Release Year: July 16, 2010
Producer: Sonic Academy
Producer’s Website: http://sonicacademy.com
Author: <<nero>>
Duration: 5hr 50min
Type of Material: Video Lesson
Language: English
- 1.66 GB
Description: Clear your schedules for this eagerly anticipated epic 5hr 50min release from Sonic Academy. In this comprehensive 37-video tutorial, we’ll take you through the full process of creating a Progressive House track made famous by Daniel Portman and Jerome Isma-Ae. We’ll walk you through all the steps, from creating beats and synth sounds to mixing, arranging, and mastering, and show you from start to finish how to make a prog monster.
Content :
Tutorial 1 – The Drums Part 1
In this first video we start to load kicks and snares into the Groove Agent
Tutorial 2 – The Drums Part 2
Next up we look at importing our hatsand selecting our all important groove
Tutorial 3 – The Drums Part 3
Adding further hats to our drum pattern in this next video
Tutorial 4 – The Drums – Adding FX
We add eq and compression to the drum group to make our drum sound punchy
Tutorial 5 – The Bass
Time to look at a bassline, using the sylenth
Tutorial 6 – The Stab
Again using the sylenth we create a stab sound
Tutorial 7 – The Main Riff
In this video we create the main riff for our track
Tutorial 8 – The Bleep
Next up we create a bleep pattern to add groove and interest.
Tutorial 9 – Single Stab
To create movement in the track we add another single note stab
Tutorial 10 – Pad Sweep
To add to the build, in this video we show you how to make a padsweep
Tutorial 11 – Mixing & FX Part 1
The first of two parts, we look at adding effects and some mixing
Tutorial 12 – Mixing & FX Part 2
Part two of mixing and effects.
Tutorial 13 – Mixing & FX part 3
Tutorial 14 – Arrange Intro
With all the main parts in, its time to start arranging the intro section
Tutorial 15 – Arrange To Break Part 1
Continuing on with the arrange, we now start to arrange to the first break down
Tutorial 16 – Arrange To Break Part 2
The second part of the arrange to the breakdown
Tutorial 17 – Mixing
We do a bit of mixing before continuing the arrangement of the breakdown
Tutorial 18 – Arrange to Break 3
The final video in arranging to the breakdown
Tutorial 19 – Arrange to Break part 4
Now the arnge is finished, we start to add automation to the breakdown
Tutorial 20 – Supersaw Bass
we add a super saw sample that comes with the course to the breakdown
Tutorial 21 – Supersaw Bass 2
We continue adding the supersaw section
Tutorial 22 – Automation in the Break
We add some automation to the breakdown
Tutorial 23 – Delay Riser for the Break
To create tension in the breakdown we show you how to create a delay riser
Tutorial 24 – Tweaking the Break
Now the break is arranged, time to finish it with some tweaks
Tutorial 25 – Breakdown Loop
Here we resample the drums and process them for the breakdown
Tutorial 26 – Arrange To 2nd Break
In this video we start to arrange the track to the second of our breakdowns
Tutorial 27 – Arrange To 2nd Break Part 2
We continue to arrange the 2nd break
Tutorial 28 – Arrange To End 1
We arrange the track to the end in this next video
Tutorial 29 – Arrange To End 2
We continue to arrange to the end of the song
Tutorial 30 – Arrange To End 3
some final arrangement
Tutorial 31 – Spot Effects
We show you, in this video, how to add spot effects to the track
Tutorial 32 – Drum Fills
Drum fills is the name of the game in this tutorial
Tutorial 33 – Drum Fills 2
More drum fills!
Tutorial 34 – Final Tweaks
With the track nearly finished, time for some final tweaks to really make it shine.
Tutorial 35 – Final Tweaks 2
More final tweaks
Tutorial 36 – Mastering
A final listen back and tidy up, to ensure we have the track completed.
Tutorial 37 – Mastering 2
Example files: none
Video: AVC 442 kbps 1024×768/4:3/12 fps/128 kbps
Audio: AAC 111 kbps 44 kHz 2 channels
