Comping Takes Together in Record
The prop guys delivers yet another high quality tutorial in music production
It’s nearly unimaginable to think about early music recording. Musicians had to record their songs in one take direct to wax/acetate records. 100 copies of an album meant recording 100 flawless takes for every musician playing together! Compare that to today and Record 1.5’s “Comp Editor.” You can cycle through recording, doing take after take after take, choosing the best parts of each, and stitching them together into one flawless performance. This week I’ll show you how.
NI´s Battery in action
New demo on how to use Native Instruments Battery for sound design. Erik Anton shows e.g. building a palette of sounds in the sampler, grouping sounds, tweaking them, assigning different trigger options, layering, etc.
This is a demonstration of how this software can be very useful for sound design work. I did it because I would like to return the effort that Miguel Isaza is doing in his blog “Designing Sound” that has been an inspiration to many of us.
Gesture based DJ:ing
The Master Hands is a DJ system that uses sensors to track hand and finger motions and translates the movements into sound. You can program your own sounds and songs to specific hand movements.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nLrL3lvpOg
A breakdown of the basic presets that will come standard on the MasterHands product. As stated in the video, the MasterHands will be fully customizable; this is just a demonstration of what will already come programmed in the software.
Stretch to tempo in Reason/Record
The Prop guys continues to deliver good tutorials on their gear, here´s the latest one featuring “stretch to tempo”
The new “stretch to tempo” feature in Record 1.5 (AUDIO+MIDI) and Reason 5 (MIDI only) means that it’s easier than ever to take a WAV loop off your hard drive and bring it into your session – quickly employing Record’s excellent stretch algorithm along the way. In case you’re new to waveform editing and sample stretching, this week I’ll show you how it’s done. It’s easier than you may think and the production possibilities become vast.
Roger Linn describes his new AdrenaLinn Sync 2
This tutorial describes the function and controls of the 4 audio processing blocks in the upper half of the AdrenaLinn Sync v2 control panel.
In the later videos, Linn covers:
- The 5 basic processing blocks in AdrenaLinn Sync v2;
- LFO modulation in AdrenaLinn Sync v2; and
- AdrenaLinn Sync v2’s sequencer modulation.
Blocks mode in Reason 5
http://www.boyinaband.com – Go there for more reviews, tutorials and some free samples!
Dave shows you how blocks mode can really speed up your music making workflow!
Creating a whoosh
Live guru Tom Cosm offers his thoughts on three ways of creating “whooshing” build-ups in Ableton Live.
Automation Clip Toolbox
A new tutorial from the Propellerhead labs, this time focusing on automation
Whenever I’m working on music, one thing that I’ve had in my personal bag of tricks is an “automation clip toolbox.” Basically, it’s a palette of controller data curves and waveforms which can be applied to automation lanes like level, pan, filter cutoff, etc. Thanks to the new “stretch clip to tempo” function (Option+Drag for Mac or Control+Drag for Windows) I can resize these automation clips to whatever speed I want. This week I’m giving this toolbox away and showing you how to use it. These clips will breathe new life into an otherwise static pad or provide the creative spark for a new idea entirely. Enjoy!
File download: propellerheads.se/stuff/JB34.zip
Side chain compression in Ableton
Here is the first in a sequence of three videos showing a tutorial on side chain compression
In this video (part 1 of 3 focusing on Sidechaining) Dubspot instructor and Ableton Live expert Steve Nalepa shows how to use the Compressor-Sidechain audio effect in Ableton Live. Put simply, Sidechain Compression allows “different elements of your songs to essentially dance together.” Professor Nalepa starts by creating a simple dubstep drum pattern (kick and snare), adds a couple of synths which overpowered the drums, basically drowning the kick and snare. To remedy this imbalance, Nalepa select the synth tracks and grouped them together, and worked on the tracks/elements individually, reducing volume and adding effects. The popular effect has been used by a number of unique electronic and dance music producers from Daft Punk and Justice to newer artists like Baths and Nosaj Thing extraordinary results.
KONG meets the REX
Reason 5 has started to make an impression several good demos and tutorials are popping up and people seem especially keen on the KONG, not surprised though 
It’s a non-linear world, people! Media has become non-linear, reading via the internet has become non-linear, and thanks to Kong’s Nurse Rex module now your loop library has become non-linear. If you loved REX loops back in Reason versions 1.0 – 4.0, you’re going to love what we’ve done with the Nurse Rex Loop Player module inside Kong. No longer will you be playing loops from start to finish… instead cut ’em up, split ’em in to slices, assign them to pads, and freak them.
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