Producing House Music with Ableton Live: Bass & Synth

[timothyallan]

Speaking of, if anyone's got any ideas on the next one, feel free to add it to this thread. I've had a few suggestions already from various people, but it'd be good to hear some other opinions!

[Spectrumdisco]

How about breakdowns and FX

[#1thelark]

I don't know if I'm allowed to contribute as I haven't seen all your tutorials, but I liked the Reason-tutorials from boyinaband on youtube click this, where he goes through the production of a whole tune... Maybe you could do something similar but with focus on ableton?

[romanh]

Hello,
i have buy you both tutorials ; drums, bass& synth, very good thing, thank for you work

Please make a "reverb in the musik produktion" tutorial, with song example.
I have big problems with this.


sorry for me bad english.

Roman.

[XTremeDaddy]

Hey Timothy - I bought your first set of tutorials on making a Producing Live Drums for House Music. I really enjoyed it and watched it several times. The one thing I wished was different (and I almost emailed you about this) was that I thought it ended a little too abruptly without some sort of summary. It would have been especially nice to have a final chapter with the drum loop we built shown working in a mix, or maybe a little bit of time talking about how you would break up and modify the original loop to live in an arrangement. I realize that could be a whole new set of vids, but maybe just a teaser at the end showing how the loop can be used in a real mix.

Thanks again for taking the time to make these.
EG

[timothyallan]

xtreme - you're the second person to mention that to me in the past few months. I never even thought about it really… I was thinking that I'd basically given you some new tools and that the rest would be up to how you wanted to use them. I can totally see your point, but I also think that it could also turn into a whole other set of videos.

Good suggestions on other content as well from the other guys. Breakdowns/fx wasn't something I had thought about, but that I do lots of in my current stuff

[davepermen]

yeah, breakdowns are always fun. the changes in tracks are one of the most important things in tracks that people don't really notice actively while listening to them.

i loved tom cosms video where he built a loop, and then a build up towards this loop. all the details that go in, it was impressive. and i guess, you would have quite some detailed knowledge for those changing-points as well.

other than that.. no clue right now

[acki]

what synth do you use in the video?

thinking of purchasing...

[romanh]

+1
Breakdowns/fx

[timothyallan]

what synth do you use in the video?

thinking of purchasing...

I keep it all Live plugins, so if there's any noise making involved, it's operator or simpler (not sampler). But everything can be done with any freebee VST as well.

[acki]

thanks for info!

does the tut focus creating melodies with synths, too?

[timothyallan]

Not really in the 'classic' sense. It does go through some cool things you can do with midi resampling and a couple arpeggiator tricks which could easily be turned into melodies. Maybe someone else who's watched it could chime in? Did you get any melody action out of it??

[Mehalic]

Tim,

good tutorials, but I would love to see one on arrangements. Taking the skills you have already shown and use them to build a track from the different parts (Drum loop & Synth & Bass). A basic overview of arrangements and fills would go a long way.

[timothyallan]

Yeah, arrangements are still very time consuming for me, it'd be a long video

Good ideas though, I'm sure I could integrate that, fills, and other goodies somehow!

[d-track]

rapidshare/torrent or didn't happen.