Producing House Music with Ableton Live: Arrangement & FX

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Producing House Music with Ableton Live: Arrangement & FX

Post by timothyallan » Fri Aug 27, 2010 9:53 am

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Well Ladies and Gents, it's time to bring the show to a close with a bang! The third and final videos in my "Producing House" series is here, and thanks to some lovely feedback from you guys, it covers arrangements/transitions and effects.

The chapters are:

Arrangement Methods in Live
DJ Intro & Outros
The Power of Two
Chunking Your Arrangements
Mapping with Locators
Analyzing Existing Arrangements - Part 1
Analyzing Existing Arrangements - Part 2
Power of Little FX
Making a Radio Edit
The Big Breakdown
The Finality of Working with Audio
Faking Note Chase in Live
Introduction to Transitions & FX
Transitions with Sends & Sidechaining
Using Bass Filtering in Transitions
Sidechain Delay
The One Bar Breakdown
White Noise Sweep
Pitched Risers
Delay Re-Pitch FX
Reverse Reverb Techniques
Percussive Delay Hits
Feedback Loop with Delay
Using Random FX & Fills

All up, you get 23 in-depth tutorials and almost 3.5 Hours of runtime. It's geared from anyone from total noob to intermediate, and even some advanced peeps will pick up a thing or two I'm sure.

Sooooo, if any of that tickles your fancy, head over to the Groove3 site to check out the samples and the rest of the info!

http://www.groove3.com/str/producing-ho ... nt-fx.html

Check the official spiel below!





THE FINAL EPISODE - SEE HOW TO BRING IT ALL TOGETHER!
Remixer extraordinaire Timothy Allan does it again with Volume 3 of his smash hit house music production tutorials. In this series Timothy wraps it up with an in-depth look at the art of arranging a house track as well as applying effects.

Timothy Allan's remixes have reached #1 on the UK dance charts and placed high on US Billboard, DMC and Australia ARIA charts. His remix skills have even landed him a featured spot on an upcoming Madonna production, so he knows his business.

This is the final collection in the series, showing you how to finish your house music track by creating a smashing dance floor arrangement, as well as adding the all important house music effects to create impact and dynamics. If you've seen the first 2 chapters, this is a no-brainer.

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For all beginner to intermediate Ableton Live users and House Music producers
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Re: Producing House Music with Ableton Live: Arrangement & FX

Post by timothyallan » Sat Aug 28, 2010 11:04 pm

Bump because it's video tutorials weekend.

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Re: Producing House Music with Ableton Live: Arrangement & FX

Post by Rave » Sun Aug 29, 2010 7:41 am

Oo I think I will grab this one. :).

Good luck with it.

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Re: Producing House Music with Ableton Live: Arrangement & FX

Post by Rave » Sun Aug 29, 2010 8:02 am

Purchased & downloading :D

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Post by davepermen » Sun Aug 29, 2010 12:32 pm

It's, as usual, great.
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Re: Producing House Music with Ableton Live: Arrangement & FX

Post by timothyallan » Tue Aug 31, 2010 6:28 am

Thanks :) Feedback has been stellar so far, so I'm quite happy!

If anyone's got any ideas for another one, let me know.

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Re: Producing House Music with Ableton Live: Arrangement & FX

Post by cutflow » Sat Sep 11, 2010 8:52 pm

timothyallan wrote:Thanks :) Feedback has been stellar so far, so I'm quite happy!

If anyone's got any ideas for another one, let me know.
ideas for another tutorial? how about the semi advance version of arrangement & fx and then after that it can be the advance version :!: :D

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Re: Producing House Music with Ableton Live: Arrangement & FX

Post by timothyallan » Thu Sep 16, 2010 12:27 am

Actually, I reckon a tips and tricks vid would go down well. Like mix tips, workflow tips etc etc. What do you think?

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Post by Gogz » Thu Sep 16, 2010 3:09 am

Techno techno techno :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :D

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Re: Producing House Music with Ableton Live: Arrangement & FX

Post by Silwolffe » Thu Sep 16, 2010 3:44 am

I went ahead and purchased this, as everything from Groove3 has been nothing short of perfect.
timothyallan wrote:Actually, I reckon a tips and tricks vid would go down well. Like mix tips, workflow tips etc etc. What do you think?
I think that would actually be very good, diversity for everyone.

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Re: Producing House Music with Ableton Live: Arrangement & FX

Post by timothyallan » Fri Sep 17, 2010 12:13 pm

Silwolffe wrote:I went ahead and purchased this, as everything from Groove3 has been nothing short of perfect.
timothyallan wrote:Actually, I reckon a tips and tricks vid would go down well. Like mix tips, workflow tips etc etc. What do you think?
I think that would actually be very good, diversity for everyone.

Can't ask for a better review than that! I'll let the guys know that :)

Yeah, I figure some diversity would be a good thing as well.

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Re: Producing House Music with Ableton Live: Arrangement & FX

Post by djerikschouten » Fri Sep 17, 2010 4:26 pm

timothyallan wrote:Actually, I reckon a tips and tricks vid would go down well. Like mix tips, workflow tips etc etc. What do you think?

Yes, that would be very nice.


I like your work. Very clear tutorials, very effective !!


I haven't seen the mastering tutorials on the groove3 site yet, but since Ableton live is a complete DAW with mastering plugins,perhaps this is an idea. Routing configurations, compression techniques, etc. The mixing you already explained a bit, perhaps you can go a little bit deeper as well. In this way we can do EVERYTHING in Live itself, with its own plugins.
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Re: Producing House Music with Ableton Live: Arrangement & FX

Post by Dr. Fluffenstein » Fri Sep 17, 2010 4:54 pm

Do the tips in this video transfer well to other genres, like trance for example? Or are they specific to house?

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Re: Producing House Music with Ableton Live: Arrangement & FX

Post by beats me » Fri Sep 17, 2010 5:19 pm

Dr. Fluffenstein wrote:Do the tips in this video transfer well to other genres, like trance for example? Or are they specific to house?

There's no way you could transfer the same techniques for House music to something as vastly different as Trance. Chilean Zapateado music? Yes. But Trance is really reaching.

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Re: Producing House Music with Ableton Live: Arrangement & FX

Post by timothyallan » Sat Sep 18, 2010 12:14 am

I'm not ever going to do a 'proper' mastering series using Lives plugins. They're really good for a lot of things, but they weren't designed for mastering.

As for House, Trance, Chilean Zapateado, the tips are all very transferrable. If it's got a kick drum, snare and some hats, you'll get something from the tips. :) Have you heard the song that I mainly work through on in the Arrangement/FX video? It's far from House. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1PZsg-O31k

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