Should I Buy It? – DS Thorn Synthesizer Review
Should I Buy It? – DS Thorn Synthesizer Review DS Thorn is a Spectral synthesizer plugin designed by Dmitry Sches (hence the DS before Thorn). Yeuda goes over the synthesizer and boy it seems amazing, we think you’ll be excited too. Watch the video review below, and read the walkthrough below that. General Interface Thorn’s interface leans heavily toward a utilitarian aesthetic, favoring skeuomorphic design (the knobs look lifelike) over the alternatives. This results in a plugin that looks cluttered with all the many parameters you are able to adjust, and a bit dated. One of the best parts of Thorn is that you can map every single parameter to a modulator! Unfortunately, the plugin lacks visualization of those mappings so it can hard to keep track of everything as your routings become more complex. What we have are five major sections of the plugin. On …
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EboSuite – Next Level Video in Ableton Live
EboSuite – Next Level Video in Ableton Live This week we’ll take an in-depth look at an amazing video manipulation plugin called EboSuite. EboSuite is a suite of MaxforLive devices that you can use to edit, cut, and manipulate video within Ableton Live. Technically it is operated through MaxforLive devices but the actual application runs outside of Ableton Live. This genius tactic is what makes is so darn useful in avoiding the common fallbacks of MaxforLive and video. Most MaxforLive video devices give you the fun ole’ start-stop-start-stop clunkiness we’ve grown to love but EboSuite bucks that trend. In this article, we’ll run through the initial steps of setting up video with the plugin, then cover the large swath of devices and FX you can use with it. Read below! Setting Up Video with the eConvert Device Setting up video for EboSuite is pretty easy, but for the faint of …
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All About Ableton’s Wavetable – Global Section & Unison (Part 7)
All About Ableton’s Wavetable – Global Section & Unison (Part 7) We continue our series of All About Ableton’s new Wavetable synthesizer. Today we cover the global section and unison controls! As always we included all the previous videos so scroll down for the latest video. Part 1 – Oscillators Part 2 – Filters Part 3 – Envelopes Part 4 – The Matrix Part 5 – LFOs Part 6 – MIDI Expression Part 7 – Global & Unison
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All About Ableton’s Wavetable – MIDI Expression (Part 6)
All About Ableton’s Wavetable – MIDI Expression (Part 6) We continue our series of All About Ableton’s new Wavetable synthesizer. Today we’re covering the MIDI Expression! As always we included all the previous videos so scroll down for the latest video. Come back thursday for part 7! Part 1 – Oscillators Part 2 – Filters Part 3 – Envelopes Part 4 – The Matrix Part 5 – LFOs Part 6 – MIDI Expression
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All About Ableton’s Wavetable – LFOs (Part 5)
All About Ableton’s Wavetable – LFOs (Part 5) We continue our series of All About Ableton’s new Wavetable synthesizer. Today we’re covering the LFOs! As always we included all the previous videos so scroll down for the latest video. Come back next week for part 6! Part 1 – Oscillators Part 2 – Filters Part 3 – Envelopes Part 4 – The Matrix Part 5 – LFOs
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All About Ableton’s Wavetable – The Matrix (Part 4)
All About Ableton’s Wavetable – The Matrix (Part 4) We continue our series of All About Ableton’s new Wavetable synthesizer. Today we’re covering the the Matrix! Come back Thursday for part 5! Part 1 – Oscillators Part 2 – Filters Part 3 – Envelopes Part 4 – The Matrix
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All About Ableton’s Wavetable – Envelopes (Part 3)
All About Ableton’s Wavetable – Envelopes (Part 3) We continue our series of All About Ableton’s new Wavetable synthesizer. Today we’re covering the the Amp Envelope. Come back next week for part 4! Part 1 – Oscillators Part 2 – Filters Part 3 – Envelopes
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Student Questions – Looping in the Drum Rack (Tutorial)
Student Questions – Looping in the Drum Rack It was never simple to loop in the Drum Rack. One of our student asked how to do it so we came up with a few options. Check out the video below. Have any specific questions you would like to get a customize tutorial on? Submit your questions HERE. Do you have any Drum Racks tricks to share? put them in the comments
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