Creating drum sounds using the noise and tone generator in Kong

Mattias Häggström Gerdt from Propellerheads software shows you how to create some cool drum sounds using the tone and noise generators in Kong. I use Kong for most of my drums when producing both music and samples. It's a great tool for beat creation and coming up with some original sounds to use in your projects.

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Making a simple dubstep bass with Korg iMS20 for iPad

The Korg iMS20 was the first app that I ever installed on my iPad. I love the Korg apps (even if they are a little on the expensive side), they just sound completely awesome.

Now, the iMS20 might seem a little confusing at first but once you get into it, the possibilities of this thing are amazing. Don't be too put off by the semi-modular patch bay or the analog style sequencer, a little knowledge of analog synthesis will help a lot but to be fair it's pretty easy to pick up.

Here's a short screen cap video of me making a pretty simple dubstep style bass sound & showing off the sound of this brilliant synthesiser.

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Creating a beat with Korg iElectribe + free iElectribe samples

The Korg iElectribe is a beast of a drum machine. It was the first app that I brought for my iPad but for some reason I've never really got around to uploading anything about it on Voltage-Controlled.

Anyway, here's a short video of me constructing a simple drum beat using the iElectribe, I love the sound of this app.

I've also uploaded some iElectribe samples for you lot. It's only a small pack, it contains 8 one shot drum hits from the custom drum kit I used in the video.

You can get your hands on the samples here (.zip)

Hopefully I'll get around to posting a bit more about the iElectribe on Voltage-Controlled soon.

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Dubspot Animoog Tutorial part 1 of 3

Dubspot have some amazing tutorials on their YouTube channel which are very useful for producers of all levels. I noticed that they've uploaded the first in three tutorials covering my all time favourite iPad synthesizer, the Animoog by Moog Music inc.

I thought that the readers of Voltage-Controlled would be interested in an in depth look into the capability's of this awesome little synthesiser so I've embedded the first part of the Dubspot Animoog tutorial below.

Check out the Dubspot site for more cool tutorials and don't forget to subscribe to their YouTube channel here.

I'll post the second and third Animoog tutorials to Voltage-Controlled as soon as they are uploaded by Dubspot.

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FutureMusic sampling special 'making of' videos

FutureMusic magazine have uploaded two 'Making Of' videos to go along with their Sampling special edition. Part one is hosted by Cyclick and part two by Groove Criminals (Both regularly supply the free samples that can be found on the free CD that comes along with FutureMusic Magazine).

Part one focuses more in foundsound (eg, recording every day objects) where as part two talks about creative ways of getting cool sounds out of your synthesizers and drum machines. To be honest I preferred part two as I'm a huge synth nerd.

They're about 20 mins long each but you might find something interesting/useful. Watch part two if you just want to look at lots of cool synths.

Click here if you're interested in lots of free samples from Voltage-Controlled

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