. In case you're looking for motivation or inspiration, take a look into the new studio of DeadMau5 and check out one of his live streams. So inspiring! .

10: Native Instruments FM8 This great sounding FM synth was used by Skrillex. FM8 is probably not a synth for beginners, as it takes a while to get your head around FM synthesis. Nevertheless it's still a great synth used by plenty of pros. Pro's + great presets+ ability to morph patches+ great arpeggiator Cons – no "sample import" option– FM synthesis isn't easy (probably not a synth for beginners)    9: Spire Spire is an awesome additive hybrid synth. It sounds very modern and punchy and has a lot of great presets. Our only wish is that it would have...

  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  

In this tutorial, Tom is writing a complete Future Bass track from scratch (similar to the style of San Holo, Flume, The Chainsmokers, Odesza). He starts with chord progressions and later goes over bass and melodies.     =====   If you want to learn more about the basics of harmony and chord progressions, check out our in-depth course: PML Course: "Harmony and Chord Progressions"  

Musicians James Holden, Matthew Herbert, Young Guru and Phoebe Kiddo on overcoming creative writing blocks at the recent Ableton Loop conference. Very interesting talk on how to deal with what will sooner or later affect every music producer / artist.

Loading Massive Wavetables into Serum in 3 Steps If you're looking to import your Massive wavetables into Serum, here's a very helpful thread on reddit. Basically its a simple 3 step process: 3 Steps: Download (Zipped Wavetables) Unzip Wavetables Put them into your serum preset folder under tables. "The directory should look like: Serum Presets\Tables\M5-FX-Chords\01-Camchord.wav not Serum Presets\Tables\ User \M5-FX-Chords\01-Camchord.wav"   Thats it, you should be good to go.   Get Pro Serum Presets Take your music to the next level today. Get Here Over 900+ professionally created Serum Presets from 12 Premium PML Packs including Melodic, Deep, House, Tropical, Techno...

In this tutorial, Tom is writing a complete track from scratch, starting with chord progressions, then going over bass and finishing with melodies.     =====   If you want to learn more about the basics of harmony and chord progressions, check out our in-depth course: PML Course: "Harmony and Chord Progressions"  

Ableton is one of the most unique music studio software applications around. From its recording and production capabilities to its overall interface and design, Ableton is unique and has helpful recording features. It is unlike any other DAW, so it takes some time to get used to – especially the relationship between the arrangement window and the session window. Once you learn this software, you can use it for much more than just recording audio, which makes it desirable for not only studio, but also live settings. The latest version of Live 9.6.1 has been released with a numerous improvements...

Creating awesome DJing effects using Ableton Live and Multiband Compression Splitting. We are splitting out signal in 3 bands - each receiving the input signal and processing its range until everything gets summed afterwards. Now we can apply insert effects to the single bands. Watch tutorial: