The first of our Sonic Academy Live sessions took place in the company of Chris Agnelli / Phil Johnston & Bryan Spence.
In this 2 hour session we cover a lot of ground.. including treatment of trance vocals, tips on starting a new track, the Fab Filter Pro Q, getting your music signed to a label, secrets to the Swedish House Mafia kick drums, saving and loading presets in Sonic Academy's ANA synth followed by a few live "Get That Sounds" including a lead sounds from Spartaque - Ricochet and a sampled string sound from a Kerri Chandler song all using ANA.
In the 2nd half we play through our latest How To Make course "Deep House 2012, show you how to create some live punchy Prodigy style snares, create a screaming synth lead sound using ANA and Native Instruments Guitar Rig, discuss the transition between Cubase to Ableton, sneak a preview at Chris Agnelli's upcoming course and round things off with with a look at Izotope's Stutter Edit plugin.