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In this course, GRAMMY-winning recording engineer, producer, and mixer Ryan Hewitt explains his techniques for capturing drum sounds in one of the best recording rooms in Los Angeles, EastWest Studio 2. Utilizing the talents of A-list session and touring drummer Josh Freese (interviewed in the first chapter of the course), Ryan will demonstrate his mic choice and placements on Josh's drums, spending time on the details of the kick, snare, toms, cymbals, overheads, and room mic setups. Ross Garfield, the Drum Doctor, assists in fine-tuning the drum sound. Watch for a one-of-a-kind look at the pros at work.

DJing is a growing profession. Ableton Live takes your live performances beyond anything achievable with turntables or CD players, making your sets powerful and unique. In this course, author J. Scott Giaquinta demonstrates the techniques DJs around the world use with Ableton Live. He starts with setting up your software and hardware controllers, and importing, warping, and keying tracks in Ableton. Next he discusses cueing and playing tracks, and using fades and the crossfader to mix tracks. Then learn when you should use a DJ mixer as opposed to Ableton's internal mixer, and how to incorporate a microphone into the setup.

Zero-G Distant Lights is a magnificent collection of sci-fi atmospheres, ambiences and fx.

Created by one of our leading sound designers it is packed full of sounds to inspire soundtrack production in many genres including sci-fi, fantasy, space and action. In fact anything requiring out-there weird and wonderful audio.

Keyboard wiz Sami Rabia brings you a cool video series on layering synths to make better, bigger and more interesting synth sounds for your songs and production. The info can be applied to any hardware or software synth!

Sami starts by explaining the basic idea behind layering sounds, and gives you some examples of the technique. He then shows different methods for reinforcing your existing Bass sounds.

Reason expert Paul Ortiz brings you the beginner’s guide to using Reason to make your first song! Paul starts with a blank Reason session and walks you through the entire process of creating and arranging your first song, along with basic mixing and mastering practices.

Paul begins by welcoming you and then jumps right in, revealing Reason’s Block system for recording and arranging, and sketches out a basic drum part.

The Funkmasters EZX was recorded in Nashville’s renowned Sound Kitchen Studios and captures the legacy of two of the most innovative, inspiring and influential instrumentalists of our time. Meet the principal drummers in James Brown’s band: Clyde Stubblefield and John “Jabo” Starks.

Fans and critics cite the collective era of these two drummers, who often played in tandem, as the pinnacle of funk music. Samples and looped audio of their original beats would go on to become the foundation of hip hop, their grooves gave birth to countless genres and the use of their breaks inspired innovation within the techniques of DJ-ing.

Testament, Megadeth, Arch Enemy, Exodus, Killswitch Engage and Devildriver all call the same man to lay the final hand on their albums: Britain’s Andy Sneap. This highly in demand producer/engineer has worked on numerous Grammy® Award-nominated albums, is known worldwide for having produced some of the heaviest releases this last decade and has had an instrumental role in shaping the sound of metal music as we know it in the new millennium. Now Toontrack is proud to present the first ever drum sample library to bear his unmistakable seal; Metal Machine EZX.

One world-renowned drummer, Tomas Haake, member of the extreme metal band Meshuggah.

One in demand producer, Daniel Bergstrand, whose mixing and producing credits include the likes of In Flames, Strapping Young Lad, Soilwork and Meshuggah, just to name a few.

The Metal Foundry SDX presents one of the most comprehensive recordings in the history of the company, featuring seven unique drum kits spanning 300,000 sound files of raw, single hit drum recordings. Welcome to the metal foundry, the ironworks where the most massive body of drums wait for you to be honed, harnessed and molded into shape.

The Metal Foundry SDX was recorded and produced at the noted Atlantis Studios in Stockholm, Sweden by drummer Tomas Haake (Meshuggah), Mattias Eklund (Toontrack), Fredrik Thordendal (Meshuggah) and Daniel Bergstrand (Dugout Studio). It covers drums and preset kits for anything from hard rock to metal. Find the early blues-tinged sound of the late 60s to the fragmentation of today’s music – power through thrash, death and progressive metal.

Deep House & Future House Vocals' includes 100 key labelled vocal loops & chops between 116 & 140 BPM, which makes this collection suitable for Deep or Future, Progressive or Electro House, Trap or Future Bass productions and beyond.

From deep & soulful, harmonic & emotive to heavily pitched & processed loops this collection will bring warm human touch for any musical composition.

Eye of Horus’ by Undisputed Music is a groundbreaking construction kit that includes the style of Kanye West, Jay Z, Timbaland, Rick Ross, 50 Cent, Puffy and many more.

By re-combining the elements in each kit you can craft an entirely new production! All beats are broken down into separate WAV stems and tempos are included for maximum flexibility.

Are you producing Electronic music? Do you struggle with Music Theory and always wanted to learn but always felt like it was too hard or not really necessary to learn how to play piano?

Welcome to this class where I will learn you Music Theory for Electronic Music producers. In this class, all of the music theory is made in the Piano Roll and you will only learn what is relevant to us Electronic Music Producers out there. In just a day, you will learn how to create your own chords, how to understand rhythms, how to detect different notes and learn other cool tricks that will help you to understand and creating those cool Chord Progressions that all of the big guys do out there.

Organic Loops return to the movies with the second volume of epic cinematic themes with Hollywood Soundtrack Vol2. Arranged into 10 awe inspiring film themes ranging in emotion from dark and eerie to powerfully emotive this collection is the perfect for anyone scoring for film or television and equally useful for producers working in cinematic dance productions such as Dubstep, Drum n Bass, Hip Hop, Downbeat & Chill.

Attention game developers, animators and motion graphics designers, here's a sound library that will pay for itself over and over. Epic Sounds and FX Advanced Game Sounds is a universe of SFX and an electrifying power pack of more than 3100 compelling source and engineered sounds. With this hand picked collection of proven and unique audio assets you'll be the master of your gaming domain and fully empowered to create audio experiences that inspire epic game play at a whole nuther level.

Pop Piano' from Frontline Producer brings you another superb collection of studio quality samples performed by an experienced session instrumentalist and delivered in pristine 24-Bit Quality. Ideal for top line writers, producers and singers alike, all content comes 100% Royalty Free, helping you to create the next perfect Pop production.