Tag: Massive

  • A Brief Walkthrough of Wavetable Synthesis

    A Brief Walkthrough of Wavetable Synthesis

    In this excerpt from Soundfly’s “Advanced Synths and Patch Design” course, we look at how wavetable synthesis works and what makes it unique.

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  • The Best Massive Presets 2020 – Free and Paid

    The Best Massive Presets 2020 – Free and Paid

    We picked out our favorite preset packs to use with Massive when making synth sounds for cinematic film scores or bassy trap and EDM. Check it out.

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  • How to Build the Reese Bass Synth Patch in Netsky’s “Escape”

    How to Build the Reese Bass Synth Patch in Netsky’s “Escape”

    To show how crucial it is for producers to build their own custom synth patches, we’re taking a page out of our own course and rebuilding one of the greats!

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  • History of the Reese Bass Synth Sound

    History of the Reese Bass Synth Sound

    Whether you know the name or not, you’ve heard this synth bass sound in a million different electronic songs. Here’s where it came from.

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  • The 5 Best Digital Synths for Bass Sounds

    The 5 Best Digital Synths for Bass Sounds

    There’s no getting around it, and the science is in: Bass is crucial for giving your songs both impact and coherence. It also, apparently, hits our emotions in just the right way. The upshot of all this is that you’d be selling your songs short of that emotional pull if you don’t bolster your tracks with…

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  • How to Make Misty Clouds of Steam with Your Synth

    How to Make Misty Clouds of Steam with Your Synth

    + Learning about synthesis? Soundfly’s got a definitive new online course called Advanced Synths and Patch Design For Producers! Preview for free and subscribe for access.  White noise just might be the most versatile secret weapon a producer has at their fingertips. It can be used in filter sweeps to build anticipation for your big EDM beat drop…

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  • How to Make Your Synthesizer Fart. Yup.

    How to Make Your Synthesizer Fart. Yup.

    Synthesists are notorious for their tapestries of bleeps, bloops, burps, and farts. From those original Moog modulators to the current craze in analog, it’s been a dogged critique of synthesists — that as non-instrumentalists, all they’re good for is making fart noises on your techno tracks.  Oh, who are we kidding? We kinda do love creating…

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  • What Is Granular Synthesis?

    What Is Granular Synthesis?

    + Learning about synthesis? Soundfly’s got a definitive new online course called Advanced Synths and Patch Design For Producers! Preview for free and subscribe for access.  When it comes to sampling and Ableton, there are an overwhelming number of methods for turning almost any recorded sound into a functional musical tabula rasa. From simply dragging and dropping a…

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