In this tutorial, Francois is writing some moody chords and melodies on one of our Melodic Deep / Techno Ableton Projects. Sticking to D-Minor, he's trying to achieve a dramatic moody but easy to grasp melodic chords pattern for late club hours.   Feel free to take a look at our MIDI packs:   MIDI Pack   Ableton Template used: Melodic Deepness - Ableton Template    Learn more about our Harmony and Chords: Course: Harmony & Chord Progressions        Keywords: Stephan Bodzin Type Melody, Berlin Techno Melody, Berlin Techno Chords, style track with ableton live, drums with ableton live, remix ableton...

Here's a list of our Youtube Drum Programming tutorials for Ableton Live: 0. Drum Programming Session - Berlin Melodic Techno Style 1. How to Make EDM Drums in Ableton 2. How to Make House Drums in Ableton [Beginners Tutorial] 3. How to Make Trap Drums in Ableton [Beginners Tutorial] 4. (Producing Session) Deep House Drum Loop From Scratch - Beat Programming 5. How To Produce a Tchami Style Future House Track in Ableton - Part 1: Drums 6. Future Bass Coyote Kisses Revive Tutorial Ableton Massive - Part 2: Drums & Bass 7. Producing Trap Beats in Ableton Only - Walkthrough Tutorial Diplo Chill 8. Ableton...

Project files or templates are a great way to improve your production skills. Here are a few ways in which they help you get your production to the next level. 1. They allow you to study the track’s MIX & MASTER. In a track’s project file you can see everything the producer did, including the ways in which the track was mixed. You can take a look at all the effect chains behind sounds and at all the automation lines. With a project file you also get the whole mastering chain - by studying it you can see how it’s...

Writing melodies and chords Writing melodies and chords can be difficult. The best future bass tracks always have an excellent catchy melody & chord progression. Today we will go over some techniques, that help you get better at writing hooks. Here’s our Harmony and Chord Progressions course!  1. Know what emotion you're trying to capture Before you start writing a progression, it’s good to think about what kind of mood is the track going to be in. If you’re aiming at a happier feel, try using major scales. If you’re trying to achieve a more mysterious vibe, try writing some...

  In this tutorial, we are quickly learning how to write the chords from Ed Sheeran "Shape Of You" from scratch. And in this case we are using Ableton Live. But any program will work in this case.   Synth Sound is part of this pack: Sylenth1 Future Essentials    Learn more about our Harmony and Chords: Course: Harmony & Chord Progressions        Keywords: ed sheeran shape of you chords, style track with ableton live, drums with ableton live, remix ableton project file, edit, starting with ableton live, starting out with ableton live.

At PML we love sharing our sound design tips with you. This time we've prepared 10 Xfer Serum tips we found useful. Some of them we found in the SERUM Manual, which is a great read! 1. Customizing LFO Shapes double-click to Add or Remove points shift-click to draw steps on the Grid (similar to a step sequencer) alt-click+drag Points to snap points to the the Grid alt-click+drag any Curve Point to move all curve points at once. click+drag on background to multi-select points command-click+drag a point (ctrl-click on Windows) to multi-select points for a relative movement (rainbow color will...

Tutorial: Subscribe to Production Music Live on YouTube What we used: Ableton Live 9 Standard SERUM VST In this tutorial we are going through some techniques helping you produce tracks like "Chainsmokers & Coldplay - Something Just Like This" only using Serum and Ableton Live 9 Standard. Steps: 00:30 Overview 01:40 Chords04:03 Main Lead Sound Design05:52 Layers06:36 Sidechaining 10:14 Drums14:26 Frequency fillers   More Info: - Grab the Drum Samples Pack: Deep Premium 2 used in this project - Ableton Project for this drop with different MIDIs - 6h+ Beginners course: Pop Track (Chainsmoking Style) from START TO FINISH  - Harmony and Chord Progressions Course - Serum Presets: Future...

Flume Synth with Sylenth1 Several interviews revealed Lennar Digital's Sylenth1 as Flume's go-to synth and source for many of his popular lead sounds. So we sat down to take a shot at recreating the sound of flume's lead synth in his remix for "Lorde - Tennis Court (Flume Remix)". We are working with Sylenth1 VST and dividing the sound design process into 7 steps:   Saw Wave: We're using a saw wave in oscillator A1, taking 8 voices and pulling up detuning to create a full and spread-out sound. Square Wave 1: Oscillator A2 uses a pulse wave (square wave), with 3 voices and...

The Trap of Collecting Synths How many synth plugins (or hardware synths) do you currently own? Out of those, how many do you use on a regular basis? Do you have one or two ‘go to’ synths that you use on nearly every song? I’m going to go out on a limb and say that you should start using just one or two synths out of your collection for the next month. Don’t use anything else. I know you paid good money for them, but don’t worry, you can come back to them after this experiment. Just One Synth?! I...

Short Tutorial Version: Subscribe to Production Music Live on YouTube What we used: Ableton Live 9 Standard NI MASSIVE VST and/or Serum VST Let's go through some techniques helping you produce tracks like "Closer" only using Massive and/or Serum and Ableton Live 9 Standard. Steps: Constructing a powerful pop-ish drum pattern with Kick, heavy Snare, layered Clap and a bunch of rather standard closed and open hihat samples. We are using sounds from our Deep Premium Vol.2 Sample Pack Making a solid deep bass in Massive to go along with the main synth Creating two moody synth layers for the main chord stabs, using...