How to make Harry Styles 'As It Was' with DRC
From The X Factor to a Grammy Award winner: Harry Styles has come a long way. Born in England and heard all around the world, Styles is best known for being in One Direction, the pop band that melted teenage hearts for 10 years. Although they became one of the best-selling boy bands of all time, garnering critical a...
Create, Share, Inspire - A tribute to our community
Hi everyone, At Imaginando, building amazing products is only half of the joy for us. The other half is seeing and hearing all the fantastic, creative, experimental and innovative art projects that our wonderful community creates with our software. We’ve created a short compilation of some of our favourite examples ...
How to make A-Ha's 'Take On Me' with DRC
It’s a really catchy little treat this week for our DRC Sound Design Tutorial series, as it features an absolute 80’s epic by the band A-ha; ‘Take On Me’! A truly iconic track in many ways, and one that fills us with a warm sense of nostalgia every time its classic riff gets stuck in our head. Originally recorded in...
How to make The Weeknd 'Blinding Lights' with DRC
On top of having a fantastic voice, Canadian singer, songwriter and record producer ‘The Weeknd’ also has a talent for writing extremely catchy choruses and melodies, wrapping them inside a layer of funky production, and creating irresistible little earworms as a result. His first big breakthrough sing-along smash w...
How to make Marc Romboy & Stephan Bodzin 'Atlas' with DRC
In a world where we are bombarded with adverts for MIDI chord packs, all of which carry the promise of short-cutting all that boring, old, mozart stuff, and freeing you of the laborious, time consuming task of composing your own melodies; there is still no substitute for a decent grounding and understanding of music...
How to make the bass from Vitalic 'La Rock 01' with DRC
Are you sitting comfortably? If instead, you are currently standing right now, you may want to find yourself a seat before reading any further. Don’t worry, there’s no need to panic, it’s just another one of those ‘I can’t believe it has been that long since x was released’ moments, as we reveal that this week’s fea...
How to make Duran Duran 'Save A Prayer' with DRC
While researching for these mini-pieces on the featured tunes and sounds from the DRC Sound Design Tutorial series, we come across some interesting (and not so interesting!)facts about the tracks. This week’s interesting fact (judge for yourself just how interesting you think it is!) is that the chorus of Duran Dura...
How to make Moullinex 'Kelvin Wake Pattern' with DRC
As part of our DRC Sound Design Tutorial series, we don’t just bring you classic, iconic sounds from back in the day, we also bring you some possible iconic sounds of the future, courtesy of Lucas' choice picks and also from viewer suggestions of course. This week we’re hot on the heels of one of our favourite relea...
How to make The Beloved 'Sweet Harmony' with DRC
Originally used to promote the second season of the popular American soap opera 'Melrose Place' in 1993, 'Sweet Harmony' by British electronic music group 'The Beloved' is probably best known for its then much talked about music video, which since being uploaded to YouTube has received nearly 4 million views. The Be...
How To Make Chaka Khan 'I Feel For You' with DRC
You would think a song written by Prince and sung by the queen of funk Chaka Khan would be an instant hit – and you’d be right! The title track of her 1984 album ‘I Feel For You’ was a cover of a disco song Prince recorded for his 1979 self-titled album. The now infamous Grandmaster Melle Mel "Ch-ch-ch-chaka-chaka-c...
How To Make Kim Carnes 'Bette Davis Eyes' With DRC
Although originally recorded in a 1920s Jazz style in 1975, it took singer Kim Carnes and producer Val Garay to come up with a new arrangement for the song before it became a hit. Val had an assistant go out and buy the cheapest drum set available and combined with the sound of an early synthesizer and Kim’s infamou...
5 years of DRC tutorials
Hey everyone, Have you joined the party yet? DRC’s 5th birthday party that is, because right now there’s an amazing 50% OFF ALL DRC PURCHASES - Desktop and mobile! DRC For Desktop - only €44.50 EUR! DRC For Mobile - just €5.49 EUR! Any DRC Sound Bank On Mobile - €2.29 EUR! You need to be quick if you want to make th...
Sound design tutorial with FRMS, a bottle and a harmonica
This week we’re mixing things up tutorial wise, as we’re back with another ‘FRMS from scratch’ experimental sound design video from Lucas. This time armed with just a harmonica and an empty bottle of Super Bock (other beer brands are also available, which will work just as well!) Lucas sets about sampling them both,...
How To Make Choice 'Acid Eiffel' with DRC
If we asked you to pick one single track that encapsulated the spirit and sound of classic ‘acid house’, what would you choose? Maybe the record credited with the accolade of naming the genre, ‘Acid Trax’ by Phuture, or perhaps the first artist that springs to mind is ‘808 State’, and the iconic sax solo from their ...
How to make Tears For Fears 'Shout' in DRC
80’s new wave/synthpop legends ‘Tears For Fears’ are at time of writing, still an active band, having released music and toured together since 1981! (Although members Roland Orzabal and Curt Smith did spend most of the 90s apart, when Orzabal continued to release music alone, but still under the Tears For Fears name...
How to make Simian Mobile Disco 'Hustler' with DRC
A good half a decade before Martin Garrix released ‘Animals’, a track that would forever change the definition and composition of the dance music genre known as ‘electro’, back in 2007 it was associated with a very different sound. This was of course the year that Daft Punk gave us their infamous ‘Alive’ world tour ...
