Ableton Tutorial - Rhythmic Gated Patterns
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, Ott, Bluetech, Phutureprimitive, and many more.
Ayla Nereo's Hollow Bone Remixes
Alya Nereo's Hollow Bone Remixes compilation is now out on Jumpsuit Records. It features remixes by E O (a.k.a. Eric Oberthaler), Kyrstyn Pixton, Random Rab, Makhana, Mbanza, Antandra, Scott Nice, Ryan Herr Music, SriKaloGY, AtYyA, Kalya Scintilla, D.V.S*, The Human Experience - David Block, Lemurr, saQi, Queued Time Music aka Walking ॐ Om / DJ Osmosis, Living Light and ill-ēsha. The compilation is an amazing journey through world music influences, bass music and ...
Mirror Me (Zenon Rec.) Interview
DJ Story: Great Music! Are you using Ableton? Mirror Me (Zenon Rec.): Yep. All Ableton. Synthesizing, sampling and resampling. A minimalist approach. DJ Story: Any plugins? Mirror Me (Zenon Rec.): Oh yah. FM8, Sylenth, Massive, and many more. DJ Story: What did you use for the bass? Mirror Me (Zenon Rec.): I don't remember. Either Sylenth or UltraBass MX I think. DJ Story: What about that ...
Creative Resampling in Ableton
Resampling opens up a lot of creative potential when producing music in Ableton. I find it especially handy when I want to add a bit of randomness to a composition, because you can record the random variations in and edit them down into what actually sounds good to your ear. Let's say for example you have a BeatRepeat, LiveCut, or other glitch effect on the track with randomized settings. ...
APC40 Python Scripts Review
When I first got my APC40, I was amazed by the out of the box functionality. I had done my research, and knew that it was what I wanted. It offers a lot of flexibility in the studio and for live performance. I still had this feeling like there must be more though. I started experimenting with it, and noticed I couldn't use a midi translator with it, and I was frustrated ...
Antandra Exclusive Mix and Interview for LostinSound
“There are few producers in the American psychedelic bass music culture rising faster than Antandra. Lost in Sound has been excited to feature the original productions from Jacob Louis‘ project.” ―…
Future Bass Pads and Talking Bass with Xfer Serum
This is the first in a series of live streams I plan on doing. The focus will be on sound design, and in this episode, I create some future pads…
Developing Your Own Sound
Having a certain, recognizable sound comes down to having consistent characteristics. This meaning, having key elements and styles that you repeat in your work between various projects. Here are just…
Serum Tutorial: Bell Sound Design (Future Bass/Chill Trap)
Today, I will show you how to make a bell sound commonly heard in chill trap, future bass, R&B etc. The beat came from the Loopmasters Chill Trap and Future RnB sample pack…
How to Make Psy Squelches with Sylenth1
In this tutorial I demo one technique for making psy squelches using sylenth1. This method works well for anyone looking to make anything in the experimental, psybient, psychill, psydub, psybass…
Focusrite Scarlett 2i4 Audio Interface Review
My review of the Focusrite Scarlett 2i4 Audio Interface. Package includes USB cable and activation code for Novation Bass Station, Live Lite, Focusrite Bundle Loopmasters Sample Pack and more. Seems…