Warp Academy Power Habits of Professional Producers TUTORIAL
We’ve all heard of the Pareto Principle right? How 80% of your results are driven by 20% of your efforts. It’s a tidy concept, but how do you figure out the right 20% so you can ditch the dead weight?
The answer? By tracking down the uber-successful high achievers in the field, deeply studying what they do, and modelling them. That’s easier said than done, which is why I created this live-stream.
Over the past 20 years I’ve been studying the secrets of high performance. That journey has taken me through countless books, coaching programs, workshops and seminars, as well as personal coaching programs. I’ve been able to test, apply, learn, and optimize these processes myself to discover what works and what doesn’t.
I’ve also interviewed tons of prolific producers and spent time in the studio with them. I’ve had the opportunity to have off-the-record chats at festivals, and observe them in action. Then, through my Accelerate 1-on-1 coaching program, I’ve had plentiful experience implementing these power habits with my students and tweaking the results.
The start of a new year is a very powerful time to reflect on how we’re approaching our craft and re-imagine our process for creating music. We can look at what’s working and what’s not working, then make key tweaks and refocus our efforts for the year ahead. I invite you to join me as I distill down the essence and profound discoveries of my 2 decade long journey into high performance in the studio.
WHAT YOU’LL LEARN:
Learn to work smarter not harder!
Discover key habits, mindsets, and systems that set pros apart from amateurs and hobbyists.
I’ll unveil 7 critical power habits that make the world’s top artists excel to wild levels of success.
If you want to leave 2020 in the dust and set yourself up to achieve MASSIVE things in 2021, join us for this stream.
WHAT YOU GET:
2 hours of training
Q&A period
A replay recording you can watch for 60 days following the event
Capsun ProAudio Latin Stacks Live & Resampled Vol 2 WAV
Latin Stacks: Live & Resampled Vol. 2 is the newest installment of our popular Latin Stacks series and continues to pay homage to the classic rhythms, melodies, and live instrumentation of the Latin countries. This collection was inspired by songs of yearning that conceal themes of love, heartbreak, conflict, and celebration. Created in collaboration with Arthouse Acoustics, we recorded live upright pianos, dusty trumpet stacks, spirited acoustic guitars, and moody double bass. Crackling vintage Latin vinyl blend with the sounds and spirit of grindhouse and exploitation cinema.
The Arthouse Acoustics team created full compositions and song sections and recorded with professional session musicians. These ‘stacks’ are included as full loops and also soloed layers. We curated the best selection of loops and one-shots from the performances and chopped and sprinkled FX for instant inspiration.
We resampled the compositions, creating loop layers that combine the sonics of rare vinyl with modern left-field sound design. Using classic hip-hop chopping, pitch and time, reversing, saturation, and secret sauce, the samples could inspire trap and rap as easily as house, pop, and EDM.
We also recorded traditional Latin percussion rhythms and essential live percussion one-shots. Every loop has been meticulously key-tagged and tempo-synced.
Latin Stacks: Live & Resampled Vol 2 by Capsun ProAudio continues the journey from influence to inspiration via talented pro musicians, thoughtful recording techniques, and tasteful experimentation.
O: Forbes Pipe Organ – An expansive Pipe Organ Sample Library
Experience O: Forbes Pipe Organ sampled from the renowned Harold Miossi Hall, at the Performing Arts Center in San Luis Obispo. This VST pipe organ brings a fresh approach and modern capabilities to a classic instrument.
With O, you do not need to be a trained organist to reproduce the classic sound of a pipe organ. O sets itself apart with sonic and design flexibility, providing ready-made traditional and modern pipe combinations as well as sound design capabilities that deliver big in modern scoring situations.
Experience the joy of this meticulously recorded Organ sample library!
Overview
O: Forbes Pipe Organ is an extremely powerful library that captures the heart and soul of a classic pipe organ, but also allows you to create dazzling designed sounds. With more than 16,000 samples captured, a powerful interface for combining and layering sounds, and onboard tools for FX processing and sound design, this instrument will help you achieve amazing results with ease.
Very few composers and producers know how to approach a traditional pipe organ, and unless you are a professional organist, there is very little opportunity to learn. In developing this library, we sat with the in-house organist for the Harold Miossi Hall Performing Arts Center in San Luis Obispo who put together a list of pipe combinations that are most commonly used during organ performances. You won’t need to go through the guesswork or years of education required to get great pipe organ sound. We have included these combinations as the first page of Presets to make sure every user of this library is set to go right out of the box.
O also includes a powerful custom GUI that allows you to combine layers of organ samples within sections, adjust levels of individual layers, and apply FX to different sections to create beautiful custom pipe organ sounds. You can then easily save and recall them in the 30 available user-preset slots.
This library contains 150 presets, taking all the hassle out of building traditional combinations of sections and pipes, as well as modern designed sounds.
Use the onboard FX processing to further modify your sound. Control the FX for different sections independently, or use the master function to apply FX to all sections simultaneously. Use Send FX for extended sound design functions and FX routing, change the sample ADSR, or use the short notes mode to get even more variety.
Control everything using simple tools at your fingertips, and explore a tremendous world of organ potential!
The New Rhythmic Aura Vol. 1 “Acoustic” library is a highly intuitive, yet advanced scoring tool designed to inspire and augment your compositions. The library is entirely made of custom acoustic source material made by Academy Award Winning composer, Troels Folmann.
The idea is to offer you an infinite amount of pulsing textures – that immediately creates a textural aura around your music and create a drive and pulse to it.
Rhythmic Aura consists of over 540 organic arpeggiations coming in 10 different source categories created with source material from live orchestra, 7 and 8 string electric guitars, semi-acoustic guitars, electric violin, electric mandolin, voices, tuned percussion and tons of extreme sound design – all processed through a huge variety of amps and mastered to perfection.
The majority of the library is tune based and key switches allow you to sculpt the aura to the key of your compositions, while other key switches allow you to trigger FX (ex. delay, filter, lofi, stereo field etc). Rhythmic Aura allows you to create compositions from scratch, but it can also be used as an underscoring tool allowing composers to quickly “dress” their compositions to perfection.
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 Acoustic contains hundreds of completely host-tempo BPM synced rhythmic textures made with the following instruments: Alternative Custom Stringed Instruments, Banjo, 5-String Electric Bass, 6- and 7 String Electric Guitar, Electric Violin, Electro-Acoustic Guitar, Symphony Orchestra, A large assortment of Tuned Percussion and modern Vocal textures.
Complete Control
Rhythmic Aura is all about control – whether you want to change the pitch or tempo of the textural 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 “tighthen” the sound of the aura. We also added Filters with Cut-Off and Resonation control. Full tempo-sync features, Dynamics, Attack, Release and a control that shows you what key you are in. 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 over 1.500 sample parameters randomize with several easy clicks. Also controllable from the front faced FX section, ourFX 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 Vol.1 contains a built-in articulation sequencer and stack control. The articulation sequencer 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 syncs 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
Alternative Strings and 6 String Bass Auras
Electric Banjo and Electric Violin Auras
Electric Guitar and Electro-Acoustic Guitar Auras
Live Orchestra and Vocal based Auras
Tuned Percussion and Brain of Troels Auras
540 Organic Tonal arpeggiations with high intuitive and flexible controls
All auras made from acoustic sources
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 1 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
t), 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
‘Vocal Hits Vol 4’ by Roundel Sounds is a Pop sample pack loaded with vocal and instrumental stems and MIDI.
This pack is a new addition to the ‘Vocal Hits’ series filled with great guitar riffs and sweet pianos that will go perfectly with the catchy Pop vocals included. Plus, you will find catchy and beautiful melodies that will help you structure and create your track. The 103 vocal stems contained within are rich and strong and come in both wet and dry variants.
The instrument samples include real electric guitars and pianos along with the the catchy female and male vocals. The flexibility of MIDI files as well as the simplicity of the preview demos will only be the stepping stone of what you can achieve with this product. Just drag and drop the elements of each Construction Kit and use the MIDI files to freely build your own concept.
Beat Studio Acoustics – Perfect sound for every studio
Desktop and home studios are, in most cases, anything but acoustically optimal, which makes an objective evaluation of a mix extremely difficult. How can the most common acoustic problems, such as reflections, be dealt with? How can weaknesses in the room be found? We will not only show you how to optimize your room acoustics, but also which monitoring solutions are best suited to the room and your workflow and how modules and speakers are ideally placed.
The BEAT eBooks – Quick Skills for Creators
The BEAT eBooks are all about making: Designing sounds, producing hits, setting up studios, selling and streaming music and much more. Each eBook offers its own individual focus, from synthesizers to recording to performance and sound design, with both technical and creative depth. Also included are solutions for mixing and mastering, enriched with market overviews and interviews for valuable experiences from everyday studio life. With the optional software downloads, you get everything you need to create.
Dark Drill from BFractal Music is a collection of 74 sounds that are intended to build Trap, UK Drill, NY Drill music. The sample pack consists of carefully prepared samples of instruments such as Piano, Synth, 808, Drums, Pad . This library was inspired by top musicians, including Travis Scott, Pop Smoke. All sounds and samples are licensed as Royalty-Free for you to use in your commercial productions or even for DJ/Remix purposes. Spark your creativity with Dark Drill from BFractal Music and give your unfinished tracks exactly what they need to come back to life. Spark Your Creativity!
Dark Chants – Revolution Edition is a curated collection of timely and powerful words, phrases and ideas, all delivered in a memorable dark voice. These samples are great for adding cinematic impact to Hip Hop, Trap and politically-charged music, videos and other broadcast mediums. The time for change has arrived and we hope that these chants help inspire your productions, that will in-turn inspire others for many years to come.
*The background music and effects heard in the demo are not included in the pack. Each vocal sample featured in the demo track is presented in its entirety and is included in the pack. No processing of any kind has been applied. So what you hear is what you get!
Get ready to lift off with ‘Cinematic Textures 1’!
Dark percussion and vast synth pads will pull you in, opening up new dimensions of sound and space. Explore these colourful FX and cinematic swooshes and pick up some sparkly toplines along the way. This lush collection also features subtle dreamy vocals, perfect for rounding off the soundtrack to your interstellar voyage. ‘Cinematic Textures 1’ – your personal guide to the galaxy!
Cinematic Textures contains a wide range of different scoring sounds, which are divided into different folder and subfolder for quick navigation. The product is 3 GB in size all in all. The library offers a total of 611 scoring loops.
With each folder you will get a huge selection of different sounds, all of which work well together or can be used individually. They are pre-mixed and ready to use, with perfect EQ and light compression. They have been carefully and professionally recorded by proven experts, using top quality studio equipment, with sound optimized and recorded in 24Bit and 44.1 KHz.
Band Pop takes you back!
These organic and powerful single track recordings are reminiscent of the distinct pop rock that dominated the 2000s radio stations. Be it drums, bass, guitar or keys, Band Pop has got you covered. If you love artists like James Blunt, Hoobastank and Avril Lavigne, you’re sure to enjoy working this brand new sample pack into your favourite tracks!
Band Pop includes 7 huge construction kits, which consist of 4-9 subfolders for quick navigation.
The sub folder of each construction kit contains different variation parts and turnarounds. Each folder has its own demo mix to give you a quick musical overview.
The drums were recorded with multitrack recordings. Bassdrum, snare, hi hats, toms and cymbals were recorded separately for drum recording. Furthermore, all instrument are available individually too.
Instrument List:
Electric Bass, Electric Guitar, Acoustic Guitar, Piano, Strings, Pad and various Synths.
Each folder offers a huge selection of different loops, all of which work well together or can be used individually. All loops of a folder can easily be combined. Thus you can select loops for a complete song or just use a sample for your song – all within seconds. These loops are easy and intuitive to work with, enabling a fast workflow, which, of course, is essential in music production.
The product is 4,3 GB in size all in all. The tempos are between 100 BPM – 137 BPM. The library contains 37 folder and offers a total of 988 loops in different pop & rock styles.
The recordings and sound designs are made with high-quality recording equipment to capture a tremendous closeness of each sound.
With each folder you will get a huge selection of different sounds, all of which work well together or can be used individually. They are pre-mixed and ready to use, with perfect EQ and light compression. They have been carefully and professionally recorded by proven experts, using top quality studio equipment, with sound optimized.
Cinematic Sound FX 1 offers a vast variety of SFX samples for creating tension or coloring a scene through anything from heavy impacts and whooshes to soft and subtle soundscape transitions. Energetic percussion and driven arpeggios will enhance your action and add the finishing touches to a full cinematic experience.
Cinematic Sound FX 1 is another release from Image Sounds. In this great expert series, we focus exclusively on score sounds. The recordings and sound designs are made with high-quality recording equipment to capture a tremendous closeness of each sound. You will not only notice the textbook quality, but also the variety and high-quality processing we are eager to produce.
Cinematic Sound FX 1 contains a wide range of different SFX sounds, which are divided into different folder and subfolder for quick navigation.
The structure of the main folders looks like this:
Accents
Ambient Beds
Impacts
Rythms
Transitions
Whooshes
The subfolders are called e.g. scary, mystery, disturbed etc.
The product is 1,94 GB in size all in all. The library offers a total of 706 SFX scoring sounds & loops.
With each folder you will get a huge selection of different sounds, all of which work well together or can be used individually. They are pre-mixed and ready to use, with perfect EQ and light compression. They have been carefully and professionally recorded by proven experts, using top quality studio equipment, with sound optimized and recorded in 24Bit and 44.1 KHz.
Embrace the beautiful with Commercial Ballads 1!
An array of catchy melodies, lush harmonic layers and soft yet impactful grooves will pull you into a world of emotion. Let soaring guitar solos tug at your heartstrings and round off the listening experience of your next big production.
Commercial Ballads 1 is another release from Image Sounds and includes 10 huge construction kits, which consist of 3-5 subfolders for quick navigation.
The sub folder of each construction kit contains different variation parts and turnarounds. Each folder has its own demo mix to give you a quick musical overview.
The drums were recorded with multitrack recordings. Bassdrum, snare, hi hats, toms and cymbals were recorded separately for drum recording. Furthermore, all instrument are available individually too.
Instrument List:
Electric Bass, Electric Guitar, Acoustic Guitar, Piano, Strings, Pad and various Synths.
Each folder offers a huge selection of different loops, all of which work well together or can be used individually. All loops of a folder can easily be combined. Thus you can select loops for a complete song or just use a sample for your song – all within seconds. These loops are easy and intuitive to work with, enabling a fast workflow, which, of course, is essential in music production.
The product is 2,1 GB in size all in all. The tempos are between 62 BPM – 140 BPM. The library contains 37 folder and offers a total of 525 loops in different pop & rock styles.
The recordings and sound designs are made with high-quality recording equipment to capture a tremendous closeness of each sound. You will not only notice the textbook quality, but also the variety and high-quality processing we are eager to produce.
With each folder you will get a huge selection of different sounds, all of which work well together or can be used individually. They are pre-mixed and ready to use, with perfect EQ and light compression. They have been carefully and professionally recorded by proven experts, using top quality studio equipment, with sound optimized.
Welcome to the candy shop!
Crunk Kings immediately takes you back to platinum selling artists such as 50 Cent and Lil Jon. A delicious combination of mean vocals, thick beats and edgy synths will pull you back into the club. Get your hands on this sweet selection of sounds!
Crunk Kings is another release from Image Sounds and includes 18 construction kits, which consist different subfolders for quick navigation.
The sub folder of each construction kit contains a variation part or turnaround. Each folder has its own demo mix to give you a quick musical overview.
Furthermore, all instrument and drum tracks are available individually.
Each folder offers a huge selection of different loops, all of which work well together or can be used individually. All loops of a folder can easily be combined. Thus you can select loops for a complete song or just use a sample for your song – all within seconds. These loops are easy and intuitive to work with, enabling a fast workflow, which, of course, is essential in music production.
The product is 2,1 GB in size all in all. The library offers a total of 628 loops in different styles.
The recordings and sound designs are made with high-quality recording equipment to capture a tremendous closeness of each sound. You will not only notice the textbook quality, but also the variety and high-quality processing we are eager to produce.
With each folder you will get a huge selection of different sounds, all of which work well together or can be used individually. They are pre-mixed and ready to use, with perfect EQ and light compression. They have been carefully and professionally recorded by proven experts, using top quality studio equipment, with sound optimized.
‘Go Disco’ stays true to its name!
Bubbly bass lines, funky guitars and that steady groove everyone loves bring back the spark of the 70s and cleverly blend in some modern synth pop and house elements. A tight and juicy treasure chest filled with musical gems sure to awaken your inner dancing queen – or king!
Go Disco is another release from Image Sounds and includes 18 construction kits, which consist different subfolders for quick navigation.
The sub folder of each construction kit contains different variation parts or turnarounds. Each folder has its own demo mix to give you a quick musical overview.
Furthermore, all instrument and drum tracks are available individually. Each Drum kit contains a mixed stereo drum loop.
Each folder offers a huge selection of different loops, all of which work well together or can be used individually. All loops of a folder can easily be combined. Thus you can select loops for a complete song or just use a sample for your song – all within seconds. These loops are easy and intuitive to work with, enabling a fast workflow, which, of course, is essential in music production.
The product is 1,83 GB in size all in all. The tempos are between 120 BPM – 130 BPM. The library offers a total of 652 loops in different styles.
The recordings and sound designs are made with high-quality recording equipment to capture a tremendous closeness of each sound. You will not only notice the textbook quality, but also the variety and high-quality processing we are eager to produce.
With each folder you will get a huge selection of different sounds, all of which work well together or can be used individually. They are pre-mixed and ready to use, with perfect EQ and light compression. They have been carefully and professionally recorded by proven experts, using top quality studio equipment, with sound optimized.
Jazz Piano is the epitome of classiness.
Classic comping, catchy top lining, colourful improvisation all on top of that rock solid foundation of a steady walking bass and bouncy drums. Mainly performed by an authentic jazz trio, the occasional solo addition might catch you by surprise. This library contains bright chords and never-forgotten melodies, suitable both in the background and as a solo part.
Take the front row seat in your favourite jazz bar with ‘Jazz Piano 1’!
The piano was recorded with different microphones, Neumann TLM 103 and Neumann SM 2, in order to be able to design the sound flexibly. Decide for yourself how the sound of the piano should be.
For each harmony pattern different piano themes were recorded. Furthermore, additional overdubs were recorded, which are located in a separate folder. So there is always the possibility to create new unique piano melodies and themes. The possibilities are almost inexhaustible.
The product is 4,3 GB in size all in all. The tempos range between 73 BPM – 240 BPM. The library contains a total of 1870 loops in many different jazz styles.
With each folder you will get a huge selection of different piano loops. Thus you can select piano loops for a complete song or just use a sample for your song. These loops are easy and intuitive to work with, enabling a fast workflow, which, of course, is essential in music production.
Each and every loop contains tempo and key information. They are pre-mixed and ready to use, with perfect EQ and light compression. They have been carefully and professionally recorded by proven experts, using top quality studio equipment, with sound optimized and recorded in 24Bit and 44.1 KHz.
