In this session, Francois is loading up an old Ableton project (David August Style), cleans up and works on harmonies, melodies, sound design, mixing and a very simple mastering while commenting on everything. The track is called Francois "Clouds". Sit back, get a beer and feel free to follow along. Contents: Cleaning the project Analyzing harmonies and melodies (hirojoshi scale) Analyzing the drum pattern (powered by Deep Premium Vol. 1 Drum Samples) Editing the Mix (EQ, Compression, Mid-Side EQ, Reverbs, FX) Sound Design tweaking and analysis  Quick Mix and Mastering  Playback of result If you'd like to dig deeper into...

At PML, we love sharing our production tips with you. Today we've prepared for you 8 tips we found useful. 1. Making bass cut through To make your bass cut through better, split it into two tracks. Use one track to play sub frequencies (lowpass everything below 60 Hz with EQ8) and another one to play harmonics (highpass at 60 Hz). Then make sure your sub frequencies are mono and stereo enhance the harmonics. 2. Jazz up your chords To give your chords a more jazzy feel, try these techniques: - Extend them into 7th, 9th, 11th or 13th chords for that...

Results of a quick Q&A session with "monte" on our Youtube Channel:   Subscribe to Production Music Live on YouTube   Results of a quick Q&A session with "monte" on our Youtube Channel: Using separate EQs and Filters for each step Q: why do you have multiple EQs and auto filters in a chain? couldn't you just use one EQ for everything and automate the high cut on it? A: Yes, that would be possible. I'm using multiple devices to make it as easy as possible for the viewer to follow the single steps in the process.   Using send...

Ask Audio had their members perform a poll and name their favorite DAW / Studio Software, here are the results. Survey results from over 30,611 respondents.  Ableton Live - 20.52% Logic Pro - 19.20% Pro Tools - 16.13% Cubase - 10.43% FL Studio - 6.40% Studio One - 5.71% Reason - 4.98% Reaper - 4.96% Other - 4.28% Sonar - 3.01% GarageBand - 2.22% Bitwig Studio - 1.22% Digital Perfomer - 0.94%   FREE Download: Ableton Projects, Samples and MIDIs    Learn more about our Ableton Live FULL Start To Finish courses: Learn the foundations of Harmony & Chord Progressions Learn how to produce music in Ableton Live     Available courses: Beginners: Producing A Track From Start To Finish in Ableton Live Producing A Deep House Track From Start...