Ask Video – EAR 106: Noah Pred – Harnessing Chaos (TUTORIAL)

By | November 6, 2025

 

Release Year: 2014
Producer: Ask Video
Producer’s Website: www.askvideo.com/course/ear-106-noah-pred-harnessing-chaos
Author: Noah Pred
Duration: 01:58:46
Type of Material: Video Lesson
Language: English

  • 328.6 MB

Description: Inspiration is often born out of chaos. In this course, electronic artist Noah Pred will show you how to harness chaos using devices in Ableton Live, using Reaktor and Synplant to infuse a few inspiring randomness into your tracks.

Noah Pred is a master of electronic music. He is also an experienced, certified Ableton Live instructor. In this course, he takes you on a journey through his creative inner sanctum, where he shows you how many of his electronic musical ideas are generated.

Inspiration is often born out of chaos. In this course, by electronic artist Noah Pred, you learn how to control chaos using devices in Ableton Live along with Reaktor and Synplant to infuse some inspiring randomness into your tracks.

Noah Pred is a master of electronic music. He is also an experienced Ableton Live Certified Trainer. In this course, he takes you on a journey into his creative inner sanctum where he shows you how many of his electronic musical ideas are generated, manipulated and transformed by a cool array of random-inducing MIDI devices and synths.

Imagine having a collection of random, robotic collaborators that you can enlist to introduce just the right touch of unexpected spice into your tracks. That’s what these devices do! And Noah shows you how he works this kind of controlled chaos into his own music and explains how you can deploy these wonderfully chaotic techniques in yours!

If you like thinking outside the box, and are willing to explore the deep, arcane corners of the creative process, this course is guaranteed to transform the way you compose and perform. But be careful!… because after you watch this course your music may never be the same!

Content :
01 Course Introduction (01:34)
02 What Is Chaos? (03:36)
03 Random Inputs (03:13)
04 Scaled Probabilities (03:29)
05 Velocity Vectors (03:18)
06 Chord Disorder (06:16)
07 Arpeggiator Anarchy (03:33)
08 MIDI Effect Racks for Harmony (04:07)
09 MIDI Effect Racks for Performance (09:08)
10 Capturing Chaos as Audio (06:28)
11 Capturing Chaos as MIDI (07:01)
12 Monosequencer (10:30)
13 ML-185 (12:10)
14 Follow Actions (04:24)
15 Random Patterns (04:24)
16 Randomized Drums (05:45)
17 Synplant (06:47)
18 Reaktor (05:48)
19 Bass Case (06:30)
20 Integrating Chaos (08:36)
21 Chaos Harnessed (02:00)

Sample files: none
Video format: MP4
Video: AVC, 1280×720, 16:9, 30,000 fps, ~453 kbps
Audio: AAC, 44.1 kHz, 96.0 kbps, 2 channels


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