This article is an extract from our new guide, in which I’m showing how to apply the knowledge from this article to making a future bass drop. Here's a video tutorial with me making it:   Hi! Today we’re going to make an awesome Future Bass synth from this drop: Excited? Let’s jump right into it. You will need: - our free folder with samples and MIDI clips - get it here  (Scroll to the bottom of the vault. The folder is in the "More free YT stuff" section) - Serum VST synthesizer - a DAW of your choice (I'm using...

    Ableton is essentially a tool for making music. The better you know how to use that tool, the better your music will sound like in the end. How do you get good at it then? Learning Ableton is just like learning any software or musical instrument: it seems complicated at first, but with PRACTICE and GUIDANCE you’ll soon be able to use it. When I was starting out people often told me to „just experiment“ and figure the program out myself. So I opened up the program and tried to figure out how to make music. After a...

Ask Audio had their members perform a poll and name their favorite DAW / Studio Software, here are the results. Survey results from over 30,611 respondents.  Ableton Live - 20.52% Logic Pro - 19.20% Pro Tools - 16.13% Cubase - 10.43% FL Studio - 6.40% Studio One - 5.71% Reason - 4.98% Reaper - 4.96% Other - 4.28% Sonar - 3.01% GarageBand - 2.22% Bitwig Studio - 1.22% Digital Perfomer - 0.94%   FREE Download: Ableton Projects, Samples and MIDIs    Learn more about our Ableton Live FULL Start To Finish courses: Learn the foundations of Harmony & Chord Progressions Learn how to produce music in Ableton Live     Available courses: Beginners: Producing A Track From Start To Finish in Ableton Live Producing A Deep House Track From Start...

In this tutorial, we are making an FM type Bass future house sound design in Serum adding an FM Bass sample into the noise section and combining it with the other oscillators. Grab the free FM sample here: ➤http://bit.ly/pml_s_yt_freesamples Additionally you can get this very bass sound and more Serum presets with our pack Beach Styles for Serum. Drum Samples used are part of Deep Premium Vol. 2 - Drum Sample Pack.   Also new: 4h+ Course: Sound Design with Xfer Serum   Keywords: serum fm bass sound design, serum noise oscillator tutorial, felix jaehn aint nobody bass sound, fm deep house bass, deep...

Here's a list of our Youtube Melodic Techno tutorials for Ableton Live. Style tutorials inspired by artists like ANNA, Boris Brejcha, Stephan Bodzin, Robert Babicz, N´to, Worakls, Drum Programming and sound design tutorials, there's a bit of everything inside. If you're looking to learn how to make a Melodic Deep / Techno track from start to finish like a pro, check out our full online course: Producing a Melodic Techno Track From Start To Finish List of Tutorials: Techno from Start To Finish - Drumcode Enrico Sanguiliano Style Stephan Bodzin Mood Bass-Lead with Arturia Mini V3 Melodic Techno Production Session (Bodzin, Rodriguez Jr. Style) - Ableton...

Hi! We’ve recently done a video explaining how to make Calvin Harris’s pluck bass from „How Deep Is Your Love“. That tutorial included a handful of really useful sound design tips, so we thought we’d list them here. Make sure to check out the full tutorial and the presets at the end of the article!   1. Use FM Synthesis FM Synthesis is essentially altering one waveform type with another. This way you can create original sounding waveforms - this technique is used in Dubstep a lot to create those crazy growls. It can be used to add feeling to...

  In this tutorial, we are learning how to make a beat from scratch in Ableton Live Session View, following the "Deadmau5" writing process (as seen on his streams and the deadmau5 master class). We are only using Ableton Live 9 Standard elements and Xfer Records Serum.     FREE Download: Ableton Project from this Tutorial (requires Serum) Drum Samples used: Deep Premium Vol. 2    Learn more about our FULL Start To Finish courses: Learn the foundations of Harmony & Chord Progressions Learn how to produce music in Ableton Live     Available courses: Beginners: Producing A Track From Start To...

  Here's a list of our youtube Future Bass tutorials for Ableton Live. Signature sound remakes for artists like Flume, The Chainsmokers, Grant Bowtie, San Holo, Drum Programming and sound design tutorials, there's a bit of everything inside. If you're looking to learn how to make a Future Bass track from start to finish like a pro, check out our full online course: Producing a Future Bass Track From Start To Finish   List of Tutorials: Chainsmokers Don't let me Down Style with Ableton & Massive - Drop Tutorial (Illenium Version) Future Bass Melody Vocal Chop - Ableton Tutorial (San Holo, Diplo,...

Here's a list of our youtube sound design tutorials for Native Instruments Massive. Deep House Bass Sounds, Future Bass Leads, Background Pads, signature sound remakes, there's a bit of everything inside. If you're looking to learn how to use Massive like a pro, check out our full online course for NI Massive. Basics: How to use MASSIVE - Tutorial List of Tutorials: Flume Synth Tennis Court - Massive Sound Design Tutorial Lorde Massive Tutorial - What So Not - Touched Synth - Flume Style Awesome "Guitar" Pluck with NI Massive Tutorial - PML Boiler Production Deep, Techno, Underground House "Analog" Bass...

We're getting a lot of mails from producers struggling to write great melodies and chord progressions, so we've compiled a list of our best YouTube-Tutorials on writing music on Ableton: How to write a Melody in Ableton - Beginners Tutorial Writing an EDM Melody in A-Minor Scale Creating a EDM Chord Progression and Melody / House, Progressive, Trance, Electro Writing Chords and Melody from Scratch: Tropical / Deep House How to write Future Bass Chords and Melody from Scratch (Flume, San Holo, Chainsmokers, Odesza) How to write Progressive House Chords and Melody from Scratch What makes a good Chord Progression? Info: "Harmony and...