Are you looking for some amazing ambient sounds for your music production? Do you want to create your own atmospheric soundscapes with Omnisphere? If so, you're in luck. In this blog post, I'm going to show you a new patch…

Twisted Trees is a Sonic Extension for Omnisphere 2 by renowned sound designer Diego Stocco. It is a collection of over 1,900 sounds built entirely from wood, with a focus on dark and cinematic soundscapes.

The extension includes a wide…

Ambient music is full of percolating sequences that add interest and melody. In this tutorial I am going to show you how to create a melodic sequence that does not repeat.

What I am going to show you adds some…

Hey everyone, hope you are all doing great. I have received several requests asking if I would do a track walkthrough of one of my compositions. So here goes. I picked a track I recently composed for the patch library …

Hey everyone, hope everyone is keeping well. This last week I listened to several new electronic music tracks over on YouTube. These ranged from the cinematic, to upbeat electronica and ended with a lovely blissful moment revisiting a favourite synth…

Hey everyone, hope you are keeping well. Recently I launched a patch library for Omnisphere for those working to produce Ambient, Electronica and Soundtrack work. There are 88 patches in total stretching from pads to leads and synth bass. I…

Last week there were plenty of tech announcements from the likes of Apple and Google. The one that caught my eye the most though was from Spectrasonics. After watching their presentation, both Tim and Sundar could learn a lesson or…

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I've not posted on her in a while as I have been going through a few ups and downs at the moment. Long story short, I lost my mum in September last year and to be honest my…

About 2 years ago I recorded what should have been the start of a small series of videos detailing how to use Live Mode in Omnisphere. Well, I published one and to be honest I forgot to follow this series…

Omnisphere is a powerful and vast software synthesizer come rompler come sample engine. Out of the box, it comes with over 14,000 patches for you to play with, but how do you go about finding the one you want. I’m…

Hello everyone, this blog post is something slightly different as we're going to talk about a book that I've been reading. It's called Hyperfocus - How to Work Less and Achieve More by Chris Bailey. This is a really good…

I had the privilege of playing with Oblivion, a patch library for Omnisphere made by Tom Wolfe. This particular Tom Wolfe is neither the author nor the music supervisor, but he does create some stonking patch libraries for Omnisphere. These…

Before I being, this is just not any ordinary piano sample library, this is a Heavyocity sample library. If you haven't come across Heavyocity before, they have created a whole stable of sample libraries that are great for those hybrid…

If you missed this week's Twitter feed, here's the best news from the music front condensed into one post.

Developer Hagai Davidoff has released ZoneMatrix and turns Native Instruments Kontakt into ‘A Monstrous Performance Tool’ You can find out more…

This is something that I wish I had learned right at the beginning of my music-making career. Do you, or should you, bounce or convert your midi tracks to audio? It can be said that a project is not truly…

As a child, my parents were forever playing classical music alongside the classics from the 50s/60s and is probably why I never got into mainstream pop growing up. It wasn’t until around the early 80s that synthesizer music first crept…