Contents covered in this video: Workflow:00:30 Producing without strong musical ideas02:25 Focusing too much on sound design at the beginning04:16 Not organizing your DAW properly Mixing:06:00 Mixing solely on monitors in a non-treated room07:30 Tweaking samples instead of choosing the right sounds08:42 Using effects without knowing what they do09:45 Not mixing in stereo11:31 Too much stereo enhancement13:22 Not dealing with clashing frequencies14:58 Not dealing with transients on drums Mastering:17:18 Too much master processing19:00 Not taking advantage of monitoring tools   Join our MIXING COURSE (from start to finish)      k-pizza I’m a music maker who likes to share his experiences with...

1. Doing all the compression/limiting on the master While master compression and limiting is great for making a track loud, too much of it will kill the dynamics of a track. You can often achieve more natural sounding results if you compress in stages. Try grouping or creating bus tracks for different kinds of instruments and compressing them. A common example is putting a compressor on a drum bus to even out the volumes of drums before the master. Try also dealing with transients on loud drum hits (like kick and snare) before the master (for example by limiting them)...

In this Sound Design tutorial, Francois shows you how to make the Stephan Bodzin Moog-style Bass/Lead sound with Arturia Mini V3 in Ableton from start to finish. Its important to notice: Arturia Mini doesn't have too many built-in audio effects, so we are creating the raw sound source with the MINI V3 and then we add a bunch of Ableton Live built-in audio effects to shape the sound.    Resources / Files:  Get our Melodic Techno Sound Pack for Arturia Mini V3 Get this project file: Analog Moods Drum Samples are taken out of Deep Premium Vol. 2 - Drum Sample Pack....

1. Mixing on monitors in a non-treated room Before you start mixing a track you need to be able to hear it in enough detail. The problem with studio monitors is that often producers buy them before investing in room treatment. With bad acoustics you’re not going to hear your track the same way you would in a treated room. If you can’t afford room treatment a temporary solution could be to buy good studio headphones. With headphones you’re not dependent on your room’s acoustics. I recommend that you still use monitors to check what your mix sounds like on...

Are you looking to "color" your track with some cool and totally free piano plugins? Look no further, we've listed 5 top FREE VST piano plugins.  1. Iowa Grand Piano Made by the craziest free instrument maker - Bigcat Instruments, Iowa Grand Piano delivers a beautiful and sophisticated sound. Very simple to use plugin with useful decay and release knobs. Download: Mac / Win If you're looking for more realistic instruments, see this Kontakt Instruments list - there's more pianos, but also a lot of other instruments :) 2. 4Front Piano Although this plugin has no effects, I still find the sound quite...

  1. Mixing / Sound designing too much in the beginning phase of making a track This is my biggest mistake. Too often I find myself tweaking synths or samples instead of writing the music. Mixing and sound design are very time-consuming and too much of it kills my inspiration. To battle this problem I resample drums and save presets from my previous tracks or collect sounds that already sound nice. I save them all in one folder and do the same for presets. That allows me to have a folder with ready-to-use sounds. This way I don’t have to...

In this session, Francois shows how to make a stephan bodzin type bass and lead with Arturia Mini V3 and Ableton and goes through different techno production and sound design techniques. Contents: Overview Analog Bass Sound Design Lead Sound Design Bells / "Rhodes" Reverse Swells Checking the Drums (powered by Deep Premium Vol. 2 Drum Samples) Shakers + Phasing problems Lead 2 - Top Melody Playback   Resources / Files:  You can buy the Ableton Live Project file here  If you'd like to dig deeper into Harmony Theory, check out our course: Harmony & Chord Progressions   Learn more about producing...

What's inside? 75 Tracks (professionally mixed & mastered) 24 MASSIVE Presets (out of our new DRUMSCODE preset pack) 42 Premium Drum Samples  Grab it here: http://bit.ly/pml_s_tmp_moon

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Here are a few techniques we used while making this track: Get this project file 1. Grouping groups and Bus Limiting In Ableton you can „group groups” by creating buses from audio tracks. Here’s how to do it: - create a new audio track - in the Monitoring section set it to In (Input)  - go to the groups and set their output to the bus track. In our project file we used this technique to create a Kick/Snare Bus. On this bus we placed a limiter to make sure that when our kick and snare play together, they won’t...