Pro Tools Things You Should Know

HiDERA | 21 April 2025 | 215 MB

Join Pro Tools expert Thomas Cochran for a Pro Tools video course filled with handy and useful tips to improve your workflow, save time, and take advantage of little-known secrets. By the time you’re through, you’ll be ready to implement any or all of these ideas on your very next Pro Tools session and wonder how you ever managed to get by without them. These videos are designed for intermediate Pro Tools users who would like to increase their workflow efficiency and improve their familiarity with some of its hidden gems. Thomas welcomes you and begins by introducing you to clip-based editing, which is a great way to adjust or fix certain elements of a performance, for instance, before applying processing to the entire track. Then he covers the Lo-Fi plugin, demonstrating how it can help to easily and quickly place sounds within a mix.

Addictive Drums v2.6 Explained®

HiDERA | 21 April 2025 | 320 MB

Looking for incredible-sounding virtual drums? Addictive Drums 2.6 has you covered! But when it comes to learning how to use it, we have you covered! In this Addictive Drums 2.6 video course, you’ll learn many ways of generating phenomenally realistic drum tracks for your productions, regardless of genre. Production wiz Eli Krantzberg will show you all the parameters and controls, so that by the end of the course, you’ll be ready to start using this amazing instrument right away! These videos are designed for new Addictive Drums users. Eli starts with a flyover of the interface, familiarizing you with the plug-in’s layout and appearance and briefly demonstrating some of the things it can do. Then he shows you how to work with presets, including locking the tempo as you audition them, using the keyboard shortcuts to navigate them, filtering them, saving your own, and more. This is followed by a look at the Explore page, where you can access the presets as well as audition different expansions and switch mix settings while previewing beats.

Beginner Guitar Explained®

HiDERA | 20 April 2025 | 2 GB

So you’ve decided to learn guitar! We commend you on your choice and have just the course for you. In this 12-lesson series, pro guitarist Doug Boduch will walk you through the process from the very beginning, teaching you everything from the parts of the guitar and basic technique to learning chord progressions, strumming patterns, scales, and licks! By the end of the course, you’ll be well on your way to playing your favorite songs and learning your favorite licks and solos. These videos are designed for complete beginners. The course begins with your first five lessons, in which you’ll learn important info such as the parts of the guitar, basic playing technique for both hands (pick hand and fret hand), the note names of the open strings and first few notes, and some chords as well. By the end of these first five lessons, you’ll be playing your first little song.

Conflux For KONTAKT 8

HiDERA | 14 February 2025 | 1.7 GB

Conflux is the first in a new breed of Kontakt instruments for experimental sound design. Layer organic and synthetic samples and add dynamic movement to static sounds in real time, with original PPG wavetables and techniques like FM, Phase Modulation, and Ring Modulation.

Scene Nightshade KONTAKT 8

HiDERA | 18 April 2025 | 728 MB

A Sinister Scoring Palette

Eerie synths, droning strings, and haunting choir clusters for horror soundtracks. Blend smoothly between 16 hybrid sound layers, effects, and controls using the XY pad. Easily stay in key with an extensive selection of scales and modes. Part of the Scene series – smart and streamlined instruments for premium, cinematic sounds.

Serum 2 Explained®

HiDERA | 11 April 2025 | 398 MB

If you’re on the hunt for the best sound design synth, Serum 2 is definitely worth checking out. In this Serum 2 video course, electronic music wiz Larry Holcombe will show you how to get started with this powerful hybrid synth from Xfer Records. After watching, you’ll understand exactly what each and every parameter does to the sound. From the oscillators, filters, envelopes, and LFOs to the wavetables, sampler, macros, and Mod Matrix, it’s all covered! By the end of this Serum 2 course, you’ll be ready to start using Serum 2 on your next track. These Serum 2 videos are perfect for those just starting out with Serum 2! Larry welcomes you and begins with a brief tour of the interface to get you your bearings, touching upon the oscillators, filters, and modulators, among other major components. Then he discusses the oscillators in detail, showing how to create different sound sources to be used as the basis for a patch. After this, Larry explains the wavetables and how wavetable synthesis works on Serum 2 using the Wavetable position dial.

Logic Pro: External Effects & Synths

HiDERA | 11 April 2025 | 159 MB

Do you wish you could use some of your favorite effects pedals and amps in Logic Pro the way you do a plugin? Or maybe you’ve got a killer-sounding analog synth that you’d like to control just like a virtual instrument? Well, step right this way, because you’ve come to the right place. In this Logic Pro video course, Logic Pro guru Stephen O’Connell will walk you through the process of connecting various types of outboard gear and interfacing seamlessly hassle-free! These Logic Pro videos are for Logic Pro users who already know their way around Logic Pro, but are looking to integrate external devices into their in-the-box workflow. To begin, Stephen welcomes you and provides an overview of what we’ll be covering, including the different types of outboard gear we’ll look at and why you’d want to use it, along with what equipment you’ll need to follow along. Then he explains the various types of audio signals (mic, line, and instrument level) at work in this type of scenario, how they differ, and how to convert from one to another properly.