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Summary: Picking software for your home recording studio is tough; learn to build and manage your home recording studio in this free video on recording music.
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Aaron De Azevedo Aaron De Azevedo is a musician, composer, song writer, and teacher who has recorded for TV shows and CDs. He has been playing for 11 years. read more
Hello. This is Aaron De Azevedo and I'm here with Expert Village. We're going to talk a little bit about Soft Sense and why they're used so much these days. I have here on my computer, a bunch of soft sense loaded. But, what is a soft sense? It is an instrument that is controlled by software and I can control it using a keyboard. For example, there are ones that are called sample-based instruments. I have one that is called sample take here. And, I have lots of fun with it. So, what they did is they went and recorded a bunch of instruments. For example, they recorded a snare drum. They recorded at different velocities playing soft. And, then they hooked it up to the keyboard with their software. So, I can trigger it. Now, those are real instrument sounds. But, I can control them off of here. So, it's nice. You get a really authentic sound. There are some other ones. Here's one that's called atmosphere, which I like a lot. And, this has some really nice string sounds and pad sounds. There just funky atmospheric sounds. Hence, the name atmosphere. This one is called Hollywood Strings. I like it. Now, Soft Sense will run anywhere from a hundred bucks. Some of the really nice ones run thousands of dollars. But, these ones cost about three hundred, four hundred, five hundred bucks. And, you get a load of nice sounds that you can use on any of your music recording programs.