Starting a Club Track in Live 9
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2:20 Introduction
Tim goes over what you can expect from this series, as well as why you don't have to own synth Y or sample pack X in order to make all the material you'll need in creating a solid foundation for a great song. Most of the time, you just need 5% inspiration, and 95% perspiration!
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3:55 Sample Selection
See that, yes, in fact all the samples chosen for this project are all randomly picked.
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8:20 Loading up the Channels
Learn how you can make your own time saving default channel strips for MIDI and Audio channels. Watch as Tim splits up the random samples into appropriate drum racks/simpler channels and then goes through to audition each of the samples and loops that were chosen for the project.
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1:56 Pre-Planning
Tim goes over the thought process for what kind of track you are going to make. Before starting, have at least a vague idea of what you'd like to accomplish… this isn't always true, but it does help with coming up with a direction initially.
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15:32 Making the Tough Lead
In this video Tim sets up the master compressor and limiter. He then gets going on the initial lead sound creation. Using Analog, watch as Tim uses the fine art of "Noodling" to come up with a selection of MIDI clips which later get chopped and changed in arrange view. Learn how to use Session view to create a palette of sounds and riffs to use later on in arrange view. You'll also learn some valuable time saving navigation and editing tips to help you find those golden gems in your MIDI recordings.
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21:00 Extending the Tough Lead
In this video you'll see how to layer up your sounds to make them sound large! You'll see how to make sounds bigger by applying the same concept as frequency splitting, but using different sound sources. Volume, saturation, EQ and reverb are the tools used here to make the sounds cohesive, plus a healthy dose of side chaining to make room for the kick.
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2:30 A Bit Off The Top
This short video shows how to squeeze a bit more volume out of main lead, and taming some of those digital peaks which may be present after saturation and sound combining.
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13:50 Adding Drums
In this video Tim starts to add drums to the mix. See how Tim layers up some claps, snares and rides to find a good balance between them and the lead sound. You'll also learn some great clip naming advice which will help you later on down the track when it comes to arrangement time. See and hear the inner workings of good sample selection, and how choosing the right sound initially is almost always better than applying processing to a poor sounding sample. After the sounds are programmed in, Tim explains how to keep your short loops more interesting automatically by applying random parameter changes. Finally, you'll see how the Glue compressor is used on a drum group to keep things in line.
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8:25 Making Some Percussion
See how Tim does the splice and dice technique to create a new percussion sound using the attack and tail of two separate sounds. Learn how the browser and arrange view are your best friends when it comes to fine audio editing. You'll also see how to beat the lack of zero crossing snapping in Live by using subtle cross fades. At the end, watch as Tim programs in a tom pattern and explains why you might want to adjust the release time for a better sounding kick.
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12:15 Put on the Hats
It's time to add a few hi hats to the mix! You'll learn why it's always good to EQ your sounds in the mix, as well as a few ways to use Live's warping and pitching to extend and stretch your samples. We'll also experiment with sidechained reverb to keep our mix pumping.
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18:08 Starting the Melody
Now is the time to get out of the toughness and focus on making a melody! You'll learn what you need to think about when trying to join two totally different parts together. See how Tim takes the tough riff and is able to turn it into the start of an epic chord progression as well as a melodic arpeggio. Use Operator to make a few quick patches to jot down ideas, and learn how one knob is all you need to create your own build ups. You'll learn how to separate different patterns from the same midi clip and which synth parameters make the most impact in order to create variation and impact in your track.
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9:55 Making the Chord Progression
Tim goes through the initial melody and turns the simple chord stabs into an 8 bar epic chord progression. Those of you who don't have a lot of music theory training will feel right at home as Tim demonstrates how you can simply use your ears to program in great sounding progressions in a few minutes.
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9:48 Making a Pad
In this session we take our chord progression and use one of the great new Live 9 features to easily turn it into long chords. Using Analog, we'll sculpt out a great sounding background pad song which will fill up the sonic space, and provide a great background for buildups and intros. You'll learn how adjusting a synths max polyphony can make or break your pads release times, as well as how a good sounding chorus can be all you need for lush pad sounds.
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9:12 Arpeggio Sound Design
In this video Tim uses one of the randomly selected synth hits to layer with our Arpeggio. You'll see how to use a samples release time to test your loop settings in order to check for clicks. Tim demonstrates how to map the most used parameters to Macros to keep things automated, interesting and of course for build ups! You'll also see how using macros occasionally gives you a few happy accidents and how odd parameter tweaks can lead to new sounds you'd not have usually created.
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13:42 Chord Progression Sound Design
Watch as Tim applies some creative techniques to enhance the sound of our main chord progression. You'll be able to hear the gears spinning as Tim goes through the few available samples, tweaking them to fit in the mix. See how even a failed attempt can still be used for sound design and layering. You'll learn how to make a tuned synth from any sample, ready to use and play in your project. Again, you'll learn how to use macros on multiple synths in order to adjust many parameters simultaneously, as well as how to apply reverb to only part of your sounds in order to widen up those specific areas.
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11:10 Sub Bass
Everyone's favorite subject, bass! You'll learn why sometimes it's better to use waveforms other than pure sines for your sub. See how spending a bit of time tweaking your bass notes to not follow the chord progression can provide a bit more harmonic interest in your tracks. See a few tricks on how people with less than ideal monitoring setups or cheap headphones can still work with sub bass and get your notes sounding right.
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4:48 Final Tweaks & Conclusion
After checking the track on a set of monitors, Tim goes through with some final tweaks to the song. He then goes through with some final thoughts and the conclusion of this series.
Product Overview
Remixer extraordinaire Timothy Allan is back and ready to show that you don't need any fancy third party plug-ins or instruments to make a great track in Live 9. In this series Timothy starts a club track using randomly selected samples, with Live 9 instruments and processing only! Timothy also includes his Live session file and samples so you can work and experiment along with him.
Timothy begins the series with a short introduction to what you can expect from this series. Next it's on to sample selection. Timothy does this randomly, by turning Live's preview function off, and is unable to hear the samples he is selecting until they are in his session, and loaded into channels! Timothy goes over the thought process for deciding what kind of track to make and then jumps right onto creating the initial lead sound.
From there Timothy adds drums and other percussion, including toms, hi-hats, pads and much more. Throughout the series Tim discusses and demonstrates the importance of EQing in the mix, sidechain techniques, volume saturation, frequency splitting and many other creative techniques.
If you use Ableton Live 9, this series from Timothy Allan will help you get your club track off to a great start. It's inspiration made easy... Get "Starting a Club Track with Live 9" today.
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Reviews
Submitted 6 months ago
Long and rewarding
Awesome awesome awesome. Although the track Tim makes may not be to your tastes, or you might not even get close to sounding like this demo, the techniques he walks through will be valuable whatever style you end up making. This tutorial includes tips on mindset, approach, ways to generate ideas, what can go wrong, why it's gone wrong, how to fix it, how to make your own sounds, wow. He never stops giving you great tools and techniques. You could spend months doing some 'how to sound like YadaYada' on youtube, but if you spend a few days with these two tutorials, you'll advance much quicker. You'll know what to listen for, how to do it, and why to do it. The teacher is good humoured and although you'll easily be working through these for twice as long as you think, he's clear, and is slow enough for you to follow along - yet make your own decisions - whilst he keeps it bobbing along at a good pace. Great lesson
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Submitted 8 months ago
Why did I watch this?
Now it is clear “where the legs grow from” and why the music is degrading ...
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Submitted 1 year ago
Super Fun and Informative
I learned a ton of foundational things for building a powerful and bumping club track. What I ended up with at the end really impressed me.
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Submitted 3 years ago
Helpful!!
Nice step by step how you can do it. Hoping for the arrangement videos.
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Submitted 3 years ago
Excelent !
Very good tutorial, thumbs up !!
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Submitted 3 years ago
Helpful
Fun and a relief to see it's not incredibly difficult to make music
I am a: Beginner, Hobbyist, Musician, Producer, Ableton Live
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Submitted 3 years ago
Still slightly confused !
Pretty helpful , but as far as the tracks were, for my taste kind of weak, not t
I am a: Professional, Musician, Beat Maker, Sound Designer, Sound for Film/TV, Ableton Live, Cubase
Response from Customer Service:
I'm glad you found the tutorial helpful. This is an entry level run through of the basics to start a club track in Live 9 so the tracks themselves will be basic by design. More advanced instruction will provide more advanced tracks.
I'm sorry you only felt it deserved a 2.5 star rating. If you are still confused on the process then checking out our Finishing a Club Track in Live 9 may help clear up the remainder of your questions.
Good luck with your projects!
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Submitted 4 years ago
Learned a ton!
These videos cover so much in putting together a song. Seeing the workflow of an artist, troubleshooting tips, and tricks was very helpful. You learn how to create those classic sounds that we all hear as well as techniques for arrangements and buildups, giving you the ability to take these new tools with you to new songs you create.
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Submitted 4 years ago
Nice videos, to get used to work deeply in Ableton
Nice videos, to get used to work deeply in Ableton, had only a bit to struggle looking to the new Simpler layout which is quite different from the one used in this videos
I am a: Semi-Pro
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Submitted 4 years ago
Excellent!
This has been an extremely helpful course! Let me just briefly touch on a few things that I found interesting. One thing is, early on, the instructor mentioned something about how, rather than try to lay down whatever ideas he had in his head at the time, he prefers to just get started with some sounds, rhythms, riffs, etc.. and see where it leads. I like that approach personally because I think you can come up with stuff beyond what you'd normally imagine that way. Another thing I liked is while the course is primarily focused on producing a track, it does help build on whatever working knowledge you have of Ableton's instruments and effects. The last thing I want to mention is.. Um, well, what I did was create two different Ableton sets to do the course with, and use different chord progressions and melodies from what the instructor was doing, but I did try to follow all the coursework - the concepts, the tweaks etc.. so in the end, I ended up with two original tracks which bear no resemblance to the instructors track. One turned out just ok, but I'm quite pleased with the other one. Looking forward to the "Finishing a Club Track" course next!
I am a: Student, Semi-Pro, Musician, Producer, Ableton Live
Ease of Use Quality of Videos Value of Training Access to Videos
Reviews
Submitted 6 months ago
Long and rewarding
Awesome awesome awesome. Although the track Tim makes may not be to your tastes, or you might not even get close to sounding like this demo, the techniques he walks through will be valuable whatever style you end up making. This tutorial includes tips on mindset, approach, ways to generate ideas, what can go wrong, why it's gone wrong, how to fix it, how to make your own sounds, wow. He never stops giving you great tools and techniques. You could spend months doing some 'how to sound like YadaYada' on youtube, but if you spend a few days with these two tutorials, you'll advance much quicker. You'll know what to listen for, how to do it, and why to do it. The teacher is good humoured and although you'll easily be working through these for twice as long as you think, he's clear, and is slow enough for you to follow along - yet make your own decisions - whilst he keeps it bobbing along at a good pace. Great lesson
Submitted 8 months ago
Why did I watch this?
Now it is clear “where the legs grow from” and why the music is degrading ...
Submitted 1 year ago
Super Fun and Informative
I learned a ton of foundational things for building a powerful and bumping club track. What I ended up with at the end really impressed me.
Submitted 3 years ago
Helpful!!
Nice step by step how you can do it. Hoping for the arrangement videos.
Submitted 3 years ago
Excelent !
Very good tutorial, thumbs up !!
Submitted 3 years ago
Helpful
Fun and a relief to see it's not incredibly difficult to make music
I am a: Beginner, Hobbyist, Musician, Producer, Ableton Live
Submitted 3 years ago
Still slightly confused !
Pretty helpful , but as far as the tracks were, for my taste kind of weak, not t
I am a: Professional, Musician, Beat Maker, Sound Designer, Sound for Film/TV, Ableton Live, Cubase
Response from Customer Service:
I'm glad you found the tutorial helpful. This is an entry level run through of the basics to start a club track in Live 9 so the tracks themselves will be basic by design. More advanced instruction will provide more advanced tracks.
I'm sorry you only felt it deserved a 2.5 star rating. If you are still confused on the process then checking out our Finishing a Club Track in Live 9 may help clear up the remainder of your questions.
Good luck with your projects!
Submitted 4 years ago
Learned a ton!
These videos cover so much in putting together a song. Seeing the workflow of an artist, troubleshooting tips, and tricks was very helpful. You learn how to create those classic sounds that we all hear as well as techniques for arrangements and buildups, giving you the ability to take these new tools with you to new songs you create.
Submitted 4 years ago
Nice videos, to get used to work deeply in Ableton
Nice videos, to get used to work deeply in Ableton, had only a bit to struggle looking to the new Simpler layout which is quite different from the one used in this videos
I am a: Semi-Pro
Submitted 4 years ago
Excellent!
This has been an extremely helpful course! Let me just briefly touch on a few things that I found interesting. One thing is, early on, the instructor mentioned something about how, rather than try to lay down whatever ideas he had in his head at the time, he prefers to just get started with some sounds, rhythms, riffs, etc.. and see where it leads. I like that approach personally because I think you can come up with stuff beyond what you'd normally imagine that way. Another thing I liked is while the course is primarily focused on producing a track, it does help build on whatever working knowledge you have of Ableton's instruments and effects. The last thing I want to mention is.. Um, well, what I did was create two different Ableton sets to do the course with, and use different chord progressions and melodies from what the instructor was doing, but I did try to follow all the coursework - the concepts, the tweaks etc.. so in the end, I ended up with two original tracks which bear no resemblance to the instructors track. One turned out just ok, but I'm quite pleased with the other one. Looking forward to the "Finishing a Club Track" course next!
I am a: Student, Semi-Pro, Musician, Producer, Ableton Live
1. When did you start dabbling in music?
As a very young kid my parents signed me up for piano lessons. My mom said if I quit that I would regret it later on in life, but I thought piano lessons were boring! Electronic music was a natural progression for me from those early days, it let me combine my love of technology and all things nerdy with a love of loud and strange noises.
2. What training have you had?
I've had years and years of training from a good friend of mine named "The Internet", and before him my other good pal "Trial and Error".
3. When did you get into recording?
The wonder of synthesis and certain electronic music is that you never really have to record anything if you don't want to! Although I do remember way back in the day recording found sounds on an old garage sale cassette recorder I bought, and using those samples in old school Trackers on the Apple II.
4. People you have worked with/for?
I've worked with, and for, a whole bunch of fantastic people so far. Some of the more popular ones include Empire of the Sun, Dirty South, Ash, Paul Oakenfold, Carl Kennedy, Hong Kong Blondes, Loverush UK, Molly Bancroft, Made by Monkeys, Tiff Lacey, Marcie, Offer Nissim and Kirsty Hawkshaw. Madonna chose a track I made for a compilation she released, although she never called or took me for lunch! That really doesn't count as 'working with' does it!?
5. Why are you so good at training people?
I'm good at training people because I remember what it was like to be the newbie, and I try and go over things that I would have found interesting and cool, back when I was starting out. I take the time to learn the techniques inside and out, and then break that down quickly for people.
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