Compression in Ableton Live

P2P | 13 October 2020 | 394 MB

Much used but rarely fully understood, compression is an incredible tool utilised by audio professionals in every field. These detailed lessons, taught by Course Director, professional producer and Music and Sound Recording graduate, will take you from a basic to a thorough understanding of this powerful effect. With visual and aural demonstrations, accompanied by a clear and informative commentary, by the end of the course you will have a thorough grasp of how single band and multiband compression functions and how to apply it to individual and groups of drums, vocals and the master buss. The course starts by giving you a basic understanding of the parameters found on every compressor, including examples of their effects on dynamics and frequency, demonstrating how different settings can alter the sound both positively and negatively. Students learn how to use a compressor both as a precision tool and as a creative device, with specific examples and aural and visual demonstrations, to help get the most out of a mix.

Essential Guide To Ableton Racks

FANTASTiC | 12 May 2020 | 533 MB

Racks are one of Ableton Live’s most powerful features for working with effects, plug-ins and instruments in a track’s device chain. Giving you incredible control over your many devices, they both streamline your workflow and create brand new possibilities for creative sound design and mixing. Not just for placing control directly under your fingertips, racks can be used for creating dynamic performance instruments, stacked synthesizers and powerful processors. In this course, half of duo Spektre and one of Producertech’s most prolific tutors, you’ll gain a complete understanding of everything racks. Beginning with an introduction to creating your own, Maddox takes a logical and thorough approach, going into depth about the intricacies of creating original instrument racks for bass and drums and efficient processing racks for vocals, drums, breakdowns and many more.

Complete Guide to Operator

P2P | 15 August 2020 | 599 MB

Duration: 2h+ | Language: English

Operator is one of Live’s most powerful Suite Instruments, known for its hybrid approach to synthesis combining frequency modulation techniques with subtractive and additive synthesis. In this course from Senior Tutor, you’ll learn all you need to program any kind of sound with this impressive instrument. The course begins with a general overview of the synth, taking a look at some of the more basic features such as envelopes and oscillators, and also delving deeper into more advanced elements such as routing matrixes and creating your own wavetables. Following on from an explanation of the principles of FM synthesis, Rob then proceeds to share his extensive sound design knowledge with you, showing you how to create a wide variety of sounds. These range from simple, 2 oscillator bell-like sounds to complex, evolving bass patches. There’s also a few tips on creating your very own drum and percussion sounds using the FM synthesis techniques discussed in the tutorials.

Complete Guide to Wavetable

Team DECiBEL | 16 Sep 2019 | 894.4 MB

Ableton’s stunning new synth Wavetable, only surfacing recently in Live 10, is already making huge waves with its powerful engine and engaging graphic interface. On this course from certified trainer Rob Jones, you’ll be shown how to create a number of presets in step-by-step fashion, and in doing so will learn how each section of the instrument works and an array of techniques for using them to create quality patches of your own. You’ll also get a series of free bonus tutorials on another new Live 10 device, Echo, which show how to add interesting textures and processing to the Wavetable patches made on the course.

Producers Guide to Spire

Team DECiBEL | 16 Sep 2019 | 928.4 MB

Soft synth Spire has quickly become a standard in the plugin collection of most aspiring producers, with its powerful feature set and impressive audio quality allowing the creation of a huge range of desirable sounds. In this 3-hour course from Producertech senior tutor Rob Jones, you’ll be taken through every section of the plugin interface and shown a multitude of techniques for designing a variety of different patches.

Beginners Guide to Traktor Pro

P2P | 12 November 2020 | 332 MB

Beginners Guide to Traktor Pro, a video tutorial course on the Traktor Pro DJ software. This course provides a clear and concise look at the fundamentals of one of the world’s most popular DJ software platforms, and will have you mixing like a pro in no time at all. With over an hour of carefully written tutorials, Rob efficiently covers all the basics of the software in his concise yet detailed style. Starting off with a general overview, Rob then goes on to explain the track browser, giving invaluable tips on how to organise your music collection. He then takes a look at some of the essentials of the software, including the track decks, and discusses vital features such as setting cue points and key controls. Rob also gives an insight into the mixer section, teaching how to use EQ and filtering to create seamless and smooth mixes, before covering a few of the multitude of FX available within Traktor, demonstrating how they can take your mixing skills to the next level.

Complete Guide to Maschine MK3

Team DECiBEL | 06 Oct 2019 | 1.70 GB

NI’s latest Maschine controller has elevated the device to whole new levels, transforming it into one of the most incredible platforms for making music. Whether producing or performing, the powerful hardware/software combo provides all the tools you need to create original beats or complete arrangements with ease. On this comprehensive course by certified trainer Rob Jones, you’ll learn every aspect of both the MK3 controller and Maschine software, as well as learn a multitude of techniques for creating many different styles of music with them. The tutorials begin with a detailed look at how to make patterns with the pads, working in the default pad mode as well as keyboard, chord and 16-velocity modes, explaining the various benefits of each one. Rob then teaches the ins and outs of soundslots in Maschine, by building a kit from scratch, before getting more advanced with Maschine’s Sampler, showing how to record and edit your own samples, slice up loops and lots more.