Guido is back, showing awesome tricks on How To Mix 808 Kick and Bass - for example in the style of Drake - Gods Plan and 2 other examples (Lil Pump, Travis Scott). You can pick up this Ableton Project from our Freebies section! 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:  Check out: Masterclass: Mixing and Mastering a Track from Start To Finish (Full Course) Drum Sample Pack used: Deep Premium Vol. 2    Keywords: Mixing 808 Kick and Bass...

We had requests for tutorial on making a track like Jay Sean "Do you love me", focussing especially on how to come up with nice sound designs for fresh tropical sounding summer pop plucks.  So in this video, Borys is showing how to produce tropical pop with Ableton, making use of Mallets, Flutes, Fills, Drums, Plucks.    Resources / Files used:  Check out: Summer Vibes Sample Pack (Marimbas, Fills, Plucks) You can buy the Ableton Live Project file here Drum Sample Pack used: Deep Premium Vol. 2    Keywords: How to produce like Jay Sean Do You Love Me

We had some requests for another tutorial on drum compression. So in this video, Guido from CatandBeats will show you how to compress your drums with Ableton Glue Compressor.  And he will be sharing his setting that "works nine out of ten times" - which is great! 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:  Check out: Masterclass: Mixing and Mastering a Track from Start To Finish (Full Course) Drum Sample Pack used: Deep Premium Vol. 2 You can...

The recently released Ableton Live 10 includes a brand new synthesizer called Wavetable. In synthesis terms, a wavetable is a collection of different waveforms, which you can scan through. The most famous wavetable synthesizer is probably Xfer Serum. In this article we’re going to go through Wavetable’s features and see how the two synths compare. Before we jump into the features it’s worth mentioning that this synth is meant more for live performance than complex sound design. It’s meant to integrate well with Ableton and deliver you interesting sounds without overloading the CPU. It doesn’t have all the crazy features other wavetable...

Not everyone's lucky enough to be a signed music artist. Fortunately even if you're not signed to a label there's still ways to get your music on streaming services. Distribution services offer that and a lot more, including physical releases, statistics and marketing tools. Some services even offer marketing help for artists who start to "catch" after a few releases - like adding tracks to Spotify playlists. Here's a comparison of what the best distributors have to offer.  Distrokid Distrokid allows you to upload as many tracks as you want for a yearly membership fee. What’s good about them as...

1. Supersaw wavetables To make your Serum supersaws even fuller, try recording a supersaw (if you can, try an analog sounding synth) and importing it into Serum’s oscillator. Now you can use an LFO to move between frames of the wavetable. Now the oscillator sounds like a supersaw even if you’re using just one voice. If you increase the unison and detune now, the sound all of the sudden becomes huge. Doing this along with the “Unison stack” option in the Global tab can give you really fat supersaws. 2. Unison stack Did you know that you can use more than...

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This production session includes a good example why it's better to be patient when it comes to mixing and mastering. You might regret your poor mix later, when its too late and your track is already released. In the session, Francois picks up one of his old project files and explains errors in production, mixing and workflow. We are working in the style of Dinka, Mossy, EDX and generally in dreamy Progressive House. Contents: 01:40 Overview of Project 07:45 Quick Look at Chords 10:57 Editing Guitar Tracks 21:10 Comparing to version on Spotify (Mixing, Mastering Errors) 23:30 Balance (House or Trance...

1. Unison VS Detune The Mini V3 allows for two ways of creating a supersaw: One is available only in the Monophonic mode and is accessed by the Unison switch at the top. Depending on how big the “Poly” value is at the bottom of the screen, the synth will generate a supersaw that consists of that many voices. You can then decide how much you want the voices to be detuned by using the “Voice Detune” knob. This technique works for huge bass or lead sounds, but won’t give you access to polyphony. To design a polyphonic supersaw you...

  Hi! In this beginners tutorial I’m going to show you how to make simple house drum patterns. Here’s what we’re going to make today: If you'd like to learn more about making music in Ableton make sure to check out our updated 4h+ course - "Making A Track From Start To Finish". It's covering all the basics you need to get started. We’ve prepared a free sample pack with sounds that we’re going to be using here, so download it before we get started - that way you can follow along. It’s on our freebies page under the name...