Rick: Hey, what’s up? I’m Rick.
Mateo: I’m Mateo.
Rick: And you’re watching WinkSound.com. Thanks so much for joining us.
Mateo: So today we’re going to take a look at some of the new videos from the WinkSound.com studios, as well as the most watched videos from the WinkSound.com community.
Rick: Cool! So we’re we’ll kick it out with Steve Nice. Steve is a resident Ableton producer here on WinkSound.com and he’s going to take us through some tips about adding effects into your tracks in Ableton. Now of course there’s a place to any DAW that you’re using, but here’s some quick tips in how to add effects in Ableton. Check it out.
Steve Nice: Okay, what I’m going to do is show you how to use effects for audio and also remember that your audio effects you can use on your MIDI too. You don’t have to export your MIDI and make an audio to use the effects on it. You can just mix and match and plus you have MIDI effects that you could just for your MIDI.
So what I’m going to do here is just go through some of the effects that you could use for audio and give you a couple of examples just to get you started. But you click on the lives built-in instruments and effects, as well as their presets. I don’t ever use presets to be honest with you. But if that is what you want to do you can. If you want to use preset you open it up, you expand it and you could use any of these presets. Me, I just double click on the effect and then press PLAY here. You here at the chorus the effect, and that is what is Ableton is known for some of its great effects.
And what you could do is once you cue it because you want it to sound a certain way, so once it’s cued you could put a delay on it. You can just building this up and just as many as you want until you get it sounding the way you want it to sound. And if you want to go in between your audio sample in your audio effects, you just click here on the bottom to go back and forth with whatever you want to do. This little dark square you can move it back and forth because sometimes you have so many effects that you know you got to scroll through a little bit.
So basically that’s how you put effects on your audio and also utilize some MIDI too.
Mateo: So here are the most watched videos from the WinkSound.com community.
Rick: Yeah, these videos come straight from you. You sign up to WinkSound.com, you uploaded your videos and here are some of the ones that we think you must watch. Check them out.
Paul Sureno explains how to quickly create a glissando within Logic studio.
Paul Sureno: What’s up? I thought I’d do this video to demonstrate an easy of doing a glissando—piano glissando that’s basically running your finger up or down the keyboards on the white notes. But for those who just want a quick and easy solution to it, if you go to options go to step input keyboards. You’re presented with a virtual keyboard so all we have to do is draw a region and pick where you want the glissando to start.
So we’re going to start from left to right, lower octave to higher octave. Click it and then just scroll up. Let’s go to C5. Let’s open this bridge and up in the MIDI editor and here we can see we have all glissandos.
What you may feel is that it’s too uniform. This is where tweaking comes in and finds it. It’s going to transform human noise you can get it just right. But if you just select and operate it changes the filter. There it goes guys, enjoy it!
Mateo: Darmon9 shows us how to setup and use the vocoder plug-in within cubase.
Darmon9: Hi and thank you for joining me to this cubase video tutorial about the vocoder. Right here I have a small vocal sample let’s hear it.
We’re going to open the vocoder as an insert effect. The vocoder you can find on other vocoder. The vocoder needs input. And we’re going to give the vocoder an input using a MIDI track.
So I open here a MIDI channel and I can press record on it. And I’m going to connect these MIDI channel to the vocoder using the phoned out from the output of the MIDI channel, so we can open the vocoder just like VST instrument. So we can hear the vocoder effect.
I hoped you enjoyed the tutorial and you’re going to make some crazy stuff using the cubase vocoder plug-in.
Rick: Cheeto Moskeeto gives us an overview on how to split and consolidate your regions in pro-tools.
Cheeto Moskeeto: Now that we’ve created the cross fade between our two identical regions, we can consolidate the regions by double clicking them holding SHIFT to select multiple regions and then choosing edit consolidate.
Now we’ve got a brand new region called CD-Audio 01. Let’s rename it. Playing this loop will give us the same sound as the two regions cross faded. And we’ll live it up to our sampler program to get a little finer.
Lasting we’ll do is we’ll go to regions and choose export regions as files. This will export the currently selected region. We’ll choose the aiff format at a bit depth of 16 bit. We’re going to use sampler that will take advantage of this. And what we want to hear for format is stereo, so a single stereo file then we’ll choose export.
Steve Nice: Hey, how’s it going? You’re watching WinkSound.com this is DJ Steve Nice. Today I’m going to show you how to automate any MIDI track that you have made in order to utilize the volume, mixers and the VST automation to create a different types of baselines and actually mix your sounds better.
There are a lot of different kinds of automation. Basically every single VST, every single type of volume, anything that makes a sound you could automate.
Whatever you want to automate, you’re going to be able to pull it up right here to the right which is you could pull up your track devices, and figure out what you want to operate. None right here it’s on none. You could either go the mixer which is very important because this is your speaker on, your track painting, your track volume, your cross fader of signs and your returns.
So once you find whatever knob or whatever part of the VST that you want to automate you got to go in here and you got to find it. Luckily Global Transpose is right at the top. Now basically what this is going to do since I automated it, it’s going to transpose the note to go up or to actually go down. This is how you would do automation in Ableton.
Rick: Hey thanks so much for watching. We really hope these videos helped and really help you advance your music production skills.
Mateo: And remember you could always follow us on Twitter@WinkSound.
Rick: Or any questions you might have you can always hit us at Rick@WinkSound.com
Mateo: Mateo@WinkSound.com.
Rick: Yeah and for more music production videos and tutorials available 24 hours a day, seven days a week all for free check out WinkSound.com the new social video network for audio creators.
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