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Tech Dissect: Sound FX and Sample Blending w/ Poly Chain
27th August 2024
7.30 pm BST
£8.30 or free for Saffron Members (bursaries available)
Saffron’s monthly workshops are part of the Saffron Members Club, but non-members who are women, non-binary people, trans or gender non-conforming folks may also purchase a ticket.
SOUND FX AND SAMPLE BLENDING IN ABLETON LIVE
In this online workshop, we will explore simple and advanced techniques for adding depth to your tracks with Ukrainian-born, Berlin-based electronic music producer, Poly Chain.
Sound FX refers to the various audio effects that can be applied to tracks to create specific atmospheres, enhance sonic texture, or add movement to music. Sample blending is a technique for combining different audio samples to create a new, cohesive sound.
In this 90-minute session, Poly Chain will demonstrate the layering process using Drum and Instrument Racks with standard and external plugins, and touch on how to create space in your music using modular FX. She will also explore exciting aspects such as tuning, mapping, automating, and randomising samples.
Whether you’re an independent music creator looking to refine your sound, or a composer interested in creating samples for commercial and/or artistic soundtracks, this promises to be an informative, engaging and accessible session. Come along to connect with the Saffron community, ask questions and elevate your productions.
ABOUT POLY CHAIN
Sasha Zakrevska aka Poly Chain, composer, dj, curator, and graphic designer born 1993, Kyiv UA, currently based in Berlin DE, due to a full-scale russian invasion. Part of the research collective The Center of Spatial Technology.
ACCESS
Access to these sessions is free for members of Saffron’s online community, Saffron Members Club. Saffron Membership starts at just £5.50 per month and provides access to regular online workshops, an online community space, video masterclasses, free music tech tools, discounts and much more.
We never want money to be a barrier to people accessing music tech, so if you are unable to afford a ticket but believe you would benefit from attending these workshops, please email us on members@saffronmusic.co.uk.
Workshops are open to people worldwide, but will be running at 7.30 pm GMT so please bear differences in time zone in mind. If you purchase a ticket but are unable to attend live, you will automatically be emailed a recording of the workshop(s) after the event.
We are committed to making our online events as accessible as possible. We have created a guidance document about this – Click here to view the accessibility document. Alternatively, please email us with any access requirements you may have: hello@saffronmusic.co.uk
GENDER POLICY
The gender imbalance in the music technology industry is well-recognised. While we are absolutely not ‘anti-men’, we see that a shorter-term solution is to provide fellowship and learning environments that are not dominated by the cisgender male perspective. Therefore, these workshops are intended for women, non-binary, trans and gender non-conforming people to attend. While we do not ban cisgender men from attending, we hope that they will respect that this event is not intended for them.
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