In this video tutorial, Dubspot’s sound design course designer and instructor Evan Sutton shows you how to build intuitive and fun effects in Native Instruments’ Guitar Rig and control them using Ableton Live‘s Effects Racks.
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To get started, we ‘ll build a great sounding combo effect in Guitar Rig using a Container. The first effect will be a bit crusher with a high-pass filter. The Digital Lo-Fi effect in Guitar Rig is taken straight from the Traktor effects arsenal. There are also some great-sounding filters in Guitar Rig, including the Pro-Filter, based on the low-pass filters on the DSI Prophet 5. Using a Container, we can add a controller that will move the cutoff frequency of the filter and add distortion at the same time.
Once the effect has been set up, we can add it to an Effects Rack in Live for an even finer degree of control. Using the unique routings available in Ableton, we can build a controller that is not only easy to automate, but will actually turn the effect off when the controller value is at zero.
This approach is a great starting point for building a wide variety of ‘intelligent’ performance systems. – Evan Sutton
Evan Sutton a.k.a. Astrolith is an electronic music producer, sound designer, and audio engineer living in New York. Evan teaches sound design and music production at Dubspot NYC and helped develop the school’s Sound Design program. You can hear Evan’s music and find out more about him at astrolith.net and soundcloud.com/astrolith.
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Become fluent in the language of sound design with this comprehensive program. This six-level Sound Design program uses Native Instruments’ Komplete as a platform for learning synthesis and sampling techniques. Starting with an introduction to the properties of sound, this comprehensive series of courses covers most common synthesis methods available for music production in the DAW of your choice.
Discovering the right sound is like finding a needle in the digital haystack. Learn the fundamentals to make this easier, and gain the depth of knowledge to make a good sound better. Factory content is great, but everyone has it – your mix needs something special.
Upcoming Sound Design Courses Starting in New York City and ONLINE:
March 19, 2013 in NYC – Tuesdays, Thursdays, 3:15-6pm
April 30, 2013 in NYC – Tuesdays, Thursdays, 6:15-9pm
The week of January 20, 2013 ONLINE
The week of April 21, 2013 ONLINE
What’s Included:
- Sound Design Level 1: Introduction to Komplete 8
- Sound Design Level 2: Synthesis with Massive, FM8 and Absynth
- Sound Design Level 3: Sampling with Kontakt and Battery
- Sound Design Level 4: Advanced Sound Design
- Sound Design Level 5: Reaktor Ensembles and Instruments
- Sound Design Level 6: Reaktor Programming
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