Creative Sound Design with Native Instruments Effects Series
Studio pro Fabio Lendrum brings you a Native Instruments Effects Series video tutorial series! Watch how to get creative with NI's character-enhancing plug-ins found in their Crush and Mod Packs. These videos are designed for those who know how to operate their DAW and are looking for some creative tips when using these innovative plug-ins for producing and mixing.
Videos
• Effects Overview & Master Manipulation (03:56) - Take a look at how each effect sounds on the master channel with the entire track playing at the same time, for some obvious signal processing.
• Bite on Kick (06:04) - Fabio demonstrates how to use Bite on a kick drum so you can easily understand how it works and how it can affect percussive like sounds.
• Bite Unique Sequenced Settings (06:15) - Now watch how to get creative with the different available channels, applying different processing to parts of the kick sequence for a more interesting pallet of sounds.
• Dirt on Snare (05:43) - Fabio now covers using another of the NI plug-ins, Bite, to give a warmer, more subtle sound to the snare drum.
• Freak on Hats (05:20) - Quite possibly the most wacky of the 3 CRUSH effects, Freak, is now used on the hats to add movement and rhythm. See how!
• Combining Bite & Dirt (08:19) - Taking the sound design to a more refined level by using more than one plugin at once.
• Flair - Una Corda Piano (09:14) - Una Corda Piano - This is the first of the MOD pack series to be used in this tutorial, utilized to widen and spread the already tonally strange piano.
• Phasis Arp (10:26) - Watch Fabio break the plug-in to show a new side of phasers that could not have been imagined with a more traditional style emulation.
• Choral Chopping (09:39) - See how to cut and resampling an audio stem with different chorus settings in order to build a polytonal sequence.
• Exporting a Loop (11:44) - Fabio now walks you through exporting a track to create a loop and build a polyrhythmic sequence with added control.
• Arrangement (14:49) - Now watch how to re-add some of the original sounds to the heavily processed stems to balance between natural and weird!
• Basic Mixing Pt. 1 (13:45) - Fabio now explains and explores some simple techniques to help sculpt the sounds further.
• Basic Mixing Pt. 2 (06:06) - Hear how Fabio finishes off the mixing and ensures that the different tracks are balanced when played together.
• Arrangement & Outro (15:32) - Last but not least, Fabio creates an arrangement to better show how the different instruments would play in a song-like format for reference.