Native Instruments Sound Design Tips & Tricks

If you're looking to give your productions that special touch by way of unique sounds and/or effects, this Notice Instrument video course is for you! Veteran Groove3 instructor Thomas Cochran shares a host of ideas and techniques you can use to help your tracks stand out in a big way, all within the world of Native Instruments plugins. Whether it's simple but effective ideas like applying modulation and stereo movement to a sound, or more involved processes like resampling, layering, MIDI editing, and others, you'll learn plenty of ways to help inject new life into your sounds, giving your productions that all-important edge that's necessary to make a memorable impression. These Native Instrument sound design videos are for those with a basic familiarity of Native Instruments plugins.

Videos
• Creating Interesting Simple Patches (13:27) - This video covers how to make simple synth patches more interesting by employing simple rhythmic effects, modulation, and stereo movement.
• Custom Lo-Fi Effect Rack (12:09) - Learn how to use Native instruments Guitar Rig 6 as a creative lo-fi effects rack and transform simple samples into much more engaging sounds.
• Vintage Piano Samples with Resampling (14:49) - Thomas shows how resampling and pitch-shifting can be used to make digital pianos instruments sound more like vintage samples. This lets you completely customize your sounds to perfectly fit within your productions.
• Layering with Soundscapes Pt. 1 (09:58) - Discover how layering can be used to fill up songs without making them sound musically busy, allowing plenty space for a lead vocal.
• Layering with Soundscapes Pt. 2 (09:46) - This second part of the video wraps up the last few layers and creates a fuller sounding production.
• Making Custom Guitar Samples Pt. 1 (11:57) - Learn how to create custom guitar samples with Native Instruments' PICKED NYLON guitar. This video also demonstrates how to add realism to your guitar samples though creative MIDI editing.
• Making Custom Guitar Samples Pt. 2 (13:06) - In this second part, we embellish the guitar sample with some processing and also show how the guitar can be resampled for even more creative sounds.
• Layered Sample Pt. 1 (13:00) - Thomas shows how to make an original vintage sounding sample for a production, which can either be used as the basis for a song or as a creative layering element.
• Layered Sample Pt. 2 (13:19) - This video treats the sample with some final processing and shows how it can be pitch-shifted to create all sorts of inspiring sounds.
• Custom Vintage Drum Breaks Pt. 1 (10:17) - See how to build your own drum breaks using the drum libraries from Komplete and hardware-emulated effects. These drum breaks can be used for a wide variety of productions, from DnB to indie rock.
• Custom Vintage Drum Breaks Pt. 2 (11:36) - This video wraps up the discussion and illustrates how the drum break can be adjusted to create that classic 90?s Jungle DnB sound.