Fanu/FatGyver

🙏🏻 Blind faith and serendipity in field of music 🤞🏻

I hope you've stayed productive. To me, autumn is definitely a creative period. I'm still kind of "recovering" from finishing my recent album, Classy Co...

Making a sample-based hip hop beat

Time to get busy with some sample-based beatmaking!

I’ve always loved hunting down samples and making stuff around it.

I don’t always build things “around it”, but this time I’m doing just that.

I’ve seen some people ...

New album "Classy Coffee Cuts" out today

My new album, “Classy Coffee Cuts”, is out now.

All arenas, Bandcamp preferred:

• http://fanu.bandcamp.com

2023-10-06 11:52:33 +0000 UTC View Post

SICK basses with Saturn 2! You prob haven't tried doing this...

Bass class is in session! If you like filthy gnarly basses, this is for you, my bass junkie friend.

I've been using Saturn 2 for creating new bass sounds out of existing basses.

This video will show you how. And it's much less about sa...

Fix your mono!

If there is one thing I’d want to help every single producer in the world with, it’s their mono signal – even just to make my daily work a bit faster (especially when it comes to mastering only where I can't fix this, while I can in mixing w...

Let's make some acid with Renoise/Redux! [video]

Alright, it's time to do some acid lines with Renoise/Redux!

Can be done with both, and hey, technically this technique can be applied to any sampler in the world, basically! I just want to keep things varied, and there's something really ni...

Improve the drop of your song (mastering, video)

There's this one thing (or two) that I do on many masters that have a breakdown and a drop – a lot of electronic music – and I wanted to share.

Working on a song of mine here to keep it copyright-free and all that.

See if you can h...

Operator wubs! [Ableton video]

I promised recently to show how I created the Operator basses in the recent project I posted, so here we go…get all wubsy with it!

If anyone sa...

Plugin giveaways!

I’ve got two plugins serials to give away:

PolyMAX synth from Universal Audio (no UAD interface required) and 2023-08-13 13:57:21 +0000 UTC View Post

Lesson prep material: Ableton bass sound design

Alright, dear students, so let's do something different.

I will soon post a video about how to do some very techy Ableton Operator basses.

However, before that, I want to prep you for it!
A good student is also curious, and I've alw...

Career protips / thoughts

That subject may be a bit cheesy or whatever, but it serves its purpose!

I haven't done a written post in a while, but I've been meaning to; got many on my notepad ready to go (there are many videos on the way, so trying to keep it a bit var...

Music is work! Motivation will fail you. Discipline gets the work done!

(I don't do videos for Youtube often anymore, but helps to throw in some people to my Patreon, which I want to grow as much as I can and keep it as part of my living)

Having been a creative being for 31 years (I started making music...

About breakbeats and transitional energy in songs [video]

Working on another song idea, I wanted to share some thoughts regarding distributing the energy in a song, this time mostly relating to using a breakbeat but also some other song elements.

Let's talk about BASS!

A few thoughts relating to bass as I'm working on a song.

• Solid sub for a 2-osc bass

• Using Ableton Multiband Dynamics for sub boost + control

• Hive 2 triangle bass

Song walkthru: FatGyver – "Slow Progress" (+ drum samples)

New beat walkthru time! Also I've got some drum samples for you (check end of post for links).

So in this video, I'm covering a song called "Slow Progress" from the recent 2023-07-01 06:08:51 +0000 UTC View Post

Chopping Science! Redux part 1: chopping + FX [video]

Chopping Scientists need to know about good tools for chopping ✂️

If there's something that'll always get me all stoked, it's good samplers. 

Redux sampler offers very fast and light choppery. This is one of m...

Make your hihats classier

Heyhey, a quick tip on making your hihats classier.

(🎥 BTW there'll be a Redux sampler video coming soonish, as promised. Got many msgs about it – just wanted so say here, you've been heard! 🎥)

Thought I might make a ...

Ableton Push 3 [video]

So Ableton Push 3 is out today.

Available as a standalone and non-standalone versions.

I was happy to receive my unit early and I've been a tester for a while.
So, wanted to create this video for release day.

Hope you like! 2023-05-23 08:18:40 +0000 UTC View Post

About lowpass and highpass filtering

Being an audio nerd and engineer, this sort of stuff does fascinate me. Came across this article on the interwebs (shouts to Owen Palmer) and wanted to share.

There’s some interesting stuff about how minimum phase filtering affects...