Team IND | 2013-02-07 | 3.52 GB

Introduction: An overview of the Audio Weapons course.

Template set: Building a kickass template that will act as your starting point, a sonic palette of sounds from which you can write a professional sounding track in minimal time.

Included in the course

17 hours of in-depth training

- 8 hours of HD videos

- 9 hours of live question and answer periods (recorded in case you miss one)

- 5 Ableton production & sound design templates

- 5 custom Racks for making FX sounds, split-processing bass, & creating huge breakdowns

Samples:

- 62 punchy, layered drum kits already loaded into a Drum Rack

- 55 nasty bass samples, processed with Universal Audio plugins

2 Open Source templates

- See "behind the scenes" as I give you the project folders for 2 of my previous tracks

- Both include special DJ Session View setups for live play

- Comes with a mastered .wav file to compare with the pre-master mixdown

Course Curriculum

Week 1:

Introduction: An overview of the Audio Weapons course.

Template set: Building a kickass template that will act as your starting point, a sonic palette of sounds from which you can write a professional sounding track in minimal time.

Song arrangement: Special song arrangement techniques that'll keep your inspiration flowing so you don't get stuck.

Kick sound design: Using layered samples and special processing & EQ techniques to get a tight, punchy kick drum.

Snare and hat sound design: Selecting the right samples, pitching percussion to add impact, and bus compression get a heavy snare and sizzling hi hats.

Drum & parallel processing: Using New York style compression and transient envelope shapers to give our percussion more of an edge.

Week 2:

MIDI drum programming: MIDI programming tips to help you quickly build exciting drum patterns with variation and humanization.

Bass sound design: Bass sound design in Native Instruments Razor and processing with distortion, filters, compression, limiting and sidechain compression to the kick.

Bass modulation: Playing in bass with a MIDI keyboard, creating slides with the pitch wheel, and modulating with FX macros.

Sub bass: Adding a sub layer to our bass with Ableton's Operator & designing sub drops in Native Instruments Massive.

Advanced bass sound design: Creating a nasty, multi-oscillator patch in Massive and modulating it using Performers and Envelopes.

Bass multi-band effects processing: Splitting our bass into 3 separate frequency bands and processing each band with a special chain of FX to hype things up.

Week 3:

Bass in Ableton Sampler: Using the multi-patch bass rack included in the course, which has 50 huge bass patches in one Sampler.

Lead keys: Adding in some distorted lead keys from Native Instruments B4 organ.

Song structure & recording from Session into Arrangement view: How to easily get your song structure from Session View and record it into Arrangement View.

Breakdowns, build ups & epic drops: Effectively using these in your song.

Transition effects: How to create unique transition effects, like reverse reverbs, FX risers and fallers to keep your song flowing.

COURSE CONTENT:

Ableton Files:

Ableton.Sets.alp

Daddys.Home.Bass.Rack.alp

Course Video Download Packs:

aw.videos.part1.zip

aw.videos.part2.zip

aw.videos.part3.zip

Weekly Q&A Session Recordings:

Q&A Sessions Recording: Week 1

Q&A Sessions Recording: Week 2

Q&A Sessions Recording: Week 3

Other Stuff included :

Vespers Studio Production Template

Audio Weapons Devastator Drum Rack with HD tutorial videos

Turntable FX rack with HD tutorial videos

Put Down the Gun Open Source Template

Bubbles in the Jungle Open Source Template