About forthcoming content! 📒📜🗒
Added 2020-05-19 14:58:09 +0000 UTCAlright, Patreon friends!
I want to give you a quick look into what's been planned to appear on my Patreon page at least, content-wise.
Some of these will be free for all, while some "heavy hitters" will be for those with a paid membership only...some of this has been requested heavily for years.
In addition to these, there will of course be downloads, for example like the free downloads I've posted so far.
Also, I'd really like to hear what you'd like to see and hear about.
Without further ado, below you'll find a (slightly cleaned-up) copypaste from my current "Patreon to-do" notepad!
• How to set up an efficient mastering project in Ableton Live [video]
• How to do program funky D&B drums Fanu style [video]
• Making a “custom" DNB breakbeat [video]
• Processing in some of my released songs [video]
• Why I like Ableton Live [video or a post]
• Why I like making music with an MPC [video or a post]
• How to sidechain width in Ableton Live [video]
• Fave free plugins [video or a post]
• Replacing / enhancing drums in Ableton Live [video]
• Megareese rack [download]
• Low end kick beefery rack
• Song structures [video]
• Mixing quicktips [videos]
• Plugin test drives [videos]
• VLOG: Being a productive being
• VLOG: Be(com)ing “successful” in what you do
• VLOG: Producers with a broken spirit
…and that's just the stuff I've had on my notepad for a while.
I come up with these ideas all the time, and as you may have seen on my Youtube playlist or my commercial Ableton masterclasses, I really like doing videos.
See anything interesting on the list? Want to suggest something?
Let me know in this post!
Comments
I’d like some tips/content on ( Creative resampling. How, where and why certain plugins would be used (from standard type stuff like eq to resonance suppressors). Kinda leads into the final request Tips / guidance that would build almost template or a solid foundation for mixing a track that can be used from the get go of building a track - stuff that works for you for example setting a bass buss up the plugins you’d have on the buss (like a limiter) the level you have the bass bus at (-10db or whatever), do you split the sub out before sending bass to a buss? And then the same for drums / drum bus and all the other elements of a song. Appreciate that’s a lot to ask for and would likely vary per song
Simon Bates
2021-10-18 19:40:02 +0000 UTCThis list looks really awesome. Varied and balanced. Hard to pick favorite bullet points, I kinda want hear about all of them :)
hologroove
2020-05-22 21:21:24 +0000 UTCThat all sounds really great, no shortage of awesome ideas from you I have no doubt and quite honestly at this point in the game for myself I can't think of anything more to ask for, thank you !!!
JP
2020-05-21 05:51:00 +0000 UTCGood idea!
Janne Hatula
2020-05-21 04:41:58 +0000 UTC"I have a drum machine and couple of bass synths then what would be the best way to connect these to loudspeakers/headphones? A regular mixer?" A regular mixer is a simple way to do this, yes. Also, there are other options – e.g., I have a Universal Audio Apollo that has 8 inputs and which allows for latency-free monitoring in realtime, so if one runs signal into its inputs, it can be heard immediately (doesnt go thru a DAW).
Janne Hatula
2020-05-21 04:41:03 +0000 UTCIt's good to make some decisions based on your current workflow vs. desired workflow. I'll give an example. Ok, let's say I have 4 synthesizers that I like to command with Ableton Live via sending midinotes to them. Do I want to be able to record all four synths, separately (not at the same time) into four audio tracks? In this case, you'd have it like this: 1. Midi Track in Ableton, sends Midi Notes via your soundcard, or Midi Adapter, to your synthesizer. 2. Audio comes from synthesizer, into Ableton via your soundcard's input channel. 3. Audio is caught by Ableton Live into an Audio Track, set to follow your soundcard's input channel. 4. You ready the Audio Track for recording, enable record in the Ableton Live transport, and press play. -> a Midi Track in Ableton is commanding your synth, and an Audio Track in Ableton is recording the output. This would work in a situation where you have an audio input going into Ableton Live. For that, you'd need to have a soundcard. Here's where it gets fun. Let's say you have 4 synths, and you want to record everything in one go. Separately, so each synth to it's own wavefile. You need 4 inputs for that (if they are Mono synths). If the synths are Stereo, you need 8 inputs for that. But some people are just happy having a regular hardware mixer, and the synths are plugged into the mixer with audio cables. Then they can mute synths 3-4, and record synth1 directly into Ableton Live (granted, you need to have a cable going from the Mixer into the soundcard). Then when they are finished recording synth1 onto an Audio Track, they mute synth 1 and unmute synth2.. and continue until you have recorded each synth, via your soundcard's stereo input, into separate wavefiles on separate Audio Tracks. Or you could just plug the mixer into a recording device, a tape, reel-to-reel deck, DAT, a Zoom recorder, and just record the mixer output. It really depends on what you'd like to do. Notice that none of this addresses the latency of the midi notes going out from your Ableton to your synths and the latency of the audio coming back into your Ableton - that's a more complex issue, one that I'm yet to solve myself. But yeah, some go the way of having a 24 or even 32 channel input soundcard ( or a mix of a few devices plugged together ) just so they can record everything to wavefiles separately. And some are just happy with recording one channel at a time. And of course, if you have multiple inputs on your soundcard, you can arm multiple channels with Ableton Live, and add VST/AU plugin efx or native Ableton Live efx into the mix, too. When it comes to outboard sequencers, you wanna think, again, do you want to command synthesizers directly, or via Ableton (where you could also modify the midi notes coming out from your hardware sequencer, prior to sending them out to synthesizers). And one more thing, you want to think really long and hard about saving presets, or whether you just want to work on a track a day, record it as wavefiles, and move onto the next thing. I can kinda see how/why some just go the dawless route and just record the stereo output. And some go dawless yet retain the daw as a multi-channel recorder.
esaruoho
2020-05-20 16:38:02 +0000 UTCThat's great! One thing occurred, while I'm sure you'd prefer to steer away from stuff like this, but some sort of "no-brainer stuff" would be useful. i.e. some reverbs offer a highcut that is set to 10Hz, yet "is there any reason to have a reverb for 0Hz - 100Hz" comes to mind.. i.e. kinda like with your producer and mastering/mixing engineer hats on, with a "please don't do x" kind of Ableton for Dummies type thing - stuff that you'd think anyone would already know about, yet .. which isn't that obvious to people such as me.
esaruoho
2020-05-20 16:22:29 +0000 UTCThe list looks pretty good already! I'm currently planning to buy some hardware and I have some problems planning the environment for the production. A video / article about how to build hardware setup, what's the part of different components and how to connect everything to Live would be awesome. I could imagine that this is a wide topic and maybe hard to squeeze up to a one post and the components probably differ a lot from different solutions, but this is definitely something that would be nice to have. Some questions that I still haven't found answer to are things like if I have a drum machine and couple of bass synths then what would be the best way to connect these to loudspeakers/headphones? A regular mixer? How should i connect all this into a laptop which has Live running in it and can I achieve this with the setup described before plus my two channel usb interface? If I add a sequencer such as beatstep pro to this what are the benefits? Maybe I just haven't found right source for information, but this all is very confusing atm. :P
Samuli Vaittinen
2020-05-20 11:39:20 +0000 UTCAll sounds great! Im particularly looking forward to hearing your approach to building out song structure. Most of my attempts to move beyond the 16bar loop stage seem to end up with several equally lovely 16 bar segments that sound like they want to belong to different songs. While sort of fun, it would be nice to get into the habit of actually finishing tracks that have a cohesive musical journey.
James Green
2020-05-19 21:11:04 +0000 UTCI'll show you how I do it, very soon! So far I've had one way, but your question actually raised another idea :D Which is great. I'll go thru both!
Janne Hatula
2020-05-19 15:32:25 +0000 UTCSidechaining width stuff sounds great! Would this work kinda like by having a Send Track where you route beats into and then you have a width-sidechaining going on on a Send Track or a few that have reverb /delay in them? I could i guess set up a template with this kind of stuff applied, for future works and gigging purposes. Any workflow-related things are much appreciated. And of course anything that a native Ableton Live rack or setup can do, without needing max4live. And maybe about keeping your master track safe for ears (ie how to evade accidental loud spikes by having a transparent limiter but also evading getting all songs getting squashed into a non-dynamic brickwall of sound.
esaruoho
2020-05-19 15:09:58 +0000 UTC
