Hi, I’m Bound to Divide with PML and in the tutorial above we made this classic house beat:   In this article, you’ll find a summary of all of the elements we’ve created in the tutorial. Let’s get started!   1. Classic House Grand Piano The first step was creating a chord progression with the stock Ableton Grand Piano. I started from drawing in the bass notes and then added more notes on top to create complete chords. We work in A Minor here for ease - we’re using only white notes. As for the progression, we are playing...

  Hey guys! Bound to Divide here with PML - and today I'm going to teach you about Voice Leading.  Voice leading is basically a concept where we take chords or a chord progression and we try and make the movement between those two chords or between each chord a lot smoother. This is the chord progression we're going to be working with: When you have a look at this chord progression, what you'll see is that the movements between each chord are kind of big jumps.  If you had to think about playing this on an actual piano your...

Hi! My name is Boris and in this tutorial I'm going to show you how to make a reversed reverb effect. It can not only be used to spice up any vocal sample - you can actually use it on all kinds of sounds to create a very interesting feel.  We're going to do it with Ableton’s stock “Reverb” effect, but you can use pretty much any reverb plugin you like. This kind of reversed reverb effect is not something you would usually achieve with only a VST - you would have to do some reversing and audio bouncing to achieve...

Hi! This is Max from PML and today I will show you how to make the Vocoder effect from Kavinsky - Nightcall. You can download today's full project template in our freebies section. The first thing we need to do is record our speech: Let’s load up a synth - we’re going to use Wavetable here:   We’re playing saw waves with some unison. Once that’s done, we can just use the “Sends only” mode on our synth track, so we don’t hear it. Let’s put a vocoder on our vocal track. Parameters in Vocoder:  “External” mode,  choose Audio from...

  Hi guys! This is Julian with Ableton Tips and today we’re going to be taking a look at an organic house beat using the new Deep Premium Volume 6 sample pack from PML. I'm going to be basically explaining my thought process for building this beat and getting that really organic, groovy feel using these really awesome samples.   1. Basic Drums: Kick, Claps We have a really nice, soft, acoustic sounding kick. I did no processing to it at all - I've just loaded it here into simpler and then sequenced out the beat. The most important thing...

  Hi there! My name is Yannek Maunz, happy to be back here on Production Music Live! This time with a “3 Levels of Vocal Production” tutorial - from beginner techniques, through intermediate, all the way to pro level processing.  Let’s get started! Level 1: Beginner Techniques - Cutting the audio for manual gain reduction Instead of using heavy compression, I manually turn down parts of the vocal which are much too loud. This way I reduce the dynamic range of the vocal even before it hits the compressor, which allows it to work much better. - Cutting out pops...

  Hi! My name is Boris and in this tutorial I’m going to show you how to make an awesome polymetric lead synth pattern for melodic techno. Let’s listen to it first: Before we get into the details, if you like what we’re doing consider subscribing for more ableton live tips like this one. The template we’re using in this video is called Desert. What’s so cool about this one is that it’s all produced with only Live and Analog - all of the synths you heard come from this amazing device - so if you get the template you...

  Hi, my name is Boris, and in this tutorial let’s take a look at one of Ableton’s most underrated stock synthesizers - which is called “Analog”. This synth is so often overlooked because of its rather poor set of presets - but my goal for today is to convince you that this little guy is in fact a really versatile beast. Not only can it produce a really wide range of sounds, but also has the most amazing character. It’s modeled after several vintage analog synthesizers, which gives it an amazing tone. This synth might look a little bit...

  Hey guys! This is Max and today I will show you how to make signature Skrillex Vocal Chords. The very first thing you need to start is a Vocal Hook. It can be even your recording - but what we'll be looking for is one even note with a constant pitch. I've got this one: After we found one simply mark the area around it and consolidate it by hitting [Command (Mac) / Control (Windows) + J]. and now we'll make a new MIDI track for it by hitting ctrl or command plus shift plus t. Let’s drag it...

  Hey guys! Julian here with Production Music Live and today I'm going to talk about mastering in Ableton with only Ableton plugins. I just want to start off by saying that my process of mastering is really just a final loudness push and maybe like a tiny bit of gentle rebalancing and just gentle eq moves. It's like the final five percent last push and polish of the track.   Before I master the track I already have mixed it to sound exactly the way I want it to sound once it's mastered - obviously just not as loud. So if...