How To Make - Nu Skool Retro House With Dancing Divaz / 255

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Sonic Academy proudly presents 'How To Make Nu Skool Retro House with Dancing Divaz'.

 

With 20 years experience remixing the likes of Queen, Prince and Baby D and accounting for 20 UK top 40s, the man behind the Divaz brand, Ian Bland, certainly knows how to make hits.

 

Here he uses his Divaz moniker to remix in a retro style but with a modern twist. Expect M1’s ahoy, glorious subby baselines and his trademark housey piano chord stabs. Lets party like it 1993!

 

Note: This is an Artist Series course and may contain various 3rd party plugins.

 
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Hi Guys hope you like and get some good tips out of my Dancing Divaz Tutorial , any questions hit me up ;)

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Been following the first few tutorials tonight - this has to be one of the best ones ever, Looking forward to the rest! Are you using dual screens?? as the plugins sometimes disappear from the screen haha

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How does he manage to keep his output level so low? Watched the drums part so far and its amazing how his output being so low.

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LOL good spot Mark yeah i was ! glad you like fella

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ahhhh forgot to say MH ... what do is put one of Logics 'Utility' plug ins on my final output fader , then you can gain the whole output of your track down , don't know WHAT it is about Logic but it sure likes to eat up headroom on the master channel , this way is a cheeky fix ! , hope that helps ;)

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One thing I hope you guys take out of this Tutorial is , that for all the technical production stuff , always use your ears and a good ref track to mix from , and ...ENJOY what your your making , ie if your buzzing on your track chances are the final listener will be ;)

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Just started watching this.... Shame you kept putting the plugins on your second screen.... :-/

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It would have been screen carnage otherwise dude lol just the same as minimising them when working 😊

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Is it possible to have this tutorial on platform Ableton live 9, please?

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Hi Vincenzo, all the midi parts and any softsynths used are rendered out in the resources download. This should make following along in Ableton much easier. Hop this helps.

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Hi Chris, thank you so much. I love your work.

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Thanks dude.

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Do you think you could provide the midi file for the piano portion of the track? I see that the audio file is available but not the midi file. Thanks

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for the DIVAZ BRASS track in logic to be more specific. The portion of the piano which the first 10 tutorials are based upon. Thanks again

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I don't know exactly why, but I didn't have so much fun learning with tutorials in a long time! Very good series!

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Hi Josh, if you go to the 'files & resources' tab at the top of the page here, you can download the logic project file, all the softsynths as audio AND all the MIDI files. Hope this helps

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Thank you Den , glad you like , and yep making music should be fun indeed ;)

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got it thanks!

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Any chance you guys could make a Future House video? Similar to Tchami and Oliver Heldens? Thanks