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Let’s Make A Banger 6 – Pickle Power – Part 4

Let’s Make A Banger 6 – Pickle Power – Part 4

Apr 19, 2021
Lead or background synth?

Lead or background synth?

Apr 14, 2021

This is an important one for anyone that struggles to get a handle on when you need a lead synth line, what counts as one? and why do you want one? I've created a couple of different examples to show you what I'm talking about.

Spectral Resonator With A Vocal And LFO

Spectral Resonator With A Vocal And LFO

Mar 17, 2021

Here's one way you could use the new Spectral Resonator in Ableton 11

Let’s Make A Banger 5 – Another Fish In The Pan – Part 2

Let’s Make A Banger 5 – Another Fish In The Pan – Part 2

Mar 15, 2021

Live at 8:30pm

Let’s Make A Banger 5 – Another Fish In The Pan – Part 1

Let’s Make A Banger 5 – Another Fish In The Pan – Part 1

Mar 8, 2021

Time to make a banger on the full Ableton 11. I think it would be nice to try and utilise a bunch of the new features and have a play around with it.

Velocity Triggered Sample Offset

Velocity Triggered Sample Offset

Mar 3, 2021

This is a great way to generate some unusual synth line patterns and tons of variation in your grooves.

Trance Gate

Trance Gate

Feb 24, 2021

Time to get your glowsticks out. It's trance gate time!

Unusual Drum Samples And Technoish Loop

Unusual Drum Samples And Technoish Loop

Feb 17, 2021

Bit of a journey on this one today but I thought it could be useful to show a bit more of my process when writing a drum loop. For this one I tried using some ideas from a Randomer video I saw a few years ago. The plan was to use samples that aren't actually drums and then make the loop from that.

Corpus Round 2

Corpus Round 2

Feb 10, 2021

Corpus is such a sick tool. Get a short strike sound and go to town with it. Here's a couple sweet options to try out + a little reverb trick.

Let’s Make A Banger 4 – Wiggly Woo – Part 4

Let’s Make A Banger 4 – Wiggly Woo – Part 4

Feb 8, 2021

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