SONIC BOOM is back with episode 2! In this episode, Rob and I make use of our new Song Generator to spin up the parameters for a song that we have to write and record...in an hour!
The video will be out Saturday morning but you get early access here. :)
You can also download our finished song here, and it'll be hitting streaming services soon.
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Just dropped a new single and I've been surprised by the positive response, I guess it's quite different from what I've been releasing the last few years! "Cloud Collapse" is available to download here or you can find it on all the usual platforms.
It was fully inspired by exp...
2023-04-08 18:15:32 +0000 UTC View Post
Welcome to our new show, Sonic Boom. Every other Saturday, Rob and I will be doing something musical, probably challenging, and almost definitely ridiculous. Hope you enjoy. 😊
(And watch to the end to see who we got to be our house band!!)
2023-04-04 02:39:15 +0000 UTC View Post
Very pleased to show the Soma Pulsar-23 in a custom Andrew Huang edition! In this case, custom means I chose the colors and the knobs, and contributed to the design of an exclusive hat that comes with the unit, but otherwise it's the same weird drum machine. :) Watch here.
I had hoped to get the track in this video finished before releasing it, and actually started a few other Pulsar tracks that I didn't even get...
2023-03-26 13:42:49 +0000 UTC View Post
Here's a full production breakdown on Oblivion with lots of interesting little tips and tricks!
I've also made a Patreon-exclusive pack of 72 samples from the song which you can get here! Check out my previous post for the full stems for Oblivion if you want even more sounds to play with - this sample...
2023-03-03 15:51:45 +0000 UTC View Post
Extremely excited about the new single Oblivion! In many ways I think it's the most "me" thing I've ever done, which feels good.
You can download it here or choose your streaming service here.
I also plan to release the stems publicly for a remix competition at some point but I'm going to let you...
2023-02-24 02:26:54 +0000 UTC View Post
Heya!
I'm so stoked to share that the new episode of 4 Producers 1 Sample features Son Lux (recently nominated for two Oscars for their work on Everything Everywhere All At Once), AJR, Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith, and a sample from Hiatus Kaiyote. Universal Audio sponsored this episode and connected me with these artists, so huge thanks to them!
These tracks won't be released commercially due to...
2023-01-27 14:00:32 +0000 UTC View Post
So I got this pedal with motorized faders a while ago and always wanted to run the sound of its faders through itself... Here's that experiment!
Also made a sample pack of all these cool sounds which you can get here.
Second video this week was a roundup of my favorite plugins that came ...
I can't believe the talent in this episode, these tracks are LUSH. Always love working with Arturia too and we put a different spin on the format to have some fun with their awesome 2022-11-10 19:05:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Here are the stems for this year's album for anyone who's interested in messing around with them or learning some of the parts more easily! :)
First of October is back!! This year's album is called CHAOS. We had a chaotic but amazing time making it, hope you enjoy!! Some people believe that CHAOS stands for Cool Halloween And Other Songs...lol
Finished songs: https://youtu.be/BSpZWIuiats
Behind the scenes: https://youtu.be/-qgiguUuhpM
Download the album 2022-10-26 18:03:25 +0000 UTC View Post
Someone just let me know they couldn't find the Dust & Dewdrops b-side I had talked about before and I think I may have forgotten to post it! Here it is, a chill little beat with a super weird melody that I still dig but didn't feel right for the album. Enjoy!
2022-10-25 00:58:54 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello!
I've been collaborating with Endorphin.es on some modules, and the first of them is now available! GHOST is a stereo multi-effect that packs a lot into a small space while being quick to learn and easy to use. Here's my video on it!
And here are some stores around the world that are stocking it if you're interested in adding one to your setup:
2022-10-15 15:18:25 +0000 UTC
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Here's early access to a new video! Rob and I had a great time doing this challenge, a little something to tide you over as we RECORD THE NEW FIRST OF OCTOBER ALBUM TODAY but of course it won't all be edited and ready for YouTube for a couple weeks.
We actually did want to put all the riffs on streaming platforms but none of the upload services will allow a 100-track album, so it's just gonna be a download for you 2022-10-01 03:48:51 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello! Here's an early download of my new album Dust & Dewdrops, coming out later this week!
If you happen to use Spotify and can pre-save it there, that always helps it do a bit better...
2022-09-05 20:46:34 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello hello!
I'm very excited to share today's video with you which is a new 4 Producers 1 Sample episode where we got to use an actual soul record from 50 years ago thanks to our sponsor Tracklib.
Hope you dig, and you can get .wav downloads of our tracks here:
2022-08-22 21:30:53 +0000 UTC
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Here's a little music video plus a look at some production and arrangement techniques!
I've been a huge Kate Bush fan for ages, and started experimenting with this song in 2009 (!) so thank you Stranger Things for giving me the push to finally finish it.
Overall I'm actually glad it happened this way because there are a number of ideas I ended up with that really elevated the end product, and they would have been a bit beyond my much younger, less experienced self.
The...
2022-08-03 18:37:32 +0000 UTC View Post
Just collecting a few production ideas I've been using recently that I don't see many or any people talking about! Hope you dig.
Attached is a better mixed and longer (but still short) version of the patch I made at the end. I'm thinking of doing kind of a "punk rock" IDM album. Short tracks, fast and loose methodology in the studio, but taking the form of complex beep boop music. :D
2022-07-19 00:29:32 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello!
I've been wanting to make this video for a long time - here's a detailed breakdown of the different ways that writing music for commercials works, and how I and many others I know got into it: I made $20,000 for a 15 second beat, here's how
Totally unrelated, I dropped another main channel video last week and a second channel video yesterday as well!
2022-06-23 20:04:57 +0000 UTC
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Hello! Got an early video for you here.
Picked up a Miso Cornflakes recently and wanted to do this video on it (not sponsored). Besides sounding great - smeary and blurry if you want that, but with razor sharp precision available as well - I find it gives me what I most want in granular synthesis: a great balance between fine control and delightful surprise.
It also gives me one thing I never...
2022-06-05 15:50:24 +0000 UTC View Post
New videos!
So I've been obsessed with this chord for a long time and wanted to explore it with you. And also see if you wanted to try anything with it that I might feature in a future video! More details within.
My previous video is about Soothe2, a unique mixing and audio cleanup tool. They reached out to sponsor...
Hellol hello! Here are my latest videos!
I had early access to Elektron's new groovebox Syntakt to give them feedback and make this demo video. It's a super deep machine that I explored a few different genres on. I'd say this is the best starter Elektron box for a synth-based workflow, and the Digitakt is the best one for samples. I find their Model series a bit too limited, and their premium machines (...
Hey there!
Wow, I sketched out a bunch of tracks really fast for this video. Well, the final song was half-written some time ago. None of them are at all finished so I don't want to share downloads yet... I was trying to just be like MULTI-GENRE EXPLOSION to tie into one of my main points in this video - about how important focus is to success, but also about how much you choose to engage with the demands of traditional success.
I've wanted to talk about this stuff for a while, an...
2022-04-15 02:14:21 +0000 UTC View Post
Got a ton of fun for you here today! Rob Scallon was over a while ago and we filmed a few things, including this major session we did with his yet-to-be-released signature guitar going through my modular system. There was so much interesting stuff to explore we divided it into one video on each of our channels!
In my video we explore all kinds of tones ranging from beautiful underwater delays to absolute noisy chaos, and we also try to use the guitar as a control signal: 2022-04-11 00:39:56 +0000 UTC View Post
Heyo!
Two new videos this week - sorry for the slight delay in posting these, had to make time around baby stuff for the sample pack editing which I'm also including here!
I connected my face to a synth to generate endless relaxing ambient music, which was a pretty fun time. Used the same patch on a plant as well, and posted a 2022-04-02 18:24:45 +0000 UTC View Post
In today's video I share a big pile of techniques to help with sonically decorating your tracks, giving them that extra dose of life and magic. I feel this is one of the major markers of difference between something sounding like a demo or sounding polished.
And just for you guys, here are the stem...
2022-03-24 19:02:30 +0000 UTC View Post
So I've been working with AIAIAI for a few months, giving feedback on their Wireless+ ultra low latency headphone experience, and it's been making a lot of things about my workflow more enjoyable. You don't often realize how the little annoyances of being wired in can add up to a less than smooth session, whether it's needing to reposition things, get untangled, or taking the headphones on and off for different tasks or s...
2022-03-18 17:58:39 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello hello!
I obviously knew as soon as I heard Evelyn making any sounds that I would have to sample her, so I've been recording her pretty regularly, but I did not expect it to turn into this good of a beat. Really had a lot of fun with this one. And then also sampled some balloons because we had a lot of them at her 1-year birthday party.
Check out the new video here and you can a...
2022-03-10 18:59:19 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey hi! Many folks asked me to release this sleep/relaxation patch on streaming services, and I've done that now!
This release is a slightly different version - it was taken from the same patch recording, but I had to shorten it due to file size restrictions (boo) but it's also an improved mix.
You can listen on strea...
2022-02-24 14:56:33 +0000 UTC View Post
Here's 1.5 minutes I cut from the "5 ways to start a song" video because it was getting long. This is another chunk of Twitter-generated melody that I developed and set to different chords, if you're interested in seeing another example of that process. Enjoy!
2022-02-11 15:23:51 +0000 UTC View Post