Project files or templates are a great way to improve your production skills. Here are a few ways in which they help you get your production to the next level. 1. They allow you to study the track’s MIX & MASTER. In a track’s project file you can see everything the producer did, including the ways in which the track was mixed. You can take a look at all the effect chains behind sounds and at all the automation lines. With a project file you also get the whole mastering chain - by studying it you can see how it’s...

Tutorial: Subscribe to Production Music Live on YouTube What we used: Ableton Live 9 Standard SERUM VST In this tutorial we are going through some techniques helping you produce tracks like "Chainsmokers & Coldplay - Something Just Like This" only using Serum and Ableton Live 9 Standard. Steps: 00:30 Overview 01:40 Chords04:03 Main Lead Sound Design05:52 Layers06:36 Sidechaining 10:14 Drums14:26 Frequency fillers   More Info: - Grab the Drum Samples Pack: Deep Premium 2 used in this project - Ableton Project for this drop with different MIDIs - 6h+ Beginners course: Pop Track (Chainsmoking Style) from START TO FINISH  - Harmony and Chord Progressions Course - Serum Presets: Future...

Flume Synth with Sylenth1 Several interviews revealed Lennar Digital's Sylenth1 as Flume's go-to synth and source for many of his popular lead sounds. So we sat down to take a shot at recreating the sound of flume's lead synth in his remix for "Lorde - Tennis Court (Flume Remix)". We are working with Sylenth1 VST and dividing the sound design process into 7 steps:   Saw Wave: We're using a saw wave in oscillator A1, taking 8 voices and pulling up detuning to create a full and spread-out sound. Square Wave 1: Oscillator A2 uses a pulse wave (square wave), with 3 voices and...

Short Tutorial Version: Subscribe to Production Music Live on YouTube What we used: Ableton Live 9 Standard NI MASSIVE VST and/or Serum VST Let's go through some techniques helping you produce tracks like "Closer" only using Massive and/or Serum and Ableton Live 9 Standard. Steps: Constructing a powerful pop-ish drum pattern with Kick, heavy Snare, layered Clap and a bunch of rather standard closed and open hihat samples. We are using sounds from our Deep Premium Vol.2 Sample Pack Making a solid deep bass in Massive to go along with the main synth Creating two moody synth layers for the main chord stabs, using...

In this tutorial, we are designing a Moderat style track with Ableton Live and NI Massive. Its a very groovy style and we are programming interesting drum loops like we know from tracks like "Moderat - Bad Kingdom (DJ Koze Remix)" and "Moderat - Eating Hooks (Siriusmo Remix Solumun Edit)". Ableton Project available in our templates section.  Additionally you can get this very bass sound and more Massive presets with our latest pack Boiler Production 2 for NI Massive. Drum Samples used are part of Deep Premium Vol. 2 - Drum Sample Pack.     Also new: 6h+ Course: Producing a Deep House Track...

Subscribe to Production Music Live on YouTube      In this playlist you'll find a collection of Ableton Live remakes for rather popular songs. We're also updating it on a regular basis. YouTube Playlist: PML Remakes with Ableton Live Top 10:  Major Lazer - Lean On - Ableton Remake San Holo - We Rise - Ableton Remake The Chainsmokers - Don't Let Me Down (Illenium Remix) - Ableton Remake Odesza Lost & Found Remix - Ableton Remake Adele - Hello - Ableton Remake EDX - Belong - Ableton Remake Kygo - Cut Your Teeth Remix - Ableton Remake Hayden James -...

Let's go through some techniques helping you produce drops like "Don't Let Me Down" only using Massive and Ableton Live 9 Standard Subscribe to Production Music Live on YouTube What we used: Ableton Live 9 Standard NI MASSIVE VST Steps: Constructing a powerful layered Future Bass chord synth within Massive - here we are creating two layers, one to focus on the mono power, the other one to accompany on the stereo sides. Making a solid trap bass plus a corresponding sub-bass in Massive which fits the main synth Creating heavy Future Bass Drums -  focussing especially on the sound of the snare - the sample should...

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 -...

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...