Sonic Academy How To Make Progressive House With Logic

Clear your schedules for this eagerly anticipated epic 3 1/2 hr release from Sonic Academy. 

In this comprehensive 27 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

Play Through

A Play Back of the track we are about to make.

Tutorial 1 - The Drums Part 1

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

Tutorial 2 - The Drums Part 2

Next up we look at importing our hats and selecting our all important groove

Tutorial 3 - The Drums Part 3

Adding further hats to our drum pattern in this next video

Tutorial 4 - Drum Effects

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 simpler and a sylenth

Tutorial 6 - The Stab

Again using simpler we import from the resource pack and 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 - Premix Part 1

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

Tutorial 12 - Premix Part 2

Part two of mixing and effects.

Tutorial 13 - Arranging The Intro

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

Tutorial 14 - Arrange To Break Part 1

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

Tutorial 15 - Arrange To Break Part 2

The second part of the arrange to the breakdown

Tutorial 16 - Changing The Groove

Now that we are into the track, we take a closer look at the groove.

Tutorial 17 - The Breakdown

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

Tutorial 18 - Adding Automation To Breakdown

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

Tutorial 19 - The Breakdown FX

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

Tutorial 20 - Using Bounce In Place

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

Tutorial 21 - Arranging To The Next Breakdown

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

Tutorial 22 - Arrange To The End

We arrange the track to the end in this next video

Tutorial 23 - Creating Spot FX

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

Tutorial 24 - Drum Fills

Next up, we add drums fills to intro the hats and add interest to the track.

Tutorial 25 - Mixdown

With the track done and arranged time to get mixing.

Tutorial 26 - Mastering

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