The time has come again to reach down into the undergrowth and see if we can pull up a rare banger. I’ve got a bit of a new template and I’m intrigued to see what comes out of it… Live tonight at 8:30pm GMT
Time to get freaky with the Granulator. Stick a spoken word vocal in there and then use the LFO to modulate the parameters, creating a sweet twisted glitchy effect.
The time has come again to reach down into the undergrowth and see if we can pull up a rare banger. I've got a bit of a new template and I'm intrigued to see what comes out of it... Live tonight at 8:30pm GMT
Here's one way of making a bass line without having to play anything on the keyboard. All you need is a kick drum and Echo. You can make interesting syncopated bass line rhythms with just these two and then you can add a couple other effects to make it more interesting. This is great for techno, electro or anything with these sorts of influences.
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Corpus is one of those effects that often gets overlooked in Ableton but it is actually extremely powerful. Definitely well worth tucking into. In this tutorial we will look at using it on a drum break to create a rhythmic bed for your track.
The different warps modes in Ableton provide an incredible amount of versatility and creativity when it comes to working with audio. Beats mode is a great place to start. You can use transients and segments of your sample combined with different loop modes to create stutter effects, shorten the transients of drum loops and much more.
This is an essential mix down technique for absolutely everyone to get their heads around. It's very simple and incredibly effective. You use a frequency analyser to pin point the nasty resonant frequencies and then use a notch filter to remove them. Smooth mixes here we come!
This one came out on Holding Hands a couple of years back. It's all about a shifting repeated synth line with tons of automation. One for mind benders...
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