CEMMI.org's Overthrow Sound!

Class1: Intro Class, January 4, 2012

CEMMI/Artisan’s Asylum

“Overthrow Sound: A first course in electronic music production”

- Write down on a piece of paper a song you like and would like to remix, edit, or learn how it works.

- Write down a piece of music you admire and what you admire about it.

- Write down an instrument you would like to master, what you admire about its sound, and how you

would approach using that instrument in a song.

- Write down the artist/name of a composition that has a beat you find catchy. What instrument is that

beat played on? Can you tap out the beat structure? Write down the beat in standard musical notation.

- Take a few minutes and share these observations/musical pieces!

Programs & files to download and install:

Ableton Suite

Partner Instrument Compilation (download size: 1.6 GB)

Massive Synth Trial 1.3

Reason 6.0.1 Trial October 3, 2011

Here is a collection of Dubstep and Electro House patches for Massive 1.3. They have all been

converted to the new file name extension (.nmsv). If you are running an earlier version of Massive then

you will need to uninstall that and download and install Massive 1.3

Psy Trance 1 - Loopmasters

The Psytrance sample download pack includes 13 Squelching Trance Basslines, 29 Trance Drumloops,

88 Drum Hits to program yourself and 11 superb Trance Synth Loops, all at the same tempo and key

for maximum flexibility in your productions.

You get 5 Drum patches in total which are ready to use in Reasons NNXt Sampler, With Kontakt,

Halion or EXS24 Soft Samplers, or you can just make your own kits up in your favourite sampler