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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 interest…
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 al…
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…
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 rec…
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 t…
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 - j…
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…
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,…
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 th…
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 di…
How to make The Cure 'Close To You' in DRC
There can’t be very many songs written about chicken pox. The 1985 hit ‘Close To Me’ by the somewhat ironically titled English band ‘The Cure’, is indeed one such song, written by frontman Robert Smith, inspired by hi…
How to make Timo Mass 'Dancing For My Pleasure' in DRC
For some underground club DJs and producers, achieving the level of attention required for the journey into the consciousness of mainstream music, can often be attributed to a single defining moment; in most cases a p…
How to make The Knife 'Silent Shout' with DRC
During their time spent writing, recording and performing together, Swedish brother and sister synthpop duo ‘The Knife’ carved out an interesting creative trajectory in terms of style, from flirting with the mainstrea…
How to make Fairmont 'Gazebo' with DRC
One of the secrets of being a successful music artist is actually finishing tracks. It sounds simple of course, but the ability to get to the point where you are happy that a particular track is ‘done’, can be tough.…
How to make MGMT - 'Little Dark Age' with DRC
TikTok sure is a strange new medium in which to be creative. As the way the world consumes content evolves and the form of that content morphs into new kinds of media, TikTok is a powerful tool, if only for exposure i…
How to make Solomun 'Home' with DRC
For most of us, social distancing has been a part of our lives for almost a year, with various local rules and restrictions we must follow, as part of the global campaign against covid. As the world adapts to meet the…
Thomas Schumacher & Victor Ruiz 'Apollo' - How to make with DRC
When Lucas takes on a classic or iconic track to analyse and reproduce the same kind of sounds using DRC, there are a few signs and hints when he has done a particularly good job. The first and most obvious indicator…
Daft Punk 'Veridis Quo' - how to make with DRC
Over the years, Daft Punk have masterfully sampled many tracks by other artists, taking it as source material, then twisting, transforming and turning it into massive records of their own. In some of their tracks, the…
Space 'Magic Fly' - How to make with DRC
‘Space - the final frontier...’ Don’t worry we’re not about to launch into a full-on Star Trek monologue, instead we’re going to use that snippet of iconic television dialogue as the launchpad to blast off into the wo…
Giorgio Moroder 'Chase' How to make with DRC
The godfather of disco and the grandfather of dance music are two terms that Italian synthesiser legend Giorgio Moroder is not particularly fond of. Yet these two titles are nothing if not deserved. Take the unforgett…
Yazoo 'Don't Go' - How to make with DRC
Vince Clarke is a synthesizer superstar. It’s fair to say we are big fans, as is evidenced by Lucas referring to Clarke as a “genius” right at the very start of today’s video! Before becoming one half of synth-pop leg…
Pet Shop Boys - 'West End Girls' How to make with DRC
The Pet Shop Boys ‘West End Girls’ wasn’t an instant smash hit, even though ironically, the band’s Neil Tennant wrote it while working as a journalist for the huge UK music magazine at the time ‘Smash Hits’. The origi…
F1 Sound design tutorial with FRMS and a jacket
This week our resident sound design master Lucas brings a whole new meaning to the term ‘racing jacket’ in honour of F1 motor racing returning to Portugal, after a 24 year hiatus! To celebrate the recent Portugal GP h…
LKLK's new MIDI composition tools
Today we are delighted to share with you the latest functionality to be added to LK Matrix module; MIDI composition tools. Further enhancing Matrix MIDI clip composer, these new tools offer a variety of creative uses,…
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