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Another DRC tutorial; another collaboration! This time we’re looking at the 2022 track ‘Strong’ by ‘Romy & Fred again..’ (Don’t worry, we don’t know why Fred has only two dots on the end of his artist name, either…) Romy is best known for being a member of the band ‘The xx’, helped no doubt by the group winning the ...

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Eurodance is not dead!  Born at the tailend of the 80s, Eurodance broke through and invaded 90s electronic music with its punchy beats taking over the DJ booths and dance floors of European clubs and beyond.  A ‘four on the floor’ thumping kick, anywhere between 90 and 150 BPM, often featuring a female soulful vocal...

On a mission to innovate rather than imitate, Imaginando has built a solid reputation for releasing products that excite musicians and producers, offering new ways to maximize creativity.

Hi everyone, It’s barely been a hot minute but we’ve got another fire FRMS expansion for you with today’s release of the new “Scratching The Surface 1” pack! An absolutely massive 90 FRMS patches in one awesome pack, new to FRMS 1.9.0! Taking the samples from our FRMS From Scratch series, this pack is as varied as t...

It’s hybrid heaven in this week’s 'FRMS From Scratch' tutorial, as our granular/FM monster synth samples the delights of everyone’s favorite ‘blowy-pipe, air-piano thingy’; the melodica! While some people may be unsure of how to correctly pronounce ‘FRMS’ (pro tip: it’s “frames”) the melodica suffers a slightly diff...

Welcome to the dance floor! This week we dance with Jordan Alexander AKA ‘Mall Grab’ to learn some sounds from his amazing electronic disco-house track ‘Liverpool Street In The Rain’ (2018). From Australia to the world, Mall Grab started DJing at (only!) 12 years old. Due to his father's record collection and also o...

Hi everyone and Happy New Year! We intend to make 2023 another iconic year for Imaginando and so we're kicking things off with a suitably iconic new expansion pack for DRC - Polyphonic Synthesizer: ‘Iconic Sounds Vol. 4’ pack for DRC is out now! Part of the new DRC 2.9.3 update, this instalment is the latest collec...

Happy New Year!  With the new year comes new ambitions and goals, new dreams joining old ones, and new ways to challenge and better ourselves. As we push forward into 2023 with excitement and enthusiasm, it is with a slightly heavy heart that 2022 was the year that we said goodbye to one of our all-time heroes; Vang...

As the winter weather starts to turn bitterly cold in parts of the Northern hemisphere this week, we have a rather aptly named artist for today’s DRC Sound Design Tutorial. Today Lucas is taking on the 1983 electro track ‘I.O.U’ by the British group ‘Freeez’. Created by John Rocca and founded in London at the tail e...

Rock your body for today's musical class with Lucas and Bodyrox! Although the track today is by the artist Bodyrox, it was the enigmatic producer D. Ramirez who made it into worldwide smash with his remix of this song, which became an incredible success, with constant air time across radio stations for the radio edi...

“Holidays are coming” is a phrase now synonymous with Christmas celebrations, thanks to a certain manufacturer of carbonated cola drinks, who literally drive home the message each year with, dare we say it, their iconic advertising campaign. To many people, the reappearance of the big red truck on their television s...

Lower the frequencies of the oscillators of your mind, because we’ve got the low-down on all the sound design secrets behind one of their tracks. From teenage dreams to chart success, LFO made their mark by becoming pioneers of the bleepy techno scene. Formed back in the 80s by Mark Bell and Gez Varley, LFO’s contri...

At Imaginando we don’t just end the week in a party mood, we like to start it that way too. Normally, our love of a stylish, minimalist environment in which to be our creative best, prevents unnecessary cluttering of the workplace with kitsch decorations and frivolities commonplace at kids' birthday parties, but as ...

From illegal raves to the top of the charts, Adamski is the musical mind behind ‘Killer’ and Seal is the soulful vocalist.  The history of this track is also the story of Seal’s rise to fame, starting in 1989 when Seal first saw Adamski performing at an illegal rave. Seal gave a demo tape of himself to Daddy Chester...

Money isn’t everything but it comes in handy. It doesn't buy happiness but it buys things that make us happy (our music products, for example). Today we are going to see what money is made of, or at least what it sounds like. With two simple objects, a 50-cent coin and a metal plate: is it possible to make cheap mon...