In this tutorial, Tom is writing a complete Future Bass track from scratch (similar to the style of San Holo, Flume, The Chainsmokers, Odesza). He starts with chord progressions and later goes over bass and melodies.     =====   If you want to learn more about the basics of harmony and chord progressions, check out our in-depth course: PML Course: "Harmony and Chord Progressions"  

Musicians James Holden, Matthew Herbert, Young Guru and Phoebe Kiddo on overcoming creative writing blocks at the recent Ableton Loop conference. Very interesting talk on how to deal with what will sooner or later affect every music producer / artist.

In this video, Deadmau5 and Steve Duda (developer of Xfer Serum) go through mastering and routing using Ableton Live 9 and Serum among other tools in Deadmau5's freshly finished new mint studio environment.         Check out our Future Bass presets for SERUM: 75+ hand crafted amazingly rich sounding future bass presets, see details:

Creating awesome DJing effects using Ableton Live and Multiband Compression Splitting. We are splitting out signal in 3 bands - each receiving the input signal and processing its range until everything gets summed afterwards. Now we can apply insert effects to the single bands. Watch tutorial:

Writing deeper chord progressions: Lets try and design a rather exotic sounding chord. We could combine regular major / minor triads into poly chords. Lets build a classic one first: 1. First chord: Use C major (C-E-G)  2. Second chord: G major (G-B-D)  For the 2nd chord, we picked G major (G-B-D) because it has its root a perfect fifth above the root of the first chord.  3. If we play the two chords together, we’re getting a Cmaj9 chord (C-E-G-B-D).  Tip: Look for chords that have a note or two in common whenever you’re not sure which chords to combine. (inspired by CMM...

In this tutorial we are showing you how to design a powerful future bass saw using Ableton Operator plus some of Ableton's built in effects:   Basic Steps: Operator: set up basic oscillators (Saw 64, SawD and Square 32), adsr shapes and filters in operator (see video) Ableton effects: add in Compressor, EQ, Reverb and Frequency shifter   Additionally, we’re offering this template: go to template (works with Ableton Live Standard + Operator (Version1) or Ableton Live Standard & Serum VST (Version 2)).   Watch Tutorial:   Keywords: how to make a future bass lead sound, future bass saw, powerful lead melody sound, operator power...

Julian asked us on our Youtube Channel how to make an EDM pitch tape stop effect like Avicii "Levels" or "3lau - How you love me". So we sat down and put some bangin' EDM sounds into an Ableton Live project. Now you can get this sort of effect with VST plugins like "Effectrix" or "Glitch". However, you can also use some of your Ableton built-in effects to get there.   Steps: Melody: Create a massive EDM hook melody and make sure it ends with a long note Frequency Shifter: Load an instance of "Frequency Shifter" and place it in the fx section of...

Exclusive beatport charts track tutorial: Walking through Francois Rengere's Remix of Mahfoud - The Giant.     You can grab our drum sample pack here:  "Deep Premium Vol. 1" Pack: http://bit.ly/pml_s_deeppremium   Keywords: how to produce a track for the beatport charts,  how doz I chart on beatport, how to chart on beatport, producing a beatport top 10 track, how to produce a beatport chart track, producing a beatport charts track tutorial, How to make a track for the beatport charts make it to the beatport charts produce for beatport charts in ableton producing for the beatport charts

  We got this message the other day: "The biggest issue for me is how to take a cool 8-bar loop (which I've made many of!) and turn it into a good 120-bar song. Arrangement, transitions, variations in chords, melody, drums, etc." You're probably familiar with the problem. You have a nice idea for a beat that lasts 8 bars (sometimes 4 or 16 as well). You like the idea, but you're not sure how to make a full track out of it. So in this video we're going to try to help you come up with some ideas for...

We quickly checked out the cthulhu plugin by Steve Duda. Surely it does a lot of things and it certainly will boost your creativity, especially when you're stuck - melody-wise. Among many of its abilities, it also gives some nice results on your arpeggio sounds. Here's an example:           Keywords: Cthulhu Vst, Steve Duda Cthulhu VST Plugin Free, Coming up with creative Midis, great midi sounds free, free midi files