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outbound wrote: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

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)

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.

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.