Getting Creative with Your DAW
Gary Hiebner delivers cool "getting creative videos" when using your DAW! Learn all kinds of ways to make interesting new sounds and effects with any DAW. These creative DAW tutorials are perfect for those just starting out using any DAW, as well as for more intermediate DAW users.
Videos
• Turning a Drum Beat into a Bass Part (06:17) - This video shows how you can take your drum rhythm ideas and convert them to baselines that follow the groove.
• Using Sequencers to Write Melody Ideas (03:07) - This video explores how you can use different editors, like the Sequence Editor to Help you come up with melody ideas over your typical Piano Roll Editor.
• Using Arpeggiators to Create Beats & Melodies (06:19) - If you're stuck for ideas you can use a MIDI Arpeggiator effect to help you come up with new beats and melody ideas for your songs. See how!
• Re-Pitching Drums to Change Up Beats (05:50) - This video shows you how you can re-pitch your drums to enhance your drum beats.
• Re-Pitching Audio with a Sampler (07:15) - Continuing on from the previous video, discover how to re-pitch audio through a sampler for an alternate sound.
• MIDI Chord Effects for Chord Ideas (05:45) - Watch how you can use MIDI Chord effects and Chord apps to help you come up with cool chord progression ideas for your songs.
• Creating Stutter Gated Effects (11:02) - In this video, Gary shows you how you can create your own stutter gated audio effects through the editing tools in your DAW.
• Using Reverses in Your Productions (08:58) - Here we go over how you can create and use reverse sounds in your productions for transition effects and for creating extra interest in the mix.
• Create Your Own Vocal Drum Beats (11:35) - In this video, Gary shows you how to record a beatboxed voice drum idea into your DAW, and then how to process it and layer it with other drums to create your own unique drum beats.
• Using Extreme Time Stretching Techniques (06:34) - See how to use the application "Paul's SoundStrech" to apply extreme time stretching to your audio and how it can be used in your productions.
• Creating a Filtered White Noise Riser Effect (07:14) - Here we show you how you can take a white noise sample and process and automate it to create a riser transition effect in your songs.
• Resampling Audio Through the Sampler (08:16) - Explore how you can take an instrument, bounce it down and then pull it into a sampler to further process the sound through the sampler's processing effects.
• The Filtered Telephone Vocal Effect (07:51) - This video shows you how to create that classic telephone-style sounding filtered vocal effect. This works great to create contrast against other vocals in your productions.
• Robotic Synth Voices with Pitch Correction (07:14) - Here Gary shows you how you can use a pitch correction effect to make your vocals sound robotic & synthetic. Another nice way to create contrast with your vocals in the mix!
• Creating Vocoder Effects (07:00) - Watch how to create a Vocoder style vocal effect with your vocal audio and vocoder instrument effects.
• Vocal Re-Pitching Techniques (12:23) - This video shows you how you can use a sampler to re-pitch your vocals, and how the re-pitching changes the timbre and tone of the vocal.
• Using Sidechaining to Give Pumping Effects (07:06) - See how you can use sidechaing compression to give pumping effects to your transition sounds and instruments.
• Volume Automation for Sidechaining (04:31) - In this video, Gary shows you an alternative way to create a sidechaining ducking effect through volume automation, allowing more micro control over the ducking effect.
• Layered Sounds to Make One Complex Instrument (08:43) - Explore how you can layer up multiple instruments to make one complex instrument in your productions.
• Multiband Saturation Effects (09:55) - In this video, Gary shows how to build up a multiband effect in your productions.
• Morphing Between Sounds with Volume Control Automation (04:30) - Watch how you can use volume automation to create an effect that sounds like you are morphing between two instruments. Also the benefits of region based automation over track automation are explained.
• Lo-Fi Effects to Create Contrast (07:36) - Gary shows you how you can use lo-fi effects, like bit crushing effects to create contrast in your mix.
• Spectral Editing Your Sounds to Create New Sounds (07:30) - Finally we finish off the series showing you how you can use spectral audio editors to manipulate your sounds visually and create new sounds in your productions!