Hi! In this tutorial we’re going to take a look at one of my tracks called „Cheerful“. We’re going to go through all the elements from which the track is made. Here’s the end result of it: Get the free project file: DOWNLOAD HERE  (scroll down for video) The full video tutorial including the project file will be at the end - so make sure to stick around!   The elements we’re going to go through are:   1. Pluck group - main melody   The track started out from a simple melody played with a sample in Simpler. I...

Hey! Welcome to the second part of the tutorial about making a future bass drop from scratch. If you haven’t yet checked out the first part, make sure to do that here. Anyways, let’s get going! PART 1 is here! Also: Make sure to check out our 5+ hour video course tutorials on creating the extended full version of this Future Bass track from Scratch!   In this part we are going to look at other elements of the track. The second element will be: 2. Bass   To create a bass track, simply right click on the name of...

    Hi! If you’re a beginner and you’d like to finally make some future bass, this tutorial is perfect for you. Today we’re going to make a future bass drop from scratch. The end result of this tutorial sounds like this: Whether you like the end result or not, I think there will are a couple of good production techniques in this tutorial, which will help you in making future bass for sure. Make sure to check out our 5+ hour video course tutorials on creating the extended full version of this Future Bass track from Scratch! Let’s get started...

  The way I start my tracks the most often is by finding a good chord progression. Sometimes however, I like to change things up and to start by playing around with vocals. In this 10 step guide I’m about to show you a really simple workflow to get started with your new track.   Step 1: Find and download an acapella Having a killer vocal line to work with is key. It’s not always an easy task to find the vocals of your favourite song. Fortunately, there are plenty of great vocal recordings you can choose from, (and to...

1 - „Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working“ - Pablo Picasso  As a music producer you constantly have to deal with lack of inspiration. „I’m not inspired, so there’s no point in opening that DAW“ - that’s what your mind tricks you to say to yourself. As a result, you start procrastinating and never finishing music (or never even starting out). The solution to this problem is to find the inspiration by actually working. It doesn’t mean that you have to find it just by working inside your DAW! It can get very boring to stare at...

I know how hard it is sometimes to produce music. I’ve been there! As a music producer myself, I thought it would be useful if I shared some of the simple things which I found to have improved my musicmaking process. The first, and the most important one is…  1. It’s not the musicmaking part that’s hard. What’s hard is sitting down to make music. What that means is that the most important part of being a music producer is actually making music. In fact, the main focus of every successful music producer is ON the process, not IN it....

In this video, Francois is working on a Melodic Deep House track in the style of artists like Worakls, N'to, Joachim Pastor, Sebastien Leger - mainly artists you'd expect on labels like Hungry Music. Watch Studio Session:    Watch & Listen to finished track - Play back:   You can also grab this finished track as project file / template and load it into your own Ableton version.   .  

In this tutorial, Tom is writing a complete Progressive House track from scratch (similar to the style of One Republic - If I lose myself (Alesso Remix)). He starts with chord progressions and later goes over bass and melodies.     =====   If you want to learn more about the basics of harmony and chord progressions, check out our in-depth course: PML Course: "Harmony and Chord Progressions"  

. In case you're looking for motivation or inspiration, take a look into the new studio of DeadMau5 and check out one of his live streams. So inspiring! .

10: Native Instruments FM8 This great sounding FM synth was used by Skrillex. FM8 is probably not a synth for beginners, as it takes a while to get your head around FM synthesis. Nevertheless it's still a great synth used by plenty of pros. Pro's + great presets+ ability to morph patches+ great arpeggiator Cons – no "sample import" option– FM synthesis isn't easy (probably not a synth for beginners)    9: Spire Spire is an awesome additive hybrid synth. It sounds very modern and punchy and has a lot of great presets. Our only wish is that it would have...