‘K-Size Micro House V2’, the long awaited follow-up to ‘Micro House V1’ is finally here! Aimed at the more “reduced” producers out there, this new K-Size pack is not about “destroying” epic arenas with cheesy melodies. Instead it delivers subtle lush grooves which will make you and the crowd dance all night.
Whether you make Minimal, Deep, or Tech-House, these 150 hand-crafted loops and 50 carefully chosen one-shots will definitely satisfy your needs and lift your productions to the next level.
Like fire and ice
DRUMS puts Hans Zimmer’s personal collection of percussive samples and phrases at your fingertips. Tried and tested in Hollywood, this rhythmic companion to STRIIINGS makes cinematic drums accessible for anyone. Invoke the natural forces of rhythm with DRUMS!
Million-dollar sound
UJAM is happy to count Hans Zimmer—one of the world’s great film composers—as one of its co-founders. Hans generously gave us access to his legendary recordings, amassed over decades, for use in DRUMS.
Walkthrough by Derek von Krogh
This is probably not the kind of walkthrough video you’re used to, but we highly recommend to kick back, relax and get ready to laugh, get chills and learn a thing or two about Symphonic Elements DRUMS!
Enrich your palette
Get your hands on Hans Zimmer’s epic collection of cinematic orchestral instruments. Many of them are hard to come by, even harder to set up and their playing techniques only mastered by a few. Add character and vibe to your production, no matter if film score or pop music.
Ready to rumble
Programming realistic percussion tracks can be daunting. That’s why the UJAM performance engine provides ready-made sequences and creative controls. Arranging, recording or even programming this type of drumming is usually very costly and time consuming. With DRUMS it’s fast and easy; instantly synced to your DAW’s tempo.
DRUMS takes care of the details, so you can focus on your music!
Features at a Glance
DRUMS features 53 Styles with 23 ready-made phrases each, for a total of 1219 phrases. On top of that, every Style comes with 5 one-shot Hits and Metals.
Finisher FX
The custom-made Finisher effect section is a one-knob sound design delight. Transform the character of your DRUMS track to match any genre or mood.
Crossfade
Perform your drum tracks with the crossfader. DRUMS is made up from two independent low and high sections. Seamlessly blend between them, or add subtle variations by automating.
‘No Kick Vol 3’ follows on from the success of the first two packs in this series. Each of the 300 loops included offers your productions groove, auditory spaciousness and phatness. You’ll find Minimal background loops, percussive Tech House grooves and tough peak time loops.
The loops invite playfulness and creativity, since they are perfectly designed to improve existing tracks by giving them the much-needed groove for the dancefloor.
Top-notch producers know that a good track is not just about groovy and powerful kicks, it is also the subtle elements in the track that make it special.
Cut and trim the best parts of the pack and create your own sounds. There are no boundaries for your creativity!
Through simple layering of the loops your beats get more auditory spaciousness and a more powerful sound.
Contemporary hard-and-heavy music genres driven by a very specific drumming style: loud, wild, edgy and cutting through the mix. Both drum sounds and playing are rooted in aesthetics invented about two decades ago. Virtual Drummer BRUTE features the essential sounds and styles from Grunge to NuMetal.
In a nutshell: BRUTE is the Virtual Drummer for you, if HEAVY 2 is too Metal-ish and SOLID 2 not rocking hard enough.
From Seattle with ̶l̶̶o̶̶v̶̶e̶̶ ̶ attitude
In the early 1990s, a guitar-heavy new musical category set out to conquer the hearts and ears of the audience. A new generation of artists would unleash distorted guitars, angry drums, and bucketloads of attitude onto an audience that was suddenly keen to rock out again. Influenced by classic rock of the 1960s and ’70s, and in opposition to the synthetic aesthetics of the prior decade, bands like Rage Against The Machine, Nirvana, Soundgarden, or Alice in Chains popularized the next incarnation of Rock music. Its playbook is still today the go-to for guitar-heavy hard rocking styles.
Drumming in the name of
Programming realistic drum tracks can be daunting. With BRUTE it’s fast and easy, so you can focus on your music!
Punchy, crisp character
What makes BRUTE special? First and foremost it has been designed, recorded and processed to do one thing really well: Compete with layered walls of distorted guitars while maintaining character and detail. This was a tricky challenge… The solution was to record with three different sets of microphones that emphasize different aspects of the drum sound.
Each of the three microphone sets has a specific sonic purpose:
Click/Smack
The vintage Sennheiser MD21 from the 1960s emphasizes the attack transients. The source signal was processed with a Manley Voxbox.
Grit/Dirt
Vintage tube and ribbon overhead mics. This is where the character is captured. All the organic noise and resonances that give a warm, coarse and natural quality.
Clean/Nice
Modern high-spec Schoeps microphones that capture the sound ’as is’. With as little colorization and distortion as possible. For an expensive and glossy character.
Kit Rock
The five drum kits in BRUTE have been composed with specific styles in mind. Listen to these different drum kits starting from dry to wet, blending mixing presets and the “Smack” control into the sound of each kit.
Sound City
If you’d like to dive deeper into the history of this sound, we recommend Dave Grohl’s (Foo Fighters) documentary ’Sound City’ about the iconic studio.
NOFX? Well, there are at least a few…
Mix Presets shape the overall sound by swapping out an entire multi-bus effect chain for every channel under the hood. Saves you time and nerves wrestling with the bus system of your DAW:
Gentle
Polishing and pleasant, use this for ballads or power pop.
Features at a Glance
BRUTE features 5 Drum Kits, 6 mix presets, 31 Styles with 23 ready-made phrases each, for a total of 713 phrases.
Mixing pop music requires a different approach from mixing other genres as pop is defined by dominant vocals over multi-layered instruments. Creativity and a grounding in fundamental audio principles are essential to mix a pop song successfully for commercial release.
Mixing Pop Music is a course of 24 videos providing 5 hours of material including exercises and practical guides for a wide range of recording artists, engineers, hobbyists and producers.
Description
This course is ideal for both beginners and more advanced users alike. Its aim is to provide a solid grounding in the relevant technical processes prior to complimenting this knowledge with many “before & after” audio exercises. The scope of the course is wide enough to encompass almost every scenario and includes example use of many industry-standard plugins.
The best way to explain how to mix a pop song is to mix a pop song from start to finish. This process enables the tutor to provide professional insights along the way, precisely where and when they’re of most benefit; it also has the benefit of making the course seem more personal and relevant.
The subject of each of the 24 videos is detailed below. By the time you have completed the course I’m confident you will be able to produce a radio-friendly, commercial pop mix: and not only that – you’ll have had fun doing it!
Guitar101: Step by step guitar lesson for absolute beginners TUTORIAL
This course is designed for beginners to learn enough but not too much. As a beginner, you don’t want to be overwhelmed with too much information that you can’t digest. But no worries, you will still learn a great deal about guitar and receive all the information you need! Tired of learning with instructors that talk about songs that you have no idea about? Then this is the right place for you!
In this course, you will learn how to make guitar your best friend and fall in love with it!
The topics that you will learn in this course include:
Section 1: Introduction
a. Introduction and course expectation
b. Types of Guitar and Guitar Parts
c. Sitting position
d. Tools for guitar
e. Tuning
Section 2: Let’s Talk about Right-Hand
a. Chapter introduction
b. Finger placement
c. Strokes
d. Strumming
e. Plucking
f. Strumming and plucking pattern practice
Section 3: All about Left-Hand
a. Chapter introduction
b. Beats and rhythm
c. C and G chord
d. Am and Em chord
e. F and D chord
Section 4: Let’s combined everything!
a. Chapter introduction
b. Sing along (Ed Sheeran- Perfect)
c. Spice things up!
Section 5: I know you wonder how to make things right..
a. Addressing some common mistakes
b. FAQ
c. Special message for you
The idea that certain places take on the weight of past events is familiar to all of us.
Renowned field recordist Chris Watson has spent years collecting audio recordings from such places in one of his most personal projects.
Ancient Temples, Ice Lagoons, Cold War Bases, Abandoned Silver Mines, Power Stations, Cathedrals, Canyons, Underwater Tunnels, Deserted Art Galleries and Maori Burial Caves all feature in this unique collection of recordings.
THE KONTAKT INSTRUMENT
MAIN PANEL
XY CONTROL CUBE
4 WAVEFORM ELEMENTS
PITCH, ENVELOPE, FILTER, LFO CONTROLS
The heart of Haunted Spaces is the Cube control – a 4-point vector controller that allows you to create complex movements between 4 different waveforms of your choosing. The cube can be fully animated and the movements tempo-synced to your DAW. Each of the 4 waveforms can have independent filter, envelope, pitch and LFO settings.
PRESET LIBRARY TOUR
Haunted Spaces features a huge library of over 400 presets, created by a team of incredible sound designers.
The core sample library contains 128 original Chris Watson field recordings, combined with hundreds of custom synth, acoustic and percussion waveforms to blend with the ambiences. Notable sample sets include special versions of Soniccouture’s Novachord, Array Mbira, Bowed Piano, ebow Guitar and many more.
This video showcases a small selection of the preset sounds.
RECORDING LOCATIONS
Chris Watson has collected Haunted Spaces recordings from all over the world. Many locations are visually as well as sonically spectacular, as seen in this collection of photographs.
THE CONTROL CUBE
VECTOR / XY CONTROLLER
Haunted Spaces is based around a 4 point vector, or ‘XY’ controller.
This allows you to fade between 4 different waveforms, each with their own synthesis setup.
The Cube can be fully automated, all movements are recordable and sync to the DAW tempo.
CHRIS WATSON
Chris Watson is one of the world’s leading recordists of wildlife and natural phenomena.
Born in 1953, in Sheffield, Watson was a founding member of the influential Sheffield based experimental music group Cabaret Voltaire. His sound recording career began in 1981 when he joined Tyne Tees Television. Since then he has developed a particular and passionate interest in recording the wildlife sounds of animals, habitats and atmospheres from around the world. As a freelance composer and recordist for Film, TV & Radio, Watson specialises in natural history and documentary location sound together with sound design in post production.
His television work includes many programmes in the David Attenborough ‘Life’ series including ‘The Life of Birds’ which won a BAFTA Award for ‘Best Factual Sound’ in 1996. More recently Watson was the location sound recordist with David Attenborough on the BBC’s series ‘Frozen Planet’ which won a BAFTA Award for ‘Best Factual Sound’ (2012).
Library Specifications
128 original Chris Watson recordings
189 original sample sets, including Ondioline, Novachord, Bowed Piano and many custom sounds
440 preset snapshots. Sound Designers: Ian Boddy, Andy Wheddon, Soren Lemmike, EXM, Tobias Menguser, James Thompson, Dan Powell
8GB Library
Kingsway Music Library Vol. 3 (Compositions & Stems) WAV
The Kingsway Music Library is a collection of original musical compositions and master recordings a/k/a “samples” created by multi genre music producer and composer, Frank Dukes. Frank Dukes has been composing original samples & music for the industries top producers including Hit Boy, Don Canon, Jake One, Ryan Lewis, Illmind, Cardiak Flatline, and more. Master and Publishing Clearances are guaranteed for the commercial (or promotional) use of any of these materials in the Kingsway Music Library subject to our good faith negotiation with you on the terms which shall be based on our discretion with respect to the size and manner of use of the sample in question in your new work.
Please use the contact page to get in touch about any clearances and we’ll get back to you as soon as possible.
Groove3 Mixing for Depth & Space Explained TUTORIAL
Studio expert Thomas Cochran presents comprehensive Mixing for Depth and Space video tutorials! If you’ve often struggled with mixes that sound muddy, crowded, or cluttered, this is the video series for you. Thomas walks you through numerous proven techniques for creating space in your tracks and room for your vocals (and other featured instruments) to breathe. You’ll learn tips for EQ, reverb, modulation effects, compression, buss processing, and more! These videos are for beginning mixing engineers.
Thomas welcomes you and begins with some practical EQ tips, demonstrating how to carve out specific frequency ranges for each instrument in the mix, allowing each element to be clearly heard. Next, you’ll learn how to use the Track Spacer plug-in (from Wavesfactory), a dynamic side-chaining EQ, to help prevent instruments from fighting each other. You’ll also discover how to create a balanced mid-range and how to use EQ to simulate mixing through different speakers: a useful technique in creating clear, even mixes.
Continuing on, you’ll learn a myriad of strategies for helping to make spatial effects – such as reverb and delay – sound clearer and less cluttered. Thomas will also demonstrate several tips and tricks for using effects like auto pan to create stereo separation between tracks.
Throughout the rest of the course, you’ll discover several more tips for adding clarity and removing clutter, including pre-delay on reverbs, stacking modulation effects, adding subtle movement with phasers and flangers, adding distortion on drum busses, and more
To see exactly what these in-depth mixing tutorials show you, and how they’ll help you instantly transform your mixes for the better, see the individual Mixing for Depth and Space video tutorial descriptions on this page. Give your tracks some well-needed elbow room and breathe some space into your mixes today… Watch “Mixing for Depth & Space Explained®” now!
The Total Bundle is a set of all FabFilter plug-ins. With this bundle, you get the best EQ, compressor, limiter, de-esser, gate/expander, multi-band distortion, stereo delay, filter and synthesizer plug-ins available today.
What is the FabFilter Total Bundle:
The FabFilter Total Bundle contains the latest versions of all FabFilter plug-ins. The following plug-ins are included:
FabFilter Pro-Q 3 – Allround EQ plug-in for mixing and mastering purposes, with up to 24 bands and a gorgeous interface for easy and precise editing.
FabFilter Pro-C 2 – Professional compressor plug-in with very high quality sound, flexible side chain options, beautiful program-dependent compression styles and a stunning user interface.
FabFilter Pro-R – High-end algorithmic reverb plug-in with natural sound and intuitive controls.
FabFilter Pro-L 2 – Professional, feature-packed true peak limiter, suitable for transparent mastering as well as single instrument limiting.
FabFilter Pro-MB – Versatile high-quality multiband dynamics plug-in with unique workflow and signal processing capabilities.
FabFilter Pro-DS – Highly intelligent and transparent de-essing plug-in, perfect for single vocal tracks as well as entire mixes.
FabFilter Pro-G – High quality gate/expander plug-in for mixing and mastering purposes, with flexible side chain options and great interface design.
FabFilter Saturn 2 – Creative multiband distortion and saturation plug-in with incredible modulation options and an innovative interface.
FabFilter Timeless 3 – Full-featured, vintage-sounding delay plug-in with incredible modulation options and an innovative, modern interface.
FabFilter Twin 2 – Powerful synthesizer plug-in with the highest possible sound quality and an ultra-flexible drag-and-drop modulation system.
FabFilter Volcano 2 – Versatile filter effect plug-in with state-of-the-art filter technology and endless modulation possibilities.
FabFilter Simplon – Basic and easy to use filter plug-in with two high-quality multi-mode filters and an interactive filter display.
FabFilter One – Basic synthesizer plug-in with just one oscillator, but with perfectly fine-tuned controls and the best possible sound and filter quality.
FabFilter Micro – Ultimate lightweight filter plug-in, making the classic FabFilter sound affordable for everyone.
After a success of Sfx vol. 1 and 2, Exotic Refreshment are proud to present “Sfx vol. 3 – Exotic Samples 030”.
Sounds Effects are very important in underground music production. That’s why we have prepared a huge collection of effects ready to use in your Techno, Tech House, Deep House, Afro House, Progressive House, Minimal, Downtempo, Electronica or any other genre.
329 MB of samples in wav format (44.1 kHz, 24-bit) in the style known from Exotic Refreshment releases and the biggest labels from the industry like Keinemusik, MoBlack Records, Diynamic Music, Sol Selectas, DIRTYBIRD, Hot Creations, Innervisions, Objektivity, Monaberry, Exploited, Material, Stil Vor Talent and many more…
Just drag and drop into your DAW (Ableton Live, Apple Logic, Pro Tools, FL Studio, Cubase, etc) and start creating your next track!
Sample pack includes only Sounds Effects! All drum, bass and synth loops used in the Demo track are from our sample pack “Melodic House & Techno vol. 1” released via our label Exotic Refreshment.
The New Rhythmic Aura 2 – Synth Edition was produced by Academy Award, TEC and G.A.N.G Award Winning Composer and Producer, Troels Folmann.
TheAura Series is a highly intuitive, yet advanced scoring tool designed to create new compositions or augment your existing compositions. The concept revolves around evolving cinematic pulses that will immediately create a textural aura around your composition.
The New Rhythmic Aura 2 was created with a wealth of vintage synths that were processed and mangled to perfection through a variety of tools. You will find hundreds and hundreds of custom pulses that can be combined in an infinite amount of ways. Whether it is using pulsing between groups. Whether its creating new rhythms through our custom effects. Whether its additional our new textural convolution delays on top of the pulses. Everything comes ready for quick and fast manipulation – allowing you to make your own auras in a matter of seconds.
The New Rhythmic Aura 2 comes with a deep set of controls. The internal browser offers you immediate access to all pulses and ability to stack and crossfade between as many pulses you want. In addition you get instant access to a large assortment of filters, custom rhythmic gate, compression, delays and our new textural convolution delay (aka Form).
The library also contains our Chaos Effects 3.4 Engine, which offers you access to a variety of effects and hundreds of convolution custom impulses.
Instant Textures and Colors
Rhythmic Aura is first and foremost a rhythmic texture tool – designed to create a textural aura around your composition and immediately bring something new and cool to the music. Rhythmic Aura Synth contains hundreds of completely host-tempo BPM synced rhythmic textures made with the following instruments: Auras containing Ambiences, Auras containing Bass/Low-range synths, Auras containing Mid-Range Synths and Auras containing High-Range Synths.
Complete Control
Rhythmic Aura is all about control – whether you want to change the pitch or texture of the aura. We created the user-interface so you have instant access to a large assortment of primary controls, including 4-Band EQ, Custom Gate function that allows you to “tighten” the sound of the aura. We also added Filters with Cut-Off and Resonance control. Full tempo-sync features, Dynamics, Attack, Decay and various other deep effects. It all works effortlessly. If you ever wonder where you’ve heard Aura – try most countless Blockbuster Movies, TV-Shows and Video Games
CHAOS FX Engine
Our FX CHAOS Engine is one of the most extreme feature in Rhythmic Aura. The FX CHAOS Engine allows you make thousands of sample parameters randomize with several easy clicks. Also controllable from the front faced FX section, our FX system is a glorious cocktail of processed fun.
Real-time Effects
Rhythmic Aura also contains a massive amount of real-time effects that can be triggered via the effects page of the front faced effects macro system. We included Bit-Crusher/LOFI, Rotator, Delay, Reverb, Distortion, Phaser – and a large set of custom convolution reverbs that brings an entire new world to the textures.
Articulation and Stacking Control
The New Rhythmic Aura 2 contains a built-in articulation selection and stack control with A/B controls. The articulation window offers you instant access to all sub-articulations within the instrument. The stack control gives you the ability to stack as many articulations you want together. Simply stack as many sounds as you want until you find the texture that works perfectly for your composition. It just takes a few seconds.
Gating
Everything in Rhythmic Aura is designed to match your host tempo. All you have to do is play and you are all hooked up. The gate and several LFO’s sync at a variety of assignable timings. These features become really powerful used together with our STACK/LINK button that allows you to merge multiple patches together and crossfade between them using out A/B features several simple clicks. Life is easier that way.
OVERVIEW
– Hybrid Scoring Tool focused on organic arpeggiations
– Over 450 analog Tonal arpeggiations with highly intuitive and flexible controls
– True analog signal path
– Custom designed auras by Troels Folmann
– Fully tempo sync’d to host D.A.W
– Advanced customisable UI features
– All auras made from synthetic sources
– Low-range (bass) Synth Auras
– Mid-range Synth Auras
– High-range Synth Auras
– Full Retail version of Kontakt 5.5 or later required
Requirements
– Full Retail version of Kontakt 5.5+ required / Not compatible with free Kontakt Player
– Kontakt 5.5 is 32 and 64-bit compatible on both PC and MAC platforms
– New Rhythmic Aura Vol 2 requires 1GB of hard drive space
– Runs as a stand-alone application, VST or Audio Units plug-in, AAX under Pro Tools
– Minimum: Mac OS X 10.4 / 10.5, G5 2.4 GHz or Intel Core Duo 2.00 GHz, 8 GB RAM or Windows XP (32 Bit) or Windows Vista (32/64 Bit), Pentium or Athlon XP 2.0 GHz, 8 GB RAM. 8 GB of RAM or more is highly recommended
– 40 Kontakt .nki files
– Sample resolution: 44.1Khz / 24Bit stereo .wav format
– Format(s): Kontakt
PML Empire Of Afterlife – Empire of Afterlife – Melodic Techno Ableton Template
Empire of Afterlife – Melodic Techno Ableton Template
Learn Music Production Like a Professional! Download the zipped ableton template from the youtube video. If you run into any problems or have suggestions on existing or future tutorials, please get in touch via email.
Read first: Description & Specifications
Template: “Empire of Afterlife” Melodic Techno Ableton Template (zipped Ableton Live 11 .als file and project)
Process: After your purchase you will receive an email with your personal download link (within a few minutes). Make sure you have the mentioned necessary software, packs and plugins installed on your system.
All used samples are part of the zipped project file (drum samples as well).
