Category: ProForce

Magical tricks and secret tips for super pro music production.

Producing a Track

I’ve made a mixing tutorial in which i share some cool arrangement tricks and tips and also demonstrate my mixing workflow and general strategies.

I try to spice up a dreamful and romantically sad track, create a modern sounding drum part and add drops and other interesting moments to the song:

Like always, i work in Cubase and use many of its stock-plugins. I also cover techniques like “Render in Place”, “Volume Automation” and “Lanes”.

I think it’s a nice productive session and the final mix isn’t bad at all. Maybe it will turn out to become the next The Ground Noise musical release?

Tags Cubase, Mixing, Tutorial

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I’ve made a video on how to create a dark ambient track in Cubase. And because that alone isn’t too special, since Cubase is a top-notch DAW and you can make all sorts of music with it, i also decided to only use Cubase Stock-Plugins, like HALion, PadShop and Retroloque. Just to turn the project into more of a challenge.

The result is only about one minute long and didn’t turn out as dark as expected, but that’s fine. I hope you find it somehow inspiring enough to create your own dark ambient track in Cubase, or another DAW.

Cubase Nation

It’s worth mentioning that my video was shared in the Cubase Nation Discord! It’s a relevant Steinberg Fan-Discord, recognized and supported by Steinberg. A big shoutout to the community there and to the Admin for inviting me!

Speaking about Discord…

Tags Ambient Music, Cubase, Tutorial

ProForce

Modular Synth Tutorial

If you’re interested in learning more about modular synthesizers, the entry step is very low nowadays.

While a “real life” analog Eurorack System is very expensive, there is a virtual version available that runs in the DAW like any other VST-Instrument. It’s called VCV Rack and was developed as Open Source Software.

So another group of developers (DISTHRO) made their own version of it and here we go: Cardinal Synth is 100% free and gives you over 1000 Modules to play with!

Tags Cardinal, Modular Synth, Tutorial