In this tutorial, we are designing a Melodic House track with Ableton Live and NI Massive. Its a very groovy style and we are adding some sort of "Melody bass-line" to the track, like we know it from tracks like "Ten Walls - Walking with Elephants", "Johannes Brecht - Another World" or even partly like the supporting bass layers from Flume's remix of "Disclosure - You & Me".  Pick up this project file for Ableton & Massive: "Dynamic World" Ableton Project Additionally you can get this very bass sound and more Massive presets with our latest pack Boiler Production 2 for NI Massive. Drum...

Hi! I recently made a video for PML explaining how I made my track called "pronto". It contained some tips that I wish I knew when I was starting out, so I listed them here for you. Stick around until the end of the article to watch the video and get the project file for this track: 1. Arpeggiators for hihats and instruments To create hihat rolls fast you can throw a MIDI effect called Arpeggiator before your hihat sample. That will trigger your sample for as long as you hold it. You can automate the speed of your hihats...

Subscribe to Production Music Live on YouTube   In this video, we are taking a quick look at Vengeance Producer Suite - Avenger, a new synth with a ton of functionalities. Roughly speaking, it can be placed somewhere in a triangle between Nexus 2, Serum and Access Virus.      Keywords: Vengeance Sound, Vengeance Producer Suite Avenger, Avenger Vst, Avenger Plugin, VPS Avenger Synth

 (picture: ableton.com) Ableton Co-Founders Robert Henke and Gerhard Behles gave an interesting interview for thump magazine Ableton Co-Founder Robert Henke on showing the first version of Ableton to Hans Zimmer at a trade fair without knowing it was him: "I showed him the product and he had a German accent, but I didn't take note of that because at a trade show you meet all kinds of people, and I was too busy explaining to him what the product was all about. He had a lot of intelligent questions, and at some point he asks, "so you can just put in a drum...

  We’ve recently done a tutorial explaining our new „Major Lazer - Cold Water“ project file. Here, we’ve extracted some essential tips from it which can help you improve your mixdowns. 1. Sound widening Here are two possible techniques you can use to make a track sound wider: - using Simple Delay / Filter Delay  To widen your track with a Delay, set both Left and Right channels to Time. Next, bring both of the Time settings to 1.00ms. That way the whole track will be delayed by 1 millisecond. Next, increase the time difference between L/R channels. You’ll notice...

  Matching EQ allows you to sort of "clone" the frequency spectrum of another track. EQs like the Fab Filter Pro-Q2 offer such a function. You basically create two audio tracks and let the EQ calculate the differences between the frequency spectrum of your work and the one of the other (eg. commercial) track. Then, these differences get sort of "added in" or "taken out" of your track, resulting in an overall appearence closer to the reference track, depending on your instrumentation.    Learn more about EQing and how to deal with it when mixing: NEW PML 5h+ Course: Mixing A Track From Scratch...

In this quick tutorial, we are designing a trombone-style bass sound with NI Massive. Its a very handy sound for adding some sort of "Melody bass-line" to your track, like we know it from tracks like "Ten Walls - Walking with Elephants", "Johannes Brecht - Another World" or even partly like the supporting bass layers from Flume's remix of "Disclosure - You & Me".  Additionally you can get this very bass sound and more Massive presets with our latest pack "Boiler Production 2 for NI Massive".     Also new: 6h+ Course: Producing a Melodic Techno Track from Start to Finish...

Written walk-through guide - coming alongside this Youtube Tutorial:   What we used: Ableton Live 9 Suite Also available: 4h+ Course: Track from Start To Finish   Hey! In the last parts of this tutorial we focused on the Instruments and Drums. If you haven't seen it yet make sure to check them out (Part 1/Part 2). Anyways, in this part we'll focus on the arrangement and we'll expand our ideas into a full track! Here's what the full arrangement is going to look like: Basically: we're introducing the elements at the beginning, then we've got a break, a drop, and we're...

Written walk-through guide - coming alongside this Youtube Tutorial:   What we used: Ableton Live 9 Suite Also available: 4h+ Course: Track from Start To Finish   Hey! In the first part of this tutorial we focused on the drums. If you haven't seen it yet make sure to check it out. Anyways, in this part we'll focus on instruments which will add some life into our track! Here's what we're going to create:   I. Bass 1. Let's make a new MIDI track and throw an Operator instrument onto it. We'll quickly change the oscillator type (under "Wave" on the synthesizer)...

Written walk-through guide - coming alongside this Youtube Tutorial: Subscribe to Production Music Live on YouTube   What we used: Ableton Live 9 Suite Also available: 4h+ Course: Track from Start To Finish Part 1 - Drums - Steps: Setting up a side-chain track Adding a Kick Adding a Snare Adding in another Pre-Snare Closed Off-Hihat (1) Closed Off-Hihat (2) Dynamics Hihat 16ths Hihats Blip Noise Ride Hey! Today we're going to make a Deep House track from scratch using Ableton instruments only. Here's a quick preview of the track we're going to be making: Alright, let's get into the production process! In this...