Ishkur's Guide to Electronic Music

One of the most important music production learn ons of all time:

Ishkur's Guide to Electronic Music

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Guitars Of Doom!

ScrewMaker has contributed a file to the Air Users Blog with a cool video demo by Russ Hughes!

Guitars Of Doom!

NO!SPEC

Interesting. Very interesting.

NO!SPEC

Great Member Track

Great Member Track

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View of a Kind

Interesting site with links to various music and art and stuff from independent artists.

Check it out here:

View of a Kind

Airlift

Airlift

This is a little chillin' track that was created using sounds from the Air Users Blog. (Except for the reverse cymbals that come from my own secret stash of really cool guy samples. LOL).

I wanted to see how much I could get away with using one instance each of Digidesign's Structure and Transfuser, in Pro Tools of course. PT8 actually.

Within Structure, I used these 8 patches from the Air Users Blog:

Virus Piano Pad-The main riffage.

Urban Dance Kit-The kick and snare that run through the song.

Orchestral Percussion-For a couple of transitionary cymbal rolls.

Akai MPC60 Hi Hats-The hi-hats that accompany the kick and snare from the Urban Dance Kit.

It's A Sin Strings-These play a kind of counter accent to the main riffage from the Virus Piano Pad.

Scritti FM Piano-Plays a descending melody line near the end of the track, mixed a bit back.

Triton Marcato + Chamber Strings-This is actually two Air User Blog Patches that I layered into one patch.

Cymbals-I used these instead of the one's from my secret stash as I wanted to stay as only Air Users Blog sounds as I could.

In Transfuser these sample sets and loops:

AIR_Loop_36-This is the main loop, although 4 variations were used based on the original loop. I changed up some of the slices of kicks and such to better follow the changes and movements within the main riffage from the Virus Piano Pad.

Hybrid Filter Arp 3-I used only the first bar of this loop, with a variation for the ending notes. I played the pitch of the loop, as in what starting note, by assigning it it's own MIDI channel as in the AIR_Loop_36. I used Filter and Delay as inserts in Transfuser to further process the sound.

Def Drums-Loaded some samples from Nexus Drum Singles to create a drum kit with a bit of percussion at the end of the track, an additional snare in the middle, a doom kick thru-out and a snare fill and door slam towards the end of the track.

Hybrid Bass Arp Seq-I loaded this as a Phrase Sequencer as opposed to a REX Loop/Slice Sequencer as I wanted to use the first note of the loop to MIDI sequence a steady bass line. I used Tape Delay, Filter and Lo-Fi as inserts in Transfuser to further process the sound.

Airlift was mixed and mastered using Digi EQIII, Maxim, DDL, TL Space, BombFactory BF-2A, EQP-1A, Fairchild 660, and T-Racks EQ.

Thanks.

8PM

Here is a song utilizing Pro Tools Structure and Native Instruments Kore Player. Structure is freaking amazing !!! The more I dig into it, the more it does. I've loaded my EXS Libraries into it, which had come from my previous Akai, EMU, EXS, etc. samplers. It's really cool to be able to do all the processing in the box as opposed to the old days of routing to physical outputs to be routed to the counsole, etc. I tracked the guitars thru my Boss and Dunlop pedal board. I then applied Digidesign's Eleven plugin to the raw tracks using Audio Suite:

ScrewMaker: 8PM

And reviewed here:

8PM-ScrewMaker's Mid-Evening Crisis

The Kore Player is pretty neat. It loads many of the NI patches from their various products via Kore Soundpacks, collections of patches from things such as Absynth, Massive, etc.

And the price is awesome, like $60.00 bucks for libraries and the Player is without charge:

NATIVE INSTRUMENTS : Products : Kore Line : KORE PLAYER

NATIVE INSTRUMENTS : Products : Kore Line : KORE SOUNDPACKS

There is also a Free Kore Soundpacks Compilation available for download:

NATIVE INSTRUMENTS : Products : Kore Line : KORE SOUNDPACKS : FREE COMPILATION VOL. 1

Thanks.

Air User Blog

Holy Bananas Batman !!!

Russ over at Air Users Blog has been at it again and has many, many, new additions to the free libraries and tutorials and is now offering complete libraries for stoopid good prices !!!

If you use any Digidesign Virtual Instruments such as Transfuser, Structure, Boom, Xpand!, etc. get over to the site and get busy with your learn on and cool stuff gathering. Hell, go over there anyway as he has tons of cool guy samples of all kinds, loops, REX loops, and samples scattered about.

Be sure to donate. It is the cool thing to do !!!

Check out the Korg Triton Library for Structure here. Freaking Awesome !!!

Be good, Be safe.