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Toto Chiavetta: My Tools and How I Use Them - Music With Impact I am really excited to be switching on my DAW for the first time for a live streams. My idea is to go through my most relevant tools - and their chains - I use to produce my club music, which I think can apply to a great majority of styles

Recording - Nandu: Creativity and Inspiration: How I write and Record Music The reason I ended up creating electronic music was the freedom it offers to its creator. To not follow any rules, and to just play around with sound; however, you feel like. Originally I played the trumpet for many years, and I was on a path leading into a more classical career as a musician. But somewhere along the way, I stumbled across Ableton, and almost from one day to another, I left what I was doing and started to experiment with electronic music.

Basslines are core to my music and my creative process. A powerful bassline is a difference between a good track and a track that takes over. I am going to be getting deep into basslines, from how it fits into my creative process, to the tools I use and how I tweak them to fit into my tracks.

CREATING DYNAMIC DRUMS AND SIGNATURE MELODIES I am excited to be sharing some detail on what I believe is the identity of my sound. I will be getting into some of more advanced techniques, but also sharing what I believe are the key elements of my music. We'll create a poll with all ticket holders to decide on the track to deconstruct!

Recording - Eagles & Butterflies: Thinking Inside and Outside of The Box, Tracks to Remember "I have always wanted to open my studio and share how I make music! Every artist has their own process so I will be showing what defines my sound and my favorite plugins and techniques. I will also share my Can't Stop stems for people to experiment and make their own edits of it"

Arturia's Emulator II V is a recreation of E-Mu Systems' iconic 8-bit sampler that popularized sampling technology in the '80s. Learn how to use this reimagined instrument in this course, with trainer and synth expert Nigel Broad.

Synth guru Larry Holcombe delivers in-depth Native Instruments SUPER 8 video tutorials! Learn all about this modern take on vintage polysynths, including its features and functions, and how to use it creatively to design your own vintage synth sounds and presets. These videos are designed for new SUPER 8 users.

Eli Krantzberg brings you a comprehensive collection of Apple Loops video tutorials! If you use Apple Logic Pro, you must take advantage of its powerful Apple Loops feature. Learn all about what Apple Loops are and how to use them in different ways to make producing in Logic Pro more exciting and inspiring! You also get all the Logic projects Eli creates throughout the video series, as well as the wav files so you can fully follow along with the videos on your Logic Pro system. These videos are designed for new Apple Loops users.

Calling all FL Studio users! Tech Tips Volume 59 is here and we're proud to welcome back Trance legend James Dymond for a ton of pro tricks and tips to get your tracks sounding the best they can.

Sonic Academy is super excited and proud to welcome LA-based Melodic Techno producer Lauren Mia for an in-depth look at her new track 'Tantra' This intricate and beautiful synth-heavy track with its many layers gets broken down into each section by Lauren as we check out her Ableton project, and over the next 2 hours we get a detailed look at how she approaches each element, the decisions made and why she makes them, and how every single sound plays it's part to create the bigger picture.

So you've got a great instrumental and it's just missing that one element - the vocal. If you're looking for a better understanding of topline vocals and songwriting then you've come to the right place.

Combining the best elements of Funk, Neosoul and Disco, Future Funk is a highly engaging style of music that delivers a deeply human touch, whilst also satisfying the need for an electronic punch! Hailing from Australia but now residing in Berlin, producer Jafunk not only captures the true spirit of the style but also possesses an innate ability to describe his music making process in an accessible and captivating way. In his debut Producertech course, he takes you through a workflow where he builds up beats and melodies using sampling and synthesising techniques, to create a Future Funk arrangement from scratch.

This Allan Morrow - Trance Vocal Adlibs & Piano Video Tutorial [1 hr 41 mins] will show you exactly how to make those "Oooohhh & Ahhhhhs" you hear in Trance. This video will also show you how to make a big piano to go along with your track and understanding how to make the piano and adlib vocals work together.

Recording - Fedele: Shaping your sound, my workflow and creative process Recording from the two day session with Fedele, in which he took us through a lot of his unreleased material, digging into his tips and sharing unique techniques to shape your sound.

The term ‘music theory’ is known to strike fear in the hearts of computer musicians, conjuring up images of stuffy classrooms, clusters of confusing musical notes and incomprehensible languages. However, with all this music-making power sitting on your hard drive, there’s no excuse not to fully grasp the fundamental building blocks of music. Yes, you can get by without any theory skills… but how much better would your tracks be if you could program those MIDI notes with gusto and tickle those ivories with purpose? So if words like ‘chords’, ‘scales’, ‘modes’ and ‘inversions’ fill you with dread, fear not. We’ve cherry-picked the finest tutorial features from the pages of Computer Music and Future Music – each guide created specifically for the computer-based producer – to bring you this mega-compendium of music theory knowledge. And if our step-by-step guides aren’t enough, you also gain access to a treasure trove of digital content. Not only can you follow along with tutorial files in audio, MIDI and video formats, but you can even download Computer Music’s exclusive Plugins collection – over 80 virtual instruments and effects created by the industry’s best software developers.