In this 3+ hour Masterclass you will sit in the studio next to Hard Driver and have him explain to you exactly how he approaches music production.

If you want to learn how to improve your kicks, sound design leads and screeches, make a melody and chords from scratch then this class is for you! In his Masterclass Freek will go through all major things you need to know when building a Hardstyle track from scratch. He will coast you through the entire process of making a track starting at making a Melody, Making your own Leads, Creating a Break Down, Sound Design, Making Kicks, Making a Drop. Whilst building the track he will dive deep into sound designing all kinds of leads, risers, screeches with plugins like Serum and Sylenth. Apart from this Hard Driver will walk you through his track "Heaven can wait".

|| From the first 250 students to watch this class we will pick three lucky winners who will get the chance to receive in-depth feedback from Hard Driver himself. Besides that, Hard Driver will also do a stem master of your production, powered by Byte Audioworks ||

Topics covered in this Masterclass

• Making a 2021 style Kick

• Making a Kick Punch from Scratch

• Making Kick Rolls

• Making a Melody from Scratch

• Making Chords that fit the Melody

• Making Screeches from Scratch

• Layering Leads to create full Chords

• Coming up with Chord Progressions

• Building a track from Scratch

• Sound designing the lead

• Filling up your track

• Making the break and the build up

• EQ'ing

• Making a Top Lead in Dune 3

• Making leads in Serum

• Making Dub Step sounds in Serum

• Making a Screech in Serum

• Making Plucks in Serum

• Making a Lead with the Virus B

• Making a Chord Lead with Sylenth

• Making a Square Lead with Serum

• Making a Riser with Serum

• Vocal Processing

• Layering Leads / Synths

• Making a Bassline

• Reverb & delay

• Making a Drop

• Making a Buildup

• Arpeggio Sound

• Building a track from Scratch

• Chords

• Strings

• Making Drum Rolls

• Bass Pitch-bends

• Mixing and mastering vocals

• Working with digital and analog synthesizers 

• FX kicks

• Working with Kontakt and Omnisphere

• Building drum patterns

• Making pre-drop sounds

Included resources in this Masterclass

• Hard Driver Kicks

• Hard Driver Serum Presets

• Personal Message from Hard Driver

DAW: Cubase & Ableton Live

Plugins

Mixing / Mastering: Fabfilter Pro Q3 | OTT | Steinberg Compressor

Oxford Inflator | Fabfilter Pro-C | kHs Gain | Fabfilter Simplon | Standard Clip

Instruments: Sylenth1 | Dune 3 | Serum | Virus B | Kontakt | Omnisphere

Kick2 | Nimble Kick

Effects: Endless Smile | Valhalla Vintage Verb | Valhalla Room | Steinberg Pingpong Delay | Echoboy | kHs Bitcrush | D-pole Filter | Shaperbox 2 | Stan Raum | Steinberg Destroyer Kclip3 | Kickstart | Steinberg Autopan | Fabfilter Saturn 2

Vocals processing: Fabfilter Pro Q3 | Fabfilter Pro-C | Fresh Air | Raum Steinberg Compressor | Echoboy | Valhalla Room

Language: English

Subtitles (beta): English | German | French | Spanish | Italian | Dutch | Chinese | Japanese | Portugese

Check out the free sneak peek video at the top of the class playlist.