Producing a Modern Track from Start to Finish in Ableton (2016)

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Genre: Video Tutorial / Sound Processing, Music Production, Sound Engineering

Learn how to produce a track from start to finish with Ableton Live. 4 hour pro class taking you through the full process. (Beginner & Intermediate). Starting with the basics & finishing with mixing + mastering a complete track.

What you'll learn in this course:

Learn how to produce a professional sounding track from scratch without getting stuck along the way

This course is for beginners.

We are using Ableton - only!

This course focusses on production. Our other course is focussing on chord progressions and harmony.

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Over 21 sessions and around 4 hours of content!

Produce and complete a professional sounding track using Ableton Live

Create unique sound designs using Ableton instruments

Use samples to edit, arrange, and create unique tracks and beats of your own.

How to achieve great soundscapes using audio effects

Hands on course showing you a producers workflow. Focus on sound design and technique

Kickstart your productions with our material - full template session and samples included in this course!

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What are the requirements?

We’re using Ableton Live 9 Suite only. If you don’t have a copy of Ableton Live 9 Suite, a great way to start would be using the trial version (free for 30 days). We won't be using any third party plugins in this course

If you've opened a DAW like Ableton, Logic or FL Studio before and know that hitting the space bar will start and stop the playback, that would be great.

Having spent a couple of minutes in Ableton to check out the basic interface

You want to know how to produce a professionally sounding track from the start to the fully mixed and mastered product.

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Is it for you?

You want to see the complete production process step by step

You want a comprehensive understanding of Ableton Live

You are interested in producing tracks, beats, sound designs, or any other music on your own in a professional way

You're looking to understand the deeper levels of Ableton Live

You like to see how to start from scratch going all the way to the finished, mixed & mastered product.

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Producing a modern and fresh sounding track from start to finish

This is a very hands-on and deep class showing you how to produce a track from scratch - with tons of content, tricks, and tips on production, workflow, beat design, sound design, mixing and mastering. You’ll be getting the complete finished track as template session you can play around with. Additionally you’re getting a bunch of drum samples and MIDI files to work with. We are going to be covering how to produce using Ableton Live, starting from working with clips in the session view and going all the way up to some very advanced production techniques using the arrangement view.

Content:

I. Introduction

00 - Introduction and Prerequisites

II. Basic Beat

00 - Download Course Files

01 - Interface, Session vs Arrangement View, Loading MIDI and Audio, Basic Beat

02 - Using Instruments, Creating a Bass, Setting up a Sidechain

03 - Basic Bass Sound Design - Basic EQing

04 - Loading Ableton Packs - Adding a Guitar

III. Basic Sound Design

05 - Creating a Background Pad Sound with Operator

06 - Creating a Saw Lead Sound with Operator

07 - Creative Sound Design: Smooth Saw

08 - Building Custom Effects

IV. Adding More Song Parts

09 - Producing a Break

10 - Adding another Beat & Bass Pattern

11 - Adding Vocal Effects

12 - Adding Drum Effects

13 - Adding an "LFO" Pad

14 - Generating Intro Ideas

V. Arrangement

15 - Setting up a Basic Arrangement

16 - Arrangement Details - Adding Transitions

VI. Mixing

17 - Mixing Basics - Frequency Spectrum

18 - Mixing Instruments and Effects

VII. Mastering

19 - Mastering Basics and Chain Setup

20 - Mastering - Chain Finish and Balance

VIII. Finals

21 - Exporting the Track and Final Thoughts

Bonus Videos

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