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Aaron Sterling is your favorite drummer's favorite drummer. His feel is expressive. Every note is meaningful. His style is singular.

Aaron Sterling is your favorite drummer’s favorite drummer. For a lot of us, when we mic up the drums and hit record, Aaron’s the end result we’re hoping for. So just imagine how excited we are to feature the first signature drum sample library from the man himself. Aaron’s feel is expressive.

Blurring the lines between performance and samples, organic and electronic, our latest offering of bespoke Ableton Live instruments places tangible textures & stunning instruments right into your favourite DAW.

Utilising over 2.0GB of pin point accurate recordings of live and bowed notes, textures, location recordings and analogue synths in conjunction with Ableton Lives samplers and macros, Ethereal Instruments provides you with a first hand opportunity to explore a new world of expansive pads, cinematic ambiences, bowed instruments, found sound textures and bespoke recordings.

Textural Electronica is a stunning foray into the world of audio manipulation, location recordings and found sound goodness. Through painstaking journeys into both urban and natural environments this incredibly beautiful collection perfectly add an organic feel to any composition. With sounds ranging from minimal wooden clicks to other worldly synth leads & pads, this stunning sample collection just oozes attention to detail and class.

Referencing house, garage and electronica each loop has been lovingly processed and manipulated to provide something much greater than the sum of it's parts. Included you'll find beautifully crisp organic drum & percussion loops, twisted and maniplauted live recordings, abstract violin phrases, emotive guitar and tuned percussion hooks, warm analogue synth phrases and lush organic soundscapes ideal for all genres of music.

Presenting the first in our musical 'Elements Series - Abstract Rhythms. Designed to enhance your productions and compliment your rhythmical work this beautifully crafted collection solves an issue that so many of us face today how to ensure your beats roll.

Filling in gaps between simple kick patterns, snares and top end percussion, this truly unique and incredibly useful sample collection of off beat tom patterns, organic hits and loops, side chained noises & texture based ambiences will perfectly sit between your grooves and ensure even the most simple of patterns contain movement, style, originality and shuffle.

Dusty Projections is a journey into the astral psyche of a producer on a mission. This full fat, unadulterated yet beautiful collection of wonky Hip-Hop and 'Beat Scene' inspired samples, loops and one shots provides an up front and personal insight into the workings of one of the underground scenes great beat makers and sound designers.

Through years of searching, digging & collecting our producer of choice has crafted one of the years greatest sample releases and showcases his extensive collection of analogue synths, pedals, hardware and MPC's to produce a most personal of collections.

The keys of a good and outstanding song are melodies, vocals, and sound design! In electronic dance music, it’s more just the sound design and melodies. An awesome drop lead with a catchy melody can easily become a hit, but what do I do when I’m a beginner and want to get started?

Well, then you should come to us! Get your pre-made midi presets and focus on your arrangement and your mixing skills. You can take a look at many chord progressions and how they are made to get a better understanding of music theory. Start from a good point and make your melodies easy and fast. Get inspired by a big collection of 600 basic chords.

The keys of a good and outstanding song are melodies vocals and sound design! In electronic dance music, it’s more just the sound design and melodies. An awesome drop lead with a catchy melody can easily become a hit, but what do I do when I’m a beginner and want to get started?

Well, then you should come to us! Get your pre-designed sound presets and focus on your arrangement and your mixing skills. You can take a look at famous sounds and how they are made to get a better understanding of sound design. Edit the sounds by yourself and create your own style of sound, it’s a good way to start from a preset that almost sounds like you want it to have. Get inspired by a big collection of 200 outstanding leads, basses, pads and plucks.

Zapz brings us the Cold Winter (Sylenth Bank). Filled up with 50 Sylenth1 Presets inspired by: DJ Mustard, YG, Lil’ John, Big Sean, Travis Scott, & More.

50 Sylenth1 Presets
Requires Sylenth1 VSTi

Rawstyle Attack from Singomakers are back with a brand new sample pack. Here you'll find phat raw kicks, ground-shaking drops, screechy synths, dark melodies, rap vocals, twisted fills, FX, shocking one-shots, distorted vocal shouts and unlimited inspiration.

This ultimate sound bank is inspired by Digital Punk, E-force, Warface, Radical Redemption, Endymion, Break Zero, Adaro, Ran-D, Sub Sonik, Titan, Regain, Cainesize and many more. Samples from this sample pack can be applied for production of Rawstyle, Hardstyle, Hardcore, Mainstream Hardcore, Industrial Hardcore, Hard Dance and many more hard genres.

The Faces Drum Kit is a blast from the coke fueled 80s. There is an entire folder within this kit dedicated to the cloud side of rap/rnb, full of samples from new and old age technology.

This kit is in the style of Nav, 24hrs, Amir Obe, and many more.

The Perkys Calling (Perc Kit), filled with 70 Custom Recorded Percs, Edited, and Processed by Brandon Chapa. This kit is your essential, must-have addition to your percussion arsenal.

Gain insight into a professional mix with track-by-track walkthroughs and in-depth video lessons
Drums, bass, acoustics and more, mix engineer David Glenn teaches you how to achieve a professional sound out of your mixes. Mixing Acoustic Pop is full of tips, techniques and strategies to take your mixes to the next level.

The availability of increased computational power and the proliferation of the Internet have facilitated the production and distribution of unauthorized copies of multimedia information. As a result, the problem of multimedia copyright protection has attracted the interest of the worldwide scientific and the business communities. The most promising solution seems to be the watermarking process where the original data is marked with ownership information hidden in an imperceptible manner in the original signal. Watermarking in Audio: Key Techniques and Technologies is an inclusive compilation of the most important and fundamental theories and techniques in digital audio watermarking. It includes a comprehensive overview of the state-of-the-art techniques used in digital audio watermarking and focuses on two key issues in digital audio watermarking: psychoacoustic modeling and synchronization.

After the success of his Minimal Techno course here for Sonic Academy, this week we proudly welcome back dark, minimal techno sensei Mac Vaughn, for an all new set of Tech Tips in Ableton.

Over the next 10 videos, we find out how to generate unique bass lines, atmospheres and effects that'll not only inspire your creative flow but also build on your knowledge and tools to make Ableton work for you.

This week Sonic Academy proudly welcome another new tutor - one-half of the Los Angeles based synthwave duo The Midnight, Tim McEwen, for a brand new course in How To Make Synthwave.