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After more than two years of development by our sound design team, and countless hours spent on the arsenal of presets, Darkside Funk sets a whole new standard. It’s poised to deliver the ULTIMATE Serum experience. Listen here: goo.gl/RxBrWm
Forged in the fires of the future, Darkside Funk lies at the leading edge of evolving sounds for modern bass music. Inspired by some of our favorite sci-fi films, it cloaks you in an immersive universe of hard hitting basses, searing mid-range bizness and morphing textures. With modulation pushed to the max, each preset moves and breathes with a life of its own.
Lurking inside, you’ll find some of the most advanced and powerful sounds ever created for Serum. All this power is at your fingertips, BEGGING to be unleashed! The creative use of Macros makes Darkside Funk delightfully immediate and simple to use, while also yielding spectacular sound-mangling abilities.
After more than two years (for real) of development by our sound design team, and countless hours spent on the arsenal of presets, Darkside Funk sets a whole new standard. It’s poised to deliver the ULTIMATE Serum experience.
Check out all the HUGE bonuses that come with Darkside Funk for Xfer Serum here: goo.gl/RxBrWm
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After more than two years of development by our sound design team, and countless hours spent on the arsenal of presets, Darkside Funk sets a whole new standard. It’s poised to deliver the ULTIMATE Serum experience. Listen here: goo.gl/RxBrWm
Forged in the fires of the future, Darkside Funk lies at the leading edge of evolving sounds for modern bass music. Inspired by some of our favorite sci-fi films, it cloaks you in an immersive universe of hard hitting basses, searing mid-range bizness and morphing textures. With modulation pushed to the max, each preset moves and breathes with a life of its own.
Lurking inside, you’ll find some of the most advanced and powerful sounds ever created for Serum. All this power is at your fingertips, BEGGING to be unleashed! The creative use of Macros makes Darkside Funk delightfully immediate and simple to use, while also yielding spectacular sound-mangling abilities.
After more than two years (for real) of development by our sound design team, and countless hours spent on the arsenal of presets, Darkside Funk sets a whole new standard. It’s poised to deliver the ULTIMATE Serum experience.
Check out all the HUGE bonuses that come with Darkside Funk for Xfer Serum here: goo.gl/RxBrWm
![How to Make Glitchy Granular Bass [Ableton Granulator II Tutorial]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/9x4NMyWhAwA/mqdefault.jpg "How to Make Glitchy Granular Bass [Ableton Granulator II Tutorial]
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Check out the Glitches & Grains Granular Sound Design Course: http://bit.ly/GlitchingYT
Download the free project file from Warp Academy: http://bit.ly/GlitchytoBlog
Finding your “Sound” as a producer nearly always begins with learning new ways to (literally) create NEW sounds. Lucky for you, Ableton Live is full of MIND-BLOWING sound design tools including a hyper-powerful synth, Granulator II.
At Warp Academy, we have a resident glitch & granular sound design expert, Merlyn Silva. He’s signed to Iboga Records and teaches music production at the Royal Academy of Music in Denmark, so he’s well-qualified on the subject. In this tutorial video, he’ll show you one of his favorite techniques for creating glitched-out basses in Ableton Live.
This video is just a taste of Merlyn’s full course, Glitches and Grains:
Granular Sound Design over at Warp Academy (http://bit.ly/GlitchingYT).
The Glitches and Grains course puts an array of wicked-powerful new sound design skills in your sound design arsenal. You get super deep into Ableton Live’s power features and unlock its full potential.
Taking this course will reveal workflows and processes that few producers ever discover. Become an Ableton power user by unlocking these epic production secrets.
Glitches and Grains: Granular Sound Design over at Warp Academy (http://bit.ly/GlitchingYT).
Download the project file from Warp Academy: http://bit.ly/GlitchytoBlog
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0:09 - Audio Example
0:19 - What is Glitches & Grains: Granular Sound Design?
0:42 - What are you going to show me in this video?
1:20 - Let’s get started, yo!
1:58 - I want to learn how to do this! - Check out the course: http://bit.ly/GlitchingYT
2:16 - Texture Layer
2:48 - Pro Tip 1
3:32 - Cool ending effect
4:02 - Adding extra energy to create a feeling of “opening up”
4:54 - Final thoughts
5:26 - Outro")
![Headroom, Gain Staging & Clipping in 32 Bit Digital Audio [Mixing Tutorial]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/CGRusg9GnAg/mqdefault.jpg "Headroom, Gain Staging & Clipping in 32 Bit Digital Audio [Mixing Tutorial]
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0:00 Intro
1:44 Do you need 6 dB of headroom?
2:29 Where the -6 dBFS target came from
3:54 Why some experts are saying to leave headroom in your mix & pre-master
4:30 Recommended plugin input levels
5:26 Doing a reference test master
6:04 Can plugins on your tracks, busses or your master safely handle signals above 0 dB without causing problems?
7:13 How to test plugins for input levels & clipping behavior
10:28 How to gain stage properly in chains of plugins
11:34 Seeing as modern DAWs are using 32 bit floating point processing, does it even matter if you clip your master?
12:23 Analyzing clipped audio exports in 32 bit floating point & 24 bit fixed point
13:34 2 reasons to leave headroom in 32 bit digital audio
14:19 Is clipping really that bad? And do you need to avoid it at all costs?
16:15 Summary & outro
#gainstaging #headroom #premaster")
