Sound Design

Practical sound design tips for music producers: design with intent, layer, modulate, resample, process and finish sounds that sit perfectly…

Sound design for techno: build punchy kicks, hypnotic stabs, raw basses, metallic percussion and evolving textures with synthesis, resampling and…

Learn how to make a sample pack from scratch: plan a theme, record and design sounds, edit and normalise, name…

Learn how to make glitch sounds: stutter, buffer, granular, bitcrush and gate audio into digital artefacts, fills and transitions for…

Learn how to resample sounds: bounce audio back into your DAW to commit processing, free CPU, chop, reverse and stack…

Master modulation sound design: use LFOs, envelopes, macros and mod matrices to add movement, evolution and life to static synth…

Use distortion for sound design to add harmonics, grit and weight: pick saturation, overdrive, waveshaping and bitcrushing, then place and…

Use reverb for sound design beyond mixing: create spaces, freeze tails, reverse, gate and resample reverb to build pads, risers…

Learn how to layer sounds for richer, bigger productions: pick complementary layers, EQ-carve, manage phase and process the stack into…

Learn how to use a sampler for sound design: import, slice, map, pitch, loop and process audio into original instruments…