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Crystal Waters 'Gypsy Woman' - How to make with DRC
“La da dee, la da da” - even without music or any pitch assigned to any of those words, if you are a house music aficionado, chances are you are already singing that truly iconic vocal hook in your head. Equally iconi…
How to make MIDI CC automation with LK
In addition to giving you several ways to control MIDI CC parameters, LK now supports MIDI clip automation of CC values, as both a standalone app and AUv3 plugin, for use with iOS DAWs such as AUM. In today’s YouTube…
The Cars 'Drive' - How to make with DRC
Music videos are quite a unique artform, or at least they can be, with the right kind of creative vision behind them. More than just a key component of the marketing for mainstream single releases, some artists dare t…
Boris Brejcha 'Sad But True' How to make with DRC
In the music industry if you really want to make a name for yourself, to stand out and be heard, you need to innovate, bring something new and interesting to the turntables. One step further than pursuing a certain st…
FRMSFRMS Supremeja Music Preset Pack Tour
Want to see and hear the latest and greatest FRMS soundbank in action? The almighty ‘Supremeja Music Preset Pack’ is stocked full of atmospheric, cinematic soundscapes, leads, effects and more. Who better then, to gui…
Sound Design Tutorial with FRMS - From Raw to Roar!
Back in July when a lot of the world was very much still in quarantine/lockdown, Lucas gave a demonstration ‘FRMS from scratch’ tutorial using just one instrument/sampling source: The human voice. This proved quite a…
Rival Consoles Untravel - how to make with DRC
Depending on which side of the fence you are on, ‘intelligent dance music’ can push your buttons in one of two ways. Whether you lean in to the chin-stroking, appreciation of its subtle complexities, whilst you sip th…
Richie Hawtin The Tunnel - how to make with DRC
If we were compiling a list of people who we think truly embody the Imaginando spirit, Richie Hawtin would definitely be included. The British-Canadian techno DJ and producer has a hunger for creativity, driven by a p…
LK 1.7.2 - Introducing clip properties and more
The latest update for LK v1.7.2 is available to download from the App Store and Google Play now, and contains a host of improvements and new features to Matrix MIDI clip editing and launching. Check out the YouTube vi…
How to make some sounds from Dua Lipa's 'Physical'
Before this whole global pandemic thing kicked off, right at the end of January 2020 before we’d even heard of the concept of social distancing, Dua Lipa dropped a catchy synth-pop toe-tapper which was all about getti…
Sound design tutorial with FRMS and Voice
The human voice - possibly our oldest instrument, shaped through centuries of evolution, and now shaped using FRMS synthesizer in our latest ‘from scratch’ sound design explorative tutorial. In this week’s video, Luca…
How to make some sounds from Jessie Ware 'Soul Control'
When playing music, timing is everything, and to a lesser extent when releasing it too. So what if you’ve proudly and passionately poured your heart and soul into a disco centred album, primed for release. Only for hu…
Sound design tutorial with FRMS and an electric guitar
In our latest FRMS ‘from scratch’ tutorial, we really have gone back to basics and stripped things back, using just an electric guitar as our starting point. In this video we’re looking at the possibilities of bringin…
How to make some sounds from Trentemøller 'Moan' with DRC
Two years ago we kicked off the second season of our DRC Sound Design Tutorial series with one of Denmark’s finest exports, not the premium lager Carlsberg, but Copenhagen’s beloved indie/dance crossover, DJ and produ…
How to make sounds from Bronski Beat 'Smalltown Boy'
It’s one of those 80’s synth-pop lead riffs that is forever tied to the preset/patch being used to play it, the two married together in our memories. The hook from Bronski Beat’s ‘Smalltown boy’ has a catchy simplicit…
Sound design tutorial with FRMS and a cookies box
We’re back with another FRMS ‘from scratch’ tutorial video and this week we really do have two different, unrelated/random objects as sample sources. Here at Imaginando we’re lovers of both cookies and also looking ou…
How to make some sounds from Chet Faker '1998' with DRC
Taken from his debut album ‘Built from glass’, Chet Faker’s confusingly titled track ‘1998’ was first released as a single in May 2014. Very positively received by both music critics and fans at the time, the track’s…
Sound design tutorial with FRMS, paper and a music box
Welcome to another FRMS ‘from scratch’ tutorial video, the sound design series that thinks outside of the box, while considering how it might sound from inside the box too. Each video we encourage you to search out th…
How to make sounds from Moloko 'Forever More' with DRC
Sheffield, England, has produced a fair amount of electronic-pop partnerships and acts over the years, from the synth-pop and new wave of 80’s groups like The Human League and Heaven 17, to the early 2000’s funky, dis…
Sound design tutorial with FRMS, a ruler and a can
Not everyone has a ‘Thunder Toy’ just lying around to sample. If you watched our last FRMS tutorial video and were sad that you couldn’t give it a go yourself then there’s some good news for you this week - all you ne…
FRMS Sound Design with a 'Thunder Toy'
YouTube tutorials are back! After a brief hiatus, our tutorials return with a brand new video and a fresh new format for FRMS. It’s a real journey of sound design from start to finish, showing the whole process of cre…
How does Rent To Own work?
Recently we launched Rent To Own, a flexible and affordable way to buy Imaginando Desktop products, right from your account dashboard. Today we’d like to show you how simple it is to set up and manage a Rent To Own pl…
How to make sounds from Talk Talk 'It's My Life' with DRC
The music video for Talk Talk’s 1984 single ‘It’s My Life’ takes a somewhat interesting approach when it comes to lip-syncing the vocals, even being regarded as ‘a total piss-take of lip-syncing’ by Scottish music mog…
How to make sounds from Todd Terje 'Snooze 4 Love'
If you’re a digital DJ, whether you’re using CDJs, time coded vinyl decks or our very own TKFX mobile controller for Traktor DJ, chances are most of the music you purchase as a DJ is done so through an online store li…
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