Music Technology Essentials provides an overview of the vocabulary, techniques, concepts, and devices used in contemporary music production, and guides readers through the essential fundamentals of music technology so that they can create their own music productions at home.
This highly accessible book covers sound fundamentals and theory, as well as practical topics like hardware, software, MIDI, digital audio, synthesis, computer notation, and audio-visual applications, to equip the reader with the principles they need to achieve professional sounding results. Each chapter is accompanied by real-life examples and exercises that can be applied to any digital audio workstation software, to put the lessons into practice. This book will also help readers evaluate their requirements for home music production while working within a sensible budget.
Music Technology Essentials is the ideal textbook for beginners inside and outside of the classroom, including those on music and music production courses, who wish to enter the world of music technology but are unsure where to start or what to purchase.
How to play & arrange pop songs on the piano [TUTORIAL]
THE ONLINE PIANO COURSE THAT HELPED 1000’S OF PEOPLE TO FINALLY PLAY AND ARRANGE SONGS ON THE PIANO WITHOUT THE NEED OF SHEETS.
Do you want to learn playing the piano the fastest and best way possible?
without the need of courses and lessons that will take you months or even years before you can play your first song?
Then this course is the right fit for you!
In this course you will learn everything you need to know, using simple explanations and exercises, to be able to play wonderful pop song arrangements on the piano in the shortest time possible.
FULL OF SECRET HACKS THAT WILL SHORTEN YOUR PIANO SKILLS IN NO TIME.
I‘ll give you a lot of secret hacks you won’t find anywhere else and that will shorten your learning process many times and also are lot of fun.
In this course you will learn how to create beautiful pop song arrangements on the piano yourself. Whether it’s easy or challenging, this course covers everything you need to take your piano skills to the next level. For beginners and advanced players.
for all beginners, an overview with some simple exercises is also included, which will help you to start playing your first piano song as quickly and effectively as possible and to learn as quickly as possible.
Networked Music Performance Theory & Applications PDF
Networked Music Performance (NMP) is the essential guide to both playing music online and ensemble music through networks. Offering a range of case studies, from highly technical solutions to inclusive community projects, this book provides inspiration to musicians to try NMP whatever their level of technical expertise.
Drawing upon recent research to examine the background and history of the practice as well as specific practical approaches, technical and musical considerations are included for readers, as are ideas around accessibility and creativity. Accessibility is considered in the context of the opportunities that NMP gives to musicians working remotely, as well as some of the barriers to participation in NMP and how these can be overcome. Synchronous and asynchronous approaches to NMP are explored in detail, examining the technical and musical affordances and challenges of working remotely for musicians.
THUNDER X3M
The epic conclusion of the Thunder Series: Thunder X3M – 16.000 samples of total percussion madness! Featuring a complete overhaul of previous volumes and a massive amount of fresh samples wrapped together in a brandnew highly intuitive Percussion Engine.
About Thunder X3M
The concept behind the original Thunder Series was to capture unique instrument combinations playing live – on-set mixture between timpani and toms, between Bulgarian tupans, snare drums and many more. The series was held in high regard and after some further experiments with the second volume, the third installment even featured a 15 men percussion ensemble recorded in a big hall playing together!
THUNDER X3M takes all three previous editions of the Thunder Series and breathes new life to the sample material by implementing a powerful engine that allows the user to manipulate and map the samples. This, along with a massive amount of brandnew recorded samples, opens vast
musical possibilities for every composer out there! The complete Thunder Series has been recorded with multiple Dynamic layers (up to 10) and Round Robins (up to 27 per sound).
The new Thunder Engine
The concept behind the new Thunder engine is fairly simple – the keyboard range is divided into 12 zones that you are able to assign different sounds to. After making the template of your choosing just plug in and play – nothing else needed!
In addition to that the engine also allows you to tweak individual zones, as well as the whole mapped ensemble patch with various effects, mic positions and two custom vintage analog hardware chains. Combining these with the natural and organic recordings you have maximum flexibility when it comes to sound.
Once you load up the Thunder X3M Ensemble Builder you automatically load all samples inside the “Samples” directory. However, the instrument is built in such a way that it actually keeps all samples purged, unless you load them up into a zone. This means that not only you have a single patch with all types of percussion you might need, but it is also optimized and doesn’t hurt your RAM ressources in any way!
The new Thunder X3M Engine features:
– 12 percussion zones – you can load up instruments from different categories into 12 separate zones (Low ensembles, High Ensembles, Ethnic Percussion, Epic metals, Sound Design Percussion, Distorted Percussion) and thus create your own percussive template!
– Pitch knob – allows you to adjust the pitch of the samples. Really useful to load a single instrument two times and then change the pitch of one of the zones. For instance – load up a solo Taiko low on zones 1 and 2, then decrease the pitch of zone 2 all the way to the left. And now your have even thicker sound of a taiko – be sure to turn on your sub speaker for even more awesomeness!
– Transient controls – transient attack and sustain work like a compressor; the attack amps up the beginning of the wave file, while the sustain can increase or decrease the sample tail. These are just PERFECT for getting even punchier sound!
– Separate volume and EQ controls for each zone!
– SAVE AND LOAD functions that allow you to easily exchange templates between projects!
– Integrated HELP file
– Three microphone positions – Close, Decca, Hall
– Two custom vintage analog hardware chains, (NYC Compression and Sub-Bass Enhancement), you can seamlessly blend in to enhance the sounds
Requires free NI Kontakt Player or NI Kontakt FULL v6.7.1+!
FRAME DRUM X3M
Authentic Middle Eastern frame Drums recorded in various sections and ensembles, suitable for all kinds of dynamic music and especially film/videogames.
About frame DRUM X3M
For years the Middle Eastern frame drum has been a constant colour in soundtracks and music productions all over the world. Applying our sampling philosophy to the various instruments of the frame drum branch yielded some very organic and fresh sounding results, which combined with our X3M percussion engine are simply a joy to play.
One of our main goals was to have consistent Round Robins captured for as many playing techniques as possible to allow writing fast, but at the same time smooth and realistic sounding percussion arrangements. To achieve that we carefully edited every single sample of our 10 Round Robins manually and did as many iterations as needed after extensively testing the articulations in a real life composing environment.
In addition to that yet another important goal for us was to expand the sonic palette of the traditional frame drum sound by adding other instruments, which enhance, but don’t alter the aesthetics of the basic sound too much. Therefore frame DRUM X3M doesn’t just consist of the same stuff we have all heard countless times before, but features new and yet unheard instrument combinations breathing live into your percussion arrangements.The recordings took place in the Sofia Session Studio where we also recorded the previous X3M libraries to allow smooth and easy layering.
The X3M Percussion Engine
The concept behind this engine is fairly simple – the keyboard range is divided into 12 zones that you are able to assign different sounds to. After creating a template of your choosing just plug in and play – nothing else needed!
In addition to that the engine also allows you to tweak individual zones, as well as the whole mapped ensemble patch with various effects and mic positions. Combining these with the natural and organic recordings you have maximum flexibility when it comes to sound.
Once you load up the X3M Ensemble Builder you automatically load all samples inside the “Samples” directory. However, the instrument is built in such a way that it actually keeps all samples purged, unless you load them up into a zone. This means that not only do you have a single patch with all types of percussion you might need, but it is also optimized and doesn’t hurt your RAM ressources in any way!
Requires free NI Kontakt Player or NI Kontakt FULL v6.7.1+!
DJEMBE X3M
A fresh, percussive wave, straight from Africa! A huge collection of Djembes recorded in various sections and ensembles, suitable for all kinds of dynamic music and especially film/videogames.
About DJEMBE X3M
For years the African Djembe has been a constant colour in soundtracks and music productions all over the world. Applying our sampling philosophy to the various instruments of the Djembe branch yielded some very organic and fresh sounding results, which combined with our X3M percussion engine are simply a joy to play.
One of our main goals was to have consistent Round Robins captured for as many playing techniques as possible to allow writing fast, but at the same time smooth and realistic sounding percussion arrangements. To achieve that we carefully edited every single sample of our 9 Round Robins manually and did as many iterations as needed after extensively testing the articulations in a real life composing environment.
The recordings took place in the Sofia Session Studio where we also recorded the previous X3M libraries to allow smooth and easy layering.
The X3M Percussion Engine
The concept behind this engine is fairly simple – the keyboard range is divided into 12 zones that you are able to assign different sounds to. After creating a template of your choosing just plug in and play – nothing else needed!
In addition to that the engine also allows you to tweak individual zones, as well as the whole mapped ensemble patch with various effects and mic positions. Combining these with the natural and organic recordings you have maximum flexibility when it comes to sound.
Once you load up the X3M Ensemble Builder you automatically load all samples inside the “Samples” directory. However, the instrument is built in such a way that it actually keeps all samples purged, unless you load them up into a zone. This means that not only do you have a single patch with all types of percussion you might need, but it is also optimized and doesn’t hurt your RAM ressources in any way!
The recently updated X3M Engine also features Round Robin Selection as well as Stereo Spread control for each microphone position.
Requires free NI Kontakt Player or NI Kontakt FULL v6.7.1+!
‘Samplelife: Pounding Techno’ by House of Loop features 40 top loops, as well as 25 percussive loops, and a huge collection of one-shots to help you cover virtually all rhythm possibilities.
In addition to that, there are 15 drone loops, which are perfect for building a textural backbone to fill up space and create a more cinematic listening experience overall.
Every sound featured in this sample pack is masterfully produced and processed to perfection, but not so overly processed that it won’t leave you any wiggle room to make it your own!
These sounds are ready to just drop in and call it a day, but you can also spend more time manipulating them and truly modify their imprint if you so desire.
TUPANS X3M
Inspired by the sound of recent action blockbusters. Deeply sampled Tupans in different ensemble sizes (a8, a3, Solo). Featuring consistent extensive articulations across all instruments, three sets of handcrafted Sound Design Percussion and the renowned X3M Percussion Engine.
About Tupans X3M
One of the most requested instruments is finally released. Inspired by the aggressive sound of recent Action Blockbusters, Strezov Sampling decided to produce the definitive sample set of Tupans. A sound which hasn’t been commercially available up until now.
The Tupan is a traditional Bulgarian drum played with a beater and a stick at the same time. Tupans X3M, recorded in the Sofia Session Studio with different ensemble sizes (a8, a3, Solo), delivers you the articulations to perform traditional Tupan rhythms with instant cinematic sound but also, in addition to that, contains advanced playing styles with brushes, damped beaters, mallets and more.
But Tupans X3M is not just all about organic and realistic sounding Tupans. In fact it’s way more than that, since it also includes a handcrafted selection of three different Sound Design Percussion sets ranging from Epic Ensembles, Thunderous Impacts and neutral sounding percussive sound effects suitable for any style of music. These sounds were created from the sample material of Tupans X3M and our flagship percussion suite Thunder X3M, resulting in a broad sound spectrum suitable for any project in need of new fresh sound colours.
The X3M Percussion Engine
The concept behind the this engine is fairly simple – the keyboard range is divided into 12 zones that you are able to assign different sounds to. After making the template of your choosing just plug in and play – nothing else needed!
In addition to that the engine also allows you to tweak individual zones, as well as the whole mapped ensemble patch with various effects and mic positions. Combining these with the natural and organic recordings you have maximum flexibility when it comes to sound.
Once you load up the X3M Ensemble Builder you automatically load all samples inside the “Samples” directory. However, the instrument is built in such a way that it actually keeps all samples purged, unless you load them up into a zone. This means that not only you have a single patch with all types of percussion you might need, but it is also optimized and doesn’t hurt your RAM ressources in any way!
ARTICULATION LIST:
Beater
Beater (dampened)
Clack (on side of drum)
Stick
Stick (offbeat hit)
Stick (dampened)
Brushes
Brushes (dampened)
Brushes (played on the side of the drum)
Mallet
Mallet (dampened)
Beater (rimshot) – only for three tupan players and solo tupan
Rolls (normal)
Rolls (brushes)
All articulations have 4 dynamic layers and 6 round robins per layer
13 Hand-crafted Impact samples
12 Hand-crafted epic ensembles
49 Sound effect samples
4 Bonus “Chan” patches (ethnic cowbell)
Requires free NI Kontakt Player or NI Kontakt FULL v6.7.1+!
A step-by-step resource on forging one’s own pathway to improvise music, this book guides the musician through a clear and simple method that will easily translate to the reader’s genre of choice.
Many musicians struggle with improvisation. Coincidentally, educators also find it challenging to integrate improvisation into curriculum.
This book breaks down the barriers most performers and educators combat in the learning and teaching of improvisation, and is a helpful approach to demystify the complicated sphere of music improvisation. Divided into three sections, the first part of the book helps the reader develop an improvisatorial mindset to mentally conceive musical ideas, regardless of genre. The second portion then connects the improviser’s mindset to translating those ideas into a compelling musical performance in real time. The book’s final third assists the reader with discovering how to apply this method of improvisation to the nuanced liturgical, comedic, jazz, and classical styles.
Westwood Sounds launches its first-ever Midtempo sample pack encompassing over 160 exclusive sounds and presets from Westwood artists. Featuring a massive array of samples and loops including drum one-shots, bass and synth loops, and 50+ Serum Bass presets from 808s to neuro, glitch, wubs, and more, the producer toolkit gives you everything you need for your next midtempo production.
Between hits like The Funk Hunter x Defunk x Akylla’s smash Midtempo collaboration “Warn Ya,” and The Funk Hunters x Kotek’s “Tonight,” Westwood Recordings has brought its Midtempo sonics to worldwide stages and airplay.
Get the signature Westwood sound now with Westwood Sounds Midtempo Vol. 1.
MagicBlur – The ultimate Spectral Blur & Freeze Effect
MagicBlur is a multi-curve spectral blur and freeze effect with a built-in modulation system. Turn your samples into a synthesiser to create lush atmospheric sounds, endless worlds of overtone glissandi, crazy reversed and glitch-like sounds – it’s all there! Easily and quickly apply separate blur times per frequency, or ranges of frequencies. Mix them, modulate them, spread them, run wild, and create original spectral transformations from subtle reverberish washed out sounds to extreme effects on the brink of insanity.
MagicPitch – Real-Time Pitch & Frequency Transformation
MagicPitch is a multi-curve spectral pitch and frequency shifter with a built-in modulation system. De-tune harmonics, fatten up your drums, create otherworldly vocals – it’s all there! Easily and quickly apply separate pitch and frequency shifting per frequency, or ranges of frequencies. Mix them, modulate them, spread them, run wild, and create original frequency transformations from subtle de-tunings to extreme effects on the brink of insanity.
MagicDelay – Do we need yet another delay?
Of course! We need thousands of delays all working in concert and in high fidelity. That’s why we bring you MagicDelay, the multi-curve spectral delay with a built-in modulation system. Easily and quickly create separate delay times per frequency, or ranges of frequencies. Mix them, modulate them, spread them, run wild, and create original beautiful delays to enrich your sounds.
MMM – Magic MIDI Modulation
Are you ready to add a little “Mmmph” to your music production?
Look no further than MMM – the Magic Midi Modulator that’s so good, you’ll be saying mmMMMmm all day long!
Listen up, fellow music magicians – if you want to be the ruler of your MIDI universe, look no further than MMM! This powerful tool can control anything that accepts MIDI CC – soft synths, plugins and hardware that you wished had modulation, and even that vintage lava lamp you’ve been using as a makeshift MIDI controller. And with its numerous knobs, sliders, and xy pads, you’ll feel like a futuristic space DJ in no time.
But that’s not all! With MMM’s innovative modulation system, you can add modulation to your synths or effects and create sounds that will make Mozart roll over in his grave. Customize your LFOs, shape your waveforms, and even modulate based on the amplitude or pitch of a source signal. With MMM, the modulation possibilities are endless!
So what are you waiting for? Get your hands on MMM and start creating music that will make all the other producers green with envy. And who knows? Maybe your lava lamp will finally have a purpose beyond just being a funky decoration.
MagicFusion – The World’s First Spectral Vocoder!
MagicFusion is a multi-curve spectral vocoder workstation with a built-in modulation system.
This is not your average vocoder. Oh no, it defies convention and transcends the analog limitations of its counterparts. No mere band pass filters and signal followers here! This wizardry operates in the frequency domain, harnessing the very essence of sound itself.
Easily and quickly apply the amount of the effect per frequency, or ranges of frequencies. Mix them, modulate them, spread them, run wild, and create original spectral transformations from organic pumping filter sounds to extreme effects on the brink of insanity.
This Vocoder is truly one of a kind, never before has such a creation been witnessed before!
Imagine, if you will, a portal through which two signals intertwine, creating a harmonious fusion that transcends the ordinary. It possesses the power to extract the spectral essence of one sound, the modulator, and apply it to another, the carrier, creating a spellbinding synthesis of both. That’s why you must use two audio inputs: the input aka carrier, and the sidechain aka modulator.
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