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EQ Eight Equalizer in Ableton - What It Is & How To Use It

Ableton Live Beginners EQing

EQ Eight is one of the most important production tools in Ableton Live. Today I’m going to show you when and how to use it. What is the frequency spectrum? To understand what EQ does you need to get a sense of what the frequency spectrum is. Make sure to wear headphones or listen on good speakers with a lot of low frequencies. Here is a fragment of a track of mine with no EQ applied. Here’s what this situation looks like on the EQ8 display: Now listen to the same clip without high frequencies. Notice that you can now...

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(Tutorial) Producing a Groovy Dark Melodic Techno Track

Ableton Live Melodic Techno Tips 'n Tricks

In this tutorial, we are designing a Melodic Techno Club track with Ableton Live and NI Massive. Its a very groovy style and we are focussing heavily on perfecting the drum groove and drum / fx sound design.   Tutorial Table of Contents:0:00 Play Part of the Track2:30 Introduction4:20 Closer Look at the Drums and Effects18:10 Bulk of Audio & Vocal FX21:00 Bass23:40 Instruments Group37:10 Groove Analysis40:20 Play Full Track   Template:  This project file for Ableton & Massive: "Melodic Techno Giants" Ableton Project   Sound Packs: Additionally you can get the sounds and more Massive presets with our latest pack Boiler Production 2...

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How To Mix Vocals: Hip Hop Vocal Mini Series in Ableton Live

Ableton Live Compressor EQing Mixing Tips 'n Tricks Vocals

  In this 3 part mini series, @nuckychulo shares his vocal mixing techniques on a nice Hip Hop Ableton project. Contents of this series: Gate and EQ EQ8 and Compression Reverb and Delay + Bonus tricks  Pick up the effect chain rack for this vocal mixing tutorial from our freebies section.   5h+ Course: Mixing A Track From Scratch in Ableton (with stock effects)     Keywords: mixing vocals like drake, vocal mixing like post malone, hip hop vocal mixing, vocal mixing in ableton   Check out other content on Hip Hop / Trap: How to Make a Trap Beat? Top 5 Elements Trap...

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The 10 best Ableton Audio Effect Tricks

Ableton Ableton Live Beginners Tips 'n Tricks

Creating a Dry/Wet knob for any device If you’re wondering how to create a Dry/Wet knob from any instrument, here’s how you do it. What you need to do is to group the effect into an Effects Rack (cmd/ctrl+G). Next create an empty chain inside it (our dry signal). Click the Chain button to enter the chain selector. Now drag the ends of the „blue bars” to create transitions: Now just expand the macros (marked with the red arrow), enter the Map mode and map the orange „chain selector” to one knob. Voila! GRAIN DELAY Grain delay is an effect...

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Mastering Chain for Future Bass - Ableton Live Effects only - Free Download

Ableton Live Future Bass Mastering

Tutorial: Subscribe to Production Music Live on YouTube What we used: Ableton Live 9 Standard In this video we are walking you through a complete Mastering Chain for a Future Bass track in the style of Virtual Riot, Odesza, Flume, etc - only using Ableton Live 9 Standard stock effect elements. You can grab the an Ableton Project file including this chain from our "Free" section.  Mastering Chain - Free Download   More Info: Grab a free Ableton-only Mastering Chain from our Freebie section 5h+ Online MASTERING COURSE (from start to finish)    keywords: Mastering Future Bass, Mastering a Future Bass Track, Mastering chain...

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Chords and Melody Writing Session #1 - Melodic Deep / Techno

Ableton Live Chords Deep House Music Theory Techno Writing Music

  In this tutorial, Francois is writing some moody chords and melodies on one of our Melodic Deep / Techno Ableton Projects. Sticking to D-Minor, he's trying to achieve a dramatic moody but easy to grasp melodic chords pattern for late club hours.   Feel free to take a look at our MIDI packs:   MIDI Pack   Ableton Template used: Melodic Deepness - Ableton Template    Learn more about our Harmony and Chords: Course: Harmony & Chord Progressions        Keywords: Stephan Bodzin Type Melody, Berlin Techno Melody, Berlin Techno Chords, style track with ableton live, drums with ableton live, remix ableton...

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The 19 best Ableton Drum Programming Tutorials - Update 2020

Ableton Live Deep House Drum Programming EDM Music Production Techno

Here's a list of our Youtube Drum Programming tutorials for Ableton Live: 0. Drum Programming Session - Berlin Melodic Techno Style 1. How to Make EDM Drums in Ableton 2. How to Make House Drums in Ableton [Beginners Tutorial] 3. How to Make Trap Drums in Ableton [Beginners Tutorial] 4. (Producing Session) Deep House Drum Loop From Scratch - Beat Programming 5. How To Produce a Tchami Style Future House Track in Ableton - Part 1: Drums 6. Future Bass Coyote Kisses Revive Tutorial Ableton Massive - Part 2: Drums & Bass 7. Producing Trap Beats in Ableton Only - Walkthrough Tutorial Diplo Chill 8. Ableton...

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5 Ways To Get Better Using Project Files

Ableton Ableton Live Remake Tips 'n Tricks

Project files or templates are a great way to improve your production skills. Here are a few ways in which they help you get your production to the next level. 1. They allow you to study the track’s MIX & MASTER. In a track’s project file you can see everything the producer did, including the ways in which the track was mixed. You can take a look at all the effect chains behind sounds and at all the automation lines. With a project file you also get the whole mastering chain - by studying it you can see how it’s...

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"Chainsmokers & Coldplay - Something Just Like This" Remake with Ableton Live Standard & Serum

Ableton Live Future Bass Remake SERUM

Tutorial: Subscribe to Production Music Live on YouTube What we used: Ableton Live 9 Standard SERUM VST In this tutorial we are going through some techniques helping you produce tracks like "Chainsmokers & Coldplay - Something Just Like This" only using Serum and Ableton Live 9 Standard. Steps: 00:30 Overview 01:40 Chords04:03 Main Lead Sound Design05:52 Layers06:36 Sidechaining 10:14 Drums14:26 Frequency fillers   More Info: - Grab the Drum Samples Pack: Deep Premium 2 used in this project - Ableton Project for this drop with different MIDIs - 6h+ Beginners course: Pop Track (Chainsmoking Style) from START TO FINISH  - Harmony and Chord Progressions Course - Serum Presets: Future...

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Remaking the Style of Chainsmokers "Closer" using Ableton Live Standard & Massive or Serum

Ableton Live Massive Remake SERUM

Short Tutorial Version: Subscribe to Production Music Live on YouTube What we used: Ableton Live 9 Standard NI MASSIVE VST and/or Serum VST Let's go through some techniques helping you produce tracks like "Closer" only using Massive and/or Serum and Ableton Live 9 Standard. Steps: Constructing a powerful pop-ish drum pattern with Kick, heavy Snare, layered Clap and a bunch of rather standard closed and open hihat samples. We are using sounds from our Deep Premium Vol.2 Sample Pack Making a solid deep bass in Massive to go along with the main synth Creating two moody synth layers for the main chord stabs, using...

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