Nowadays making an arpeggio is a great way to add interest to your track. There are many plugins out there which can arpeggiate your chord sequence in numerous ways. Lots of patterns and tweakable parameters are at your disposal in order to customize your patterns.
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Today I will teach you how to make your own sweeper/riser. Sweepers and risers are very important element of the EDM tracks. There are many excellent sample libraries is out there where you can find great sweepers which you can use in your productions.
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I’ve been DJing with Ableton for a long time, a good few years, and love it. The one thing that always annoyed me was the fact that the EQ Three plugin, supposedly designed for easy DJing and Live Performance, provided one completely out of touch feature – the Gain controls for the 3 bands didn’t set themselves at Unity Gain (0Db) in the ’12 O’Clock’ position.
But I have discovered a fix. Watch the following little screencast I’ve made to demonstrate how to get around this little but significant bug.
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In this age of modern techniques some want to go back decades and want to achieve that old 30′s vinyl and radio sound. Nowadays it’s quite hard to achieve the sound of a real vinyl record but using some effects that every DAW has we can come real close to that sound. In this Quick Tip we’re going to use Ableton Live, but almost every single DAW has the effects we need (Vinyl Distortion, Filters, Bitcrusher).
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Today we’ll begin a series of quick tips about Novation Launchpad “MIDI feedback”. I decided to write on this topic, because I haven’t found anything useful about creating complex feedback features in Launchpad, just simple feedback like you could see in the Launchpad promo. This first tip will explain you how to make a simple “feedback” patch, and in the next tips we’ll cover more interesting material. So, let’s begin.
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Ableton Live is a fully featured Digital Audio Workstation that allows users to make music in creative and experimental ways. However, Ableton began life as a DJ application. While features have been added over time to increase it’s functionality as a DAW, it’s DJ functions have increased as well. Here are some tips to save time by creating a DJ template with Ableton.
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Ableton Live offers users an fun and innovative way to make music using a very unique workflow. Users coming from a hardware environment may initial be a little put off by Ableton’s user interface and functionality, but it can mimic and surpass many features of popular hardware sequencers.
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Sometimes the simplest device can be a source of a big idea. The thing is that the auto pan can trigger various tremolo effects but to do this you have use some adjustment on the default preset in order to use the auto pan as tremolo/vibrato effect.
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Tuning the drum samples in your song is an important but often overlooked technique in electronic music production. Like any musical instrument, a drum plays at a certain frequency, or pitch. Every frequency corresponds to a certain note on the musical scale.
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Today I will show you how to build a simple trance gate using Ableton’s gate device! The trance gate is a very popular way to create interesting patterns from pads sound or long sustained notes. Many synth has the ability to use this kind of trance gate method in order to create exciting patterns during the breakdown or during the whole track. You can use it several ways but the most important thing before you do that is to create a trance gate pattern. So let’s do it!
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