We handed ourselves another production challenge. We listened to the new track "Sparta" by Ten Walls and decided to give it a shot a remake the basic feel and the signature sounds using only Ableton Live 9 Suite (and 2 Ableton Packs: Orchestral Brasses and Orchestral Woodwinds). We worked with 3 grouped stems in this project. Stem 1 for the drumming, #2 for the bass sounds (the bass sound is pretty similar to the bass sound in Ten Walls' 2014 banger "Walking with elephants") and #3 for pads, woodwinds and brasses. So the tutorial below consists more or less equally of...

  We got this message the other day: "The biggest issue for me is how to take a cool 8-bar loop (which I've made many of!) and turn it into a good 120-bar song. Arrangement, transitions, variations in chords, melody, drums, etc." You're probably familiar with the problem. You have a nice idea for a beat that lasts 8 bars (sometimes 4 or 16 as well). You like the idea, but you're not sure how to make a full track out of it. So in this video we're going to try to help you come up with some ideas for...

While on vacation with Tom, we were messing around with some sounds and ended up remaking Flume's remix of Disclosure "You and Me" on a simplified scale. I thought I'd share that with the producers among you guys.     Related Files: Midi Files: Download them through a like on our facebook page Ableton ALS Project-File (instrument only, other MIDIs used): Go to project files   Keywords: Ableton Live Template, .als file download, free .als midi files download, ableton alp free download, massive vst chillstep chilltrap future bass presets free download, zipped ableton file zippy, What So Not Style Template .als Ableton, Flume Style ableton, Disclosure - You &...

We quickly checked out the cthulhu plugin by Steve Duda. Surely it does a lot of things and it certainly will boost your creativity, especially when you're stuck - melody-wise. Among many of its abilities, it also gives some nice results on your arpeggio sounds. Here's an example:           Keywords: Cthulhu Vst, Steve Duda Cthulhu VST Plugin Free, Coming up with creative Midis, great midi sounds free, free midi files

We worked out a new tutorial showing you how to make the sound of Avicii, Calvin Harris, Alesso and others with Ableton Live. We used Ableton Live 9 Suite, Massive 1.3.xx, Sylenth1 and the ableton pack "The Grand Piano".     Tutorial:   If you'd like to use this project file, you can grab it right here: http://bit.ly/pml_s_tmp_bigroom   Audio preview of the full project:     Keywords: Ableton Live Template, .als file download, free .als midi files download, ableton alp free download, massive vst progressive house edm presets free download, zipped ableton file zippy, Alesso Style Template, Calvin Harris Style...

Here we're sharing some of our day by day questions, mostly the ones getting quick basic answers, notepad style:      Same Volume Level of tracks while DJing Q: Hey guys, im really digging your dj template for live i got it to add some of those features to my live template but im really struggling with one thing that i thought you guys could help me out with. I been looking everywhere to find a way to make like a auto gain kind of things to get my tracks to be all at the same volume level? Do you...

  Sometimes you've got your drums right, the bass is perfect and maybe one or two instrument tracks are already playing nicely along. Still, your track sounds a little empty. Depending on the genre you're working on, you can add a background pad to fill up the frequency gaps and increase the overall atmosphere of your track. Over here, Francois explains how to do this with NI Massive, Sylenth1, Arturia Minimoog and Tal-U-No-Lx. Download the Background Pad Preset for Massive, Sylenth1 and Tal for free here.         Listen to previews of our Massive preset packs:   Keywords: free massive...

Variety of Sound offers free vst plugins on their page. Among them you can find eqs, reverbs, limiters etc. Apart from that, they also have quite an interesting blog. http://varietyofsound.wordpress.com/downloads In case you're wondering why all this is being offered for free, here's a statement by "vos": As a computer scientist and musician, I’m enjoying designing DSP algorithms and plug-in concepts. It’s a pleasure for me to share my efforts with other people without having to worry about commercial interests. In each of my effects there is a special technical design, workflow or concept combination I haven’t found in existing...

The guys of zeitgeistmastering.com mentioned some helpful tips on how to prepare your tracks for mastering in a youtube video. We are quickly summing them up: Here are 8 essential tips: 1. Make sure that there are no effects on your master channel when you bounce (export) In case you have essential effects on your master, send 2 versions: fx mix, giving your engineer an idea of the effect no fx mix, giving him the opportunity to apply his effects however: don't leave any limiter in place 2. Make sure the level of your track peaks somewhere between -6 and -3dB  3. If the...

This might be particularly helpful when cleaning up your old music projects. Recently i had to deal with the problem of eliminating duplicate files within a fairly large set of mainly ms office files (under windows).    For me, a program called "alldup" perfectly did the job     Other solutions i tried: winmerge: should be great for comparing code files, as it offers an in-file comparism doublekiller: basicly does the same job like alldup, but offers less options dupeguru: they offer a music edition. should be very interesting for people who want to tidy up their mp3s