‘XRATED RNB 3’ is a sample pack inspired by artists such as Bryson Tiller, Chris Brown, Frank Ocean, Jacquees, Tyler the Creator, and Anderson Paak. This sample pack is based on five Construction Kits loaded with drums, 808, bass, synth melodies and keys. Each individual Construction Kit comes complete with isolated kick, hi-hats, tops, percs, snare and full drum loops, bassline loops, keys, synth loops, and pluck loops, all neatly organized and labelled with tempo info!
Conductors face a multitude of hurdles as they strive to obtain a foothold in the professional world. Once they have attained a position, there are obstacles both on and off the podium to keeping that position as well as advancing in the profession. Founding conductor of the Cleveland Pops Orchestra, pedagogue, and frequent guest conductor for both pops and classical concerts, Carl Topilow is in a unique position to help conductors navigate their careers.
The Orchestral Conductor’s Career Handbook takes readers through the step-by-step process of establishing a career in orchestral conducting. Through his experiences with professional, pops, conservatory, community, youth, summer festival, opera and ballet orchestras, Topilow provides practical tips for conductors of any orchestra type and at any level of their development. Filled with personal stories from Topilow’s career, the handbook provides insights on an array of topics, including applying for conducting programs and conducting positions, connecting with audiences, developing interpersonal relations within the orchestra family, starting your own orchestra, interacting with donors, and beyond. It also presents fresh ideas for programming, rehearsing, and approaches to standard repertoire pieces.
Perfect Harmony & Melting Strains: Transformations of Music in Early Modern Culture Between Sensibility & Abstractio
Perfect Harmony and Melting Strains assembles interdisciplinary essays investigating concepts of harmony during a transitional period, in which the Pythagorean notion of a harmoniously ordered cosmos competed with and was transformed by new theories about sound – and new ways of conceptualizing the world. From the perspectives of philosophy, literary scholarship, and musicology, the contributions consider music’s ambivalent position between mathematical abstraction and sensibility, between the metaphysics of harmony and the physics of sound.
Essays examine the late medieval and early modern history of ideas concerning the nature of music and cosmic harmony, and trace their transformations in early modern musico-literary discourses. Within this framework, essays further offer original readings of important philosophical, literary, and musicological works. This interdisciplinary volume brings into focus the transformation of a predominant Renaissance worldview and of music’s scientific, theological, literary, as well as cultural conceptions and functions in the early modern period, and will be of interest to scholars of the classics, philosophy, musicology, as well as literary and cultural studies.
Wholesome vocal leads and doo-wop harmonies from the ’50s and ’60s. Let the needle drop.
Drop a nickel in the slot for vocal stylings from the ’50s and ’60s,when doo-wop met early R&B and rock ‘n’ roll. Wholesome leads and harmonies, with the magic of vintage record crates
Ambient Trap Vocals features hypnotic voices, ethereal vocal layers, and contemporary trap songstarters. High-end vocal production meets dark themes and experimental processing. As always, we use a high-end analog recording chain, and then this time around, we transformed and manipulated the performances into unique chopped loops and one-shots, designed to act as a spark for new ideas or to seamlessly add color, soul, and character.
Discover a full collection of atmospheric vocal hooks, chops, and ambient layers dosed in custom sound design, plus a full set of melodic stacks, textured pads, resampled synths, and thick synthetic bass. Ideal to layer into dark RnB and Drill or lace into Ambient Trap, Wave, and futuristic bass music. Drift deep into this selection of all-new, original samples, and premium vocals.
Please note, this is a vocal and melodic pack only. Drums and fx used in the demo track are for demo purposes only.
Benediction is a Sound Doctrine sample pack taking its namesake from the concluding portion of a church service. Many times in the Black church, this part of the service is a congregational song or hymn that would tie the knot on the gathering and experience, an “Amen moment” that sends people out signifying dismissal.
This pack contains 15 melodic loops of contemporary gospel sounds and singing that typifies the Black church experience in a classic way. Add the soul and flare that gospel brings to your tracks with musical moments that are certainly memorable.
Some musical ideas need experimental input. LAYERED by Flintpope is a set of 32 textures, some industrial, some ambient, many of them with a rhythmic element; some even contain broken beats. From faux orchestral to white noise tape hiss these sounds can either lie in the bed or take your track somewhere else. It’s up to you.
Frontend Masters Web Audio Synthesis & Visualization TUTORIAL
Learn to create sounds using nothing but code! Synthesize and visualize audio, and add fun effects with JavaScript. Use these skills to build custom audio into games, web applications, or art projects in the browser. You’ll appreciate the richness of sound that is only possible with the web audio API!
This course and others like it are available as part of our Frontend Masters video subscription.
Published: December 7, 2021
Table of Contents
Introduction
Introduction
Matt DesLauriers introduces the course by providing an overview of the course material, a walkthrough of the course repo, and some prerequisites. The demos provided in this segment involve mp3, buffered mp3, gain, waveform, meter, and frequency.
How Audio Works
Matt discusses the basics of how audio and digital audio works including a description of sound, waveforms, and frequency. A closer look into what a waveform represents is also covered in this segment.
Web Audio in Art
Matt walks through some artistic examples that involve the use of web audio. Personal projects with web audio including art, audio visualization, a game, and work from other developers are provided to showcase web audio’s many applications.
Web Audio API
Web Audio API Overview
Matt provides a brief overview of what the Web Audio API is, a graph of how audio data flows from input to output, and how the API works.
Playing an Audio File
Matt walks through the JavaScript being used to stream an mp3 file through the browser overtime using the Web Audio API. Streaming audio is a better option for audio files with a longer track length to allow the file to be played as it downloads instead of waiting for the file to be completely loaded in. A brief walkthrough of a typical course sketch is also provided in this segment.
Buffering Audio
Matt discusses buffering an audio file to fully download and decode the file to allow the audio to immediately be played. To help avoid errors from edge cases a best practice is to make sure the audioContext is resumed before playing audio.
GainNode
Matt demonstrates passing an AudioNode through a second GainNode before the end AudioDestinationNode using the createGain function to allow for simple adjustments to the audio’s volume. Gain values should be adjusted gradually to avoid pops and clicks in the audio.
Visualization
Visualizing Audio Overview
Matt discusses mapping a waveform into a digital space with arrays and JavaScript using an analyserNode and the Web Audio API function getFloatTimeDomainData. The getFloatTimeDomainData takes in a dataArray which designates the window of time ahead of the playhead to be analyzed.
Visualizing a Waveform
Matt walks through the code being used in the waveform demo to visualize a waveform including creating a Float32Array to store the waveform data. A brief discussion on the advanced waveform demo, which builds on the first example with extra features and browser support, is also provided in this segment.
Volume Meter
Matt demonstrates using the waveform data to create a visualization based on the volume of the audio track. The advanced meter demo uses the Web Audio API to help split the audio track into different colored frequency bands to help create a more interesting visualization. A brief discussion regarding the BiquadFilterNode is also covered in this segment.
Frequency
Frequency Analysis Overview
Matt discusses what it means to analyze the frequency, provides multiple visualizations of the frequency spectrum, and discusses how frequencies can be used. A demonstration of using the tool spectrum to visualize the frequency graph and display a chosen decibel and hertz value of any audio file passed to it is also provided in this segment.
Frequency Analysis Demo
Matt walks through the code provided in the frequency demos and discusses how to use frequencyToIndex, indexToFrequency, and audioSignal to help visualize parts of an audio track without using a the biquad filter. A student’s question regarding if fft is the only frequency analysis supported by the Web Audio API is also covered in this segment..
Advanced Frequency and Frequency Q&A
Matt discusses he advanced filter demo which builds on the previous frequency demo by using the frequency to map to a generative artwork. Student questions regarding how to adjust the fixed parameters for a live audio source and how to treat files at different bit depths for dB FS are also covered in this section.
Tone
Synth & Tone Generation
Matt discusses synthesizing audio from code without using any source files and demonstrates some examples of synthesizing audio with code. Examples of using Tone.js for interactive and procedural sound is also covered in this segment.
Tone.js Demos
Matt discusses the open source JavaScript library Tone.js, how the base code is laid out for creating a Tone.synth, and provides the API documentation. A walkthrough of each part of code involved in synthesis in the tone demo and a demonstration of a game that uses a procedurally generated soundtrack is also provided in this segment.
Tone.js Effects
Matt discusses the various effects included in Tone.js such as FeedbackDelay and walks through how to apply those effects to an audio track. A walkthrough of a demonstration using FeedbackDelay, Reverb, Filter, and editing the envelope is also covered in this segment.
Sequencer Demo
Matt discusses creating a sequencer using PolySynth to create a richer sound with multiple oscillators, Transport for timing events, and a randomizeSequencer function to randomize the played notes. A walkthrough of the code used to create the sequencer is also provided in this segment.
Resources
Learning Synths with Ableton
Matt walks through the various resources provided in the learning synths playground by Ableton including some material covered in this course such as amplitude, pitch, and effects. A demonstration of the synth recipes section, which provides settings for some common synth sounds, is also provided in this segment.
Inspiration
Matt provides some inspiration for future web audio projects by providing various artists works that involve or could possibly be made with web audio.
Further Reading
Matt discusses some links and provides a section on the course repository for further reading about web audio including GitHub pages that collect web audio resources, math, learning audio, fun web audio sites, and tools.
Wrapping Up
Wrapping Up
Matt wraps up the course by providing well wishes on continued learning of web audio and answering student questions regarding web audio limitations, kick or beat detection, and tools to combine audio and a mobile device’s gyroscope. Student questions regarding using web sockets along with audio to sync users in real time, routing signals to and from outside of the browser, and how to find inspiration for future projects.
– This Pack includes 10 exclusive melody loops composed by FXLICIA.
– Stems included for every composition.
– (30+) One Shots folder (Every Instrument/sound used for creating the melodies, exported as one shots)
– Style: Don Toliver, Travis Scott, Drake, Jackboys, OZ.
Shape live drums, samples or any source you like in a swift, creative and intuitive way. Achieve better noise reduction, instrument separation and de-bleeding in a plugin optimised for power, fast results and creativity.
Creative Looping
Use poltergate creatively thanks to its extended feature set and go a bit crazy if you want to!
For example, use the EQ graph and spike to target whatever instrument you would like to use in a sampled loop.
Then set the release to sync the tempo and even automate it to create rhythmic effects, using the curve feature to tweak the feel of it.
Then, with the dynamics section, exaggerate the attack or the fat, even going into clipping territory to turn it into something really different.
Bleed Shall Not Pass!
For poltergate, denise created their own, unique de-bleeding algorithm to achieve the precision they wanted. With just three intuitive knobs, you can keep the bleed out while preserving both the punch and the resonance of the drum.
It’s triggered by the same threshold as the gate, so you can save time by adjusting both the gate and the de-bleeder at once rather than separately. Take care of that cymbal spill and low-end rumble on toms like nothing else.
Inspiration
The process of creating poltergate was a close collaboration between the members of the denise team. Tweaking settings and experimenting with the optimal algorithm was a very precise and time-consuming process: for months, denise created various versions of the plugin, sometimes several a day.
In the end, they decided to create their own de-bleeding technology to achieve the result they wanted and introduced specific options like the spike shaper.
denise also put extra consideration into the graph’s colours and clarity to make it as easy as possible to see what’s going on.
Full Control Over Your Dynamics
The dynamics tab combines limiting, clipping & transient shaping. Exaggerate the attack or punch, even going into clipping territory to turn it into something really different.
Features
Built-in Sidechain EQ Graph – Detection of the signal in maximum detail.
Transient Design, Gating and De-Bleeding in One – New possibilities and time-saving.
Spike Control – Unique feature to detect transients more easily.
Presets – Perfect to get you going.
Transparent Clipper – Shape & colour to make your sound extra thick.
Unique De-Bleeder Algorithm – Bleed shall not pass with these 3 simple controls.
Audition Mode – Listen isolated to what’s being gated.
Flip – Reverse gate to hear what’s left out of the signal.
‘Cinematic Action Vol 1’ by Mango Loops brings you five action movie sound Construction Kits in WAV format that will take your Cinematic & background music scoring to the next level.
Ideal for use in scoring horror, action, and suspense, this pack has been carefully crafted by Bharat Gosher, a veteran rhythm and percussion programmer. All the loops are 100% Royalty-Free, so once purchased, you can use them in your commercial release without having any hidden cost.
‘Cinematic Horror Vol 1’ by Mango Loops brings you five Construction Kits in WAV format which will take you to the next level in your Cinematic Horror Background Music scoring. These are suitable for use in Horror, Suspense, Impacts, Action, and Drama sequences.
This pack has been carefully created by Bharat Gosher, a veteran rhythm and percussion programmer. All the loops are 100% Royalty-Free, so once purchased, you can use them in your commercial release without having any hidden cost.
‘Cinematic Horror Vol 2’ by Mango Loops brings you five Construction Kits in WAV format which will take you to the next level in your Cinematic Horror background music scoring. These are suitable for use in Horror, Suspense, Impacts, Action, and Drama sequences.
This pack has been carefully created by Bharat Gosher, a veteran rhythm and percussion programmer. All the loops are 100% Royalty-Free, so once purchased, you can use them in your commercial release without having any hidden cost.
‘Cinematic Suspense Vol 1’ by Mango Loops brings you five Construction Kits in WAV format which will take you to next level in your Cinematic suspense background music scoring.
This pack is suitable for use in Horror, Suspense, Action, and drama sequences, or in any project you’re working on where suspenseful music is needed. Created by Bharat Gosher, a veteran rhythm and percussion programmer, this pack is 100% Royalty-Free so once purchased, you can use them in your commercial release without having any hidden costs.
‘Cinematic Suspense Vol 2’ by Mango Loops brings you five Construction Kits in WAV format which will help you produce high-quality Cinematic and suspenseful background music.
Inside the Construction Kits you’ll find strings, percussion, drums, FX, brass, and more, suitable for use in Horror, Suspense, Action and Drama sequences. This product was created by Bharat Gosher, a veteran rhythm and percussion programmer.
All the loops & samples are 100% Royalty-Free, so once purchased, you can use them in your commercial releases without having any hidden cost.
