Next Step Audio

We’re going to be teaching a 5 hour music production class on Saturday, April 24 at Pyramind Studios in San Francisco.

The class will be similar to the tutorials we’ve been posting here, only in much more depth.

We will do a step-by-step walk through of our production for Parks On Fire, Lies, and our forthcoming remix of Hybrid’s track “Can You Hear Me”. We’ll also spend a little time discussing the business and marketing side of our operation. All attendees will receive multi-track stems for Parks On Fire and Lies to take home with them.

The video below includes an excerpt from a previous class we hosted, to give you a little flavor of what the event will be like.

If you’re in the Bay Area, or know someone is, tickets are available here. Hope to see you there!

Graintable synthesis? Huh?

Reason’s Malstrom synth combines granular synthesis and wavetable synthesis to allow for all kinds of modulation awesomeness.

In this video, Brian demonstrates how to use Malstrom to create rich bass and other synth sounds.

P.S. Trifonic is hosting a music production master class on Saturday, April 24th in San Francisco. If you’re in the area, or know someone who is, tickets are available here. Hope you can join us for 5 hours of production geek-out!

Brian is back one more gin to break down how FM synthesis works. In this episode he demonstrates how to create a guitar-like feedback sound using FM8 and the principles of FM synthesis.

(Be sure to check out Part 1 and Part 2 if you haven’t already…)

Brian continues his discussion on FM synthesis, demonstrating how to create complex bass and lead sounds using FM8.

(Make sure to check out Brian’s first episode on FM synthesis if you haven’t already).

Since we were too busy working on tracks this week to post a new Trifonic video, here’s a little edutainment (with an emphasis on the “tainment”) to tide you over… Hope to have a new tutorial for you next week!

FM synthesis is an essential technique for electronic musicians that can be used to create all types of lead, bass, and other synth sounds.

Here, Brian demonstrates the basic principles of FM synthesis using FM8.

If you compose for film, commercials, or video games, sound design skills are useful to have. But even if you never plan to work on those types of projects, practicing sound design will enhance your understanding of and ability to create audio, which in turn will make you a better producer.

In this video, Brian shows how to recreate some of the most ubiquitous sounds in the world – the classic telephone dial tone and ring – with sine waves. Brian uses Native Instruments’ FM8 synthesizer in his demonstration, but the techniques he uses are applicable to any similar synth.

If you’ve spent any time programming beats, you know that getting a track to groove just right isn’t always easy in the digital world. Perhaps, from time to time, you’ve tried to rip off emulate a great beat in someone else’s song, but found that you couldn’t quite capture the same feel…

If that’s the case, you may want to check out the Flex Time tool in Logic 9.

In this video, Brian demonstrates how you can use Flex Time to study a beat you love and create a similar groove of your own.

Multi-band frequency filtering is a great way to add rhythmic gating patterns to your leads, pads, and other sounds.

In this video, Brian demonstrates how multi-band filtering works using Logic.

If you’re interested in exploring the subject further, make sure to also check out Trifonic’s previous video on rhythmic gating in Ableton Live.

In this video, Brian discusses the benefits of creating your own multi-sample instruments, and shows off a few of Trifonic’s own multi-sample creations.