Download our Circle of Fifths as cheat sheet: Free Download    Here's our PML Circle of Fifths, you can always use it as your personal cheat sheet for finding parallel minor chords, relative minors and good chord substitutions. If you want to learn more about chord progressions, harmony, the basics of music theory and how to come up with great sounding chord progressions, take a look at our in-depth course:  PML Course about harmony and chord progressions: http://productionmusiclive.teachable.com/courses/harmony-and-chord-progressions

We had some requests for a remake on Odesza's style. So here's a remake of Hayden James - Something About You (Odesza Remix) made in Ableton Live 9 using NI Massive.  Steps / Prerequisites: What you need: Ableton Live 9 (Standard is enough) & NI MASSIVE VST A drum sample pack, maybe some bongo sounds as well You can look for some decent Piano, Guitar, Strings and Brass sounds (eg. the available Ableton packs)  Then you're good to go for a remake in this style!   Watch the full tutorial here:    - Check our Future Bass Preset Pack for NI MASSIVE: http://bit.ly/pml_s_massive_vol8 -...

In this case, we’re building a gate effect in Ableton Live. Taking a pad sound as source, we are routing the signal into a second audio track (instead of routing it to the master channel). That second audio track plays a "dummy" audio clip - an empty audio file basically. But this dummy audio clip contains the relevant track volume modulation. We can create several of those "dummy" audio clips and draw in different types of volume modulations (e.g.: 16ths, 8ths, etc). That way we can easily switch between different ideas and concepts and speed up the creative workflow.     ...

Here are two great websites for building and finding (even more complex) chords: Build any chord: You know the name of the chord (e.g. Piano above), you just don't know how to put it together.  Go to this website and it will help you visualize the chord: http://www.onlinepianist.com/chords/ Identify any chord: You have a chord, you see all the notes, but you don't know how it is called.  This website has a nice "Chord ID" function: http://www.scales-chords.com/chordid.php Find your scale http://www.pianoworld.com/fun/vpc/piano_chords.htm  PML Course about harmony and chord progressions: http://productionmusiclive.teachable.com/courses/harmony-and-chord-progressions   Keywords: How to find, name and build chords

  In this tutorial we are performing several vocal editing and vocal chopping techniques using Ableton Live 9 Suite:   Watch Tutorial:   Additionally, we’re offering this template: go to template    Keywords: Vocal editing, vocal chopping, vocal cuts, vocal chops  

If you're new to music production / Ableton Live 9, we've put together a little course that might help you starting out - watch this youtube playlist:         Additionally, if you're looking for a profound in-depth course on how to produce a track in Ableton from "Start to Finish" - we've put together an extended 21-studio session paid class with Francois. You can enroll right here:     

We had some requests for a remake on Deepend's style. So here's a remake of Matt Simons - Catch & Release in the Deepend Remix made in Ableton Live 9 using NI Massive.  Steps / Prerequisites: What you need: Ableton Live 9 (Standard is enough) & NI MASSIVE VST A drum sample pack, maybe some bongo sounds as well You can look for some decent Piano and Guitar sounds (eg. The Grand Piano Ableton Pack)  Then you're good to go for a remake in this style! Steps: Constructing the typical deep / future house drumming with bongos (we are relying on samples from our "Deep Premium...

  We had some requests for a remake on Major Lazer. So here's a remake of Major Lazer - Lean On (feat. MØ & DJ Snake) made in Ableton Live 9 using NI Massive.  Prerequisites: What you need: Ableton Live 9 (Standard is enough for copied simpler versions of the sound packs) & NI MASSIVE VST A drum sample pack, maybe some bongo sounds as well Look for some decent String sounds (eg. The Orchestral Strings Ableton Pack)  Then you're good to go for a remake in this style!   Watch the full tutorial here:    - Check our Tropical House Preset Pack for NI...

In this tutorial we are showing you how to design a powerful future bass saw using Ableton Operator plus some of Ableton's built in effects:   Basic Steps: Operator: set up basic oscillators (Saw 64, SawD and Square 32), adsr shapes and filters in operator (see video) Ableton effects: add in Compressor, EQ, Reverb and Frequency shifter   Additionally, we’re offering this template: go to template (works with Ableton Live Standard + Operator (Version1) or Ableton Live Standard & Serum VST (Version 2)).   Watch Tutorial:   Keywords: how to make a future bass lead sound, future bass saw, powerful lead melody sound, operator power...

  Ask audio had their members perform a poll and name their favorite DAW / Studio Software. Around 25 000 people responded, and here are the results for 2015:   #1. Ableton Live 23.14% #2. Logic Pro 16.95% #3. Pro Tools 15.13% #4. FL Studio13.63% #5. Cubase 9.03% #6. Studio One 3.80% #7. Reason 3.46% #8. GarageBand 2.49% #9. Sonar 1.99% #10. Digital Performer 0.92% #11. Bitwig Studio 0.77% Other 8.70%   Source: https://ask.audio/articles/the-top-11-most-popular-daws-you-voted-for Keywords: Most popular DAW, most used DAW Ableton ----