Learn how to use Beat Repeat in Ableton Live

Thavius Beck teaches you how to use Ableton Live’s Beat Repeat audio effect to manipulate your drum tracks and create new and interesting rhythmic patterns and effects. He takes you through each feature of the effect and offers an in-depth explanation of what each knob does. A must for all beat heads...

How to use Multiband Compression with Ozone from Izotope

Daniel Wyatt shares an amazing technique using Ozone’s Multiband Compressor to gather up all the low end frequencies (foundational elements such as kick and bass) of your track and boosting them up and giving them compression pressure, while maintaining a dynamic of...

How to use the Mid-Side EQ technique with Ozone from Izotope

Daniel Wyatt shares an invaluable tip for mastering: The Mid-Side EQ Technique, also known as The Sum & Difference Technique, which is an amazing technique you can use to adjust the stereo width of tracks and make them wider. Daniel Wyatt is using the Ozone 4 mastering plug-in, but this is a universal...

How to use the Limiter in Ozone with Ableton Live

Daniel Wyatt teaches you how to use the limiter in Ozone 4 from Izotope. Daniel offers tips and techniques for polishing your tracks, and give them a finished, professional sound. Daniel Wyatt navigates the Limiter section and explains some the essential functions of the Loudness Maximizer (another name for...

How to use Ping Pong Delay as a Tape Delay in Ableton Live

Thavius Beck shows you how to make Ableton Live’s Ping Pong delay effect sound more like an authentic tape delay! As he puts it, this will “take less than 5 minutes of your life, and you will leave knowing a little bit more than you did before.”

See how Robot Koch creates really unique beats in detail

Great tutorial in how to make music and how to make a song in your very own unique style. Watch Robot Koch in this video and take some notes. Then manipulate Robot Koch’s ideas and further develop them into your very own. Robot Koch will show you how positioning claps and snares slightly off time can...

Mark de Clive-Lowe Talking About Chord Progressions

In this tutorial video Mark de Clive-Lowe demonstrates the use of the Minor Pentatonic scale over a simple two chord progression. Mark de Clive-Lowe focuses on pitch and melody with the goal of using a set of pitches to improvise over a two chord progression, namely the Pentatonic scale (a common five note...

Clip Launching and Follow Actions in Ableton Live

If you’ve been wanting to get a little deeper below the surface and find out how you can really customize Ableton Live into the rig of your dreams then you really should know how you can manipulate the Launch Properties of the clips you use, including Follow Actions. Follow this video tutorial and let...

Learn how to use Ableton Live upward bus compression

Learn how to use Ableton Live upward bus compression. A good tutorial about approaching compression from the bottom instead of from the top to bring the different parts of a track better together.