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Over the last few years, Pop music has taken inspiration from many subgenres of EDM. The typical EDM song structure and various elements from genres like Future Bass and Chillwave have made their way into the Pop space. Artists like Martin Garrix and The Chainsmokers have contributed to this movement with smash hits like “Scared To Be Lonely” and “Closer”

Transient Shaper plugins are great tools that can be used to methodically enhance or control different transients in instruments – especially drums. In this tutorial, Maxim will show you how to creatively use transient shapers beef up your drums and mixes. Working in Ableton Live, he’ll start with a drum loop that doesn’t quite cut though as much as he’d like. Using Smack Attack by Waves, he will add punch to the transients and enhance the overall power of the drum loop.

A product of the '80s, this flashy red electric guitar emanates clean chorus tones and shredding leads that go on forever. Quite literally, in fact, as the guitar includes a sustainer pickup which allows notes to ring indefinitely. While it might seem like a novelty initially, the sustainer pickup actually adds a lot of options for effects that aren't obtainable with an ordinary guitar. For example, chords can be held in conjunction with the volume pedal to create organic pad-like swells. In high-gain lead guitar sounds, the sustainer pickup sometimes causes harmonics to ring, almost like feedback from the guitar amp.

Audio Playr is a handy tool to play, arrange and export almost any file that contains audio. It can handle almost anything you throw at it, as long as the file contains audio in some form. Everything from odd audio formats to movie file containers and you can export everything back to AAC or Apple Lossless. Some of the file formats/containers supported are AIF, MP3, FLAC, M4A, M4R, CAF, MOV, MP4, AVI, MKV, WMV, ASF, FLV, MPG and many, many more. Enjoy!

In this full-length mixing tutorial, Grammy winner Darrell Thorp teaches you all of the tricks and techniques he uses to help enhance dream-pop indie rockers Future Elevators from a creative and raw production to a finished and exciting mix.

Discover the remarkable stories behind some of the most popular film music of all time From Jurassic Park to ­The Lord of the Rings, Vertigo to Titanic, a powerful score can make a movie truly extraordinary. The alchemy between composer and director creates pure cinematic magic, with songs and melodies that are instantly recognisable and eternally memorable. So what is their secret?

Play open sounds with Quartal Chords to make your song more jazzy. Get my quick tips to play quartal sounds effortlessly Learn QUARTAL CHORDS and play quartal open sounds to give your song a Jazzy flavor!

When producing a track, it is very important to keep in mind how it will sound on a variety of different speakers and systems. This includes consideration for club systems, generic earbuds, laptop speakers, car speakers, and much more.

Properly tuning your drums is a very important part of creating music and is often overlooked – especially by top tier producers in EDM. In this video, Maxim explains exactly why this concept is so important, as well as demonstrates how to properly tune your drums in Ableton Live. Staring with a simple drum loop, Maxim will introduce a bassline to showcase how detuned drums can have a negative impact on the overall sound of your track.

The 8 Bit Brother of the 707 and 727 The 626 is a classic, 80s drum machine that's some sort of cross between a 505, 707 and 727, while adding additional sounds these other units don't feature. It's based around acoustic samples, and features 80s gated reverb snares, iconic congas, dry bass drums, crunchy cabasas, agogos, timbales, a cool assortment of cymbals and more. In fact, with 30 voices, the 626 packs in a greater variety of sounds than any other TR series drum machine.

The Simple and Solid Drum Machine - Modded to Hell The 505 is a charming little drum machine, kind of like a 707 and 727 in one box, with a great little sequencer to boot. And, as a contentious vintage synth explorer review proves, you'll find WAY more lovers of the 505 than haters - among them heavyweights like Vince Clark, Aphex Twin, and plenty of Chicago House classics.

Log in to Armin’s studio Every week, Armin van Buuren puts 41 million listeners into A State of Trance on his radio show. In his first-ever online class, the platinum-selling DJ breaks down his hits—and builds a track from scratch—to show you how he produces, performs, and promotes dance music. You’ll learn his technical process for using samples and plug-ins, mixing, recording vocals, and building a DJ set. Your crowd is waiting.

For years I’ve been teaching Ableton Live in the college classroom. As a University Professor, my classes are sought after, and, frankly, expensive. I believe Ableton Live can be learned by anyone, and cost shouldn’t be a barrier. This class uses the same outline and syllabus I’ve used in my college classes for years, at a fraction of the cost.

Our deeply sampled African Kalimba features a wide variety of sounds and textures and an intuitive interface. KALIMBA FEATURES

Torsion is a new dark hi-tech sound library packed with cinematic sound effects, tempo locked synths, stutter-stingers, tonal feedback, signature braams, hits, downers, low end whooshes, vocals, rise-crescendo, reverse and comes with 300+ wav samples and 86 kontakt instruments.