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Explore our collection of electronic music production guides, tips, and tutorials. Learn about sound design, mixing, synthesizers, sample packs, and creative workflows to take your productions to the next level.
Melodic Techno Bass in Serum 2: How to Build a Rolling Bassline
How I build a rolling melodic techno bass in Serum 2: a clean sub routed Direct, a filtered saw with a plucky envelope, and the moves that make it sit...
Repro-5 Pads for Melodic House: How to Build Classic Poly Pads
A step by step Repro-5 pads walkthrough for melodic house: the oscillator mix, slow filter envelopes, Poly Mod and LFO movement, voice pan width and how to fit the pad...
Diva Oscillators Explained: Triple VCO, Dual VCO, Eco, DCO and Digital
What each of u-he Diva's five oscillator models really does, which controls matter, what they cost in CPU and which one to pick for basses, pads, leads and stabs.
How to Install u-he Diva Presets on Mac and Windows
Where Diva keeps its presets on Mac and Windows, how to install a pack step by step using the free Glow Diva presets, and what to check when new presets...
u-he Diva CPU Guide: How to Run Diva Without Overloading Your Computer
What Diva's accuracy modes, OfflineAcc, Multicore, Voices and Stack actually do to your CPU, plus a simple workflow to keep sessions stable without losing the sound.
How to Make Melodic Techno Bass in u-he Diva
Two melodic techno basses built from scratch in u-he Diva, a rolling 16th bass and a deep sliding one, with the module choices, envelope settings and mix moves that make...
How to Use u-he Diva Properly: Modules, Settings and Workflow
A producer's walkthrough of u-he Diva: the settings to check first, how the modules, filters, envelopes and modulation work, and the workflow I use to build a sound from scratch.
u-he Diva StackIndex Dual Filter Trick
How to use StackIndex and the Uhbie filter in u-he Diva to give two stacked voices opposite filter responses, for wider, more detailed pads, arps and plucks.