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  Making a stellar DJ mix shouldn’t be locked to having CDJs and a mixer. In this video I’ll show you how to make them in Ableton Live by stitching songs together- warping tracks, locking them to the grid, BPM automating, adjusting EQ, gain, filter, and adding effects between different ...

Let’s make some sounds on the Arturia Microfreak and see what comes of it. This thing is maybe one of my favorite synths I’ve ever played with- super easy to get HYPER usable sounds and fantastically portable.

I had a chance to sit down with the MODX and get to explore its capabilities. In this video I’ll tell you what I like and what I don’t like about it, as well as put it to use in a real-world studio scenario by synthesizing some sounds & using ...

The S2400 has some of the best groove and punch on the planet. It also has Choke Groups that can make sounds cut each other off, creating a gating effect between the various sounds in your songs. Combined, this makes for a SERIOUSLY awesome sounding drum machine sampler, but getting ...

Granular synthesis has for a long time been an integral technique used by sampler and synthesis fanatics everywhere. It’s a powerful technique where a “grain” or small snippet of a sample is used as the base sound or waveform of a larger sounding synthesizer preset, typically made with a digital ...

So, something that bugged me about my music for a LONG time was my drums- especially with my house music because the pro’s- my favorite artists- their drums had this bounce and polish to them that I could never seem to figure out. I was sure that it was some ...

This sound is a more modern Flume style future bass or deep house sound that work great with chords. It’s also got some aftertouch controlling the filter amount so there’s some movement as you play. As you know with music production and synthesis, any bit of movement you can create ...

This one’s a simple bell sound with a bit of noise and delay. In the video I used two thin pulse waves and a formant waveform. There are specific bell wave shapes available for oscillators 3 and 4 but I chose not to use them for this bell sound. Just ...

I’ve had the Poly Evolver since 2014 and honestly have always been unhappy with the lack of tutorials on it. It’s a fantastic synthesizer and super unique in many ways. It can be used as a 4 oscillator hybrid synth, having two analog and two digital oscillators. Or it can ...

So I scored a Yamaha SU700 from an original owner who bought it in 1999 and had it kept in his garage covered, using it a handful of times between now (2016) and then. It’s pretty much mint condition, except for the encoders. If you’re not familiar with this unit, it’s one ...