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...

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...

  In this tutorial, we are learning how to make a beat from scratch in Ableton Live Session View, following the "Deadmau5" writing process (as seen on his streams and the deadmau5 master class). We are only using Ableton Live 9 Standard elements and Xfer Records Serum.     FREE Download: Ableton Project from this Tutorial (requires Serum) Drum Samples used: Deep Premium Vol. 2    Learn more about our 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...

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 last parts of this tutorial we focused on the Instruments and Drums. If you haven't seen it yet make sure to check them out (Part 1/Part 2). Anyways, in this part we'll focus on the arrangement and we'll expand our ideas into a full track! Here's what the full arrangement is going to look like: Basically: we're introducing the elements at the beginning, then we've got a break, a drop, and we're...

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...

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

Hi! In this tutorial we’re going to take a look at one of my tracks called „Cheerful“. We’re going to go through all the elements from which the track is made. Here’s the end result of it: Get the free project file: DOWNLOAD HERE  (scroll down for video) The full video tutorial including the project file will be at the end - so make sure to stick around!   The elements we’re going to go through are:   1. Pluck group - main melody   The track started out from a simple melody played with a sample in Simpler. I...

  In this 20 minute tutorial, we are going through the functions of Native Instruments Massive - covering the following subjects: Oscillators / Wavetables Modulation Filters Effects Envelopes Voicing LFOs Routing and Macro Controls   .   Additionally, we offer different styles of Massive Presets:     Keywords: How to use Massive, How to make presets in Massive, How to Bass in massive, How does Massive work