If you’re learning to make beats and produce your own electronic music, this course will explain the principles of familiar beats and rhythmic theory that will help you make better tracks!
I’ve been an electronic musician and performer since the days of Ableton 4 and this course encapsulates rhythm fundamentals that every beginner electronic musician needs to know. I’ve learned how to capture beats more easily on Push 2 and how to keep beats feeling human, without them sounding too imperfect…
In this class you’ll learn:
What are polyrhythms
Humanizing vs. Quantiizing
Making beats (House, UK Garage & 2-Step)
Tips and tricks for faster Push 2 beat making
This course is ideal for any electronic musician who wants to understand (visually and intellectually) how to create both familiar/standard beats AND innovative/original beats. From the basics on up, this course will expand your understanding of rhythms and inspire you to reinvent your beats (and maybe make a breakthrough on that old track :).
Heaven + Hell is a concept drum kit featuring a collection of futuristic sounds. The Heaven and Hell folders include a sonically contrasting soundscape, containing drums that are perfect for any type of beat.
Blimey. We like to think we’ve had some pretty striking covers over the years, but the photo of Röyksopp on the front of this month’s Electronic Sound really is something else. We have a weighty interview with the unorthodox Norwegian group inside the magazine, plus loads more to entertain you.
Röyksopp’s massively popular 2001 debut album, ‘Melody AM’, made the pair the first new electronic superstars of the 21st century. Two decades down the line, Svein Berge and Torbjørn Brundtland are bossing 2022 with the release of two terrific albums in the space of only four months. ‘Profound Mysteries’ and ‘Profound Mysteries II’ embrace an array of electronic styles – slinky pop songs, funky bangers, wistful moments and much more – but the albums are actually part of a wider art project that also involves 20 short films and 20 specially created digital artefacts, one for each of the 20 tracks. A lot of it is mighty strange stuff and it all adds up to a thrilling and truly unique audio-visual trip.
As well as our cover feature, we have a king-sized eight-page review of this year’s Bluedot Festival, with Björk, Hannah Peel, Anna Meredith, Groove Armada and Public Service Broadcasting leading the way. This month’s other interviews meanwhile include Gwenno, Anne Dudley, Working Men’s Club, Ron Trent, Luke Abbott, Caterina Barbieri and Yann Tiersen. Gwenno’s ‘Tresor’ album has recently been nominated for the Mercury Prize, by the way. That’s one for your shopping list before you even open the magazine, then.
CREATE A PRO SOUND DELAY TACTICS The best (and cheapest) plugins plus step-by-step delay workshop CM/interview CHICANE Nick Bracegirdle – aka Chicane – made his name in the ’90s with songs like Offshore, Sunstroke and Saltwater.
After experimenting with all sorts of different genres, his new album returns to the sound that characterised the Balearic/trance heyday 15 Questions with… THE MAGHREBAN The latest album from Ayman Rostom – aka The Maghreban, formerly known as Doctor Zygote – mixes Middle Eastern, jazz and techno with, well, everything else! Back To Basics THE PRO GUIDE: HEADROOM & LEVELS We go back to basics to explore gainstaging and levelling up (or not!)
Beat 09/22: 111 Producer Tips for better and more finished tracks
How much content does a track need? Am I investing too little time? Am I too cerebral in my approach? Why can‘t my sound keep up with Spotify and Beatport? These are questions that everyone has asked themselves at some point. But now there are answers! In this special, we‘ll give you concrete advice on what to consider when arranging, how to improve the quality of your tracks, and how to produce release-ready material. Extra-large collection of tips included!
Win prizes worth over 10.000 € with our Song Contest!
Get to the point in 15 seconds! The rules are very simple and with a bit of luck you’ll be one of the 20 winners. Prizes include: ASM Hydrasynth Desktop, various Arturia software boxes, Audient EVO 16 audio interface, Apogee Duet 3, Focal Alpha 80 Evo monitors, an Akai MPC Live 2, Novation Circuit Tracks and many more. We’re keeping our fingers crossed for you!
For Free: Epic Grooves for Scores, Trap and Symphonic EDM
A large selection of expressive percussion instruments await you in this month‘s Software Highlight. With 23 playable instruments and 25 loop instruments, Orchestral Percussion for IK Multimedia‘s SampleTank 4 CS sample player has everything you need to add symphonic intensity to your track. The included 102 MIDI patterns, complete with crescendos and rolls, help spice up your epic rhythms.
89 Stabs & Basses for Trap like 2 Chainz & Night Lovell
Tuned cars, naughty basses and the middle finger at the ready… we totally admit: For this sound bank, we were inspired by the YouTube channel of the Gangster Gang crew. Their sound is simply the best that Trap and Grime have to offer in 2022. And 4.5 million followers can’t lie. Let more than 2 GB basses, synths, brass stabs and acoustic instruments guide you to new, atmospheric tracks.
‘Shocking Deep House For Sylenth1’ contains an eclectic collection of Deep House presets for Sylenth. This pack has been painstakingly put together to capture the true essence and signature sounds of Deep House. The synth patches include evolving pads, leads, vintage stabs, catchy plucks and fat squared basses!
Introducing reMIDI 2, the follow up to reMIDI that allows you to take MIDI sampling to the next level with its new features. reMIDI 2 is a MIDI effect plugin that samples musical notes from MIDI files that allows you to quickly find, chop, key shift and time-stretch samples and map them to a controller.
reMIDI 2 is a plugin instrument capable of outputting MIDI as well as audio. A simple sine wave synth sound is built in for scratch work, so you can quickly find a loop for export as a MIDI file entirely within it.
The idea is to trigger other instruments via reMIDI, and how this is set up depends on the host DAW. For VST hosts (ie, Ableton Live), reMIDI loads as an instrument plugin onto a MIDI track, the output of which is sent to a second track (hosting the target instrument) using the DAW’s routing system.
For Audio Unit hosts (ie, Logic Pro), the included reMIDI_MFX MIDI effect plugin is loaded up instead. This is identical to the regular reMIDI, but it sits in front of the target instrument on the same track, outputting MIDI directly. It’s certainly the more elegant of the two approaches, although it only captures the raw triggering notes to the track, not the chords output by the plugin.
Each pad is assignable to have its own selected slice from the MIDI file loaded into the pad. You can combine different MIDI files (for melodic/drum MIDI) or record MIDI into pads from reMIDI MIDI input/output.
Now Included with reMIDI 2: SW Jazz Complete MIDI Pack
The complete set contains over 1000 files in 11 volumes. Each volume contains 100 Jazz block chord progressions in MIDI format.
These MIDI files can be dragged into any DAW, but why not just use SongWish’s reMIDI 2, a MIDI sampler VST. reMIDI 2 can load these MIDI files with some convenient features to play and edit them with.
You can animate these block chords with other MIDI utilities such as arpeggiators. Or get your jazz hands-on editing these progressions in your favourite DAW by modifying, adding/removing notes, or even changing the timing.
Features
· Sample from over 1700 complete compositions with masterfully chosen chords, progressions, and melodies
· Go beyond robotic arpeggiators by triggering natural MIDI sequences
· Use reMIDI 2 with any MIDI Controller and create custom MIDI note bindings
· A grid layout of 120 total pads, effectively giving you 120 reMIDIs
· Easily audition automatically sampled slices of MIDI that loop perfectly at the touch of a key
· Drag sampled chords and progressions out to your DAW
· Easily work with MIDI without using a piano roll/note editor
· Trust the musical wisdom of master composers – they offer timeless hooks, motifs, themes, and variations – all waiting to be discovered by sampling
· Over 150 composers (Bach, Beethoven, Chopin, Mozart, Gershwin, etc)
· 8 different genres (Baroque, Classical, Folk, Hymn, Jazz, March, Renaissance, and Romantic)
· Save your own sample sets to the preset bank for later use
· Easily cut the tempo in half or multiply it by any factor while staying in sync with your DAW
· Assign any VST / AU instrument to reMIDI to control your favourite synths
· Once you find a loop or a chord progression from a MIDI file you can keep searching the same file or other files for variations
· Instantly transpose all the notes for endless remixing possibilities
· No tedious manual slicing. Just set your starting point and slice size and reMIDI chops up the entire file into even parts
· Use multiple instances of reMIDI to build a complete band of virtual instruments (drums, bass, keys, and leads). With this setup, you can conduct a whole band with one finger!
· The built-in MIDI file browser makes it a breeze to instantly preview sections of full compositions or MIDI loop packs. Find inspiration in a flash
· Browse the factory MIDI containing hundreds of high-quality files organized by style and composer
· Expand the MIDI library by favouriting your own organized files and folders. Limitless sampling!
SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
Mac
– OS X 10.7 and later (64-bit compatible only)
– Audio Units (AU)
– VST
Windows
– Windows 7 and later (32 and 64-bit compatible)
– VST
Please note: reMIDI is not currently compatible with NI Maschine and Reason 11.
‘Shocking Big Room For Serum’ brings you 66 Xfer Records Serum Presets inspired by the best Festival tracks. In this pack, you will find perfectly crafted sounds to shape your music into your next Big Room, Psy & Melbourne Bounce track. Get access to the perfectly crafted collection of pumping basses, enormous, detuned leads, big voices and synths. Not only does this package contain top notch synth presets, but also custom Serum wavetables and MIDI Loops.
Pack details:
66 Xfer Records Serum VSTi Presets
11 Bass Sounds
43 Lead Sounds
4 Voice Sounds
4 Pluck Sounds
2 Synth Sounds
1 Pad Sound
1 FX Sound
20 Wavetables
62 MIDI Loops
4 Macro Controls Assigned
ModWheel Assigned
100% Royalty-Free
Requirements: This soundset requires Xfer Records Serum 1.294 or higher.
‘Ultra Future House Vocals 2’ brings you catchy female vocal hooks inspired by Don Diablo, Tchami and Toby Green. Inside this pack you’ve got access to polished and professionally mixed vocal stems ready to be used in your next Future House, Slap House and Deep House tracks. All vocals are in dry and wet mode. All content is 100% Royalty-Free.
Inspired by the finest top chart hits, ‘Ultra Slamming Melodies’ includes 30 top-notch melodies in MIDI format. This set was crafted for all the producers who love melodies that have their own unique and catchy feeling.
This pack brings you modern melodies suitable for the most popular genres such as Future House, Progressive & Big Room.
Get your hands on the finest key-labelled melodies. All of them are recorded in endless editing MIDI format, so feel free to work with them as you wish.
If you want to have a really melodic song, this pack is totally for you!
‘Shocking EDM For Phase Plant’ has been crafted to not only be versatile, but grasp the fundamentals of Electronic Dance Music. It delivers presets for Phase Plant suitable for Pop, Big Room, Future House, Future Bass, Electro, Slap House, Bass House & House.
Pack details:
62 Kilohearts Phase Plant Presets
20 Lead Sounds
30 Bass Sounds
7 Synth Sounds
3 Pluck Sounds
2 Drum Sounds
15 Custom Wavetables
9 Vocals
4 Macro Controls Assigned
ModWheel Assigned
– 100% Royalty-Free
Requirements: This soundset requires Kilohearts Phase Plant v1.8.13 or higher.
‘Shocking Melodic House For Serum’ brings you melancholic and hypnotic Serum VSTi presets. This is a collection of emotionally-charged House sounds that moves body and soul. It was crafted for all of pure, analogue sound lovers
Pack details:
62 Xfer Records Serum VSTi Presets
12 Bass Sounds
28 Lead Sounds
5 Pluck Sounds
8 Synth Sounds
9 Pad Sounds
1 Piano Sound
13 Wavetables
4 Macro Controls Assigned
ModWheel Assigned
100% Royalty-Free
Requirements: This soundset requires Xfer Records Serum 1.294 or higher.
‘Ultra Slap House Ad-Libs’ brings you explosive, unique and catchy vocals. Huge passion and work are invested in this extraordinary and most important tool for Slap House drops. Make your tracks stand out!
‘Shocking EDM For Serum 2’ has been crafted to not only be versatile, but grasp the fundamentals of Electronic Dance Music. It delivers Serum VSTi presets suitable for Big Room, Future House, Electro, Trance, Bass House & House.
Pack details:
64 Xfer Records Serum Presets
35 Lead Sounds
22 Bass Sounds
2 Synth Sounds
1 Pluck Sound
3 Pad Sounds
2 FX Sounds
Custom Noise Samples
4 Macro Controls Assigned
ModWheel Assigned
100% Royalty-Free
Requirements: This soundset requires Xfer Records Serum v1.247 or higher.
