Category archives: Risa T

Tutorial: How to Finish Your Tracks Easily with These Simple Workflow Techniques

In this video, our Course Content Developer Risa T demonstrates some inspiring techniques for creating variations in your tracks. These music production techniques are taken from Denis DeSantis’ book, Making Music 74 Creative Strategies for Electronic Music Producers, and are great for developing full tracks from short ideas. If you find yourself stuck on a […]

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How to Make an Acid Bassline with the TB-303 by Roland Cloud

In this video, our Course Content Developer Risa T takes a closer look at the software version of the iconic TB-303 bassline synth from Roland Cloud. Released in 1981, the TB-303 played a key role in the development of electronic music and cultural movements. It’s best known for its squelching, hypnotic sound, which was later […]

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Techtorial: How to Sample Hardware Easily Using Logic Pro’s Auto Sampler

For this tutorial, we’re showing how you can sample any instrument and turn it into a VST in Logic Pro, using and MainStage’s Auto Sampler. Auto Sampler makes it easy to create sampler instruments that you can use in MainStage and Logic Pro. You can create a sampler instrument from a MIDI-capable hardware synthesizer, from a software […]

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Tutorial: Exploring Roland Cloud’s JUNO-106 Plugin with Risa T

For this video, our Course Content Developer Risa T explores the features of Roland Cloud’s JUNO-106 soft synth and shows exactly how to shape and edit its iconic sounds. The JUNO-106 was the first in Roland synths to introduce the performance lever for pitch bends and modulation – an addition which became a standard feature of the […]

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Tutorial: Exploring Roland Cloud’s TR-808 Plugin with Risa T

For this video, our Course Content Developer, Risa T, explores the features of Roland Cloud’s TR-808 soft synth and shows exactly how to set it up as a multi-output instrument in Logic Pro X. One of the most iconic drum machines in history, The TR-808 has featured in timeless classics such as Marvin Gaye’s ‘Sexual Healing’, Whitney […]

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Learn How to Copy and Record Live Loops in Logic Pro X 10.5

To celebrate the release of Apple’s Logic Pro X 10.5, we’re creating a number of tutorial videos which explore the update’s new features. This time, Point Blank Course Content Developer Risa T demonstrates how useful Logic 10.5’s Live Loops feature is and shows just how easy it is to start arranging and playing musical ideas […]

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Deconstruction: Tones And I – ‘Dance Monkey’

We’re back with another deconstruction, this time with our very own Course Content Developer Risa T stepping in to break down Tones And I’s giant hit, ‘Dance Monkey’. If you’re new here and not familiar with what a deconstruction entails, it’s where we take a well-known track, break it down to its core elements and recreate it […]

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Top 3 Deconstructions: 2019

Our Point Blank Deconstructions have become one of the many reasons those thirsty for Music Production & Sound Engineering knowledge regularly visit our site and keep coming back time and time again. For those of you who may not be familiar with what one of our deconstructions entails, it’s where Ski Oakenfull, our lead course developer, takes a […]

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Track Deconstruction w/ Risa T: Ariana Grande – ‘No Tears Left to Cry’

We’re back with another Track Deconstruction, this time from one of our Course Developers, Risa T. In her first-ever deconstruction for Point Blank, Risa T tackles Ariana Grande’s infectious ‘No Tears Left to Cry’, breaking down each element from the Billboard Hot 100 track. ‘No Tears Left to Cry’ was released by Republic Records in 2018 and has […]

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Learn How to Program Your Drums The Right Way With Risa T

We’re back with another video tutorial from Risa T, this time focussing on how to program drums in Logic the right way. Firing up her remix of Hoodboi’s ‘Glide‘ once again, the former Point Blank student pulls back the curtain on the techniques she uses to get her drums sounding so tight. Drums can play a crucial part in […]

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