Sonic Academy is proud to kick off 2015 with an almighty bang. We welcome Rob ‘Activa’ Stevenson to take charge in this unprecedented look at ‘How To Make Psy Trance’. With a continuous string of hits for the likes Vandit, Blackhole, Armada and Anjunabeats, Activa has been a mainstay in most DJ record boxes since he exploded… Read More »
Sonic Academy proudly presents ‘How To Make Nu Skool Retro House with Dancing Divaz’. With 20 years experience remixing the likes of Queen, Prince and Baby D and accounting for 20 UK top 40s, the man behind the Divaz brand, Ian Bland, certainly knows how to make hits. Here he uses his Divaz moniker to remix in… Read More »
Returning to Sonic Academy for another monster course, Jupiter Ace serves up a brand new ‘How To Remix’ course. Having remixed the likes of Fatboy Slim, and Flo-Rida, Jupiter Ace, aka Gregory Ferguson knows what he is talking about when it come to remixing. Over the next 13 videos, Gregory shows how to start with the vocal… Read More »
Chris Agnelli and Phil Johnston take an in-depth look at Sound Design in ANA V1.5. Taking you from the fundamentals of creating basses and plucks to more complicated functions, creating some big leads and amazing pad sounds. Be sure to check out the Kick Synthesis video at the end for some seriously massive kick sounds. Contents :… Read More »
This is the big one, an epic 8 hours of ultimate insight into producing a track that has had heavy rotation on Above and Beyond’s global radio show ABGT by uber producer ‘7 skies’. David’s passion and devotion to music production shines through here, as he leaves no production stone unturned. Showing you how to produce that epic… Read More »
Dutch heavy weight of the Nu Disco scene ‘Mason’ returns to Sonic Academy delivering another monster course. Here he rebuilds last years beatport chart smash ‘Nite Rite Five’. Released back in June of last year and tearing up dance floors across the globe, ‘Nite Rite Five’ is the blue print to that Nu Disco sound. Using mainly… Read More »
Sonic Academy welcomes the Berlin based Irish music maker Chymera to the helm for this truly deep and wonderful ‘How To Make Melodic Techno’ course. Chymera’s productions often fit comfortably between house and techno, and range from deeper cuts to more dancefloor focussed tracks, but always with a keen sense of melody. He has released various diverse… Read More »
In this Sonic Academy EQ extravaganza, we will work through the principles of the often misunderstood world of EQ. From the basic filter types and controls to the use of Mid Side EQ and real world mixing examples. Get to know the difference between low pass and high shelving filters and get a visualisation of how you… Read More »
FAST TRACK BUILD is another all new feature here on Sonic Academy. Using the genre selected for Sonic Rewind, the Sonic team attempt to build a track for you in under two hours. This is a fast paced feature allowing you to gain an understanding of a genre in a punchy, bite sized way. Join Phil and… Read More »
Sonic Academy regular.. and our favourite Kiwi, Ryan Enzed returns with another monster course. How To Make Future House takes the lid off this trending sub genre and dives into the production secrets of artists such as Don Diablo, Tchami, Kayliox and man of the moment Oliver Heldens. Expect metallic leads, subby baselines, bloc rocking beats and… Read More »
Sonic Academy proudly presents one of our most in depth courses to date. Welcome to ‘How To Make Progressive House 2015 with Echo Sound Works’. Taking apart this stadium filling genre, ‘Echo Sound Works’ expertly guides you through every nuance and twist in what is the world’s most popular sound today. Right from the first video where he… Read More »
After the fantastic response to his previous course we asked James Dymond back to bring you another top notch FL Studio course. This time round we look at ‘How To Make Progressive Psy Trance in FL Studio’ This is a club thumping, ground shaking monster of a track, with tight baselines, epic breakdowns and killer drops. Working… Read More »
After his interview with Chris, Swedish native and uplifting trance star Bjorn Akesson is back on Sonic Academy, this time with a monster course – ‘How To Make Uplifting Trance’. Bjorn shows from the first kick to the last effect, how to produce an uplifting 138 monster in this 7 hour course in Cubase 8. He starts… Read More »
How to Make Tech Trance is Sonic Academy’s guide to emulating the Tech Trance style made popular by the likes of Sander Van Doorn, Randy Katana and Simon Patterson. The nineteen video tutorials (detailing drums, percussion arranging, basslines, adding strings, synth programming and more) are also a great, focused way to enhance your music production skills using… Read More »
Cerberus Bass Amplifikation is a three-channel bass amplifier plug-in. With it’s intuitive single screen interface, whatever your playing stye is, pick or fingerstyle in any music you play, Cerberus Bass Amplifikation will provide the warmth of a tube amp, punch of a solid-state power or turn it up to the Drive amp type. For further tweaking, Cerberus… Read More »
Amplifikation Vermilion is a Guitar Amp Plugin inspired by classic guitar combo amps. It offers gorgeous looks and lots of tonality for serious guitarists who demand a guitar amp plugin with versatility. The engine of this guitar amp plugin is carefully tuned to match the tone of authentic classic amps which truly sing to your playing style. Amplifikation… Read More »
Kuassa Amplifikation Creme features head and matching cabinets with a built-in overdrive section, consisting of three kinds of overdrive pedals, giving you full control of harmonically-rich distortion crammed with intense dynamics. Kuassa Amplifikation Creme is described as “a must-have addition for all Amplifikation One fans”. Distinguished by its darker, fuller, and heavier tonal character discovered on High-Gain… Read More »
Sonic Academy welcomes back Ian Bland AKA ‘Dancing Divaz’ for another monster course. This time Ian guides us expertly through ‘How To Make Deep house 2016 using Ableton live 9’ From a very detailed look at drum programming, groove creation and adding an ambient reverb, through to sound design using Korg’s Legacy M1 softsynth and of course,… Read More »
The Ultimate Precision Pro Series Pack includes 3 professional plug-ins that are part of a new collection called Pro Series Plug-ins. The Pro Series plug-ins have been designed to reflect the need and requests of most demanding professional customers that use the V.I.P. Series plug-ins in their daily tasks. The Pro Seriesв collection includes a transparent linear… Read More »
ValhallaPlate is true stereo, emulating a steel plate that has 2 input drivers and 2 output pickups. It can be run as a mono-in/mono-out, mono-in/stereo-out, or stereo-in/stereo-out plugin. ValhallaPlate realistically models the physics of plate reverbs: High diffusion, for reverbs that have maximally high echo density. Frequency dependent decay time, for huge lows and clear highs, under… Read More »
Maximal is a lookahead peak limiter, with auto-make up gain, and adaptive release. This plugin will smoothly limit any peaks in the audio, and automatically increase the gain. Using our adaptive release technology, you can simply tell Maximal whether you want it to be fast or smooth, and it will do what’s needed inside. You can use… Read More »
The complete set of Sonalksis audio processing tools. Record, sculpt, experiment and refine your sound with this supreme collection. Essentials An essential part of any studio. designed by the best, the EQ, Compressor and Gate use ‘state-space’ technology to model real analogue circuits. Multi-Band Dynamics Sculpt your audio with perfect precision, using these unique ‘Dynamic EQ’ plugins.… Read More »
BIAS Desktop is the world’s most accurate, thorough and versatile guitar-amp modeler and designer. Its advanced amp-modeling engine captures the warmth and feel of real tube amps in every aspect, component by component. BIAS is fully customizable, easily create amp models by swapping out the tubes, preamp, transformer, tone stacks, cab and mic to create your own… Read More »
All about Fuzz, Overdrive, and Distortion. For over half a century, distortion has defined the sound of Rock and roll. From the first fuzz stompboxes to the latest high performance distortion racks – that unmistakable sound of an overdriven electric guitar has conquered millions generation after generation. With this heritage in mind, BIAS Pedal reinvents distortion in… Read More »
Kaleidoscope is the ultimate sound-design tool and creative effects toy! It is an entirely new class of visual audio effects processors and is one of the most unique generative signal processing tools to come to market in recent history. Technically speaking, Kaleidoscope is a massively parallel bank of physically modeled resonators that can be tuned completely arbitrarily with… Read More »
