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How a Compressor Works. How to Create Amazing Bass Patterns for Electronic Music. Twice a month we revisit some of our reader favorite posts from throughout the history of Audiotuts+.

How to Create Amazing Bass Patterns for Electronic Music

This tutorial was first published in September 2008. Following my tutorial on creating a house drum track we received requests for information on creating bass lines, lead sounds, FX and arrangements. So, over the coming weeks I will be supplying step-by-step tutorials, demonstrating possible techniques for completing an electronic house track. I will build on the track in each tutorial so you can see things develop and make the Logic project available at each stage. Even though these tutorials are completed in Logic Pro 8 and in a one particular style of house, the techniques are very much generic and can be applied to any software and genre of dance music.

Note: this tutorial contains embedded audio that will not display in a feed reader. In this instance I have used a slightly tweaked pre-set from Logic’s ES2 synth. I find a healthy mix of the two works well. First pass bass Basic mix. Creating Bass Lines. Comparing Four iPad Synthesizers. Algorithmic vs. Convolution Reverb. Synth_programming_tips_sound_design_tutorials_pdf. Fat Chords. Amazon. The 10 best lectures on electronic music ever; watch them now - Beatport News.

Thanks to the wonders of the internet, one’s quest for knowledge really has no limitations.

The 10 best lectures on electronic music ever; watch them now - Beatport News

Between the plethora of digitized articles, documentaries, and—on the technical side of things—instructional videos and guides around, there is no shortage of information accessible to those who seek to learn more about the ever-expanding world of electronic music. The lecture, however, makes for a unique form of information sharing as it not only provides the necessary facts and details, but also allows for attendees (and, eventually, viewers) to get a sense of the person behind these facets of knowledge. With that in mind, Beatport News has compiled what we believe are 10 amazing lectures on electronic music, gathering videos from modern innovators, dance music originators, technical wizards, and a few that simply capture a time and place in electronic music too perfectly to overlook. Below are our 10 picks guaranteed to teach every electronic music enthusiast and music maker something new.

Video Presentations: Digital Show & Tell. WebM Continuing the "firehose" tradition of maximum information density, Xiph.Org's second video on digital media explores multiple facets of digital audio signals and how they really behave in the real world.

Video Presentations: Digital Show & Tell

Demonstrations of sampling, quantization, bit-depth, and dither explore digital audio behavior on real audio equipment using both modern digital analysis and vintage analog bench equipment... just in case we can't trust those newfangled digital gizmos. You can also download the source code for each demo and try it all for yourself! Discuss and learn more: "Digital Show & Tell" the Wiki-edition!

Like the previous episode, this video moves fast and only glances on a number of rather important topics, so we've set up a Wiki to get more information, ask questions, and debate. Download this video! "Digital Show & Tell" is distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (BY-SA) license. EDM Time Episode 3: Compression. Audio copy and paste. Ableton 101: The most Ableton tips packed into 1 Ableton Tutorial video! Point Blank Music School. Modular Synth Tutorial - Caustic 3. Dodge & Fuski dubstep production tutorial - #6 leads.

Dodge & Fuski dubstep production tutorial - #3 structure. Bookmarks for johnfromberkeley tagged 'music+making' Midi Tips: Arpeggios Made Easy. The future of iOS music. Polychord virtual MIDI (BETA preview) Green Jam - NLogSynth & SoundPrism.