Program a Lead sound in ANY synth plugin

Are you ready to learn how to make your own synth lead from scratch?

It's easier than you think!

Beginner's Guide to Making Warm Pads - Worship Keys Tutorial

Can you guess the sound that's asked for the most around here?

A warm pad!

In this week's new video, I'll teach you how to make a warm pad in any software, whether you're using MainStage, Ableton Live or another DAW.

What Makes a Pad Sound Warm? Worship Pads Tutorial

In this new video, I'm going to break down what makes a pad warm and how to achieve that sound really quickly on the fly. It's also great to have a few favorites you love in your back pocket for a surprise moment you didn't expect.

Larger than Life Keys Sounds using Chord Trigger in MainStage 3

We love Chord Trigger- we use this plugin all the time in our Song Specific Patches and it's an awesome plugin that makes it easy to play larger than life chords with a single note press.

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Soundbeds Vol 1 - Custom Sampled Ambient Worship Patches for MainStage and Ableton Live

New, custom-sampled soundsources captured from vintage and analog synthesizers form the foundation of many of these patches and there’s nothing in MainStage or Ableton’s factory library anything like them.

Create Custom Sampled Patches- Ambient Pads Tutorial

This tutorial focuses on how to use this technique to create one of a kind soundbeds which is one of our favorite types of sounds here at Sunday Sounds, currently!

Design a Worship Pad Without Listening? - Free Worship Patch

David and Ryan did a super fun challenge where Ryan designed a pad in MainStage without listening to it, while David listened through headphones and gave feedback.

Top 10 Tutorials for MainStage and Ableton: A Recap

We’ve put together our most popular MainStage and Ableton tutorials to help pass time!

New Courses- Sound Design Tips with Ryan & Playing Worship Keys with Joy

These will both be a 10 day series where you'll receive a new video every day with really practical tips that will take your sounds and playing to the next level.

The "MainStage Sabotage Challenge" with David and Ryan

Make sure you watch all the way to the end for the INTENSITY ROUND where we go all in on the most brutal problems we can think to create in MainStage.

Designing a Worship Pad Without Listening Challenge!? - MainStage 3

David and Ryan did a super fun challenge where David designed a pad in MainStage without listening to it, while Ryan listened through headphones and gave feedback.

How to Balance Your Keys Patch Volumes in Any Software

Everybody wants to have killer patches that sound good in the room and feel good in your ears, right? We all want to avoid bleeding ears in the congregation and angry looks from your sound person on Sunday mornings!

Free Course: "Getting Great Guitar Tone in MainStage"

If you're a guitarist using MainStage you've gotta check out this course.

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A Brand New, Free MainStage Course!

In this course you'll learn all you need to know to achieve a successful MainStage rig, on any budget, through simple and concise video instruction.

Building Patches that Sound Great Live! - Part 4

In this third video of the series, David talks about the importance of building a relationship with your audio engineer…

Building Patches that Sound Great Live! - Part 3

In this third video of the series, David talks about the significant role of using EQ to help sculpt the frequency range of your sounds.

Building Patches that Sound Great Live! - Part 2

In this second video in the series, David talks about how to way we perceive certain frequencies should influence sound design choices.

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Building Patches that Sound Great Live! - Part 1

In this first video in the series, David talks about the significant role of designing patches to suite a particular sonic context.

MainStage Tutorial, Sound Design TutorialDavid PfaltzgraffDecember 5, 2018MainStage Contextual Sounds, MainStage EQ, MainStage Worship Sounds, MainStage Worship Design, Worship Keys, Creating Worship Patches, MainStage Tutorial, Sound Design Tutorial, Sound Design, MainStage Sound Design, Learning MainStageComment

MainStage Mastery Training Course - Become a MainStage Master!

If you've been using MainStage for a bit but feel like you still don't have a firm handle on what it can do or you're a new MainStage user who wants..

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MainStage's Modulation FX

Learn about MainStage’s Chorus, Ensemble, and Flanger plugins in this blog post…

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