Flume Sound Massive Synth - Designing the Sound from Lorde - Tennis Court (Flume Remix) We sat down to take a shot at recreating the sound of flume's lead synth in his remix for "Lorde - Tennis Court (Flume Remix)". We're working with our Ableton Live 9 Suite version, Operator and NI Massive. After rebuilding the chords in the first step, we're dividing the sound into 6 layers in the second step:   Sub-Bass: We're using an instance of Operator and select a sine wave for our sub bass frequencies (update: we now put this together in a template and...

We had some requests for a remake on EDX. So here's a remake of EDX - Belong made in Ableton Live 9 using NI Massive.  Steps / Prerequisites: What you need: Ableton Live & NI MASSIVE VST A rather versatile drum sample pack (we need a variety of small percussion sounds here, there are around 25 different drum elements) Look for some decent Piano sounds (eg. The Grand Piano Ableton Pack) and a good (open) guitar sample Then you're good to go for a remake in this style! Steps: Signature Bass Sound Layering (using several instances of MASSIVE & a couple of our Future House...

Ableton is a great tool for many things, for example creating your own "synth“. If you combine several Simpler or Sampler devices through Instrument Racks, plug in recorded synth audios and add some audio effects, you essentially create your very own basic "synth“.   Tutorial:  Steps: Find a great sound, take off all effects and modulations, making sure you get the raw sound and record it on several octaves (C1, C2, C3, C4 for example). Plug the C1 recording into a simpler device on a new MIDI channel.  Set your sampler device on Loop mode (optional) - adjusting the fades for...

(Disclosure - You & Me (Flume Remix) style remake Ableton Live only) Since we are big fans of Flume's style, we kept asking ourselves how he does his sound design and melody editing. We figured the best way to find out was trying to remake one of his tracks. So we tried to decide which one of the following great tracks to pick (they are all really cool): Lorde - Tennis Court (Flume Remix), Flume & Chet Faker - Drop The Game, Flume - The Greatest View (feat. Isabella Manfredi), Disclosure - You & Me (Flume Remix). Great song ideas, awesome sound designs, not...

Several people asked us to do a remake for the style of „Odesza“. So we listened to a couple of their tracks and remixes (like: Sia - Big Girls Cry (ODESZA Remix), Hayden James - Something About You (ODESZA Remix), ZHU - Faded (ODESZA Remix), Slow Magic - Waited 4 U (ODESZA Remix) and ODESZA - Say My Name (feat. Zyra)) and tried to identify the key characteristics, elements and styles of their sound. Then we decided to rebuild their remix for Pretty Lights - Lost and Found (ODESZA Remix) using Ableton Live 9 and NI Massive Vst. Its not the...

We had some requests for a Felix Jaehn Remake. So here's a quick remake of Ed Sheeran - Photograph (Felix Jaehn Remix) made in Ableton Live 9 Suite using NI Massive. Watch the complete tutorial on our youtube:     Steps / Prerequisites: Construct a basic drumming Look for a couple of decent string sound (eg. Orchestral Strings Ableton Pack) Look for some decent Piano sounds (eg. The Grand Piano Ableton Pack) Have a couple of Massive Deep House presets prepared. Then you're good to go for a remake in this style!   Additionally, we’re offering our remake template with...

  In this tutorial we're designing a gliding bass sound from NI Massive's init patch in Ableton. How to design a Gliding Bass sound with NI Massive (e.g. for Chillstep, Dubstep, RnB, HipHop, Trap).   Key tasks   1) Make sure you put your Massive on "Monophonic" 2) Make sure your bass notes are "overlapping" on the edges       FREE DOWNLOAD: Get this Massive preset "Gliding Bass" (by going through our facebook page): http://bit.ly/pml_freedld   Template in this video: Black Nights   Keywords:  Ableton Live Template RnB, .als file download, free .als midi files download Hip Hop, ableton alp...

  In this video, we’re focussing on sub separation. It doesn’t only apply for future house, but works the same for other genres like electro house, dubstep and drum n’ bass. The key concept is separating the sub bass frequencies from manipulations you’re applying on your sounds in the mid and higher frequencies. If we we’re for example going to use a bitcrusher on our bass sound, it would probably significantly stir up the sound in sub frequencies and add unwanted disturbing character to our mix.        Therefore, we separate our bass sounds in two or more parts:...

"EQing-Week: "Low Mids (250 Hz to 2 kHz). In general, you will want to emphasize the lower portion of this range and deemphasize the upper portion. Boosting the range from 250 Hz to 500 Hz will accent ambience in the studio and will add clarity to bass and lower frequency instruments. The range between 500 Hz and 2 kHz can make midrange instruments (guitar, snare, saxophone, etc.) “honky,” and too much boost between 1 kHz and 2 kHz can make your mix sound thin or “tinny.”“ - presonus.com [tipoftheday] EQing-Week: "Low Mids (250 Hz to 2 kHz). In general, you...

  We find this image to be really useful. It's an infographic showing you what is where in the audio spectrum and providing a lot of useful hints on how to eq the different elements in your mix. Advice: print it out and put it up on your wall! Large version here   NEW PML 5h+ Course: Mixing A Track From Scratch in Ableton (with stock effects)     Watch our free tutorial series on EQing on youtube:       keywords: how to eq, parallel eq, sidechain eq, eq basics ableton, free eq tutorial, dynamic eq ableton, mixing a track from start to...