How to Travel and Produce Music - Our Setup & Gear to record the World
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...
Frequency Masking - Insights and Pro Tips [Ableton 10]
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.
Mastering Psytrance From Start To Finish - Ozone 8, Ableton 10
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
How To Mix 808 Kick and Bass (Like Drake, Lil Pump, Travis Scott) - Free Ableton Project
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...
How to Produce Tropical Pop with Ableton
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
How To Compress Drums with Ableton Glue Compressor (The "Magic" Setting)
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...
Wavetable Synth in Ableton 10 Explained - All Features + Examples
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...
How To Get Your Music On Spotify: Top 10 Distribution Services
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...
10 Sound Design Tips: Xfer Serum
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...
2018: What would you like us to work on next?
Courses? Techniques? Remakes? Advanced? Tell us here - Click! We'll try to do as much of this as possible throughout 2018!Thanks so much for your ongoing support!Tom & Francois