Electronic synth music from Great Britain, the European continent and even Japan was fast becoming the music of the time, now household names like David Bowie, Kraftwerk and Gary Numan were making their mark on the music scene alongside the Italo Disco sounds of Georgia Moroder and Synth Pop Yellow Magic Orchestra.
Some like to blend both sources or sample their own content to use, but when chosen correctly Sample Packs provide an excellent way to both inspire creativity, jumpstart production ideas and provide some seriously good content of which you're able to manipulate into whatever you want to fit your style.
Synth presets allow an instant injection of sound right where you need it, sometimes it's the RIGHT sound, sometimes it needs a little tweaking and sometimes it's a placeholder, good enough to keep the idea of what you want it to sound like to revisit later. With modern tracks often having multiple layers of ..
Xfer Serum is a great sounding modulation powerhouse of a synth. To get the best out of it many producers turn to tailor made Serum presets so we show you how to quickly load up your Serum preset banks for use in your productions.
Spire is a really nice, clean modern sounding synth capable of some really unique sounds. To get the best out of it many producers turn to tailor made Spire presets. So we show you how to quickly load up your Spire preset banks.
As the 1990s progressed, trance evolved from an early experiment into a legitimate genre which would gain massive popularity. Songs featuring emotional, usually female vocals lead to the formation of a sub-genre known as vocal trance.
Usually a synth will come bundled with many, often hundreds of presets. They showcase the synths capabilities as well as provide quick easy access to a good range of sounds which can serve either as starting points or can be left and used as is.
A survey conducted on popular music production forum site KVR [Source] found that of 333 participants polled over 70% commonly use Synth Presets to achieve their musical goals.
Convolution reverb takes an input signal (the sound to be reverberated) and processes it with the sound of an actual or virtual acoustic space to create the illusion that the input was recorded in that space.
