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MORE THAN SAD BALLADS. In the late ’70s and all through the mid-to-late ’80s, AOR was at the apex of its popularity. Bands and artists like Peter Cetera, Journey, Foreigner, Toto and many more broke through to the mainstream tier and conquered not only the airwaves but also the movies. Much attributing to this fact were their ballads – big, layered and with a slick, often meticulously produced, rock and instrument-driven foundation somewhat new to the format.

Arturia’s MatrixBrute truly offers limitless possibilities. Thankfully, synth expert Marc Doty is back with an advanced look at this very complex instrument. Join him, and dive deeper!

(Piano/Vocal/Guitar Songbook). 39 favorites from contemporary Broadway hit shows are featured in this collection of piano/vocal/guitar arrangements. Includes songs from: The Addams Family * Aladdin * The Book of Mormon * Bright Star * A Bronx Tale * Come from Away * Dear Evan Hansen * Hamilton * Kinky Boots * Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812 * Newsies * Something Rotten! * Waitress * and more.

Weave is a 65 preset expansion pack for Tantra showing its ability to introduce a huge range of movement, rhythmic glitches and complex modulated craziness to any kind of audio. Weave's patches make use of all of Tantra's effects and modulators in various combinations from dub delays, vast reverbs, mild enhancement of pad sounds to total destruction of drum loops and everything in between.

Modular Synthesizers are not only a sight to behold but fascinating instruments capable of producing unique sounds that people have never heard before. Now that you’ve mastered oscillators and filters (covered in Synth 101) and modulation and envelopes (covered in Synth 102), it’s time to dive deeper as Andrew Scheps explains the world of Modular Synthesis.

So you recorded your MIDI score and can’t wait to hear it played by a live orchestra. What’s the next step? Join music composer Olajide Paris in this course, and learn how to transform your MIDI data into a usable score for orchestra.

House legend Olav Basoski is back with another Ableton Live 10 course! Watch him create an old-school House track right before your eyes, and learn lots of pro techniques along the way.

The Void is an ambient and cinematic soundset for Omnisphere 2 with the focus on sounds with a slow meditative character. The majority of the sounds are built upon the factory recordings in Omnisphere: bells, ethnic chants and assorted instruments from India and Asia such as Sitars, Chinese Temple Flutes and of course Tibetan Singing Bowls. These sounds were then layered, processed and stretched with the granular engine into entirely new sounds and soundscapes.

Mountains is a new soundset for Serum, crafted for the trailer, film/tv and game composer. The soundset contains 100 patches, 63 wavetables, 55 impact noises and 138 sample noises (drones, ambiences and soundscapes). The impact and sample noises are 44.1/16 wav files and can also be used as (royalty free) soundpack.

Audio meters are much more than the basic level meter that bounces along to the music in your DAW. From wave shape to frequency balance, audio meters offer all kinds of useful information about audio signals. There’s a lot of technicality involved in learning them, but luckily Joe Albano is here to explain it all!

Learn to Play Rhythm Guitar for Gypsy Jazz Waltzes! In this course we will go further into the Gypsy Jazz waltz guitar style that we learned in my Introduction to Gypsy Jazz Guitar Course.

Ever wonder how artists make their music sound so good? It’s all in the mix. Even when big musicians are touring on the road and recording in hotel rooms they sound incredible because their engineers are so good.

In this tutorial, Maxim will give you a foundational understanding of dynamic EQ. This includes when to use them, why they can be useful, and how to apply them effectively to garner intended results.

Proper analysis of your track through good metering tools is an extremely important part of the mixing and mastering processes. In this video, Maxim will show you a variety of different high-quality metering plugins you can use to help your analysis.

Hold on to your hats because this week Sonic Academy's bringing you an epic monster of a course, proudly welcoming back psy-trance maestro Protoculture in How To Make Psy-Trance under his other alias Shadow Chronicles.