Producing House with Ableton Live - Arrangement and FX
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.
Videos
• Introduction (01:47) - Get an overview of what is covered in Part 3 of the Producing House with Live series.
• Arrangement Methods in Live (04:18) - Covers 3 main ways to arrange in Live: Additive, Subtractive and Scene Based arrangement.
• DJ Intro & Outro (04:24) - Find out how and why to structure a DJ friendly intro and outro for your track.
• The Power of Two (05:08) - Learn why two, and multiples of two, are the magic numbers when doing dance music arrangements.
• Chunking Your Arrangements (07:38) - Discover the common parts of house music song arrangement.
• Mapping with Locators (04:28) - Learn how to use locators to give you a visual overview, and quick way to easily jump around your chunked arrangement.
• Analyzing Existing Arrangements - Part 1 (09:18) - Learn how to dissect other peoples track arrangements and energy levels using warping and an audio file in Live.
• Analyzing Existing Arrangements - Part 2 (11:03) - Go one step further from just analyzing the arrangement and get down to the instrument level of other tracks.
• Power of Little FX (05:17) - How small FX can make a big difference in the feel of your track’s arrangement.
• Making a Radio Edit (19:33) - Learn tips and tricks on how to get your 8 minute dance track into a typical 3.5 minute radio edit.
• The Big Breakdown (21:04) - See the creation of a big mid-song breakdown using sounds and effects your track already contains.
• The Finality of Working with Audio (09:15) - See the benefits of immediately rendering to audio, and how it can keep your arrangement progressing.
• Faking Note Chase in Live (02:34) - How to trick Live into playing a lengthy MIDI note and automation from anywhere in the clip.
• Introduction to Transitions & FX (01:14) - Get an introduction to the concepts transitions and FX and what will be covered with the transition based videos in this offering.
• Transitions with Sends & Sidechaining (12:42) - Use delays, reverbs and other effects on sends to create and smooth out transitions.
• Using Bass Filtering in Transitions (06:17) - Learn how removing low frequencies can actually add more excitement to the transitions of bass and low end phrases of your track.
• Sidechain Delay (07:24) - It's not what you think. Using the sidechain and a delay in more creative way than the norm.
• The One Bar Breakdown (03:11) - How deviating from a normal bar length can work for your tracks breakdown.
• White Noise Sweep (12:03) - Create the typical noise fill, but with a few twists.
• Pitched Risers (17:28) - Create a pitched riser effect from scratch.
• Delay Re-Pitch FX (11:10) - Explore the often overlooked 'hidden' features in Live’s delays to create a unique build-up/breakdown technique.
• Reverse Reverb Techniques (09:51) - Use reverb and audio rendering to create multiple styles of transitions and build-ups.
• Percussive Delay Hits (11:37) - Make some massive sounding atmospheric FX out of some tiny sounds.
• Feedback Loop with Delay (10:38) - See how the unpredictability of feedback loops can lead to great results in making custom FX.
• Using Random FX & Fills (05:58) - See how to make unlimited FX just using a single click of certain synths.