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This is actually called sidechain compression. It is usually applied to pads, or basslines with higher frequencies (but not always) and then a kick drum is often used as the 'input' for the compressor. The kick drum hits and just like when you listen to the radio, when the dj/presenter talks over the music, the volume dips. The attack, delay, hold and ...

Additive synthesis can be more than just stacking a bunch of sine waves to emulate an instrument. For instance are the sine waves following the harmonic series or some other series of harmonics? are the sine waves at a constant amplitude? are the sine waves in the same phase? The key thing to remember is that almost all natural sounds will have dynamic ...

What you need to be looking for are VST - Virtual Studio Technology - instruments. The good DAW's all let you use VST plugins to synthesise instrument sounds, using various parameters, including different breath pressure, volume etc. Many libraries are available for free online, you tend to get free ones with Digital audio magazines (often a DVD full of ...

General Midi specifies a mapping. Roland's GS standard adds to it as does Yamaha's XG standard. Your exact keyboard (and possibly drum preset itself) may vary. see http://pianocheetah.com/midi/drum.html and wikipedia:

You need to learn about sample playback software and virtual instruments for computers. There are hundreds of commercial products on the market that provide what you are asking about. The technology has been around for thirty years, although in the early days sample playback and virtual instruments required dedicated hardware keyboard instruments. These days ...

The drumloop you hear on the track that you've mentioned is a chopped/edited version of an 'Amen beat'. Find a refill for Reason with a bunch of REX Amenloops and then mess around. It is common to remove the snare drum and the kick drum from the original loop and add your own kick and snare in place. (This is definitely the case in the song you mentioned). ...

If I am focusing on the part you are referring to, this sounds a lot like a "talk box" (along with some distortion and perhaps an additional flange. A quick search brings up the term "Formant Filter" and also a video for a random product which shows the use of a formant filter as driven by a guitar: ( ...

There are many solutions but I would advise you to take a look at : Ableton Live + novation lauchpad/akai apc/akai push Maschine Or more hardware-oriented solutions : (electribe + mpc etc) Live enables you to trigger different parts of your songs. You can go from using it as a backtrack while you play an instrument to have each and every part of your ...

Pretty much all electronic instruments today follows the "General MIDI" standard which includes a definition for which notes should control which type of drum sound. You can read about it on Wikipedia or on the official MIDI site's General MIDI Level 1 Percussion Key Map. This site lists the corresponding keys in a more human readable way. Let me repeat the ...

This is caused by a compressor effect applied to the whole mix. See: What Does a Compressor Pedal Do? In response to the loud beat, the compressor reduces the volume. Then after the beat, the volume ramps back up. This kind of compression causes a distinctive "throbbing" you hear a lot in pop, rock and dance music.

In general, you can program your electronic drum kit and individual drum pads to assign any MIDI note that you want to any drum pad, and also to map or associate any drum sound that you want to any drum pad and to any MIDI note. It is up to you to make these assignments yourself. If you want to know what MIDI notes and which sounds are assigned to which ...

Do a Google search and you can find many references on Frequency Modulation (FM) synthesis and how to use it, compared to subtractive synthesis, additive synthesis, and other types. Crude analog frequency modulation synthesis was a feature of some early analog subtractive synthesizers. However, a powerful form of FM synthesis in a digital implementation ...

The New MySpace is currently in limited Beta. They are still busy rebuilding it and there are many many bugs still. This is likely not a bug but intentional until they have a product that they would like to actively promote as ready to go. The danger is that they would hurt their newly minted site if visitors took it to be complete but full of bugs and ...

The 'lead' is the part that plays the melody, typically some repetitive motif replacing or complementing a vocal line. This is typically in the treble register, although arguably some forms these days are making an overdriven bass line hold the main motif and play the part of a lead. Below the lead you usually have 'pads', often sounding a bit like ...

I have just listened to it. If you want to do that live you need the instrumental on one deck and the a cappella on the other one then you slowly rewind it and then jump to the part you cued (where you want the song to start again). On regular turntables you would have to lift the needle and bring it back to the position where it was before you rewinded. ...

I am not sure if you are talking about that but the way you describe it, it seems to be a baby scratch. If the record is brought back then forward, it is a scratch but then you have different kinds of scratching techniques from the baby scratch to the crabbing. In dancehall music I know DJs do a lot of "Pull up", they stop the record by rewinding it and ...

adding sin waves together of different amplitude,phase,frequency will get you to ALL the tones that are periodic. But periodic tones are pretty boring to the ear by themselves. So you wrap a volume/filtercutoff controlling envelope or lfo around em and they start getting interesting. then throw them thru some fx filters like chorus and reverb and they get ...

I don't agree with the answer by @KeitS: just because some visible producers perform their music live by just DJing, that does not mean you should be doing the same. First of all, people like Tiesto have built up a reputation based on their productions, and can afford to just do a DJ set, or perhaps not do anything at all live, but just pretend they are ...

There's a decent quality open source drum machine called Hydrogen that will let you prototype beats quickly and easily. You can export loops, I think, and you can also hook it up to play well with other software synths, lIke reason. There's an introductory tutorial at http://www.hydrogen-music.org/hcms/node/7. Once you have the basics of hydrogen down, ...

Great answers on this thread. I would caution that it's often pretty easy to tell if it's not a "real" instrument. One way to try to get around this is to record the synth, play it back (isolated) out of some decent speakers, and record that playback with a microphone. Do it in a room with a little reverb and you can get something that sounds much more real ...