10 Audio Tutorials to Help You Improve Your Stock Audio
Over at AUDIOTUTS, there have been a whole lot of tutorials that should prove useful for AudioJungle authors from a whole range of musical styles and genres. We’ve hand-picked a bunch of the best from the last couple of months and hope you learn some new skills to enhance your music, and enjoy yourself while you’re at it.
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Using Hitpoints and Markers in Cubase 4 to Create a Tempo Track
AudioJungle’s own Andy Slatter explains an effective method for keeping the tempo accurate in Cubase 4 even when the music shifts back and forth in speed using hitpoints and markers.
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How to Create and Dominate Hip-Hop Drums
One of the most important aspects in hip-hop and popular music is the drumbeat. What makes it sound so big? The drum patterns appear so simple, so why are they so hard to create? In this tutorial, we’re going to break down the fundamental elements of a hip-hop beat.
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How to Record the Best Live Drum Sound Ever
Recording drums is a bit of a lost art. Engineers used to spend a year experimenting with mics before they were allowed near a Fairlight or a Synclavia (old school samplers for the young among you).
There was no Logic Pro, plug-ins or even very good effects, so it was all down to clever mic techniques and improvisation. Here’s a few tricks Sean Vincent picked up over the years—tips and tricks which come in handy time and time again.
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How to Mix Pad & String Sounds to Create an Atmospheric Backdrop
Following Mo Volans’ tutorials on creating a house drum track and making electronic basslines, we come to the next stage of producing our virtual track, adding a pad and strings.
Although pads are usually subtle sounds, they can be all-important when you need to add atmosphere to a track. Even though these sounds may only amount to a backdrop, it’s well worth investing some time into creating them.
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How to Quantize Audio in Pro Tools Using Beat Detective and Elastic Audio
Have you ever wondered how modern rock bands get that really tight sound? The rhythms sometimes sound too perfect for even the best musicians to pull off. With today’s technology it is possible to easily quantize your audio tracks. This tutorial will teach you how to start correcting your timing by using beat detective and elastic audio in Digidesign’s Pro Tools software.
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How to Create a Stutter Transition in Reason 4
In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to create a cool ’stutter’ transition effect inside Reason 4 using two combinators. The effect is relatively easy to pull off and makes for an interesting transition to work into your songs.
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How to Create a Compelling Ostinato
The ostinato pattern is a staple of modern music; across every genre you’ll find countless examples of pieces that at their core revolve around a single repeating ostinato pattern.
In this tutorial we’ll look at how to create an ostinato pattern from a simple outline, give it a unique and intriguing sound, and use this pattern as a basic building block for creating your own original compositions.
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How to Create Crisp, Controlled Effects with Dynamic Effect Busses
There are times during the production process when you may want to use really intense delay and reverb effects with extra long tails. Using these sorts of effects on vocals, synths and even drums can create real atmosphere and depth but you may find that your signal can become swamped, resulting in a loss of clarity.
Luckily, there is a technique you can use that will help you retain the definition in your mix whilst using these special effects.
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How to Create a Velocity Layered Instrument with Maize Sampler
Maize is a VST sampler that’s really easy to use. All you have to do is drag your samples to match the notes of a keyboard, and then you can play them back from your MIDI interface. Okay, that in itself may seem like no big deal, but what is really interesting about Maize is that you can export your finished patch as a VSTi synth which you can share with others.
You can download a free version, and if you chose to purchase the full version registered users can sell their VSTi creations and also customise the background and logo. In this tutorial I will show you how to make a very simple Djembe instrument from scratch using some samples of the African drum that I recorded.
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How to Create a Custom Instrument with Logic’s EXS Sampler
Creating custom sampled instruments using Logic’s EXS24 Software instruments that come jam packed with presets can be bittersweet; there are hundreds of ready-made sounds instantly available at your fingertips, but within months of an instrument’s release the patches become hackneyed and commonplace. What you may have thought was a unique and exciting instrument can soon become the very sound that makes your music feel just like everything else.
The solution is to develop your own unique voice using custom instruments, and thanks to Logic’s EXS24 Sampler it’s much easier to do than you might think.
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