Monthly Archives: July 2021

In The Studio with Rene Amesz TUTORIAL

By vsto | July 16, 2021

In The Studio with Rene Amesz TUTORIAL

Toolroom Academy 8. are excited to bring you our first feature with ace producer, Rene Amesz. Rene’s productions can be heard all over the world – in fact in 2015 he was one of the top ten selling artists on Beatport. B. it’s the Toolroom Records outlet that we see some of his best work to date and it’s his new release, “In and Out” that we will be featuring.

Like most of the Toolroom Academy courses, they follow a production of a record from start to finish. But this is the first time that we get to see a brand new track being deconstructed – and just days after its release on the best-selling album Toolroom Ibiza 2016. This marks a big month for Rene, having just launched the new Toolroom Trademark sample pack series which immediately went to the numb& 1 position on Beatport Sounds. One of the most respected and technically gifted producers in the Tech House scene, it’s the perfect time for his first full length production course with the Tootroom Academy.

In this course, Rene shows us his step by step overview 8. deconstruction in how he made, “In and Out” and dives into how he came up with this bass wobbling peak hour gem using his favorite DAW, Cubase. He starts with how he 055 55 beats and his meticulous & signature EQ-ing of each sound which perfectly resembles his aggressive production style. He then moves into his arrangement and the bass patterns and shows us everything in between from bussing to mixing to percussion 8. layering to synths & automation.

If a full on Toolroom Records signed production course is what you are after, then this is perfect for you! We know you as the producer are after real life courses to get you on your way to producing records for the next Toolroom signings and we are confident this course will do that.

Rene Amesz has proven to us all that he’s a marquee producer, an internationally recognized Dl, and a label goto as a Remixer but now he can confidently add yet another trait to his hat as bog an incredibly talented teacher as well.

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Dancehall Nightz WAV

By vsto | July 16, 2021

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Dancehall Nightz WAV

Dancehall Nightz delivers 5 chart-topping, tropical infused kits, loaded with all the sounds needed, to help you produce this fire genre!

Packed with drums and percussion, basslines, vocal chops, melodies, guitars, pianos and all the other stuff you can hear in the demo preview.

All our sounds are 100% royalty-free, use them in your commercial projects, collect all income to yourself.
See you in the studio!

The pack contains:

– 112 files
– 174 MB unpacked
– 24-bit WAV quality
– 100% royalty free

– 5 construction kits (key and BPM labeled):
KIT01_105BPM_key Dmin
KIT02_98BPM_key Amin
KIT03_100BPM_key Dmin
KIT04_103BPM_key A#min
KIT05_106BPM_key Fmin

– 76 loops:
– 10 bass loops
– 38 drum loops (full, kick, snare, hats)
– 4 guitar loops
– 8 music loops
– 2 piano loops
– 4 synth loops
– 10 vocal chop loops

– 27 one-shots:
– 5 basses
– 1 clap
– 1 clave
– 3 guitars
– 1 hat
– 5 kicks
– 2 pianos
– 3 plucks
– 1 snap
– 5 snares

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weyrerTon Tyrolean Harp v1.1 KONTAKT

By vsto | July 16, 2021

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weyrerTon Tyrolean Harp v1.1 KONTAKT

A unique wooden Harp with an alternative and warm sound
The “Tyrolean Harp” is a relatively unknown wooden Harp only existing within the alpine region. Compared to a standard concert harp, it has more warmth to it and a “wooden” sound character.

It was recorded in 96kHz, features three different playing styles, up to four dynamic ranges, three different microphone systems (close: A-B & M/S; room: A-B) and comes with a total of 3394 samples (15 GB uncompressed). Moreover, it is licensed with Native instruments and therefore NKS & Kontakt Player (Free) compatible.

KEY FEATURES

3 Different Articulations: Pluck, Nail, Harmonics
Mix In Between Three Microphone Positions: Close – Width – Room
3.384 Samples, 15.2 GB Uncompressed .wav, 9.2 GB Lossless Compressed ncw
Recorded In 96kHz, Available In 96kHz & 48 kHz
Compatible With Kontakt Player (Free Version) & Full NKS Integration

ARTICULATIONS

3 Different Playing Styles: Pluck, Nail & Harmonics
3 Round-Robin Variations Per Dynamic Layer
Finger Plucks recreate the soft and beautiful sound of the Tyrolean Harp. Plucks Are Recorded in 4 Dynamic Ranges from A0 – D#6 (Including Semitones)
Pluck intonations are available in plug sustained (rings out until the end of the sample & plug release (stops as soon as the midi note is released)
Nail plucks have a bit of a harsher character and add texture to your sound
Harmonics sound crisp and vibrant and create the feeling of an actual harp player sitting in front of you

KONTAKT PLAYER AND NKS

This Library is licensed for the use of the free Kontakt Player. That means you do not have to own the full retail version of the Kontakt sampler to use this instrument. It works in any DAW and as any plugin Format.
This library is optimised for the Native Kontrol Standard. This allows a perfect integration to all S-Series Keyboard Controllers by Native Instruments and a great workflow.
Works with both the free Kontakt Player Version 5.6.8 and the full version of Kontakt.

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GratuiTous Automation Clips Automatically Control Parameters TUTORIAL

By vsto | July 16, 2021

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GratuiTous Automation Clips: Automatically Control Parameters TUTORIAL

Are you ready for the next technique which will significantly improve your productions?

Meet Automation Clips.

Automation clips allows us as producers to set tasks up prior, to run out automatically when our song plays!

And in terms of creativity – what can you automate?

Pretty much anything you can think of inside of your music program (in our case of this course, FL Studio.)

Think about it, adjusting that vocal with some of its words too loud, or too quiet, we can easily automate one word and make the perfect sounding vocal.

Or, what about a really cool effect sound – Maybe we only want the effect to be really prominent in the chorus of the song, but dial it back come verse time.

This is all obtainable with Automation Clips.

It is my goal of this course to teach you BEST PRACTICES with automation clips inside of FL Studio.

FL Studio has some nuances (some gotchas) that you should really be aware of so you don’t make things harder for yourself!

Let me teach you best practices behind automation clips.

I’ll not only teach you best practices, but reveal a lot of common industry techniques which will get you right up to speed with your favorite producers and songs!

# GratuiTous

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Deep Learning Techniques for Music Generation PDF

By vsto | July 16, 2021

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Deep Learning Techniques for Music Generation PDF

This book is a survey and analysis of how deep learning can be used to generate musical content. The authors offer a comprehensive presentation of the foundations of deep learning techniques for music generation. They also develop a conceptual framework used to classify and analyze various types of architecture, encoding models, generation strategies, and ways to control the generation. The five dimensions of this framework are: objective (the kind of musical content to be generated, e.g., melody, accompaniment); representation (the musical elements to be considered and how to encode them, e.g., chord, silence, piano roll, one-hot encoding); architecture (the structure organizing neurons, their connexions, and the flow of their activations, e.g., feedforward, recurrent, variational autoencoder); challenge (the desired properties and issues, e.g., variability, incrementality, adaptability); and strategy (the way to model and control the process of generation, e.g., single-step feedforward, iterative feedforward, decoder feedforward, sampling). To illustrate the possible design decisions and to allow comparison and correlation analysis they analyze and classify more than 40 systems, and they discuss important open challenges such as interactivity, originality, and structure.

The authors have extensive knowledge and experience in all related research, technical, performance, and business aspects. The book is suitable for students, practitioners, and researchers in the artificial intelligence, machine learning, and music creation domains. The reader does not require any prior knowledge about artificial neural networks, deep learning, or computer music. The text is fully supported with a comprehensive table of acronyms, bibliography, glossary, and index, and supplementary material is available from the authors’ website.

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Digital Filters: Analysis, Design & Signal Processing Applications

By vsto | July 15, 2021

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Digital Filters: Analysis, Design & Signal Processing Applications

Written by a Life Fellow of the IEEE, this comprehensive textbook teaches digital filter design, realization, and implementation and provides detailed illustrations and real-world applications of digital filters to signal processing. Digital Filters: Analysis, Design, and Signal Processing Applications provides a solid foundation in the fundamentals and concepts of DSP and continues with state-of-the-art methodologies and algorithms for the design of digital filters.

You will get clear explanations of key topics such as spectral analysis, discrete-time systems, and the sampling process. This hands-on resource is supported by a rich collection of online materials which include PDF presentations, detailed solutions of the end-of-chapter problems, MATLAB programs that can be used to analyze and design digital filters of professional quality, and also the authors DSP software D-Filter.

Coverage includes:

Discrete-time systems
The Fourier series and transform
The Z transform
Application of transform theory to systems
The sampling process
The discrete Fourier transform
The window technique
Realization of digital filters
Design of recursive and nonrecursive filters
Approximations for analog filters
Recursive filters satisfying prescribed specifications
Effects of finite word length on digital filters
Design of recursive and nonrecursive filters using optimization methods
Wave digital filters
Signal processing applications

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NI Expansion: Chromatic Fire WIN & MAC

By vsto | July 15, 2021

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NI Expansion: Chromatic Fire WIN & MAC

Ten years ago we released MASCHINE 1.0 into the world. Since then, you’ve embraced it, adapted it, helped us improve it, and – most importantly – used it to create a huge variety of incredible music.

So here’s our way of saying thank you to each and every one of you who have been a part of the MASCHINE story: CHROMATIC FIRE brings together some of our favorite artists and sound designers, with 14 projects spanning their unique styles and sounds. Packed with kits, presets, loops, and samples, each one invites you to remix, rearrange, and reimagine your way.

Best of all? It’s free for all MASCHINE owners. We can’t wait to see what you’ll do with it.

SAMPLES AND LOOPS:

Raw drum hits and one-shots come DAW-ready – plus tempo-based construction loops give you building blocks for inspiration.

61 construction loops
172 drum samples
98 one-shots

SYNTH PRESETS:

Customizable presets for MONARK and REAKTOR PRISM by top sound designers, give you the perfect sounds for your genre.

11 MASSIVE presets
5 MONARK patches
1 REAKTOR PRISM preset

MASCHINE EXCLUSIVE:

Get editable patterns for building ideas fast. Plus, multi-effects macros that are custom-made for your sounds.

6 sample instruments
14 projects
12 Drum Synth presets
15 MASCHINE kits

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:

Drum Samples: 31 kicks, 22 snares, 14 claps, 12 cymbals, 30 hi-hats, 55 percussion, 8 toms

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NI Expansion: Decoded Forms v2.0.2 [WIN & MAC]

By vsto | July 15, 2021

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NI Expansion: Decoded Forms v2.0.2 [WIN & MAC]

A post-jungle kaleidoscope of iconic breaks, spacey pads, and crisp snares

SPACE AND SOUL

DECODED FORMS blazes with disruptive bass and crisp drums. At its core are four iconic drum breaks from the 70s, chosen for their contextual versatility. Each one was meticulously recorded to capture the flavor and sonic character of the original. After extending the loops with improvised phrases, kits were created with each sound deconstructed, dissected, and dismantled into mix-and-match pieces. Additionally, spacey pads and warm chords give the expansion lush, atmospheric texture.

SAMPLES AND LOOPS
Raw drum hits and one-shots come DAW-ready – plus tempo-based construction loops give you building blocks for inspiration.

170 Construction Loops
230 Drum Samples
177 One Shots

DRUM KITS

Kits come pre-assembled for MASCHINE and BATTERY, with color coding for BATTERY and FX-enhanced kits for MASCHINE.

33 BATTERY Kits
42 MASCHINE Kits

SYNTH PRESETS

Customizable presets for MASSIVE, MONARK, and PRISM by top sound designers give you the perfect sounds for your genre.

19 MASSIVE Presets
5 MONARK Presets
1 REAKTOR PRISM Preset

MASCHINE EXCLUSIVE

MASCHINE owners get editable patterns for building ideas fast. Plus, multi-effects macros that are custom-made for your sounds.

8 Projects
166 Patterns
26 Drum Synth Presets
33 Sample Instruments

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Drum Sample Breakdown:

54 Kicks
52 Snares
8 Claps
12 Cymbals
67 Hi Hats
39 Percussion
14 Shakers
8 Toms

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NI Expansion: Golden Kingdom v2.0.1 [WIN & MacOSX]

By vsto | July 15, 2021

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NI Expansion: Golden Kingdom v2.0.1 [WIN & MacOSX]

REFINED STADIUM RAWNESS

The larger-than-life sound of contemporary mainstream hip hop
52 MASCHINE and 63 BATTERY Kits packed with samples of overdriven drums, processed instruments, and crushing synths
Exclusive MASSIVE presets for gritty, raw sound.

READY FOR THE SPOTLIGHT

Throw open the gates to a hip hop dynasty with GOLDEN KINGDOM. Begin your ascent to the throne with samples pooled to represent contemporary hip hop styles. Craft your beats with monolithic drums, and then add dark, grungy synths with MASSIVE presets and overdriven breaks that hold a vice-like grip on everyone in earshot. GOLDEN KINGDOM gives you a solid-gold seat amongst the megastars of contemporary hip hop.ve.

ORIGINS OF GREATNESS

GOLDEN KINGDOM blends the spirit of southern hip hop with the expansive depth of cinematic drums and a dose of EDM’s lifting energy. Inside you’ll find traces of trap programming, dirty breaks, and raw, in-your-face synths – the key elements of each genre combined to create a stylistic hybrid. The result is a bold, undeniable sound that steps onto the world stage with authority.

SAMPLES AND LOOPS

Raw drum hits and one-shots come DAW-ready – plus tempo-based construction loops give you building blocks for inspiration.

203 Construction Loops
659 Drum Samples
107 One Shots

DRUM KITS

Kits come pre-assembled for MASCHINE and BATTERY, with color coding for BATTERY and FX-enhanced kits for MASCHINE.

63 BATTERY Kits
52 MASCHINE Kits

SYNTH PRESETS

Customizable presets for MASSIVE by top sound designers give you the perfect sounds for your genre.

37 MASSIVE Presets

MASCHINE EXCLUSIVE

MASCHINE owners get editable patterns for building ideas fast. Plus, multi-effects macros that are custom-made for your sounds.

6 Projects
267 Patterns
1 Drum Synth Preset
7 Sample Instruments

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NI Expansion: Elastic Thump v2.0.1 [WIN & MAC]

By vsto | July 15, 2021

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NI Expansion: Elastic Thump v2.0.1 [WIN & MAC]

MELODIC FUTURE FUNK

A brightly colored fusion of funk, R&B, and house music
48 MASCHINE and 52 BATTERY Kits loaded with FX, EQ, and unique patterns
20 MASSIVE and 20 MONARK presets for deep, smooth bass sounds

REFLECTIONS OF TOMORROW

Recently, a new genre of music has emerged. It fuses street-smart, beat music with uptempo synths and the positive energy of house music. This future funk is inspired by 90s R&B, 80s urban funk, and feel-good body music, and influenced by modern genres like trap, bass, and footwork. It reached a global audience through popular podcasts from the LA-based Soulection crew, and can be found in works of artists like Kaytranada, Anderson .PAAK, Mr. Carmack, Lakim, Dâm-Funk, and GoldLink.

ELASTIC THUMP was created in collaboration with MSXII.

BUTTERY BEATS SOAKED IN ANALOG WARMTH
ELASTIC THUMP bumps with rubbery bass, luscious analog synths, liquid vocal chops, and crunchy acoustic drums. Sounds lovingly recorded from the Roland Juno 106, Moog Minitaur, and Teenage Engineering Pocket Operators ooze with analog butteriness. Sampled Fender Precision bass, a Rhodes 73 keyboard, and a variety of vintage drums add a sheen of dust to the sound. And with 120 new Drum Synth sounds, you’ll be able to shape and design your own signature beats.

SAMPLES AND LOOPS

Raw drum hits and one-shots come DAW-ready – plus tempo-based construction loops give you building blocks for inspiration.

298 Construction Loops
375 Drum Samples
391 One Shots

DRUM KITS

Kits come pre-assembled for MASCHINE and BATTERY, with color coding for BATTERY and FX-enhanced kits for MASCHINE.

52 BATTERY Kits
48 MASCHINE Kits

SYNTH PRESETS

Customizable presets for MASSIVE and MONARK by top sound designers give you the perfect sounds for your genre.

20 MASSIVE Presets
20 MONARK Presets

MASCHINE EXCLUSIVE

MASCHINE owners get editable patterns for building ideas fast. Plus, multi-effects macros that are custom-made for your sounds.

7 Projects
274 Patterns
120 Drum Synth Presets
17 Sample Instruments

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NI Expansion: Astral Flutter v2.0.1 [WIN & MAC]

By vsto | July 15, 2021

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NI Expansion: Astral Flutter v2.0.1 [WIN & MAC]

ASTRAL FLUTTER brings you a new kind of advanced hip hop doused in galactic rhythm. Future-focused kits and patterns deliver a slice of beat heaven, and presets for MASSIVE and Drum Synths let you define your sound high in the stratosphere. Aim for the sky.

SAMPLES AND LOOPS

Raw drum hits and one-shots come DAW-ready – plus tempo-based construction loops give you building blocks for inspiration.

247 Construction Loops
401 Drum Samples
232 One Shots

DRUM KITS

Kits come pre-assembled for MASCHINE and BATTERY, with color coding for BATTERY and FX-enhanced kits for MASCHINE.

51 BATTERY Kits
41 MASCHINE Kits

SYNTH PRESETS

Customizable presets for MASSIVE by top sound designers give you the perfect sounds for your genre.

50 MASSIVE Presets

MASCHINE EXCLUSIVE

MASCHINE owners get editable patterns for building ideas fast. Plus, multi-effects macros that are custom-made for your sounds.

10 Projects
150+ Patterns
17 Drum Synth Presets
21 Sample Instruments

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Drum Sample Breakdown:

84 Kicks
73 Snares
28 Claps
29 Cymbals
87 Hi Hats
87 Percussion
26 Shakers
14 Toms

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NI Expansion: Artist The Stereotypes v1.0.0 [WIN & MAC]

By vsto | July 15, 2021

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NI Expansion: Artist The Stereotypes v1.0.0 [WIN & MAC]

Native Instrument has released Artist Expansion: The Stereotypes, a new expansion created by the chart-topping production team behind some of the last decade’s biggest hits.

The Expansion is the first in a new artist-created series which channels the signature sounds of leading electronic music producers, sharing their own production toolkits with the world.

ARTIST EXPANSION: THE STEREOTYPES encompasses the polished pop-production aesthetic that the team has contributed to Bruno Mars, Justin Bieber, Red Velvet, Cardi B, and many more. The genre-spanning sound gives a nod to R&B, West Coast hip-hop, funk, and EDM, uniting a squeaky-clean production aesthetic with a touch of underground edge.

The Expansion is packed with popped basses, crisp kits, and sampled hardware synths, as well as catchy melodic loops. The team also cracked open some of their biggest productions from the last decade, even reworking their own patches for MASSIVE and MONARK.

ARTIST EXPANSION: THE STEREOTYPES joins a growing range of over 60 Expansions. These sound packs contain everything a musician needs to create a full track in a specific style, and can be used in any DAW. For everything on Expansions, head to https://www.native-instruments.com/expansions.