Online VS. In-Person Classes: Which is Right for You?
Online VS. In-Person Classes: Which is Right for You? Social distancing is all the rage right now and schools are offering online options like never before. The question is: are online classes right for you? Even though we’re practicing social distancing, Beat Lab Academy is still able to offer in-person classes. Beat Lab offers online, and Live Online courses as well. With all that flexibility it can be hard to choose. In this article, we’ll help you know the options a bit better. su_divider top=”no” size=”1″ Online Flexibility One of the benefits of online courses is that you can take them anytime, and anywhere. You aren’t limited by the physical classroom. That sort of flexibility comes at the cost of some options you may prefer, like live instruction and dedicated study spaces. With the flexibility of online courses, you are more in control of your education. Online courses are mostly …
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Blokdust: Retro-Futuristic Music Making Inside Your Browser
Blokdust – Retro-Futuristic Music Making Inside Your Browser A simple and easy to use interactive music-making browser, build synths and sounds all with your mouse and keyboard! Blokdust keeps things simple while providing a variety of source sounds and effects to allow you creative freedom. You can also load samples into the browser and work with those. To get a little more advanced you can can connect any MIDI controller to your synthesizer. This is a great introduction to synthesizers and sampling. With a very simple interface you can intuitively click around and discover all the different synth and sampling options available. The effects browser is limited, but in this case that’s a good thing – without too much to get lost in you can really get a sense of what each effect does to your sound. It’s also extremely easy to share whatever you’ve made at the end …
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Viktor NV1- Free HTML5 Synthesizer
Viktor NV1- Free HTML5 Synthesizer The Viktor NV-1 Synthesizer is a user friendly, online synthesizer. Whether you have a basic, or an in depth knowledge of how synthesizers work, the Viktor NV-1 is highly intuitive and simply laid out. You’re dealt a solid set of cards with 29 preset options ranging from the Accordion to an Underwater Water Bass Lead. The synth is set with the basics of three oscillators, a mixer, a polyphony component, a noise module, a primary and filter envelope, an LP filter and finally an LFO module. You can also tweak the compression, delay and reverb and master volume. (A number of presets.) The cool thing about these sort of free synths is that you can get a pretty unique sound with them. They’re clearly coming from a place of simplicity, though that simplicity is hard to replicate in some cases. Aside from that the sound quality is pretty …
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