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...

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...

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...

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...

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  

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

Guido is sharing tips on how to sample, warp and slice vinyl records in Ableton Live. If you don't know Guido, he's giving our Masterclass in Mixing and Mastering where you can learn how to mix your own production from A to Z.  

Go where the Sounds are! When you are a producer at heart, you want to spend every minute doing what you love - even when you are traveling or on the road. But since you can´t push your whole studio or your home-recording setup in a backpack, you need to take some smart decisions on what to bring and what to leave back home. We are currently traveling across Latin America to talk to producers and musicians where we find them and of course to record cool and easy to use exotic samples and loops for you. Because we are...

Guido is sharing some important tips on how to EQ If you don't know Guido, he's giving our Masterclass in Mixing and Mastering where you can learn how to mix your own production from A to Z.  

Guido is back, mastering a Psytrance Track from start to finish in his NEW STUDIO!  If you don't know Guido, he's giving our Masterclass in Mixing and Mastering where you can learn how to mix your own production from A to Z. Resources / Files:  Psytrance Template Psytrance Loops & Samples