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Create a Spooky Halloween Drone Synth in Ableton Live – Sound Design, Instrument...

Oct 28, 2011  With Halloween just around the corner, we decided to show you some Ableton sound design techniques to make a drone synth full of slime, ghouls and goblins! Danny J Lewis...
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Tempo Giusto Creates a Progressive Lead Riff and Stab in Ableton Live

Oct 24, 2011  In this tutorial Tempo Giusto (Echelon) builds the layers of his progressive track adding a simple synth stab and lead riff to great effect. The tutorial is taken from our...
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Creating Soulful House Electric Bass with Logic’s EXS24

Oct 24, 2011  In this video Danny J Lewis (Enzyme Black, Defected) demonstrates how to create a realistic sounding electric bass Logic’s EXS24 sampler. The tutorial is a sample taken from the Deep...
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Custom Instrument Racks in Ableton – Formant Filter, Redux, Reverb and Arpeggio

Oct 21, 2011  In this video Danny J Lewis (Enzyme Black, Defected) plays with the formant filter in a basic custom instrument rack put together with arpeggio, redux, ping pong delay and reverb....
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Recording, Transposing & EQ’ing Deep House Vocals: Chicago Style

Oct 19, 2011  In this video Danny J Lewis (Enzyme Black, Defected) shows you how to create some authentic sounding house vox using your own recordings. Layering, transposing, panning, EQing and compressing the...
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Create Ambient Pad Sounds w/ Loops, Midi & 808 Drums

Oct 17, 2011  In this video Jonny Miller (Jus’Listen/Sonarpilot Audio) lays down an 808 drum pattern, before editting some rhodes audio parts (with particular focus on the reverse function) to construct a hip...
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Point Blank @ the BPM Show – Scratch Live w/ Mr Bristow

Oct 10, 2011  Point Blank went up to this year’s BPM Show in Birmingham to join the likes of Pioneer, Vestax, Native Instruments and many more in bringing expertise and advice to all...
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How to Use Compression, Logic Mixing Tips: Threshold, Ratio & Gain

Oct 10, 2011  In this classic tutorial from our youtube vault Danny J Lewis defines the terms, threshold, ratio and gain reduction to help explain the basic techniques of compression. We explore the...
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Learn to Create Moombahton Beats in Ableton – Live!

Oct 07, 2011  Welcome to the next in our series of live beatmaking videos with Danny J Lewis. Each time we ask you what sound or genre you would like to hear, then...
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Logic Tutorial – Create Ambient Atmospheres with Binaural Panning

Oct 05, 2011  In this video Danny J Lewis demonstrates how binaural panning can be used to give a very interesting sense of space and movement in your track. The tutorial is taken...
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Shaping Sounds with Ableton Live’s Sampler

Oct 03, 2011  In this video Jonny Miller (Jus’Listen/Sonarpilot Audio) shows you how to manipulate sounds with Sampler’s Shaper tool in Ableton Live -  a great way to create subtle movement in tone and emphasis as your track develops. Jonny Miller is celebrating 20 years in the music business throughout 2011. His...
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