Armin van Buuren

Style:Trance

Best Known For:A State Of Trance

Tune of The Year:Omnia & IRA 'The Fusion'

Breakthrough DJ/Producer of 2012: 

Armin van Buuren (December  25, 1976) is a Dutch trance producer and DJ. He is the number one ranked DJ having won DJ Magazine's Top 100 DJs fan poll a record of 5 times, including winning 4 consecutive years between 2007–2010 and again in 2012. Since 2001, Van Buuren has hosted a weekly radio show called A State of Trance, which claims to have around 25 million weekly listeners in 26 countries, which would make it one of the most listened-to radio shows in the world. His 2008 studio album, Imagine, entered the Dutch album chart at No. 1, a first for a dance music artist in Dutch music history.

Dubstep music

Dubstep is a genre of electronic dance music that originated in South London, England. It emerged in the late 1990s as a development within a lineage of related styles such as 2-step garage, broken beat, drum and bass (jungle), and dub reggae. In the UK the origins of the genre can be traced back to the growth of the Jamaican sound system party scene in the early 1980s. The music generally features syncopated drum and percussion patterns with bass lines that contain prominent sub bass frequencies.

Tutorial 9: The Mixer

How to use the mixer in FL Studio?

To open the Mixer press F9.There you have it. The Mixer is an interesting tool. It lets you enrich your sounds with great effects such as echoes, delays, resonations, etc. Its properties are almost infinite and it really helps to improve a song because once you know how to work with it you can start experimenting and giving your sounds the beauty and complexity you wish.

The evolution of rap music in the United States

The evolution of rap music in the United States

by Henry A. Rhodes

Rap music is truly an American minority artist creation of which students need to be proud. Unfortunately, rap music is not perceived by many Americans as an art form, but as a fad which they hope will soon fade away. One of my intentions with my unit is to show that rap music is not a fad, but a musical art form that has been around for over 20 years in the United States.

Tutorial 8: THE PLAYLIST (Part 2)

In this chapter we are finally going to work with the Playlist. In Tutorial 7, you learnt to distribute several samples or instruments in different tracks or patterns so now you can work with the Playlist.

Yes, do  it, do it, don’t be afraid,  open the Playlist (F5), you have permission, but don’t forget to study the steps of our previous tutorial.

Tutorial 7 THE PLAYLIST (Part 1)

Once you have all the instruments (samples) you want in the Step Sequencer, or at least some of them to start with, then you need something to organize the whole thing: The Playlist (F5)

The Playlist is where you give real shape to your song. As a rule, you don’t use all the samples at the same time, sometimes you want to stop using a specific sound or use it again later on the song. Of course, this cannot be done from the Step Sequencer or the Piano Roll. The tool for this purpose is The Playlist, lust like the director of the orchestra determining who is going to sing and when, and who is going to remain silent. To do this operation we´ll need to separate one sound from another in different tracks. After we have achieved this part we can decide where to locate the sounds within our song. First you have to pick which sample or group of samples you want to define for each track.

Tutotial 6: THE PIANO ROLL (Part 2)

Tutorial on how to use the Piano Roll (part 2)

In this tutorial I will teach you some basic tips to work with the Piano Roll and that are very helpful in certain situations. Let’s see some of them; take a look at Figure 1.

- How to change the size of the Piano Roll: To expand the grey working area just double click on the upper bar where the name of your sample is, or click on the button at the right upper corner (6), just at the left side of the X (which obviously closes the Piano Roll so don’t touch it). The other button below the X (7) shows a two-direction cursor when you cross over it and by holding down left click you can change the working area’s width, which sometimes is necessary to look back at what you’re doing.