How to create a talking dubstep bass wobble sound from scratch using simpler, redux, frequency cutoff and resonance, LFO, and some creativity. Make any synth say things like Wow, Yeah, Whomp, and Wobble just like what is found in popular dubstep and electro house.

In this tutorial I share a technique for turning any texture, pad, or soundscape into a tight rhythmic stuttering pattern. It’s accomplished using sidechain options of the gate effect in Ableton Live. This type of effect is something you hear in a lot of psy dub, psy trance, and psybient music. You hear it used in many songs by artists like Shpongle…

In this Ableton Live lesson, I will demo how to split 2 or more instruments across your midi controller.  That way you can play one instrument with each hand or switch between sounds quickly.  I use this technique sometimes when playing live with my band to control bass with one hand and pads/synth with the […]