Producertech has unveiled fantastic additions to their range of online courses, uncovering the secrets behind producing professional-quality house music with Logic Pro. One of the courses is by one of the most prolific and award-winning in-house contributors to the Loopmasters sample pack range, Andy Lee.

This Logic Pro course begins with a comprehensive lesson that creates the meat of the track, that being the beats, bass and main groove, which is done using a mixture of audio sample editing and MIDI programing techniques. He then goes on to show how those elements are arranged and mixed to make a professional-quality track. The first mixing lesson focusses predominantly on compression, showing a number of ways of using the effect in various modes, both directly on tracks and on auxiliary channels, after which he moves on to show how space is created in the mix, using panning, sample delay, spreading effects and reverb.

Following this, there is a lesson that has great advice on producing a master of the track, not only covering the limiting and maximising aspects, but also looking at how to split the mix up into mono and stereo components and then process them separately before recombining, in order to make sure the different frequencies in the mix are all positioned appropriately for maximum width and clarity. This Logic Pro course ends with a bonus masterclass on creating your own fat kick drums.

As with all Producertech courses, the lesson is presented via streamed movies, that can be accessed 24/7 for as long as required. Additionally, signing up provides access to a download pack containing the Logic Projects created in the lessons, along with large bonus packs of 200MB of extra loops and hits, for making a variety of different genres of house.

And remember: even though the course is for Logic, you can adapt the tips and principles to ANY daw so you’ll benefit from the course regardless.

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Groove Machine is here! Image-Line has just released this virtual groove box and it is perfect tool for live performance or as a hybrid synthesizer, drum sampler or for creating loops.

Check out the demo below:

Here’s some of the Groove Machine’s main features:

• 5 hybrid  (Subtractive/FM) synthesizer channels
• 8 flexible sampler channels, each with 4 sample layers
• 10 DJ-style effects + EQ and Stutter PER channel.
• Stepsequencer with per-step automation allowing PER step note sculpting of all interface parameters.
• Step / Drum sequencer / Piano roll views
• Optimized for live performance
• Internal link system for maximum compatibility with all MIDI controllers
• Multiple independent outputs for the 5 synth & 8 sampler channels
• Ideal for dub-step, trance, house & hip-hop producers
• Available in VSTi, AU & Standalone

Check the manual and Groove Machine YouTube video play-list to check what Groove Machine is capable of.

Download Groove Machine (Windows or Mac) demo.

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Hi everyone! I’ve been thinking a little and here’s something I felt I needed to get out of my chest:

First of all I hope I haven’t given anyone the wrong impression that I’m an audio PROFESSIONAL because I’m NOT: I’m JUST a hobbyist and a ‘bedroom producer’. Even though I’ve been making electronic music for years and I run this tutorial website and I do know some stuff from here and there, I have to say I still have a LOT to learn. I even may have to suggest you to be objective with some of the stuff I’ve been writing.

Secondly, when I started to ask sending me tutorial requests, I kind of ‘stepped into shoes that were too big’. I realize now I don’t have enough knowledge for many of the requests so I apologize if I’ve been promising to create a tutorial based on your request and you haven’t seen it here yet – it’s just because I got carried away with this website and I didn’t stop to think clearly WHAT kind of tutorials I’m actually able to create. Time is issue as well, as making these tuts eats up a lot of my spare time even though I do enjoy creating them…

So that’s why I’m not taking any specific tutorial requests anymore as I just don’t wan’t to give anyone any promises that I can’t fulfill. I hope everyone understands.

But with all that said, I WILL keep posting the stuff I DO know and what I keep learning all the time.

That’s it. Enjoy the website!

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