Sonic Academy – How To Remix Ableton Live (TUTORIAL)

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Developer: Sonic Academy
Release Date: September 6, 2010
Course Language: English
Format: FLV
Quality: Video Codec: AVC. Video: 193kbps / 910×570 (1.600) / 12fps / 4:2:0. Audio: 128kbps / 44.1KHz / 2channels / ACC (version 4).

  • 298.2 MB

Phil Johnston is an Ableton remix pro.
He’ll show you how to approach the remix process most efficiently.

Get inside the mind of remixer and Ableton expert Phil Johnston to discover how he used (and abused) Ableton Live 8 to put together this massive remix.

The course consists of 16 lessons lasting 2 hours and 9 minutes.

Tutorial 0 – Playthrough
Tutorial 1 – Setup
We take a look at our remix parts and get them synced up with our project.

Tutorial 2 – Finding Chords
A look at how the chord pattern from the original parts can be used as our main synth

Tutorial 3 – Synth One
We program our main synth part using the Sylenth 1

Tutorial 4 – Synth 1 FX
We add the some reverb and FX to our main synth part

Tutorial 5 – Drums
Now that we have some of our sounds sorted we bring in the beats

Tutorial 6 – Arrangement 1
We start laying out some basic structure

Tutorial 7 – Harpsicord
We use the harpsichord part that our chords came from as an FX bed

Tutorial 8 – Arrangement 2
We continue to layout our arrangement

Tutorial 9 – Arrangement 3
We continue to layout our arrangement

Tutorial 10 – Arrangement 4
We continue to layout our arrangement

Tutorial 11 – Arrangement 5
We continue to layout our arrangement

Tutorial 12 – Bass
We add our bass part using Abletons simpler and Studio Devil Amp Simulator

Tutorial 13 – Strings
We Duplicate our main synth part and use it program a lush string sound using Sylenth 1

Tutorial 14 – FX Sweep
We add some mega sweeps to really lift the build up.

Tutorial 15 – Fills
We use hi pass filters in our transitions to make or sections more effective

Tutorial 16 – Top Tail


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