Transform your Ableton arrangements into something you can perform live. Learn how to effectively take your production from Arrangement view to Ableton’s Session view without losing control. From there you can get even more creative with various effects processing tips, tricks and optimisation techniques to make performing live exciting and fun.
Superior Drummer 3 for Electronic Music? Yes! Adam Pollard aka Multiplier, takes you on an epic journey into using Toontrack Superior Drummer 3 for Electronic Music production in these creative and informative video tutorials. Adam welcomes you and gives an overview of what this series is all about and what to expect. He then jumps right in and covers topics such as electronic drum structure, what to listen for when choosing electronic drums, and creating a standard electronic drum pattern. Next you’ll look at how to import drums and save kits, create a build up using grooves and velocity, how you can use Tracker to learn unfamiliar genre rhythms, layering percussion over a bassline, use drum bleed as texture, tune kicks, offset claps and snares, humanize electronic drums with hit variation and more.
Max for Live Essentials – Sound Generation, a tutorial course on sound generation with the devices within the Max for Live Essentials Pack. The first course in a 2-part series, you will begin to explore the Audio, MIDI, and Instrument devices that go beyond the standard array of devices that come with Ableton. The devices within the Max for Live Essentials Pack are incredibly powerful. A lot of these devices offer new approaches to audio processing, device control and melodic and rhythmic generation not available in any other plugin devices. This course focuses on sound generation. As such the devices covered; Buffer Shuffler, Bass, Poli, Multi, and the various Drumsynth modules allow you to expand your arsenal of sound generation possibilities in new and exciting ways. No matter what genre of music you are producing, this course and these devices are essential!
Liam O’Mullane (a.k.a.The Sound Tutor) is back with some power-user tips and tricks for Native Instruments’ Maschine. So power-up your Maschine production chops with this expert 23-tutorial course! Native Instruments Maschine is the premiere hardware/software hybrid, live performance, production tool in the electronic music universe. Mastering its many controls, performance options and sonic possibilities can be a daunting task, unless… you’ve got a great instructor like electronic music producer Liam O’Mullane. In this deep “Tips and Tricks” course, Liam opens up his ultra-secret Maschine playbook as he divulges some of his favorite performance/production techniques. You learn how to create authentic breakbeats along with an abundance of other rhythm track, bass, pad and cool ambience effects. There’s also a very deep collection of videos that zoom in on creating your own, powerful samples including some cool discordant sounds to awesome 8-bit arpeggiated masterpieces. Then, Liam shares some of his sample manipulation tips where you see how to time-stretch, stutter-edit and scratch.
This Trance Acid Video Tutorial [1 hr 40mins] will show you exactly how to create those driving, squelchy sounding acids you hear in Trance. Watch me as I go through the process of how I creat acids for this style of track.
This Trance Fills, Builds & Transitions Video Tutorial will show you how to make your own fills from samples, how to create more tension in your build-ups & how to make the most out of your impacts!
This Trance Melody / Pads & Breakdown Video Tutorial [2 hours] will show you how to approach a breakdown and how to approach writing melodies and pads without having much musical knowledge.
