Written walk-through guide - coming alongside this Youtube Tutorial:   What we used: Ableton Live 9 Suite Also available: 4h+ Course: Track from Start To Finish   Hey! In the first part of this tutorial we focused on the drums. If you haven't seen it yet make sure to check it out. Anyways, in this part we'll focus on instruments which will add some life into our track! Here's what we're going to create:   I. Bass 1. Let's make a new MIDI track and throw an Operator instrument onto it. We'll quickly change the oscillator type (under "Wave" on the synthesizer)...

Written walk-through guide - coming alongside this Youtube Tutorial: Subscribe to Production Music Live on YouTube   What we used: Ableton Live 9 Suite Also available: 4h+ Course: Track from Start To Finish Part 1 - Drums - Steps: Setting up a side-chain track Adding a Kick Adding a Snare Adding in another Pre-Snare Closed Off-Hihat (1) Closed Off-Hihat (2) Dynamics Hihat 16ths Hihats Blip Noise Ride Hey! Today we're going to make a Deep House track from scratch using Ableton instruments only. Here's a quick preview of the track we're going to be making: Alright, let's get into the production process! In this...

In this tutorial, Francois is making a track from scratch using only elements of Ableton Live 9 Suite edition. Here's a rough table of contents: Table of Contents: 00:00 Play 01:11 Sidechain + Basics 04:46 Kick 05:14 Clap 06:52 Pre Snare + Effects (EQ, Redux) 09:24 Closed Hihat 10:00 First Beat play 10:25 2nd hihat + Send Effects (Return Channel) 12:40 3rd Hihat 14:03 Fast Hihats 16:58 Blip Sound 18:20 Ride Sound 19:15 Bass with Operator 23:00 White Noise 26:30 Pad Sounds + Instrument Rack + Effects Setup 33:35 Operator Lead Sound 34:44 Arrangement + Transitions (Automating Filters, Levels) 43:10...

   In this 80 minute session, Berlin-based producer Johannes creates a straight forward Techno track from scratch using Ableton Live 9 and a handful of third-party plugins. After designing a dark driving drum pattern, he’s focussing on coming up with a club-ready arrangement layout.   Hey Johannes, thanks for sharing one of your sessions at PML! Feel free to introduce yourself.  I’m a techno producer based in Berlin. Influenced by the city and its nightlife I’m producing tracks between tech house, melodic techno and also deep and rough techno since 2014.   What are your main musical influences? I’m heavily...

  What a beautiful studio place Joris Voorn is working in. You can feel the good vibes and a clear vision. Here's what gear he's mainly using:    DAW: Ableton Live 9 VSTs/Plugins: Spectrasonics Omnisphere ValhallaDSP UAD Cambridge EQ Plugin NI Komplete 10 Ultimate Studio Monitors: Barefoot Sound MicroMain27 Gen2   Hardware: Clavia Nord Lead 2 Roland Juno-106  Dave Smith Prophet 6 Module Mixer: TL Audio M1 Tubetracker   Keywords: Joris Voorn Studio Setup

We had a lot of questions on how the compressor actually works, so we decided to make a small series of videos covering the functionalities from the perspective of the Ableton Live built-in compressor.     Learn more about compression in the mixing stage: NEW PML 5h+ Course: Mixing A Track From Scratch in Ableton (with stock effects)     Keywords: mixing, compressor, how to use a compressor, how does a compressor work

Definition of Dithering Dithering or to dither means adding noise to the audio signal. Noise is being added on purpose to trade a little bit of low-level hiss for a great deal of distortion. The distortion is first caused by using a fixed number of bits (e.g. 16 bits) to represent our sample points as accurate as possible (in the analogue world, there are infinite or continuous sample points available, whereas they are finite (discrete) in the digital world).  So, in our DAW for example, "dithering is done by adding noise of a level less than the least-significant bit before...

  Subscribe to Production Music Live on YouTube   In this playlist you'll find a collection of Future Bass Ableton Live tutorials recorded by PML. We're also updating it on a regular basis. YouTube Playlist: Future Bass Ableton Live Tutorials Top Videos:  Sound Design with Massive: Flume Tennis Court Remix Future Bass Melody Vocal Chop - Tutorial Flume Remix of Disclosure You And Me Tutorial Future Bass Drop from Scratch - Ableton Tutorial San Holo - We Rise - Ableton Remake The Chainsmokers - Don't Let Me Down (Illenium Remix) - Ableton Remake Odesza Lost & Found Remix - Ableton Remake What So...

Subscribe to Production Music Live on YouTube      In this playlist you'll find a collection of Ableton Live remakes for rather popular songs. We're also updating it on a regular basis. YouTube Playlist: PML Remakes with Ableton Live Top 10:  Major Lazer - Lean On - Ableton Remake San Holo - We Rise - Ableton Remake The Chainsmokers - Don't Let Me Down (Illenium Remix) - Ableton Remake Odesza Lost & Found Remix - Ableton Remake Adele - Hello - Ableton Remake EDX - Belong - Ableton Remake Kygo - Cut Your Teeth Remix - Ableton Remake Hayden James -...

Let's go through some techniques helping you produce drops like "Don't Let Me Down" only using Massive and Ableton Live 9 Standard Subscribe to Production Music Live on YouTube What we used: Ableton Live 9 Standard NI MASSIVE VST Steps: Constructing a powerful layered Future Bass chord synth within Massive - here we are creating two layers, one to focus on the mono power, the other one to accompany on the stereo sides. Making a solid trap bass plus a corresponding sub-bass in Massive which fits the main synth Creating heavy Future Bass Drums -  focussing especially on the sound of the snare - the sample should...