Music Production

Its totally up to a sound programmer. He can produce an awesome track even with built-in plugins or worst track using most popular plugins . But that doesn't mean we should avoid using Third Party Plugins. Some of the vst plugins out there are awesome because they are made out of pure dedication. So in this post i am going to share some of the decent plugins which i have used(using) : Instrument's VST: 1) Native Instrument's Kontakt Player : This is actually a sampler. And after installing it we have to download libraries for different sounds we want. Like for piano, Alicia Keys is great. For guitar, Pettin House is awesome. Like these, there are numerous other libraries as well. You can check them out on their official website.   i) Alicia Keys : Official Product demonstration        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_54ERfLElI   ii) Pettin House Guitar : Unofficial Product demonstration       https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Probably most of you have heard pumping DJ beats with a bass-line where the amplitude of bass-line goes down when kick punches and then again goes up like a sinusoidal wave. This is mostly used in dance tracks. We call it side-chaining compression technique, where we compress the bass-line signal according to the jump in amplitude of kick drum. How to do it ? 1. Create a drum track(Groove Agent- any patch) and draw 4 kick notes in 4/4 grid (simple beat). 2. Create a bass track from any VST plugin and draw a single note spanning over all 4/4 grid for 16 notes. You can create a melody also but that should be continuous. 3. Add a normal cubase compressor to bass-line track and click on side-chaining icon to activate side-chaining. Use the same setting given below to achieve side-chaining. 4. Go to drum track and select side-chaining track under send signal. Now play the track and you could hear that pumping bass sound. So basically you are done with basic side-chai...