The second part of my two-part series making percussion/drum sounds for Ableton (and/or any sample-based drum setup). This time, we used synths! Percussion […]
Video: Let’s Make Percussion!
Thios week’s video — we do them on Sundays at 12:30 Pacific these days! — is on making percussion. In particular, we look […]
Video: Korg opsix Sound Design Session
This week’s video is two hours(!) of mostly no-talking sound design! Take note: I have moved my streams from Wednesday afternoon to Sunday […]
Video: Transmogrifying Drums With Stock Effects
This week’s livestream covers using basic effects like EQ, distortions, filters and pitch/frequency shifters to turn drum and percussion loops into weird, alien […]
Video: All About Sweeps
Filter sweeps (and the extended class of timbral sweeps) are one of my favorite types of sounds. From classic transition effects and classic […]
Video: Subtractive Basics Exercises Walkthru
This week’s stream was a walkthru of the exercises from the Subtractive Basics I lesson on the excellent Novation Circuit Mono Station. We […]
Video: Circuit Mono Station + Soma Cosmos
The Ether Diver had a few upgrades installed recently, so I dedicated this week’s stream to looking at some of the new additions […]
Videos: “The Rest of the Owl” in Pigments
We just about wrap the year’s streaming with two videos in Pigments focusing on revising, polishing and cleaning up patches — in other […]
Video: Pigments Harmonic Engine Deep Dive
This week’s stream is a deep dive/focused look at the Harmonic (aka additive synthesis) engine from Arturia Pigments. Forty minutes of touring the […]
Video: Sampling for Sound Design
This week’s stream is an introduction to my approach to sampling for sound design — that is to say, recording sounds with the […]