Monthly Archives: January 2021

Dropgun Samples Synchronice Future Pop (WAV + SERUM PRESETS)

By | January 22, 2021

 Synchronice Future Pop

Dropgun Samples Synchronice Future Pop (WAV + SERUM PRESETS)

We are proud to present the Dropgun Synchronice sample pack.

Synchronice is a US based duo consisting of brothers Will and James Saulsky, known for their powerful and melodic sound, combining electronic genres with pop sensibilities and organic instruments.

Their writing and production has earned them acclaim from some of the top producers and publications in music, and has accumulated tens of millions of steams across the internet. This pack brings years of experience and collaborative energy to your own projects, allowing you to incorporate the groupís characteristic set of sounds into your process. Each construction kit includes every tool you need, from synth patches, to drum samples to vocal tracks.

Apply post processing to the synth patches, stretch and chop the loops, morph the vocals, or use the sounds as they are, no matter what genre you specialise in, let this pack spur your creativity.

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TPS Selection for Serum & Sylenth1

By | January 22, 2021

The Producer School - Selection for Serum & Sylenth1

TPS Selection for Serum & Sylenth1

Take YOUR Deep house tracks to another dimension with this Selected inspired Presets & Sample Pack. Selection will help you to create sick deep house drops and breaks! From Serum & Sylenth presets, to Vocals & Project Files, everything is included in our new pack. If you are a producer looking for plucky synths, deep vocals or punchy basses for your next track, then look no further.

Content:

55 Presets for Serum

42 Presets for Sylenth1 (v3+)

4 Vocal hooks

Sample Pack including Vocals, Drums, Atmospheres, FX and more

4 FULL Project Files for FL Studio 20

Inspiring MIDIS

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MyMixLab How To Mix Hip Hop in FL Studio TUTORIAL

By | January 21, 2021

MyMixLab How To Mix Hip Hop in FL Studio TUTORIAL

MyMixLab How To Mix Hip Hop in FL Studio TUTORIAL

Reid Stefan Realest Puppet In The Game mixing and mastering a Hip Hop track in FL Studio. This course covers Reid’s workflow, template, and signature plugin settings for mixing Synths, Drums, 808, Vocals, and Mastering using FL Studio 20, Slate Plugins, Fabfilter, UAD, and T-Racks.

Reid Stefan
4 Videos 30:34
8 Preset Downloads

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MyMixLab How To Mix House Drums TUTORIAL

By | January 21, 2021

MyMixLab How To Mix House Drums TUTORIAL

MyMixLab How To Mix House Drums TUTORIAL

House Legend Jon Kong shares his personal workflow for mixing techno drums in Logic Pro. This tutorial covers which elements drum to approach first, how to sculpt a perfect kick, multiband transient shaping, bringing each element to life using creative compression, processing techniques with various EQs, when and how to apply analog and mid/side saturation, and creative tremolo techniques to add movement to your high end information. Additionally, Jon shares his personal mixing presets from this course, and they are available below to download.

Jon Kong
1 Video 23:45
4 Preset Downloads

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MyMixLab Henry Fong Hybrid EDM Mixing TUTORIAL

By | January 21, 2021

MyMixLab Henry Fong Hybrid EDM Mixing TUTORIAL

MyMixLab Henry Fong Hybrid EDM Mixing TUTORIAL

DJ Henry Fong is known for creating some of the biggest festival bangers in EDM year after year. Henry Fong’s music has been supported by the biggest DJs in the industry and his touring career has reached every corner of the globe. His signature reggae influences make his music instantly recognizable and unique. In this course Henry Fong opens the Ableton session from his latest single “BOOM” featuring Common Kings to share his personal workflow and plugin settings for processing EDM styled Reggae tracks 100% in the box. Watch all four parts to learn how to process guitars, drums, bass, vocals, and master chain.

Henry Fong
4 Videos 44:00
4 Preset Downloads

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MyMixLab Basics of Compression TUTORIAL

By | January 21, 2021

MyMixLab Basics of Compression TUTORIAL

MyMixLab Basics of Compression TUTORIAL

Compression is one of the most fundamental processes in audio. It not only controls the level of your sound, but adds unique tone and shape. To better understand compression we invited a guest teacher to break it down into it’s simples form. DJ Freefall is one of Luca Pretolesi’s longtime personal students from Orlando Florida USA, and in this course DJ Freefall explains the beginner basics of compression, threshold, ratio, attack, release, knee and more!

DJ Freefall
Beginners Course
Watch Time 6:00

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MyMixLab Mid Side Mixing TUTORIAL

By | January 21, 2021

MyMixLab Mid Side Mixing TUTORIAL

MyMixLab Mid Side Mixing TUTORIAL

In this 3 part series, 3x Grammy Mixing & Mastering Legend Luca Pretolesi takes you through his process of mid / side processing for mixing, and mastering in Studio One. The techniques learned in this course can be used technically to fix or enhance your song, or can be used as a creative tool for tonal shaping and sound design. Additionally, Luca shares his personal mixing and mastering presets from this course, and they are available below to download. Plugins used in this course include: FabFilter Pro-C, FabFilter Pro-Q 3, and FabFilter Saturn 2

Luca Pretolesi
3 Videos 36:34
3 Preset Downloads

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Oversampled MIXING SAUCE (Ultimate Ableton Effect Rack Pack)

By | January 21, 2021

MIXING SAUCE

Oversampled MIXING SAUCE (Ultimate Ableton Effect Rack Pack)

Are you tired of endlessly tweaking knobs to get a better sound? Are you tired of messy mixes, dry and not full enough sound? We introduce you The Mixing Sauce for Ableton – 7 effect racks that will: clean the mud, make your instruments sound amazing and spacious. Each of the racks has been designed to be easy to use. You will be able to improve your sound instantly just by turning a couple of knobs! Just choose the rack based on the sound you use!

Drums, vocals, synths, basses – each of the instruments has its own rack created differently. If you’re struggling with muddy mixes then Anti Mud Compressor is all you need! Filling the space in the mix is also really important – that’s where The Ultimate Space comes in. Each effect has 8 knobs that allow you to fully control the sound.

THE POWER OF “MIXING SAUCE”:

1. ANTI-MUD COMPRESSOR
Quick & easy fix for muddy sounds and mixes.

2. DRUM MASTER
Improves quality of drums – they hit harder, are cleaner & well mixed.

3. VOCAL MASTER
Adds what’s necessary to make a dry vocal stand out in the song.

4. SYNTH MASTER
Cleans up synths, makes them spicier and puts them in the proper space.

5. BASS MASTER
Makes your basses come to life just by adjusting a couple of knobs.

6. THE MID/SIDE FIX
Cuts or boosts frequencies on mids/sides cleaning them from unnecessary mud or harshness.

7. THE ULTIMATE SPACE
The ultimate reverb & delay effect rack.

REQUIREMENTS
Ableton Live 10 Suite/Standard
No additional Plugins needed, only stock effects have been used!

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That Worship Sound Cathedral Pad WAV

By | January 21, 2021

 Cathedral Pad

That Worship Sound Cathedral Pad WAV

Several choirs layered with a Juno pad and all run through a BigSky. This ambient pad bundle includes 12 minute long Wav and MP3 files in all 12 keys. These work great as song transitions, or an ambient drone that fills out a song. Full description below.

They are not tempo or major/minor specific, so they can be used with any song. Load them into a sample in Mainstage, a scene in Ableton, or just run off an iPhone/iPad!

No additional software required!

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That Worship Sound Angel Pad WAV

By | January 21, 2021

Angel Pad

That Worship Sound Angel Pad WAV

Pure choir voices run through a BigSky to create an ambient soundscape. This ambient pad bundle includes 12 minute long Wav and MP3 files in all 12 keys. These work great as song transitions, or an ambient drone that fills out a song.

They are not tempo or major/minor specific, so they can be used with any song. Load them into a sample in Mainstage, a scene in Ableton, or just run off an iPhone/iPad!

No additional software required!

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Kirk Hunter Studios Lyric Series String Quintet KONTAKT

By | January 21, 2021

Lyric Series String Quintet

Kirk Hunter Studios Lyric Series String Quintet KONTAKT

CREATE MUSICAL MELODIES OUT OF THE BOX
The main focus of the Lyric Series String Quintet is to provide musical, melody lines right out of the box. Further, it is our goal to shorten your workflow time as much as possible. It’s not a “do everything” library, but we feel that the attention to being able to create melodic lines makes this product a very valuable asset.

While there are plenty of good-sounding solo string libraries out there, I found it interesting that for me, a professional string player, it took a lot of “fiddling” with the instrument to get really musical phrases and melody lines. It was easy to get nice “pads” and “fillers” for sure, but I really wanted a believable single, melody line. Nothing out there, not even my older libraries, seemed to capture that certain essence you hear when listening to a professional player unless you took a lot of time to tweak whatever you were working on. And live-playing? No way. Not “out of the box” anyway.

INTUITIVE, STRING-ORIENTED LEGATO TRANSITIONS
Legato Discussion – Valiant efforts have indeed been made over the years using all kinds of “legato” and “interval” tricks and whatnot. Some are very nice, but still fall short. Others do capture the right “sound”, but the resulting performance always, at least to me, sounds “clunky”, “bumpy” or only sounds good when played at certain tempos.

So in analyzing what string players do, it seems that a myriad variables came to play…so to speak. Bowing, slurring, vibrato (amount, speed and fade-in time), string crossing, left-hand-shifting, and more. With so many of these variables, it is hard to recognize a pattern so as to emulate this in a digital instrument. In fact, at this point in time, it’s impossible. However, certain occurrences take place often enough to tell the listener, “yes, I hear this as a professional stringed instrument performance.”, that one could, in essence, focus on those, and implement them judiciously. It’s like putting in a few “aha” features that make for realism.

So how has this been emulated so far? The best of them go to great lengths in using “legato” technology. That’s great, except that with string players, it’s never the same. Sometimes, there’s a string crossing, sometimes a hand shift, sometimes a bow change.. and on and on. The easy ones to mimmic are the “slurred” or “fingered” transitions. That’s because the player does not “bow” the interval, and does not shift the left hand during small intervals. So the “legato” transition is easy to capture. The trouble begins during the many transitions that happen during separate bowing or when a player shifts the left hand.

While there is no easy way to capture all of these details, the one thing that seems to be loudly apparent is the sound that happens when string players play larger intervals on the same string. (Especially cellos) It’s not really a true portamento and does not always happen. It seems to occur most when the players need to move their left hand up or down from it’s current position to achieve the note. We have calculated certain probabilities of this happening during certain types of playing styles, and have successfully, to a point, implemented them into the instruments of the Lyric Series String Quintet. And it’s all very dynamic depending on the way you play.

UNRIVALED VIBRATO CONTROL
And then, there’s the issue of vibrato. I know of no professional string player who uses the same vibrato amount, speed or fade-in time statically. In trying to capture vibrato, most of the time, (if handled at all) it is by means of assigning vibrato to a controller. Usually, this is just the amount of vibrato and nothing else. That can become clunky due to having to ride the controller back and forth without affecting incoming or outgoing notes, which can be quite difficult to do, and rarely comes off as very natural. Another way of handling this issue has been to have the samples be “baked in” with the performer’s own vibrato. If you happen to love that particular performer’s style, then you’re set. If not, you have no options. Sometimes, some “no vibrato” samples are included whereby you can transition to and from them. But most of the time, one can hear the crossfades and thereby loses the “soloistic” desired sound.

The Lyric Series String Quintet instruments (except the Romantic Guarnerius Violin) all analyze your playing style and handle all three vibrato parameters (amount, speed and fade-in) accordingly so as to give you the closest approximation of a real string player’s style.

REALISTIC BOW CHANGES
Then there is the bowing. As stated before, there are some decent “fingered” or “slurred” legato treatments out there. However, the ones that attempt to handle separate bowing suffer more, especially violins. The problem is that most ears out there want to hear smooth fluid transitions with little or no separation. But go listen to real performances with separated bowing. They’re not usually fluid, especially at faster tempos. It seems that the few libraries out there which have tackled this problem with some, if little, degree of success have been met with negative critique, falling to claims that the “legato” is too abrupt or bumpy. The Lyric Series Strings Quintet instruments provide you with realistic bow changes. By default, they are markedly separate and distinct. But if you prefer, you can certainly “connect” the bowing for a more “fluid” phrase if you want. And of course, “slurred” or “fingered” legato is also available.

I want to send a special thanks to HR Strings for their contribution to the Gagliano Cello.

Unique Key Features:
Unrivaled Vibrato Control
Intuitive, String-Oriented Legato Transitions
RapidFire Spiccato for Fast, Aggressive Phrases
Extremely Quick to Load
Easy-to-Learn Interface
Multis for Small String Ensemble Work

Requirements
Kontakt 5.7.1 or newer – FULL VERSION (not free player version – therefore, there is no “Add Library” feature).
Mac OSX 10.9 or newer, Intel Core 2 Duo, 4 GB RAM, although 6 or more is recommended.
Windows 7 or newer, Intel Core 2 Duo or AMD Athlon 64 X2, 4 GB RAM, although 6 or more is recommended.

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Asonic Ex Ante WAV

By | January 21, 2021

 Ex Ante

Asonic Ex Ante WAV

Ex Ante is a Crushed Trap sample pack featuring everything you need to create explosive tracks. This crushed collection of 865MB Trap fuelled drops, Construction Kits, melodies, beats & one shots provides some of the freshest, most intense sounds conceivable.

Expect the unexpected with Ex Ante, designed to push your production to new limits, this is one sample library not to be missed. Ex Ante contains everything you need to create, intense, authentic and most importantly huge sounding Trap tracks.

A pool of 250+ blistering audio and sounds covering a range of options including song starters, full mix loops, Mix elements, Synth Loops, FX, Drum loops, one shots and drum hits ensure whatever you need from the smallest sound to the largest stem is included in this pack.

As always, all Trap sounds and loops are 100% royalty free and available for immediate download. Audio is supplied in HQ 24-Bit Wav

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