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Producing & Performing Live with Saytek TUTORIAL

By | December 19, 2020
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Producing & Performing Live with Saytek TUTORIAL

Producing & Performing Live with Saytek TUTORIAL

As one of the UK’s most exciting acts, Saytek has carved out a unique position for himself over the last few years. He has built a reputation for innovative, improvised hardware heavy live sets that span the house and techno spectrum.

UK artist, Saytek (aka Joseph Keevill) has gathered some serious momentum over the last few years, becoming one of the electronic music scene’s most in-demand live acts. With House and techno pioneers such as Carl Cox, Kevin Saunderson, Darren Emerson, Steve Lawler, Danny Rampling, Dr. Motte, and MR.C not only singing his praises but also hitting him up for tracks & albums to release and booking him to perform live at their events.

Saytek has garnered acclaim the world over with his improvised live shows that see him using a myriad of kit including analog synths, sequencers and drum machines alongside cutting edge digital technology to perform a unique blend of deep & hypnotic techno, acid and house that is forward-thinking yet not forgetting influences from Detroit or the UK’s and Europe’s fiercely inventive 90’s electronic movement.

He was nominated for Best Live Act by DJ Mag for their 2013 Awards; while Mixmag awarded Album Of The Month the same year.

In an industry of smoke & mirrors, ghostwriters and fake DJs, integrity goes a long way and Saytek is what many consider a true electronic musician, sticking strongly to his beliefs and core values.He is a master of musical technology with a unique energy and ear for melody who knows exactly how to make each piece of studio kit dance to his visionary ideas. Breaking dance music conventions and rewriting the rules along the way, Saytek creates improvised performances that are simultaneously fresh and classic.

In his first course for FaderPro, Saytek shows you every aspect of his unique production workflow that mirrors his live sets and sparks creativity unlike anyone else. He is not only a very seasoned and sought after artists, but is also as master teacher which helps this course translate very well to anyone looking to incorporate more of a hybrid workflow using Ableton Live.

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REGGIO Soundset Mega Pack Vol.2

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REGGIO Soundset Mega Pack Vol.2

REGGIO Soundset Mega Pack Vol.2

Renowned for his impeccable productions, REGGIO has been a seminal figure in the rise of his signature dark progressive style over the years. After wildly successful releases on Revealed, REGGIO brings the sequel to his unique blend of sharp-toothed basslines and melodic big room to the music producer masses. Having delivered a string of hit singles in recent times from standout tracks, such as the collaborations with Syzz on ‘Afterlife’, ‘Next Level’ and ‘Joker’, and ‘Dominate’ with Justin Prime – REGGIO is now providing upcoming and seasoned producers with a wealth of exclusive sounds from his past productions, as well as being jam packed with new sounds of forthcoming releases.
Inside the REGGIO Soundset Mega Pack Vol. 2 is 192 presets for Serum, Spire, and Sylenth1 – where you’ll find sounds from his latest and upcoming releases, allowing aspiring producers to recreate the REGGIO dark progressive signature sound. Among the soundsets, you’ll find a wide variety of Bass, Leads, Plucks, and FXs. Tailor-made for customization, each preset is assigned advanced modwheel assignments and, within Serum and Spire, all four macro controls are programmed within each preset, allowing you to tweak sounds in your own way.

Reveal Yourself.

Revealed REGGIO Soundset Mega Pack Vol. 2 – Serum Soundset

  • BASS (33)
  • LEAD (7)
  • PLUCK (24)

Revealed REGGIO Soundset Mega Pack Vol. 2 – Spire Soundset

  • BASS (12)
  • LEAD (27)
  • PLUCK (25)

Revealed REGGIO Soundset Mega Pack Vol. 2 – Sylenth1 Soundset

  • BASS (19)
  • FX (2)
  • LEAD (31)
  • PLUCK (12)

192 presets; created by REGGIO

Core synthesizer patch mapping and programming

All presets assigned intuitive modwheel parameters

All presets for Serum and Spire assigned all four macro controls for easy tweaking and multiple sound variations

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Cinematic Composing Symphonic Virtual Orchestration Course

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Cinematic Composing Symphonic Virtual Orchestration Course

Cinematic Composing Symphonic Virtual Orchestration Course

The Symphonic Virtual Orchestration Course Your strategic step-by-step action plan to help you Compose, Arrange, Mix, and Master your orchestral music and produce professional-sounding midi mockups.

#1 – You’ll become an expert at the fundamentals of synthestration, and will learn how to make your mockups sound outstanding.

#2 – You’ll discover the power of effective templates. You’ll learn about big vs. modular templates and will build your own template, which will almost guarantee you the best results right from the start.

#3 – You’ll discover the Go-To synthestration techniques (also referred to as arranging for samples), and how these techniques differ from traditional orchestration. You’ll save tons of time and boost your production abilities, making your orchestral music sound stellar.

These techniques apply across the board, no matter what sample libraries you’re using.

#4 – You’ll discover the mixing secrets that apply to orchestral music. These include secrets I’ve learned personally from top mixing engineers that I’ve had the privilege of meeting after years working in the industry. Now I’ll be sharing them with you, so you don’t have to spend hundreds of frustrating hours reading mixing books, visiting forums, or buying tutorials, and then trying to decide which techniques actually work with orchestral music.

This module includes one section about the secrets of Mastering orchestral music so that your music sounds great no matter what system, speakers, or headphones are used for the playback.

#5 – In the “Pro” version of this course, you’ll have access to 4 amazing case studies where you’ll see behind the scenes as I produce 4 tracks in totally different styles.

The case studies include insights and tips for the following styles:

  • Trailer emotional orchestral
  • Action, high intensity
  • Romantic, love
  • Thriller, mystery

#6 – In the “Expert” version of the course, you’ll even get a chance to sit down with me, live, one-on-one on Skype for 1 hour to walk through and review your template, so you end up with the most effective setup. If there’s time, I’ll also review one of your tracks so that you know for sure that you understood the course lessons and applied them the right way.

As a bonus, you will get one extra one-on-one coaching call with a Class A film or video game composer based in Hollywood and actively working in the industry.

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Sonic Collective Melodic Meditations

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Melodic Meditations

Sonic Collective Melodic Meditations

Producer and guitarist Michael Hewett has created a gorgeous palette of custom loops and samples from his 25-year plus practice of nylon/steel string guitars & charango. Michael focused on capturing the intimate sound of the nail contacting the strings, ethereal ebow sheets of sound, enchanting charango passages & danceable stems influenced by the music of Mexico, South and Central America.

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Tech House 2021 Sample Pack WAV

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Tech House 2021

Tech House 2021 Sample Pack WAV

A brand new collection of Tech House grooves from Function Loops is here! Loaded with the most advanced sounds the genre can offer, 100% royalty-free. You will find killer Drum Loops & Fills, pumping Basslines, funky Synths, Fx Loops, and solid Vocals to spice it all up! You are also getting a cool folder of One-Shot samples, including everything needed to produce your own patterns in no time. Let’s get to work?

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MIDIssonance Zebra Ultramarine For Zebra 2

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Zebra Ultramarine

MIDIssonance Zebra Ultramarine For Zebra 2

Zebra Ultramarine is the first MIDIssonance soundset for u-he Zebra 2.8, containing 120 cinematic patches.

Zebra Ultramarine explores the unique textural capabilities of amazing Zebra 2 and also takes advantage of its comprehensive and intuitive rhythmic engine and powerful oscillators, resulting in a versatile, instantly inspiring scoring collection. Some of the textures are so organic it’s hard to believe that there aren’t any samples involved.

While Zebra Ultramarine is primarily designed for scoring applications (Film, TV, Games, Trailers), it will also work great in other genres such as ambient, neoclassical or new age.

Patches are carefully programmed with detailed modulation capabilities, offering much more detail per every preset.

Soundset is comprised of:

  • 50 Rhythmic (20 Arps, 15 Basslines, 15 Sequences)
  • 40 Pads & Drones (15 Pads, 15 Textures Playable, 10 Textures Atmospheric)
  • 30 Instruments (12 Leads, 12 Basses, 6 Acoustic)

For those who prefer the sound of ZebraHZ, there is Zebra Ultramarine adapted for ZebraHZ, taking advantage of probably the best software filters, Diva’s and polyphonic compressors. It’s available for additional €10 (€29.95 with Zebra Ultramarine).

NOTE: Due to stellar quality of Diva’s filters, ZebraHZ version can be quite CPU-intensive. To save processing power, switch filter quality to draft while playing and render in best quality.

To use Zebra Ultramarine, you need to have v2.8 installed.

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Sonic Academy Juno Shootout with Kirk Degiorgio TUTORIAL

By | December 19, 2020
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Juno Shootout with Kirk Degiorgio TUTORIAL

Sonic Academy Juno Shootout with Kirk Degiorgio TUTORIAL

This week we welcome back Techno and IDM legend Kirk Degiorgio for a look at the iconic Juno 106!

Cherry Audio has recently released their soft synth emulation claiming to be the best so far, so we thought we’d put it to the test and compare it with some of the other VST’s on the market to see how they stack up.

We also check out how well our very own ANA 2 measures up to the competition when set up similarly so let battle commence!

Do you agree with Kirk’s choice? Check it out and let us know what you think!

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Revealed Buildups Vol.2 WAV

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Revealed Buildups Vol.2 WAV

Revealed Buildups Vol.2 WAV

Revealed Buildups Vol. 2 is a sample collection filled with the individual elements of a buildup. You’ll find a wide variety of Snare Builds (4/8/16 bars), Reese Fills, Vocal Lifters, Tonal Risers (8/16 bars), Drum Fills, to full Combination Buildups and more, to quickly construct your Buildups.

To enhance your workflow, all samples are labeled with BPM info and root key. Revealed Buildups Vol. 2 is an essential weapon for any producer’s creative arsenal.

Reveal Yourself.

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Zenhiser K-Pop WAV

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K-Pop

Zenhiser K-Pop WAV

Today we introduce K-Pop to our virtual shelves and it’s a full blown audio assault. We have the honour of this pack being crafted by one of ‘GD X Taeyangs’ key producers resulting in what can only be considered as a K-Pop sample pack masterpiece.

Get between the sheets of this prolific South Korean sound and you’ll find a distinctive medley of intricate beats, skull rattling basslines, aggressive brass stabs, evocative leads and devastatingly good drops. Think of producers like G-Dragon, Taeyang & BTS to get a ball park idea of this heavenly cluster of sounds. A total of 377 stems, loops, one shots, drum sounds and FX makes up the meticulously detailed contents, providing the perfect starting point for your next musical creation. Due to the producers programming style midi is not included, however with so much unique, inspiring sounds included you won’t be missing it.

Whether you’re a K-Pop fan, Hip Hop junkie or Trap aficionado, ‘K-Pop’ has all your bases covered.

•Song Starters (Stems) x5
•Includes drum mix, without kick, brass, pads, arps, strings, paint, flute, 808 bass, fx – 64
•Drum Hits – 01 Kicks – 29
•Drum Hits – 02 Snares – 25
•Drum Hits – 03 Claps – 25
•Drum Hits – 04 Hi Hats – 30
•Loops – Basslines – 25
•Loops – Drum Beats – 75
•Loops – Instruments & Synths – 50
•One Shots – FX – 49

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Four4 Acid House WAV

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Acid House

Four4 Acid House WAV

Powerful TB-303 basslines, and raw beats for club-friendly constructions. A carefully curated collection of over 370 loops and one-shots primed for throwback house productions With complex analog sequences, soaring acid leads, and rolling percussion, Acid House is guaranteed to get the feet moving and the mind working.

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Gloomy Skies Vol.1 WAV

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Gloomy Skies Vol.1 WAV

Gloomy Skies Vol.1 WAV

Much of modern hip-hop music production is filled with heavy synth bass, light-hearted melodies, and “emo” synth pad progressions. However, there is a selection of artists who use this style of production to fuse with there influence of Rock music when creating the production for their music. Artists such as Kid Cudi, Post Malone, Rae Sremmurd and a few others have adopted this Trap & Rock fused sound. Our newest composition pack, Gloomy Skies, encompasses that melodic, Rock infused, mellow and emotion-driven sound. In this pack, you can find warm bass synths, live guitar and plenty of synth melodies.

This sample pack has 10 compositions and can either be purchased in composition format or compositions & stems format.

Samples are key and BPM labeled.

This is a digital download. All sounds included are compatible with any DAW or sampler (44.1K).

This Sample Pack is Royalty Free

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Neon Wave Rewind & Repeat Retro VHS Melodics WAV

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Rewind & Repeat - Retro VHS Melodics

Neon Wave Rewind & Repeat Retro VHS Melodics WAV

Hazy chords, aged arpeggios, and lo-fi synthetics: Retro VHS Melodics is a timeless collection of video home system processed recordings catered to the retro enthusiast. Dive into a nostalgic assortment of atmosphere, bass, fx, and pad loops ideal for eclectic and vintage productions.

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Zero-G Impromptu Textural Percussions KONTAKT

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Textural Percussions

Zero-G Impromptu Textural Percussions KONTAKT

An incredible tool for creating amazingly beautiful, eerie and complex soundscapes
Impromptu Textural Percussions is a unique and experimental Kontakt 6 instrument featuring 30 individual instruments and over 5GB of samples (uncompressed).

It is dedicated to the creation of amazingly beautiful, eerie and complex soundscapes using only percussion instruments recorded by percussionist extraordinaire Hugh Wilkinson. ITP is a fantastic tool for improvisation and serendipity and will be a great addition to your acoustic arsenal.

The instruments featured are:

  • Glockenspiel
  • Vibraphone
  • Crotales
  • 3 different cymbals (Chinese, 17” and 18”)
  • Waterphone
  • Snare Drum
  • Tambourine

In addition to this, a number of sound design patches using different percussions as source material are also provided. These all have an incredible organic quality.

The centrepiece of ITP is the Impromptu Engine; a system that combines loops of improvised, un-synced snippets with a granular synthesizer to create unique and unusual sounds and atmospheres.

We recorded 3x round robins in three different intensity layers that you can crossfade between using the central control.
Playing a note with the mod-wheel completely down will trigger a sparse improvised loop on that pitch; start moving the mod-wheel up to gradually crossfade to the medium and finally, to the dense layer.

As well as the Impromptu patches for Glockenspiel, Vibraphone and Crotales we have also created bonus Impromptu patches for cymbals (Chinese, 17” and 18”) and snare drum (played both with brushes and sticks): they are more experimental in nature and perhaps not as immediate to use but can lead to rather interesting sounds. Crotales, cymbals, glockenspiel, vibraphone and waterphone are also available as bowed instruments. These patches are great for creating beautiful, ethereal atmospheres.

We have also included 82 Snapshots which will help speed up your workflow and also give you a starting point to create your own incredible textures.

IMPORTANT: This product requires the FULL version of Kontakt 6.4.1 or higher!
It will not work in the FREE Kontakt Player, except in DEMO Mode.

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Synthscapes Loop Pack WAV

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Synthscapes Loop Pack WAV

Synthscapes Loop Pack WAV

Synthesizers have been a big part of music ever since the 1970s and remain to be a huge part of modern music today. From Hip-Hop to Electronic to R&B (and more), synths can add a new layer of feeling to music production or to a fully produced song. With our new Loop Pack series, Synthscapes, we wanted to provide an array of mini compositions for you to use to layer in and/or chop up and loop in your next music production project. This loop pack is full of synth leads, bells, pads, bass and more.

This pack contains 17 compositions along with their stems, with over 75 files. All of them can be chopped and replayed or dragged and dropped right into your DAW. Samples are key and BPM labeled.

This is a digital download. All sounds included are compatible with any DAW or sampler (44.1k)

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Ethera Gold Intimate Vocals KONTAKT

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Gold Intimate Vocals

Ethera Gold Intimate Vocals

Two brand new amazing Vocal True Legatos, featuring the incredible voice of Clara Sorace.
Ethera Gold Intimate Vocals is a new chapter of the Ethera Gold series. It includes two amazing new Vocal True Legatos that offer a distinctive and different vocal timbre from the one included in Ethera Gold 2.5 and is an ideal addition to that library. Intimate Vocals is not an add-on or expansion for Ethera Gold 2.5, it is a separate, unique stand-alone product.

Ethera Gold Intimate Vocals uses the magnificent voice of Clara Sorace. Clara has sung with many of the greatest soundtrack and video games composers and trailer music creators. Her voice is a thrilling blend of soul, cinematic, epic and emotionality.

Intimate Vocals contains two new articulations: Soft Oh has an angelic, flute-like sound which is perfect for soft or fantasy type vocals. This Legato is Medium/Fast which allows for faster melodic passages.

The second articulation is a Slow Legato. Thanks to Clara’s vocal range we have created a dark, slow True Legato which is ideal for creating vocal parts similar to that in the Gladiator film-score. Use this True Legato for slow, emotional, dramatic vocals.

Built using the clear, powerful voice that is Clara’s Vocal, we have chromatically sampled every interval and sustain to obtain the highest quality sound. Although a very long process, we think that the final result has been worthwhile. No artefacts, no fake-pitch, only a real voice at your fingertips. We also utilised a Multi-Layer technique so that for many articulations it is possible (using midi velocity) to choose between different legato styles so that you can select the most appropriate articulation for the situation.

If you want to add some drama and emotion to your work, then reach out for Ethera Gold Intimate Vocals!

Check out the walkthrough and demo video below created by James Spilling.

IMPORTANT: ETHERA Gold Intimate Vocals requires the full edition of Kontakt 6.4.2!
It will NOT work in the FREE Kontakt Player.

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