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BAM JAM #1 - Music and Visuals Performance
Hey everyone, and happy Friday! Whether you want to make beats at breakfast or get creative on your coffee break, there’s always time to enjoy a tasty bit of a BAM JAM. And today we have a bitesize BAM JAM served up b…
BAM: Teaser Video Out Now! Happy 909 Day!
Hi everyone, Happy 909 day! As announced in our last newsletter, we thought we’d take this opportunity to release our first teaser video for BAM - Beat Maker & Music Maker, with a 909-centric groove built by Lucas in…
How to make Tiga 'You Gonna Want Me' with DRC
Time for another DRC - Polyphonic Synthesizer Sound Design Tutorial! After a short break, Lucas is back to attack another classic track with his magical powers of sound design sorcery! Today we have DJ, producer, and…
FRMSA Holy Weird Easter | FRMS Granular Synthesis Tutorial
Welcome to one of the most anticipated weeks of the catholic calendar for the people of Braga, the city in which Imaginando HQ is based. You might know it as Easter weekend, but here we have ‘Holy Week’ and it’s kind…
How to make Billy Idol - 'Eyes Without a Face' with DRC
Do you wanna sound like your 80’s idols? Well this week’s featured artist is literally an idol to everyone; Billy Idol! If you’re looking to recreate the sounds from ‘Eyes Without a Face’, then look no further, becaus…
Ink-credible Synthesis Tattoo-torial | FRMS Granular Synthesis Tutorial
This week we took a trip into the colorful world of Alexandra Júpiter, more than just a tattoo artist, she is a master of many different mediums. Alexandra welcomed us with a contagious smile, at an unusual place for…
How to make Crystal Castles 'Vanished' with DRC, DLYM and K7D
Today we bring you a huge, fairly recent hit from a duo that’s sadly no longer a duo, but their music lives on in our memories: ‘Crystal Castles.’ If you’re around your 30s and you used to spend your afternoons scroll…
How to make Benga & Coki 'Night' with DRC and FRMS
Are you ready for a brand-new DRC Sound Design Tutorial? We promise that this time will be fast as lightning, with a short tutorial recreating two sounds from the 2007 track ‘Night’ by Benga and Coki. Benga, born Adeg…
How to make Romy & Fred again.. 'Strong' with DRC
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…) R…
How to make SNAP! 'Rhythm Is a Dancer' with DRC
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…
Melodica Electronica | FRMS Granular Synthesis Tutorial
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 unsur…
How to make Mall Grab 'Liverpool Street In The Rain' with DRC
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 worl…
How to make Vangelis 'Tears in Rain' with DRC
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…
How to make the sounds from Freeez 'I.O.U' with DRC
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 tr…
How to make the sounds from Bodyrox 'Yeah yeah' with DRC
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…
It's a Wrap! | FRMS Granular Synthesis Tutorial
“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 icon…
How to make the sounds from LFO - 'LFO' with DRC
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 p…
Balloony Tunes | FRMS Granular Synthesis Tutorial
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…
How to make the sounds from Adamski feat Seal 'Killer' with DRC
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 Sea…
Making money moves | FRMS Granular Synthesis Tutorial
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 soun…
How to make the sounds from The Dø - 'Despair, Hangover & Ecstasy' with DRC
With a name Inspired by the solfège scale, Finish-French indie rock duo ‘The Dø’ (pronounced ‘the dough’) was the pairing of vocalist Olivia Merilahti with multi-instrumentalist Dan Levy. The two met in 2005 while rec…
How to make the sounds from Imagination 'Just An Illusion' with DRC
Right about now, the funk soul brother, check it out now, the funk soul brother, it’s time to get our #tbt vibe on, as we throw back to the funk-fest fulled days of the disco dance moves of the 80s. We’re going back t…
How to make the sounds from John Carpenter 'Halloween (Theme Song)' with DRC
When we think of Halloween a lot of things come to mind: carving pumpkins, trick-or-treating, and lots of hideous masks, but nothing else encapsulates the horror side of Halloween like the 1978 movie of the same name.…
🎃 Wilhelm Scream 🎃 | FRMS Granular Synthesis Tutorial
The countdown to Halloween has begun! It’s ‘spooky season’ and we got some treats for the most haunting of holidays. We start today with a unique FRMS From Scratch: it’s the first one that you don’t need to record any…
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