALL 31 LESSONS
04
Directors: Part 1
Learn how Hans works with directors, including what he needs to learn from the director in order to start writing – sometimes even before the film is shot.
05
Directors: Part 2
Learn how to effectively have a conversation with the director throughout the film process.
06
Directors: Part 3
Hans continues his discussion on what makes a great director and what makes a great relationship between composer and director.
07
Sound Palettes
Hans is known for creating unique sound palettes. Learn how and why he does it, and how to do it on your own.
08
Creating with Synths
Hans is known for his use of synths. Hans discusses how he uses synths, as he creates a song from his starter patch for us.
09
Scoring to Picture
Hans discusses how to score to different types of scenes, as well as recognizing when a scene doesn’t need a score.
10
Scoring Under Dialogue
Learn how Hans approaches the relationship between music and dialogue, and how music can be dialogue too.
11
Tempo
Your editor is your drummer. Learn how to recognize the tempo to a scene and edit to it.
12
Tempo: Sherlock Holmes Scene
Hans continues his tempo discussion with how he scored an extremely well-edited scene from Sherlock Holmes.
13
Music Diary: Sherlock Holmes
Hans creates music diaries to each film to help him along. Learn how and why he does it as he walks through his diary for Sherlock Holmes.
14
Character
Learn how Hans gets to know his characters in order to create memorable themes for them.
15
Character Theme: Batman
What makes Batman’s theme in The Dark Knight Trilogy so recognizable? Learn how he developed the theme by thinking about the story and character.
16
Character Theme: The Joker
Hans fell in love with the Joker, and created a haunting tune from just one vibrating note. Watch as he discusses how the story and character’s impact on the story helps create the theme.
17
Character Theme: Jack Sparrow
“Pirates were the rock-n’-rollers of the middle ages.” Hans breaks down how he created Jack Sparrow’s theme by finding the tone for the movie first.
18
Case Study: Frost/Nixon
For Frost/Nixon, Hans had to score to a dialogue-heavy film. Learn his approach to creating a minimal but beautiful score.
19
Case Study: The Dark Knight
Learn how Hans accentuated the tension in the already-tense boat scene from The Dark Knight.
20
Working With Musicians
Learn how to find and write for the best musicians and instruments for your score.
21
Working With Musicians: The Orchestra – Part 1
Hans discusses the important of earning your musicians’ respect and how to effectively communicate with them.
22
Working With Musicians: The Orchestra – Part 2
Hear from Hans on how he makes sure he’s getting the best performance he can while recording an orchestra.
23
Feedback & Revisions
Not every score is perfect on the first try. Learn how Hans asks for feedback on his scores and how he approaches rewrites when it’s not quite working.
24
Audience Feedback
The true test – learn how Hans approaches showing a score to an audience and how he determines if it’s working or not.
25
Writing Tips: Part 1
Hans gives you the tips and tricks he’s learned over the years on how to approach writing music.
26
Writing Tips: Part 2
Hans provides insights into how to make sure you aren’t limiting your creativity when writing.
27
Hans’ Journey
Learn how Hans fell in love with storytelling and switched his career from a “radio star” to film composer.
28
Learning by Listening
Hans discusses the importance of learning how to listen and dissect music when it works and doesn’t work.
29
Life of a Composer: Part 1
All artists struggle with the challenges that come with pursuing a life in the arts. Hear Hans’ advice on how to never give up and never compromise your voice.
30
Life of a Composer: Part 2
Hans continues his discussion on an artist’s life, telling you why he was inspired to pursue the life of a composer in the first place.
31
Closing
Listen to Hans’ final words as he closes out his MasterClass and as you move forward in your career.
Sonic Academy ANA 2 Presets Vol. 4 – Progressive House
Size 9 Mb
ANA 2 Presets Vol. 4 – Progressive House
Description
Sonic Academy is extremely proud to present the latest preset pack for ANA 2. ANA 2 Presets Vol. 4 – Progressive House is designed exclusively by Jerome Isma Ae and Alastor delivering 100 unique and distinguished progressive sounds, combining influences of trance and techno. Jerome and Alastor’s production work is unparalleled, making them one of the highest-selling and most sought-after progressive house acts on the scene today.
This is a stunning collection of the deep basses, signature arps, dirty leads and packed with wicked percussion grooves, stabs, acid and much much more. We have added bonus Sampler Osc waveforms to expand your sampler options.
The creative sound design techniques of artists such as Matt Lange, Fehrplay, Martin Roth, Cid Inc, Lane 8 and Dusky are expertly crafted in this pack.
Description
100 amazing ANA 2 presets to get your progressive house groove on. Created with production and workflow in mind, all presets come with 4 macros assigned and are infinitely and quickly tweakable so you get the sound you want and need.
Contents
• 27 x Bass
• 02 x Acid
• 10 x Percussion Grooves
• 05 x Leads
• 13 x Pads
• 06 x Plucks
• 32 x Poly
• 02 x Stab
• 01 x Template
• 01 x Atmosphere
• 02 x FX
Slate Digital VMR Complete Bundle v1.5.0.1 Win
Size 554 Mb
MIX FASTER & EASIER WITH DREAM STRIPS
VMR 2.0 opens with your own custom dream channel strip by default. So whenever VMR 2.0 is launched the leftmost Dream Strip always loads first. Now you can instantly start mixing with the modules you use the most.
VMR 2.0 comes with seven default Dream Strips, although you can remove them and make your own. You can change the vibe, color and sound of your mix with a single click and easily undo and redo your changes.
You can easily see all of the processing modules installed in the Library Pane, and you just drag and drop to get them into the signal chain. You can also drag to reorder the modules as well.
With VMR it’s easy to clone an entire signal chain for comparison – just press the right arrow and everything currently on path A is copied to path B. Once cloned, you can change some parameters on the alternate path, or even swap out entire modules. To A/B the signal chains against each other, just press the A or B button in real time to hear that signal chain in action.
You can load up to eight modules at once into VMR, but it’s still easy to solo or mute any of the processing modules you have loaded using the Solo and Power buttons. Push the “S” on any module to hear it alone in the signal chain, and hit the “power” button to turn it off.
FG-401
The FG-401 started as a recreation of the classic British console channel compressor, but morphed into a whole lot more. First, we gave it variable attack and release with increased range, which added more tonal options. After that we added an input transformer stage – but not just any transformer, the famous transformer from the British Class A Console! This adds a beautiful warmth and sheen to the compressor, and lastly we added an entirely unique opto circuit path that provides an additional smooth and rich tone. The FG-401 is perhaps the most versatile mix compressor in the world, and it can sound good on any source you feed into it!
FG-S
The FG-S is a digital recreation of one of the most famous British console equalizers from the 80’s. This equalizer has rich harmonics and interactive mid bands with a fat musical tone. It’s the ultimate workhorse mix eq that can be used on any track – great for surgical cutting strokes, or wide bell and shelf strokes for making drums and guitars punch out of the speakers.
FG-N
The FG-N is a digital recreation of one of THE most classic discrete Class A British equalizers from the 70’s. All aspects of the circuit were modeled, including the rich harmonics and saturations that naturally occur when the equalizer is in use. The original hardware only contained one mid band, but we added another to make the Brit-N even more versatile. This equalizer is lush and fat, and it sounds great on everything you send through it.
FG-116
The FG-116 is a precise replication of the classic American FET limiter, and no expense was spared capturing every nuance of this amazing device. From its trademark timing characteristics to the extremely musical sound of its transformer, the FG-116 gives engineers and producers the musical and fat tone that has made the hardware so famous. The FG-116 sounds great on everything from lead vocals and drums to bass guitars.
TRIMMER
The Trimmer is a useful module that performs a few basic but essential operations within the Virtual Mix Rack: RMS and Peak Level Monitoring, a simple Trim control and a Phase Reverse Switch. When using it in the first slot, the Trimmer allows you to define how the signal will hit the following VMR module, with a precise output level monitoring.
THE MONSTER
The Monster emulates the classic “all buttons in” extreme compression sound of the vintage FET limiter hardware. The “all buttons in” effect can be pretty extreme, so we added a few very cool additional features that make this processor more versatile, more creative, and more useful.
REVIVAL
Revival is the product of years of research into what makes things sound ‘better’. The Slate Digital team analyzed what it was about some classic analog gear that could turn tracks into audio masterpieces, and broke the process down into two knobs. That may sound a bit crazy, but wait until you hear Revival.
Our massive new Sound FX Library and Particle Stock Footage pack are Now Available! Check out the sound demos to see what kind of sounds you can expect and let us know if you have any questions!
Product Features:
• 5 Sound FX Libraries
• 2000 Sound FX
• 35 Categories
• Fully Mastered
• High Definition Quality Sound
Compatible with
• Adobe Premiere
• Adobe After Effects
• Adobe Audition
• Sony Vegas
• Final Cut Pro
• Pro Tools
• Logic Pro
Motion Pulse features fully mastered sound FX meant to be layered together to create powerful new sounds! Turn a power-down into a robot-shutdown by combing sounds from 2 different libraries!
Pinnacle makes his return with the Sicario (Stem Kit). Featuring real live guitar played by Saarim Tashfeen. Contains 20 WAV Loops + Stems recorded from live guitars inspired by: Juice WRLD, Paris, Lil Peep, XXXTentacion, & More.
20 WAV Loops
62 Individual Track Stems
Labeled by BPM & Key
Compatible with any DAW
