Apply what youve learned?

[didi]

Get a few tracks and listen to them like realllllly listen to them. Grab a pen and paper and count out how long the intro is, how long the drop goes on for, where the variations happen, when different elements come in and out etc.

^^best advice for anyone who wants to step up in production

[evilmoonmoose]

would this work by breaking them down in ableton live ? take a song, break it down into parts through repetetive listening and then make a song that conforms to its changes (not reusing any parts other than the layout of the song)

[fragments]

Honestly, my templates aren't that complex. Just some delays and reverbs on sends. If I am going to use Slate Digital mixing tools I have a template set up with VCCs and VTMs loaded up on some channels.

I used to use more complex templates, but I don't find them as useful now that I'm using a mix of hardware and software and a lot of different kinds of routing inside and outside my DAW. Also, I bounce things to audio really quickly, so again, templates aren't that helpful since I'm loading and unloading VSTs so often.

A lot of people find them very useful though.

[bouncingfish]

My logic templates are premade tracks sent into busses, ex synth - sent to synth bus that's sent out, kick - sent into kick bus that's sent into drum bus that's sent out, etc.
And then the tracks are colored. That's it basically.
No fx on or anything.
I do have massive loaded up on the synth track which I will stop doing, I pretty much stopped using other synths because of that ahah.