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Walkthrough with Charlie May

Tutor : Charlie May

Reference : http://soundcloud.com/charliemay

Understanding Compressors

In this extravaganza, we will show you the full shebang starting with what compression does, the controls, how to apply it, using compression to get effects such as parallel, ducking and the all important side-chaining compression effect

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Ableton Live Tips and Tricks

"Ableton Live Tips & Tricks" is presented by remixer extraordinaire Timothy Allan, whose remixes have reached #1 on the UK dance charts and placed high on US Billboard, DMC and Australia ARIA charts. In this series, Tim digs deep into his Ableton Live locker and shows you the tips and tricks he uses most when working in Ableton Live.
Tim starts the series out with inspiring effect tricks that will improve your production's sound and impact, then covers cool mixing and production tips designed to open new doors when working in Ableton Live. Finally, Tim wraps up the offering with important workflow suggestions that will speed up your production process and make your life in Ableton Live easier, more enjoyable and productive.
Move your Ableton Live knowledge up a notch and improve your workflow and creativity with these awesome power packed tips and tricks from remix superstar Timothy Allan today.

Tutor : Timothy Allan

Reference : http://soundcloud.com/timothyallan‎

Working with Live 8

Learn to Create, Produce, and Perform with Live!
Morgan Pottruff is back with a true gem for Ableton Live 8. Morg will explain everything in a step by step, easy to follow style, and show you how to get the most out of Live.

Tutor : Morgan Pottruff

Reference : morganpottruffproductions.com

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Ableton Live 8 Video Tutorial Course

These Ableton Live tutorials are a complete guide to making music using the Ableton Live 8 Digital Audio Workstation. The Quick Start section presents a grand tour of the functions in Live as well as a review of the new features in Live 8.
The Audio Section contains in-depth tutorials on audio setup, recording, mixing and mastering. The MIDI section features tutorials on virtual instruments, hardware synthesizers, MIDI editing, Rewire, and the Instrument, Effects, and Drum Racks.

Producing House with Ableton Live

This series is presented by remixer extraordinaire Timothy Allan, whose remixes have reached #1 on the UK dance charts and placed high on US Billboard, DMC and Australia ARIA charts. His remix skills have even landed him a featured spot on an upcoming Madonna production.
The beat is the backbone and foundation of any great House track, and you’ll see the actual creative process unfold and learn exactly what’s going through Tim's head when he creates iconic sounding House beats. Watch Tim create a world-class House music drum loop starting from nothing and finishing with a dance floor masterpiece. See why his House beats rule supreme.

Tutor : Timothy Allan

Reference : http://soundcloud.com/timothyallan‎

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How To Remix in Ableton Live

Get inside the mind of remixer and Ableton expert Phil Johnston to find out how he used (and abused) Ableton Live 8 to put together this massive remix

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Wednesday, May 1, 2013

Ableton Live 8 Know It All

The Digital Music Doctor Ableton Live 8 Know It All! DVD contains offers a complete instructional guide to making music using the Ableton Live 8 Digital Audio Workstation. The DVD's Quick Start section presents a grand tour of Live 8's functions as well as a review of the new features in Live 8. The Audio Section contains in-depth tutorials on audio setup, recording, mixing, and mastering. The MIDI section features tutorials on virtual instruments, hardware synthesizers, MIDI editing, Rewire, and the Instrument, Effects, and Drum Racks. The Loops & Remix section presents a comprehensive discussion of using loops and the Audio Warp function. The Live Performance section of the DVD demonstrates Live's unique Session View as well as several DJ features.

The Ableton Live 8 tutorials on Live 8 Know it All! are 3 hours and 17 minutes of Adobe Flash interactive videos in data DVD format that you play in your Windows XP or MAC OS X-equipped computers with DVD-ROM disc drive (NOTE: This Data DVD is like a CD-ROM and will not play in a video DVD player). For detailed descriptions of the subjects covered as well as the module timings for these courses see Digital Music Doctor Ableton Live 8, Ableton Live 7 and Ableton Live 6 course descriptions.

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How to Make Deep House

Brand new for 2012 we bring you our updated How to Make Deep House course. Taking in all the latest sounds and techniques that make deep house one of the most popular genres of dance music at the moment. From pulsing and arpegiated basslines using ANA through to found sound percussion, filtered strings and spacey vocal edits, this course goes deeeep!! James Cameron watched this course and stated "My journey to the Mariana Trench was a waste of time, I obviously could've gone deeper."

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Up and Running with Ableton Live 9

Discover how to get started creating and recording music with Ableton Live 9 in just two hours. Author and musician Yeuda Ben-Atar starts this course by showing how to set up all audio, MIDI, and external plugins and prep an initial project for recording. Then he jumps into high gear: making beats with the Ableton drum kits, recording with the built-in virtual instruments, and capturing live performance like vocals and guitar. After your tracks are recorded, learn how to arrange song clips, layer in effects, create and record automation, and quickly mix the tracks with groups, busses, EQ, compression, and other techniques. The final chapter in the course shows you how to save, export, and master your finished song.

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How To Make Tribal House

'How To Make' course giving you the low down on those mysterious tribal beats. Get to grips with drums used and how to slice loops in both Recycle and Ableton.

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Ableton Live 9 - Tips And Tricks

Join Ableton Live expert Mike Kiraly as he dives deep into some of the advanced features that Live offers for unique and creative manipulation of sound. First, discover how to use clip envelopes to create constantly changing transitions between clips. Then Mike demonstrates how to create playable effects and effects transitions with dummy clips, build automated playlists and song arrangements with follow actions, and use dummy clips and follow actions together to generate complex effects.

Tutor : Mike Kiraly

Reference : http://soundcloud.com/mike-kiraly‎

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Tuesday, April 30, 2013

How to DJ with Ableton Live 8

In this course we show you round every aspect of DJing using Ableton Live 8. From warping all kinds of tracks to setting up FX through to mixing, recording and editing this course is essential for any Ableton DJ.

How To Remix in Ableton Live

Get inside the mind of remixer and Ableton expert Phil Johnston to find out how he used (and abused) Ableton Live 8 to put together this massive remix

Tutor : Phil Johnston

Reference : www.myspace.com/philterino

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How To Sound Like (Vol#01) French Electro House

Use Ableton Live to mix up some funk-fuelled, Electro House tracks with this comprehensive series of video tutorials. In this massive 23 tutorial series, we show you all you need to know to produce tracks in the sound of now – electro house!

Music Production For Beginners Using Ableton Live

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Bouncy Tech House in Ableton Live

In Sonic Academy's How To Make Bouncy Tech House we show from start to finish how to create a unique and quirky take on Tech House Music championed by the likes of Pleasurekraft.
We make full use of Sonic Academys ANA soft synth when creating our bass and lead parts and we also record in some vocals on the fly and use Abletons on board Vocoder, pushing it to its extremities to create an amazing sounding main riff.
All project files, samples and resources come bundled with the course.. so you can open them at any point and follow along on your own computer.

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Beginners Guide To Music Theory - Scales

Get to grips with the awesome world of Music Theory using our Beginners Guide to Music Theory course. In this second installment we look at scales, both major and minor and using these to build a baseline

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Advanced Techniques - Found Sounds

If you are in need of some inspiration why not grab a rubber mallet and drive round town hitting a bunch of other peoples stuff. If your still bored try dragging your bin into your house and give it a proper thumping. Thats what i did! Oh.... you might want to bring a recorder otherwise its just blatant vandalism. If that all sounds like a bit to much just watch this course.

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Tech Tips

All wrapped up like a yummy big present, Tech Tips Volume 6 is the 6th part of the very best of Sonic Academy's top insider production tips

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Tech Tips with Spektre

Sonic Academy's Artist Series presents Tech Tips by Spektre. Paul Maddox (One half of Spektre) shares his production tips, tricks and secrets straight from his studio.

Tutor : Paul Maddox

Reference : www.myspace.com/paulmaddoxdj‎

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Monday, April 29, 2013

Studio Accoustic and Sound Absorbers

Learn how to make your own Sound Absorbers for your home studio. Sonic Academy's Allan McGreevy shows you a cheap and easy fix to help you clean up the sound of your room and improve your listening and mixing experience.
Updated : Learn how to analyse your room with Room EQ Wizard and what difference good absorbers will make!

'Glowing in the Dark' With Jupiter Ace in Logic Pro

In Sonic Academy's all new artist series, Big Vision Records label boss and the man behind the buzz and cool cuts No. 1 '1000 years' Jupiter Ace's massive main room house course is here. Having remixed for the likes of Fatboy Slim and Flo-Rida.. Jupiter Ace, aka Gregorgy Ferguson, gives you the low down on his lastest vocal monster "Glowing in the Dark' featuring Geneva Lane.

With support for this track coming from the likes of Benny Benassi and David Guetta you know this is a 'How To Make' not to missed. From bassline drops in Reaktor to peak time builds using sylenth you are sure to learn new production techniques over the next 4 hours.

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Mixing - Creating Space Bass

The first part of this course will give you some essential tips on creating space bass in your mixes making them sound wider and more polished.

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Mixing - Creating Space

The first part of this course will give you some essential tips on creating space in your mixes making them sound wider and more polished.

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How To Use Guitar Rig Kontrol

Learn how to set up and use Native Instruments Guitar Rig Kontrol kit in this weeks course.
We show you have to assign the buttons and pedal control of the hardware unit to the Guitar Rig 4 software amp simulator - allowing you to make use of the hardware and software combo LIVE.
We also show you the basics of the User Interface and how to use the Control Room to get the desired sound you are looking for.

Music Theory - Scales & Modes

Learn all about Scales & Modes and how to implement them into your production in the latest of our Music Theory lineups presented by Sonic Academy's Jamie Schmidt

Tutor : Jamie Schmidt

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How To Make Kick Ass Kicks

This does exactly what it says on the tin - Kick Ass Kicks. Using Abletons instrument rack to design kick drums by combining the the clicks and whomps to create up to 1400 different combinations! Never want for a kick again!

Get that Sound Dub

If you want to add a more authentic sound to your dubsetp or dubtech productions or just want to roll a phat dub tune then look no further. This course will take you through all the classic dub sounds and how to make them!

Drum & Bass 2012 in Ableton Live

Brand new for 2012 is our updated How To Make Drum N Bass course. Taking on board all the latest sounds and techniques this course will show you how to make a DnB track with skyscraping melodies and bowel rumbling basslines. Using on board Ableton instruments and FX plus the state of the art Sonic Academy ANA synth, this course shows you everything you need to make a massive sub slaying monster.

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SQL - Distorted Reality Walkthrough

At just 22-years-old, Pim Van Horssen has seen more success come his way than many will in a lifetime, with a list of releases as long as your arm as well as gigs in all corners of the globe, from the massive Universo Paralello in Brazil, the clubs in New Dehli and everything in between.

And while success is nothing new to Pim, 2009 is the year his talent came to the fore, with his smash hit Distorted Reality finding its way onto the playlists of the who’s who of the minimal world, including Richie Hawtin, Marco carola and eventually right to the way to No.1 on the Beatport charts.

In this course SQL opens up his Logic Pro session showing us the secrets of his 'Distorted Reality' Track - not to be missed

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How To Make Drums, Breaks & Builds

In this course we take you through some in-depth techniques for getting in and out of breakdowns.
We look at morphing from a stab sample to riser to a bass sound and some creative techniques for resampling reverbs to make them into awesome risers!

Understanding Reverb

In this video Sonic Academy's Graham Ginty eases you in to the world of Reverb.

In this Ultimate Guide to Reverb, we will show you exactly what you need to know about the different types of reverb, the controls on a reverb unit, applying reverb to your recordings and how to create your own impulse responses. We capture the impulse responses from the amazing Belfast Cathedral and the Sonic building stairwell using both Mac and PC software. We review the Lexicon LXP Native, 2CAudio Aether, Relab LX480 Plugins and look at whats available for free. We've also included some great impulse responses for you to use in your own tracks.

Tutor : Graham Ginty

Reference : https://soundcloud.com/waveformdigitalmusic

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Glitch-Step House in Ableton Live

This week we bring you a combination of music styles. Take Glitchy Housey Dubstepy Electroey .. music.. and what have you got? Glitch-Step House
So here is the first of many parts explaining how to build the basis for your track. Get ready for many many distortion units and lots of knob tweaking as we devastate what was once a simple saw wave and turn it into a force that could only be dealt with by Dumbledore himself (..yes i got the Harry Potter box set for Xmas)
Part 6 LIVE NOW - Final arranging and mastering!

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Sunday, April 28, 2013

Ableton Live Workflow Tips

In this course we take a look at a bunch of quick tips to speed up your workflow.

Main Room House in Ableton Live

In this Tutorial we will be making a Main Room House Monsta.
In the first part we look at the most essential element the chord progression. We deconstruct a few tunes and spit the process up in to easy to follow parts. If your having difficulty building the killer chord progression this should defo help.
From there on we delve even deeper into things by looking at our bassline / vocals / arranging / fx / breakdowns / mixing and final mastering until we have a complete track.

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Peak Time Trance in Ableton Live

This is the one where you lift the roof off your local trance disco with stomping beats and epic melodies.
Inspiration for the track is from the likes of Sean Tyas, Super8 and Agnelli and nelson.
In the Part 1 we get to grips with the Vocals, Bass and some driving synth elements.

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Tech House 2011 in Ableton Live

In this course we take an indepth look at creating, editing and manipulating sampled loops to creat a fresh tech house track.

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Discount Rhinos walk-through: “Kansas City Shuffle”

In this Sonic bite-size tutorial, Bryan Spence (resident Sonic pro and Discount Rhinos himself) gives you a breakdown of his own “Kansas City Shuffle” electro house track.

Tutor : Bryan Spence / Discount Rhinos

Reference : http://www.myspace.com/discountrhinos

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Get that Sound : Psy Trance.

In this course we show you how to create a bunch of Psy/Goa Trance sounds created in Syleth1 Including basses acid sounds chord stabs and lead sounds! Enjoy!

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A Beginners Guide To Music Theory - Rhythm

Get to grips with the awesome world of Music Theory using our Beginners Guide to Music Theory course. In this first installment we kick things off with an in depth look at the basics of Rhythm.

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How To Sound Like (Vol#10) Drum n Bass

Tech House With Alex Tepper

Alex Tepper, You may scratch your head upon hearing his name, but be damn sure you’ve heard some of the hundreds of releases that have been touched by his hands in almost 20 years in the business. Working behind enemy lines under a variety of pseudonyms or as collaborator to some of the biggest names in house music, his releases have had everyone from Pete Tong to Kevin Saunderson heaping plaudits on them.

Since those crazy, heady days as part of the "Futureshock" juggernaut, Alex has been providing the know-how for a variety of premier league DJs, collaborating regularly with Steve Lawler, Nic Fanciulli and a host of others, who’ve come to him for a sprinkling of Tepper magic with releases on Get Physical, Cocoon, R&S, Ovum and many others.

Sonic Academy invite Alex to share some of those secrets to his success and he does so here, as provides us with over 2 hours of Tech House tutorials. Showing us the tips, tricks and techniques learned over his years in the industry.

Tutor : Alex Tepper

Reference : http://www.soundcloud.com/alextepper

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How To Sound Like (Vol.08) Minimal Tech House

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Trance in Logic Pro

In this course legendary trance producer Chris Agnelli show you how to make an Agnelli & Nelson style trance tune in Apples Logic Pro

Tutor : Chris Agnelli

Reference : http://www.myspace.com/chrisagnelli

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Saturday, April 20, 2013

Artist Series Tech Tips with Eelke Kleijn

With 2 artist albums under his belt and an incredible amount of work to look back upon, Eelke Kleijn has established himself not just as another producer or DJ, but as a modern day electronic composer.

After almost 10 years in the industry, Eelke has built his label Outside the Box Music from the ground up, released numerous records on the worlds most respected record labels and remixed various artists along the way.

Of late, Eelke Kleijn has been involved in musical escapades for major Hollywood movie trailers such as Wrath of the Titans and This Means War.

Recently Eelke showed us some of his production secrets in his Tech Tips series - today though he walks us through one of his original productions.. "Eenvoud

Tutor : Eelke Kleijn

Reference : http://www.soundcloud.com/eelke-kleijn

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John O Callaghan Big Sky Remix Walkthrough with Chris Agnelli

In this Sonic Academy exclusive we get to lift the lid on the ASOT track of the year 2007 - John O'Callaghan's 'Big Sky'. Chris Agnelli along with Phil Johnston take you through this trance classic and all its inner workings. From the initial thoughts behind the remix to drum, bass, and fx programming, this is an unbelievable opportunity to see how a trance classic was made. Chris explains how he approaches remixing and how to get the best out of the vocal's when remixing. So sit back and enjoy all the tricks and tips in this exclusive course.

Tutor : Chris Agnelli

Reference : http://www.myspace.com/chrisagnelli

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Artist Series Spektre Remix of Mikael Jonasson

Spektre take a break from providing us with their fantastic Tech Tips series to give us an in depth look at one of their own productions, a remix of Mikael Jonasson's "Prankster".
Paul takes us through the Drums, Bass and all of the FX used on the track giving you an exclusive insight into their productions.

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How To Sound Like Vol.06 Fidget House

How To Sound Like Fidget Electro House. In this video tutorial we show you how to make music in the Fidget Electro House genre made popular by the likes of Twocker & Stupid Fresh!

Take your first steps into the increasingly more popular world of Fidget House!

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Friday, April 19, 2013

How To Make Tribal

Want to discover how a Japanese Taiko Drum, Chinese Thunder Drum or Djembe could make it into to your latest production, well this is the course for you. We cover tribal beats, using drums for basslines and extracting single drum hits from loops in this 7 video course

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How To Sound Like Vol.11 Nu Disco

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(Producer Walkthrough) Artist Series Tech Tips with Tom Demac

Sonic Academy's Artist Series presents Tech Tips by Tom Demac. Learn the secrets of this producers production tips straight from his studio.

Tutor : Tom Demac

Reference : soundcloud.com/tomdemac

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How To Sound Like (Vol.04) Trance

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Progressive Trance in Logic with Chris Agnelli

Following on from his massive trance course, Chris Agnelli slows things down and gets deep and groovy in his 'How To Make Progressive Trance'. Blending the best of Jaytech, Mat Zo and Anjunabeats, we lift the lid and peer into the world of Progressive Trance. Oh and one more thing.......We introduce you to the wonderful world of ANA, Sonic Academy's very own massive synth. So sit back and enjoy over 3 hours of deep beats, lush pads and world dominating synths.

Tutor : Chris Agnelli

Reference : http://www.myspace.com/chrisagnelli

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How To Sound Like (Vol.02) Swedish House Mafia

Sonic Academy’s How to Make… Swedish House music video tutorial is chock full of tips on how to sound like Swedish House, the style you’d recognise from artists such as Steve Angello, Sebastian Ingrosso, Axwell etc.

Tutor : Phil Johnston

Reference : www.myspace.com/philterino

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How to Make Nu Gaze Using Ableton Live

How To Make…Nu-gaze is Sonic Academy’s nineteen-part video tutorial on fashioning an epic tune with the underground Nu-gaze sound.

This massive 19 part course will have you recreating the distinctive, ethereal sounds made famous by the likes of M83 , Sigur Ros and taking its cues from the Shoegaze movement of the 90s.

In a Sonic Academy first, Phil Johnston teaches you live instrument recording. We take you through 3 different live guitars sounds, and recording live bass.

Tutor : Phil Johnston

Reference : www.myspace.com/philterino

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(Producer Walkthrough) Artist Series Kelis Brave Arveene and Misk Remix

Arveene & Misk talk you through their session file created for their remix of Kelis - Brave

Tutor : Arveene and Misk

Reference : www.myspace.com/arveeneandmiskmusic

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How To Make Progressive House with Cubase

Clear your schedules for this eagerly anticipated epic 5hr 50min release from Sonic Academy.

In this comprehensive 37 video tutorial, we take you through the full process of creating a Progressive House track as made famous by Daniel Portman and Jerome Isma-Ae.

We walk you through all the steps from creating beats and synth sounds to mixing, arrangement and mastering and show you from start to finish how to make a prog monster.

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How To Make Popstep Dubstep

Step into the Dubstep / Drum & Bass / Pop crossover genre with our 'How To Make Popstep' course. Create poppy stab and synth sounds coupled with a grimey bass wobble to add that dubstep influence.

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How to DJ with Traktor Kontrol

With Sonic Academy, you’ll be the first to know your way around the Traktor Kontrol X1, the hot new Traktor controller from Native Instruments. The Kontrol X1 puts all of Traktor Pro’s features at your fingertips: You can forget fiddling around and focus on making the beats. Sonic Academy’s demo lesson is quick and clear, so you can give trial and error a miss and get straight to mixing with this powerful DJing controller.

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How to make Nu Disco

The Nu Disco is growing rapidly in popularity, thanks to artists like Aeroplane and Prins Thomas. Sonic Academy’s online series of video tutorials will steer you through making Nu Disco tunes using Ableton

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How To Make 90s House

In this Course we take a silver DMC DeLorean with a MK2 flux capacitor and some garbage to power us back to the 90s. House music of the time was under going a massive explosion with the release of a new bread of sample based affordable synths. The Korg M1, Roland D50 and Yamaha SY77 all made a big splash with their new mega powerful sound. We take a look at the £30 plugin version of arguably the most popular one of them all the M1, what made it so special and is it any use today

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How to make Dutch house

Over the next 2 hours and 50 minutes we show you from start to finish how to make a massive Dutch House track using Ableton Live 8

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Thursday, April 18, 2013

How to Make Hard Dance

You kept asking for it and the wait is almost over!

Sonic Academy Leg End 'Phil Johnston' gets his rave on with this weeks course 'How to Make Hard Dance'

So prepare to turn the tempo control up to a billion, as the countdown begins! Check back on the site tomorrow for this course - EXCLUSIVELY available to our Subscribers!

Tutor : Phil Johnston

Reference : www.myspace.com/philterino

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How to Make Dubstep

Learn how to create some ground shaking sub bass coupled with morphing distorted synth patterns in this How To Make Dubstep course.
Sonic Academy Tutor Bryan Spence takes you through step by step how to glitch and chop between basslines, synth parts, vocal stabs and drum crashes to get you on your way to creating the very distictive dubstep rhythm.
This course comes in a bundle of 22 videos and is covered using Steinbergs powerful Cubase 5 DAW.
So put your hoods up and get ready to dance double time as we transport you into this growing underground London sound

Tutor : Bryan Spence

Reference : www.myspace.com/bryancspence

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Thursday, April 11, 2013

Up and Running with Ableton Live 9

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DJing Techno and House

The future of DJing is here! House & Techno producer Noah Pred shows you all the ins and outs in this DJ-centric Live 9 course....

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Reference : http://soundcloud.com/noahpred

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How To Sound Like Tech House : Olav Basoski, Mark Knight, Dave Spoon

A Sonic 'How to Make' Tutorial giving you some you some tips on how to make a Tech House track made popular by the likes of Olav Basoski

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Sunday, April 7, 2013

How To Make Advanced Minimal Techno

In this awesome course we show you advanced techniques for making an aaaamazing minimal techno track. Made popular by the likes of Egbert, Gary Beck and Richie Hawtin.

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How to Remix in Ableton

Get inside the mind of remixer and Ableton expert Phil Johnston to find out how he used (and abused) Ableton Live 8 to put together this massive remix

Tutor : Phil Johnston

Reference : http://www.myspace.com/philterino

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Thursday, April 4, 2013

Make Music With Ableton Live Intro - Intermediate

Following on from our 'Make Music With Ableton Live 8 Intro' course we take things a little deeper, showing you how to make use of multiple Audio & MIDI FX to add lots of variety to your mix.

We also take a look at Filters, Panning and how to manipulate and twist vocal tracks in both with session and arrangement views to gear you up for future tutorials!

So those of you staring blankly at the screen after jumping from our Beginners course to our How To Make courses can now rejoice, as we fill in the blanks in our Making Music With Ableton Live 8 Intro Intermediate offering.

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How to Make Music with Cubase 6

In this course we show you how to make a basic dance music track while showing all the functions of Cubase 6. This course is designed for beginners and new Cubase users.

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How to Make Techno in Reason

Learn how to produce the next big room techno classic in our How To Make Techno in Reason 4. Learn everything from programming massive sub bass throbs, bleepy synths and distorted percussion through to full arrangement, FX and loads of other large, banging techno tips and tricks.

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Intermediates Guide to Ableton Live 8 MIDI

The first batch of Intermediate courses cover all of the MIDI effects within Ableton Live 8. So if you are looking to brush up on your MIDI knowledge you have come to the right place. Over 45 minutes of geekism awaits

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How to Techno in Ableton Live

Transform your beats into a hard hitting techno sound in this How To Make Techno course for Ableton Live 8. You will be shown from the ground up how to create a driving techno drum kit using toms and distorted kick samples.. followed by synth programming and finishing up with arrangement & FX.

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Wednesday, April 3, 2013

Make Music with Reason 6

Over the next 12 videos our beginners guide to making music takes you step by step through Propellerheads groundbreaking software Reason 6.

Designed for beginners, this course is the perfect for those of you who want to get stuck into making dance music in Reason 6.

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Tuesday, April 2, 2013

Banging Electro House with Gigi Barocco

Gigi Barocco is no newcomer to the music world remixing for artists such as Benny Benassi, LMFAO & P!NK and featuring on Ultra Records, Ministry Of Sound & Universal to name just a few.

Sonic Academy have teamed up with Gigi to bring you a full 2 Hour 'How To Make' course in this Italian's own unique flavour and style. Combining Electro house elements with the increasingly popular Complextro sounds, this course delivers all you need to know to create a Banging Electro House track using Logic Pro 9.

Please note - The course resources do not include the Acapella featured in this track due to licensing restrictions.

Tutor : Gigi Barocco

Reference : http://soundcloud.com/gigibarocco / http://www.myspace.com/gigibarocco

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How To Make Electro House with Cubase 5

Taking your musical inspiration from the likes of Fedde Le Grand and your expertise from Sonic Academy professionals, learn how to create an Electro House tune using Steinberg’s Cubase 5.

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Saturday, March 30, 2013

How To Make French House with Cubase

Sonic Academy’s video music production tutorial How to Make… French Electro House with Cubase breaks down all the parts of a French Electro House track and takes you step-by-step through making your own. Get that sound (a la Justice and Sebastian) with distorted basslines, dirty synth sounds, disco stabs, and plenty of cuts, drops and edits.

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Monday, March 25, 2013

Make Music with Logic Pro 9

Video tutorials for Mac users to rejoice about! Make Music with Logic Pro 9 is Sonic Academy's professional and thorough (17 videos!) Beginners guide to a truly excellent piece of music-creation software, the Mac-exclusive Logic Pro 9

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Sunday, March 24, 2013

Produce with Logic Pro

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Saturday, March 23, 2013

How To Remix in Reason

Get inside the mind of remixer and Reason expert Graham Ginty to find out how he used (and abused) Reason 4 to put together this massive remix using Reason's powerful on board synths and FX such as Dr. Rex, Redrum, Thor, NN-XT, RV700, Scream Distortion Unit plus lots more.

Tutor : Graham Ginty

Reference : https://soundcloud.com/waveformdigitalmusic

Friday, March 22, 2013

How to Remix Logic

Get inside the mind of remixer and Logic Pro expert, Chris Agnelli and find out how he used (and abused) Apples Logic Pro 9 to put together this massive remix. From thundering drums to distorted vocoded vocals he flips this remix on its head. Don't expect a nice trance mix here folks - the dirt is turn all the way up to 10!

Tutor : Chris Agnelli

Reference : http://www.myspace.com/chrisagnelli