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Electronic Music Production Tutorial on Synthesizer Vibrato. With electronic music production, the difference between aweful and amazing is determined by thousands of subtle audio effects. One of these effects is vibrato. When used appropriately, it has the potential to dramatically improve your basslines, leads, and vocals. This tutorial demonstrates several ways to use vibrato in electronic music production. To follow this lesson you will need:

• A VST Host (e.g. Ableton Live, Propellerhead Reason, Cubase, etc.)
• A VST Synthesizer. (e.g. Synth1, click here to get Synth1)

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Rhythmic Gating On Synth Basslines & Leads In Trance Music. Gating is often used by electronic music producers to chop up long, droning sounds into smaller, percussive bits of audio. It is found in almost every dance music genre including hiphop, trance, drum n bass, and house. This SonicTransfer tutorial focuses on rhythmic gating used in trance music. To follow this lesson you will need:

• A music composition program capable of volume enveloping (e.g. Ableton Live, Propellerhead Reason, Cubase, etc.)

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Synth1 is an excellent replication of the Clavia Nord Lead 2. The Nord Lead 2 is one of the best synthesizers on the planet. To quote Vintage Synth Explorer, “The Nord Lead 2 is the synthesizer of choice for many professionals including: The Crystal Method, Fatboy Slim, Nine Inch Nails, The Prodigy…”

The Nord Lead 2 is an electronic music standard, and for that reason alone Synth1 should be in your musical toolbox. And why not? It’s completely free. Also, it has some of the best patch presets of any synthesizer – commercial or gratis. Click the link below to get Synth1, a bunch of presets, and the manual all bundled by Sonic Transfer.

Synth1 Free VST Synthesizer

Click here to read a tutorial on using Synth1 to build a Kick Drum.