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Tip of the Day: Focus on the Arrangement - 4 Tips

Tip of the Day: Focus on the Arrangement - 4 Tips Writing the perfect melody on the most sophisticated chords ever does not make a hit single. You need to arrange your ideas, to make it work over that period of time, we call a song. To achieve a sonic composition, we need to explore and master the vertical and the horizontal. You want to create energy with contrast - tension and release, loud and quiet. Only by introducing dynamic, you can keep the listener interested and absorbed by your sounds. There are some essential tricks you can use, to...

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#PMLsundayspecial: Can you guess this melody?

#PMLsundayspecial: Can you guess this melody? Can you guess, which simplified melody we show here? Sunday is funday - at least here at PML! No break up or theme park fire can bring us down. That is why we are celebrating 10k followers on Instagram and give away a very special promo code for every right answer! Please comment on our Insta post within 24h and we will send you the code, if you answer correctly. Share with your producer friends! What about the melody? We all know that repetition is a major tool to make melodies of any kind...

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6 Arrangement Tips: How to make Tracks not Loops

6 Arrangement Tips: How to make Tracks not Loops Some inspiration to get started Unfortunately we have to bypass the assumption, this might be something that can be learned over night - because honestly there is no right or wrong. As the concept of sidechaining is rather easy to understand, arranging music has at least two different dimensions - horizontal and vertical. You need to span your ideas, loops and sketches over a certain period of time (horizontal) and stack the right instruments and sounds on top of each other (vertical) to achieve the concept of a song. But these...

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Tip of the day: Why your song needs a BREAK - 5 Tips

Tip of the day: Why your song needs a BREAK - 5 Tips Did you find a way out of the infinite 8 bar loop? Good and congrats! Did you highspeed in the other direction and your track seems like an endless collection of clips and samples, that get muted and unmuted in differing patterns? Maybe it´s time for a break. See it both ways if you want. Go to a club and listen to new sounds. Or actually introduce a break in your song, by shutting down almost completely and leave the listener in a new situation. This can...

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How to create a bassline from a drum loop

Tip of the Day: How to create a bassline from a drum loop Did you ever feel stuck in repetitive bass loops or could not come up with something better than sidechaining long bass notes? One trick you can use, is converting your drum tracks or basically any drum loop you can find, into catchy bass figures and there are several ways to do it: converting your audio drum loop to a MIDI file - with Ableton´s very own function “Convert melody to MIDI” if your drum loop has a lot of layers, treat it like a multi-voiced pad or...

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Learn about Compression - 4 Tips to get started

Tip of the Day: Learn about Compression - 4 Tips to get started You use compression, when you want a signal to be louder in the mix, right? Wrong! The concept of compression is one of gain reduction in the first place - it makes loud signals more quiet and quiet signals louder. Think of a big hot steamy block of aluminum, that gets pressed in a wield - you take away from the top and the bottom, but fatten the middle. The material gets more dense and strong, but loses other qualities. Basically the same thing happens to your...

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Tip of the Day: Compare your song - 3 easy Tips

Tip of the Day: Compare your song - 3 easy Tips You want your new track to get picked up by DJs and be played in clubs? Try mixing it with songs of the same genre yourself, before you push it to soundcloud or spotify. Grab a free DJ tool like virtual DJ (we do not recommend that for playing a long set live, but for this purpose it is sufficient) and mix your track with a comparable one. This way you can find out what your composition or remix is missing. Most likely you will find things like: not...

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Tip of the Day: 3 Essential tips for Reverb

Tip of the Day: 3 Essential tips for Reverb Are you a cave person or actually live in a church? Cool, send us some pictures. Seriously! If not, we need to talk about reverb for second. I admit, reverb sounds cool and makes almost anything sound better instantly on a creative level. But once you start mixing, you will realize, that all those crazy reverbs you created in hours and hours of tweaking and diving deeper and deeper into the wombs of valhalla do not match nor sound as cool together as you expected. So first we should differentiate between...

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How to write your own Chords & Melodies starting with mega-hit HAVANA

Chord Progressions Melody

Struggle writing Chord Progressions and Melodies? Our friend Alex is sitting down with you and guides you through some easy techniques - like the "2+1 rule" for catchy melodies. He takes "Havana" from Camila Cabello and creates something entirely different, while explaining why the melody works and how a progression gets cohesive! Subscribe to our Channel to not miss any episode of this new format!   Also available:Full 5h+ Course: Harmony & Chord Progressions Full 4h+ Course: How To Write Melodies  keywords: how to write melodies, chord progressions, chords  

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Is this the best plugin for Melodic Techno? The Legend.

Is this the best plugin for Melodic Techno? The Legend. Quickly sharing one of my favorite synths at the moment: The Legend by Synapse Audio. I'm currently using it to produce Melodic Techno (especially Leads and Basslines) - and it's doing absolutely great. The Arturia Mini is a great emulation, however I also really like the sound of The Legend - in some ways it even seems more powerful than the Mini. Get a DEMO or buy it here. Keywords: Best plugin for melodic techno basslines

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