Aulart has great news for Ableton Live users: we will be having Live 11 very soon! Yes, you heard right. After 4 years from the release of Live 10, which already brought us wonderful new instruments and effects, such as the Wavetable synth or the Drum Buss, along with workflow interface improvements, in 2021 we …
Snare sounds are notoriously difficult to choose, and to fit into a mix, so why not create your own with total sonic flexibility? Using this simple tutorial you will be able to make your own synthesized snare drum which is totally flexible so that you can tweak it to suit your tracks. How to …
Sidechain compression is a topic most producers know: for example sidechaining a kick against a bass. However, you can sidechain for other effects too. How about an inline side-chained distortion on a kick’s reverb? These sidechain secrets help you create amazing unusual sounds. Get weird deep evolving sounds, kick drums, and self-sidechaining snares. Check it …
In part I we saw the most common types of waveforms an oscillator can have and now we are going to be giving some guidance on the type of waveforms to be chosen when creating a new synth instrument. CREATING INSTRUMENTS Before going into the particularities of using some waveforms or others when …
INTRODUCTION The other day, one of our Aulart students asked us a very interesting question: What wavesound should be used when creating different synth instruments? (leads, pads, basses, atmospheric sounds, plucks, etc) We are sure that many of us would love to have a clear guidance on what kind of waveform to start with …
Disco or funk claps are a distinctive sound of a group of people in a studio. Think of the intro to Car Wash by Rose Royce and you’ll know that it’s a great dance floor motivator, a human percussive sound which is very different to the tight drum machine claps of house. Here’s how to …
Today we are going to be creating a very dark rhythm pattern with the standard drum rack 909 Core Kit. You will be able to just edit it step by step following the indications after loading the kit in a current version of Ableton Live, without the need to look for other specific samples. …
Do you recognize this vibrato? This effect has been created by an LFO and in this article you will see how. We will explain what a LFO is and will give you examples of how to use it with different synthesizers so you can eventually make it work in any. What is a LFO? …
We have heard many times that it is important to fine-tune the percussive elements in our compositions. This is especially important for the “kick or “bass drum” when we want to produce styles such as house or techno, or any other electronic genre in which these elements have a lot of relevance. We will explain …
Analog lead-synth sounds have an organic evocative and expressive quality which makes them great for creating emotive riffs. Here’s how to make an analog-style flute-synth lead in Ableton’s Operator! Here’s the sound we are going to make. The sound of an analog synth There are several key components to the sound of an analogue synth …
