Sonic Academy - How To Make Progressive House in Cubase

Clear your schedules for this eagerly anticipated epic 5hr 50min release from Sonic Academy. In this comprehensive 37 video tutorial, we take you through the full process of creating a Progressive House track as made famous by Daniel Portman and Jerome Isma-Ae. We walk you through all the steps from creating beats and synth sounds to mixing, arrangement and mastering and show you from start to finish how to make a prog monster.

Videos Overview

Introduction and Play Through

An intro from and Phil, and a play through the track

Tutorial 1 - The Drums Part 1

In this first video we start to load kicks and snares into the Groove Agent

Tutorial 2 - The Drums Part 2

Next up we look at importing our hatsand selecting our all important groove

Tutorial 3 - The Drums Part 3

Adding further hats to our drum pattern in this next video

Tutorial 4 - The Drums - Adding FX

We add eq and compression to the drum group to make our drum sound punchy

Tutorial 5 - The Bass

Time to look at a bassline, using the sylenth

Tutorial 6 - The Stab

Again using the sylenth we create a stab sound

Tutorial 7 - The Main Riff

In this video we create the main riff for our track

Tutorial 8 - The Bleep

Next up we create a bleep pattern to add groove and interest.

Tutorial 9 - Single Stab

To create movement in the track we add another single note stab

Tutorial 10 - Pad Sweep

To add to the build, in this video we show you how to make a padsweep

Tutorial 11 - Mixing & FX Part 1

The first of two parts, we look at adding effects and some mixing

Tutorial 12 - Mixing & FX Part 2

Part two of mixing and effects.

Tutorial 13 - Mixing & FX part 3

part 3 of the fx

Tutorial 14 - Arrange Intro

With all the main parts in, its time to start arranging the intro section

Tutorial 15 - Arrange To Break Part 1

Continuing on with the arrange, we now start to arrange to the first break down

Tutorial 16 - Arrange To Break Part 2

The second part of the arrange to the breakdown

Tutorial 17 - Mixing

We do a bit of mixing before continuing the arrangement of the breakdown

Tutorial 18 - Arrange to Break 3

The final video in arranging to the breakdown

Tutorial 19 - Arrange to Break part 4

Now the arrnge is finished, we start to add automation to the breakdown

Tutorial 20 - Supersaw Bass

we add a super saw sample that comes with the course to the breakdown

Tutorial 21 - Supersaw Bass 2

We continue adding the supersaw section

Tutorial 22 - Automation in the Break

We add some automation to the breakdown

Tutorial 23 - Delay Riser for the Break

To create tension in the breakdown we show you how to create a delay riser

Tutorial 24 - Tweaking the Break

Now the break is arranged, time to finish it with some tweaks

Tutorial 25 - Breakdown Loop

Here we resample the drums and process them for the breakdown

Tutorial 26 - Arrange To 2nd Break

In this video we start to arrange the track to the second of our breakdowns

Tutorial 27 - Arrange To 2nd Break Part 2

We continue to arrange the 2nd break

Tutorial 28 - Arrange To End 1

We arrange the track to the end in this next video

Tutorial 29 - Arrange To End 2

We continue to arrange to the end of the song

Tutorial 30 - Arrange To End 3

some final arranging

Tutorial 31 - Spot Effects

We show you, in this video, how to add spot effects to the track

Tutorial 32 - Drum Fills

Drum fills is the name of the game in this tutorial

Tutorial 33 - Drum Fills 2

More drum fills!

Tutorial 34 - Final Tweaks

With the track nearly finished, time for some final tweaks to really make it shine

Tutorial 35 - Final Tweaks 2

More final tweaks

Tutorial 36 - Mastering

A final listen back and tidy up, to ensure we have the track completed

Tutorial 37 - Mastering 2

We add some compression, eq and limiting