Hi! We’ve recently done a video explaining how to make Calvin Harris’s pluck bass from „How Deep Is Your Love“. That tutorial included a handful of really useful sound design tips, so we thought we’d list them here. Make sure to check out the full tutorial and the presets at the end of the article!   1. Use FM Synthesis FM Synthesis is essentially altering one waveform type with another. This way you can create original sounding waveforms - this technique is used in Dubstep a lot to create those crazy growls. It can be used to add feeling to...

Here's a list of our youtube sound design tutorials for Native Instruments Massive. Deep House Bass Sounds, Future Bass Leads, Background Pads, signature sound remakes, there's a bit of everything inside. If you're looking to learn how to use Massive like a pro, check out our full online course for NI Massive. Basics: How to use MASSIVE - Tutorial List of Tutorials: Flume Synth Tennis Court - Massive Sound Design Tutorial Lorde Massive Tutorial - What So Not - Touched Synth - Flume Style Awesome "Guitar" Pluck with NI Massive Tutorial - PML Boiler Production Deep, Techno, Underground House "Analog" Bass...

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...

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

  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...

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...

  We had requests for a tutorial on the synth sound of "Mura Masa - Firefly" (also known: Mura Masa Someday Somewhere, Firefly, Love For That, What If I Go, Liana Bank$). So PML contributor Borys (k-pizza) opened his Ableton and Xfer Serum and remade the wobbly filtered main synths of this nice tune.   Presets are included in our "Beach Styles" SERUM preset pack.   Watch the tutorial:   Keywords: Mura Masa Synth Serum Presets, Ableton Project File, .als, template download    

  In this tutorial, we're showing you how to design a Future Bass LFO Wobble Pad sound with Xfer Serum in the style similar to Louis the Child, Darren Ashley, etc.     Also: Check out our new Future Bass presets for Xfer Serum!  

  In this 20 minute tutorial, we are going through the functions of Native Instruments Massive - covering the following subjects: Oscillators / Wavetables Modulation Filters Effects Envelopes Voicing LFOs Routing and Macro Controls   .   Additionally, we offer different styles of Massive Presets:     Keywords: How to use Massive, How to make presets in Massive, How to Bass in massive, How does Massive work