Overview
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Make electronic dance music that stands out with these extreme sound-mangling techniques. Learn how to use vocoders, flangers, distortion, and more, to create a unique sound.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Welcome
- What you should know before watching this course
- Using the exercise files
- Vocoder principles
- Vocoder effect: Shine on Me
- Vocoder effect: Baby robot
- Vocoder effect: Underwater android
- Vocoder effect: Rhythmic white noise
- Pitch shifting, frequency shifting, and ring-mod principles
- Pitch-shifter effect: Mangling drum loops in Melodyne
- Ring-mod effect: Wonky drums
- Frequency Shifter effect: Liquid Bassline, part one
- Ring-mod effect: Ring-mod demon
- Filter/EQ principles
- Filter effect: Shine on Me arpeggiation
- EQ effect: Dark Secret, part one
- Filter effect: Drum Destroyer
- Filter effect: Pad Madness
- Time-stretching principles
- Time-stretching effect: Dark Secret, part two
- Time-stretching effect: Deep dive
- Granular principles
- Granular effect: Crazy Beautiful
- Granular effect: Frozen in Time
- Granular effect: Sick fills
- Distortion principles
- Distortion effect: Turning a drum loop into a bassline
- Distortion effect: Evil intro
- Distortion effect: Biting arp
- Distortion effect: Dubstep Motorcycle
- Flange, phase, and chorus principles
- Flange effect: Dark Secret, part three
- Flange effect: Liquid Bassline, part two
- Chorus effect: Shimmer
- Reverb principles
- Reverb effect: Poltergeist
- Reverb effect: Ghost Vinyl
- Reverb effect: Mother Ship
- Reverb effect: Rising High
- Delay principles
- Delay effect: Sunrise
- Delay effect: Beat Comber
- Delay effect: Wide Load
- Delay effect: Move It
- Glitch principles
- Glitch effect: Flange Glitcher
- Stutter effect: Spin Cycle
- Stutter effect: Feel the Feel
- Glitch effect: Dark Secret, part four
- Glitch effect: Psytrance glitch rhythms
- Glitch effect: Liquid Bassline, part three
- Synth bassline: Big Bully
- Vocal multi-effect: All Robots Go to Heaven
- Build-up techniques: Here Come the Clowns
- Arpeggiator: Broken Record
- Next steps
