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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…

Our sixth anniversary

It gives us great pleasure to announce that we are now officially six years old! So in keeping with our traditional annual anniversary celebration, we’ve got another brilliant Birthday promotion to introduce our brand…

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…

Review: Imaginando FRMS

By the time we reached the 20th century and the advent of the electronic age, sound creation had been elevated into a science in its own right. By now, we had a plethora of new techniques with which to craft new sound…

TEST: IMAGINANDO FRMS, GRANULAR FM SYNTH PLUGIN

Have you ever wondered what happens when you cross granular synthesis with FM, add a little subtractive synthesis and then apply it in four courses?Whatever the answer, Imaginando FRMS is the result of this merger ope…

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…

Introducing our new video tutorial series

Have you checked out our latest video series on YouTube yet? Following on from our popular DRC Sound Design Tutorials, we’re now bringing you a fresh slice of creativity in the form of our FRMS ‘from scratch’ series.…

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…

FRMS v1.0.3 - Major Performance Improvements

Hi everyone, Today we’re releasing FRMS v1.0.3 - with significant improvements to overall performance! Since the release of FRMS - Granular Synthesizer last month, we’ve been busy crunching the code in order to optimi…

FRMS launch offer extended due to lockdown

Hi everyone, It goes without saying that these are challenging times, and lockdown restrictions are affecting all of us. So because of this, we are extending our FRMS half price launch offer to include the whole of Ap…

FRMS updates - Version 1.0.1 now available!

After a great launch, we’ve been busy fixing several little things which we think will make you all as happy as we are: - Adds iOS file system audio files import mechanism (iOS) - Adds Apple Pencil support via Menu ->…

FRMS - Our post launch reflection

It’s been quite a week. With our entire team all working remotely, we’re enormously proud of how the FRMS launch went, and the warm reception it has been met with in the community. Today we’d like to share with you so…

Introducing FRMS - Granular Synthesizer

We’re really excited to announce the launch of our brand new virtual instrument: FRMS - Granular Synthesizer FRMS (pronounced frames) gives granular synthesis a musical edge by mixing it with subtractive and FM synthe…

Imaginando FRMS, New Multi-Layer Synthesizer Plugin/App With Granular & FM Synthesis

The synth has up to 4 simultaneous layers, each one either granular or oscillator. FRMS’ operation is well solved. You edit sounds per layer and thus you control all aspects of your layers very easily.

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…

Introducing Rent To Own

Hi everyone, Today we are launching ‘Rent To Own’ - a convenient and affordable way to buy Imaginando desktop products right from your account dashboard. Rent To Own let’s you spread the cost of any desktop licence by…

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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How to make some sounds from Levon Vincent 'Man Or Mistress' in DRC

Levon Vincent is not short of confidence. Not afraid of hard graft, years of gigging and bedroom based production has built up a steady resilience to negativity. But at the same time, he’s also a deep thinker, somebod…

How to make the sounds from Bebetta 'Uppercut' in DRC

If given the impossible task of describing Anika Schnabel aka German DJ Bebetta in just one word, we’d probably go with ‘charming’. With neon pink hair and a penchant for pyjamas, wherever Anika plays, she radiates po…