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Hi there!

I am going to be putting together a series of instructional videos on YouTube.

They will be about producing dubstep on Ableton and a few segments on NI Massive too.

Just wondering what those of you who are interested would want to see.

Processing drums to make them sound fat and real?
Bass processing?
Frequency splitting and resampling?
Programming brosteppish basses in Massive?
Mixing techniques and making elements fit together?

Anything you can think of!!

Cheers,
Ascian

anything except for those 3 topics
lol sorry i'm not being a jerk, i'm serious.

shimmering, evolving pads in massive
this is what i've been shooting for

-[2]DAY_- wrote:anything except for those 3 topics
lol sorry i'm not being a jerk, i'm serious.

Haha, that's no worries.. That's why I posted this thread!

What would you want to see personally?

Obviously this won't be aimed at incredbily advanced users - Just people who still have a good amount to learn

I would quite like to see some interesting techniques to making your tracks sounding more full with samples and fx maybe?

Thanks.

Frequency splitting and resampling

Successfully mixing loud screechy brostepers basses over hard hitting drums and still obtaining a clean mixdown

RandoRando wrote:Successfully mixing loud screechy brostepers basses over hard hitting drums and still obtaining a clean mixdown

This

I would love to see some interesting techniques at resampling.

Lately I've been finding myself doing the same thing everytime I dip into some sound design for my basslines. I'm sick of using just chorus, notch filters, and distortion.

Sound design beyond basslines would be interesting too.

I'd be interested in percusion layering.

Thanks everyone for your replies - I will be using all of your suggestions as well as giving some other tit bits!

I will be posting the videos up here when they are ready so keep an eye out!

Drum programming.
Actual sound engineering, not that bullshit "wobwubwub" sound other tutorials make on Operator. A lead, bassline and how to add variety to said bassline.
Bassline layering and arranging.
Resampling.


Aww hell, just make a whole video of you making a track from scratch

i happily check out any tuts for stuff i have, even some for shit i don't have is helpful. learned quite i a bit from some Ableton tuts and i never even touched it. Freq splitting and resampling always a good start
thx

GothamHero wrote:Drum programming.
Actual sound engineering, not that bullshit "wobwubwub" sound other tutorials make on Operator. A lead, bassline and how to add variety to said bassline.
Bassline layering and arranging.
Resampling.


Aww hell, just make a whole video of you making a track from scratch

This is a really good idea and I will definitely be doing something about detailed, musical sound design.. I'm making a song right now where I've synthesised loads of angry horse noises so may do something about that or pick a new topic to design

-[2]DAY_- wrote:anything except for those 3 topics
lol sorry i'm not being a jerk, i'm serious.

-[2]DAY_- wrote:i happily check out any tuts for stuff i have, even some for shit i don't have is helpful. learned quite i a bit from some Ableton tuts and i never even touched it. Freq splitting and resampling always a good start
thx

Soo.... One of the topics I originally posted, haha

I will definitely be doing a section on this so no worries

hi sorry to hijak this thread with a question on a different subject (btw personally id love you to do these vids, im new and struggling
but my quick question is, when you put a sample in midi and you play it in different notes the higher the note the faster it plays....how do i get it so it playes all the notes in the correct speed??

55stevieboy2010 wrote:hi sorry to hijak this thread with a question on a different subject (btw personally id love you to do these vids, im new and struggling
but my quick question is, when you put a sample in midi and you play it in different notes the higher the note the faster it plays....how do i get it so it playes all the notes in the correct speed??

Timestretching and pitch correction, what DAW you using?

im using ableton

I would like to know how to sound like Skrillex....

Not his music, but how he gets his voice so high and squeaky...

howiegroove wrote:I would like to know how to sound like Skrillex....

Not his music, but how he gets his voice so high and squeaky...

Skrillex isn't even a person he's the newest DAW to hit the streets... He simply used his own transpose function

55stevieboy2010 wrote:hi sorry to hijak this thread with a question on a different subject (btw personally id love you to do these vids, im new and struggling
but my quick question is, when you put a sample in midi and you play it in different notes the higher the note the faster it plays....how do i get it so it playes all the notes in the correct speed??

Sorry mate but there's no easy way of doing this within Ableton! What you can do if the sound doesn't move around too much - put it in Sampler and set it to loop by clicking the two arrows that point to the right and adjusting the loop length in the section that shows the waveform.. Simply drag the markers to where sounds good and hit the 'snap' function to reduce popping. If there is still any pops at the end of the loop, use the 'crossfade' function. Should create the effect that the sound is the same length on higher notes

Sorry I can't be more detailed or give screenshots or anything - am on my phone! There may be a few ways you can do this so if you are still stuck - PM me!