Written walk-through guide - coming alongside this Youtube Tutorial:   What we used: Ableton Live 9 Suite Also available: 4h+ Course: Track from Start To Finish   Hey! In the first part of this tutorial we focused on the drums. If you haven't seen it yet make sure to check it out. Anyways, in this part we'll focus on instruments which will add some life into our track! Here's what we're going to create:   I. Bass 1. Let's make a new MIDI track and throw an Operator instrument onto it. We'll quickly change the oscillator type (under "Wave" on the synthesizer)...

Written walk-through guide - coming alongside this Youtube Tutorial: Subscribe to Production Music Live on YouTube   What we used: Ableton Live 9 Suite Also available: 4h+ Course: Track from Start To Finish Part 1 - Drums - Steps: Setting up a side-chain track Adding a Kick Adding a Snare Adding in another Pre-Snare Closed Off-Hihat (1) Closed Off-Hihat (2) Dynamics Hihat 16ths Hihats Blip Noise Ride Hey! Today we're going to make a Deep House track from scratch using Ableton instruments only. Here's a quick preview of the track we're going to be making: Alright, let's get into the production process! In this...

In this tutorial, Francois is making a track from scratch using only elements of Ableton Live 9 Suite edition. Here's a rough table of contents: Table of Contents: 00:00 Play 01:11 Sidechain + Basics 04:46 Kick 05:14 Clap 06:52 Pre Snare + Effects (EQ, Redux) 09:24 Closed Hihat 10:00 First Beat play 10:25 2nd hihat + Send Effects (Return Channel) 12:40 3rd Hihat 14:03 Fast Hihats 16:58 Blip Sound 18:20 Ride Sound 19:15 Bass with Operator 23:00 White Noise 26:30 Pad Sounds + Instrument Rack + Effects Setup 33:35 Operator Lead Sound 34:44 Arrangement + Transitions (Automating Filters, Levels) 43:10...

   In this 80 minute session, Berlin-based producer Johannes creates a straight forward Techno track from scratch using Ableton Live 9 and a handful of third-party plugins. After designing a dark driving drum pattern, he’s focussing on coming up with a club-ready arrangement layout.   Hey Johannes, thanks for sharing one of your sessions at PML! Feel free to introduce yourself.  I’m a techno producer based in Berlin. Influenced by the city and its nightlife I’m producing tracks between tech house, melodic techno and also deep and rough techno since 2014.   What are your main musical influences? I’m heavily...

In this session, Francois is walking through a Melodic Techno Production, talking about: Kick Setup, Drums Group Designing Claps State of the Art Techno Clap / Snare Designing Hihats, Loop Adding Tom Sound, Perc FX, Audio FX Tok, Bulk of Audio FX Editing a super cool vocal FX Setting up a dry subby Bass Instruments Group: Stab, ChordStab Element Adding Atmo with Low Cut DJ effects on the Master Channel Fat Bass Drops, Ride and Arp Play, Arp FX, Pipe FX Pad, Main Pipe Sound Groove Analysis, Arrangements   Learn more about producing this full track: NEW PML 6h+ Course: Producing a...

  What a beautiful studio place Joris Voorn is working in. You can feel the good vibes and a clear vision. Here's what gear he's mainly using:    DAW: Ableton Live 9 VSTs/Plugins: Spectrasonics Omnisphere ValhallaDSP UAD Cambridge EQ Plugin NI Komplete 10 Ultimate Studio Monitors: Barefoot Sound MicroMain27 Gen2   Hardware: Clavia Nord Lead 2 Roland Juno-106  Dave Smith Prophet 6 Module Mixer: TL Audio M1 Tubetracker   Keywords: Joris Voorn Studio Setup

We had a lot of questions on how the compressor actually works, so we decided to make a small series of videos covering the functionalities from the perspective of the Ableton Live built-in compressor.     Learn more about compression in the mixing stage: NEW PML 5h+ Course: Mixing A Track From Scratch in Ableton (with stock effects)     Keywords: mixing, compressor, how to use a compressor, how does a compressor work

A lot of the subtractive vs additive EQ debate stems from the analogue times when recordings still contained a lot of noise. Boosting through additive EQ increased the loudness of such noise and was - simply put - therefore to be avoided.  Another argument against additive EQ that still holds nowadays is the "louder sounds better" trap. If you have two instruments occupying the same frequency band, boosting one to make it "cut through" will easily trick your ears into believing the overall mix sounds better - when it actually results in setting off the balance of your mix. Reading...

Lets quickly address a psychological phenomenon called "frequency masking". It occurs when we are listening to a mix of instruments playing together at the same time and affects our perception.  Lets say our frequency spectrum above 5kHz gets filled up with a loud playing cymbal sound. If we have a vocal part playing along, we will perceive it a lot less well around that frequency range since above 5kHz, the cymbal is "masking" other elements. That happens even if the vocals themselves sound nicely bright in solo mode.  So in order to deal with this effect, we now have to boost the...

In this tutorial, our man k-pizza shows some techniques helping you produce tracks like Cold Water only using Serum and Ableton Live 9 Standard: Subscribe to Production Music Live on YouTube What we used: Ableton Live 9 Standard Xfer Serum VST Steps: 1. Processing recorded guitar and chords analysis 2. Resampling instruments to create sweeps 3. Creating vocal leads from vocal samples 4. Creating more instruments such as bleeps, pads and sub basses 5. Major Lazer style drums production analysis 6. Layering samples and synths to create original sounding drums 7. Panning toms and percussion 8. Making of the fabulous Cold Water lead sound   More Info:...