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Making of a Monster – The Black Octopus Documentary film

Black Octopus Sound is proud to present Making of a monster: The Leviathan story.

This film gives an intimate look into the perils of starting a sample pack company from scratch, building a sustainable living in the music industry, as well as the blood-sweat-tears that went into making the iconic product line Leviathan.

  • Life Changing Ableton Mixdown Technique

    Steve from Black Octopus shares his absolute best mixdown technique that will revolutionize how anyone in Ableton completes their mixes.

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  • Going Deep with Acoustics – Interview with Matt Davis

    One of the hardest things for any engineer or producer to get right isn’t the mix, its not even the music… it is the acoustics of the room they are sitting in. It’s a no brainer that this is one of the most important and crucial aspects of knowing what you are hearing and in […]

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  • Using sound design to break through writers block

    Using sound design to break through writers block by Jake @ Cryonaut Media That Awful Feeling Writer’s Block. Maybe you’re trying to come up with a good hook to complement the chords you just arranged, or maybe a bridge. No matter what you do though, you can’t seem to come up with anything that works. It […]

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  • Sequential announces the new Prophet-5 / Prophet-10 analog synth

    The Return of a Legend The new Prophet-5 is Dave Smith’s timely return to the analog poly synth that changed the world. It’s “the best of all Prophet-5s” as Dave puts it because it embodies all three revisions of the legendary synth — Rev1, Rev2, and Rev3 — through the use of genuine Curtis analog […]

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