Beat Lab Deconstruction – New Order’s Blue Monday
This week we’ll be starting our step-by-step guides for breaking down famous songs from history. We’re extremely excited to start with this instant hit – Blue Monday by New Order. Blue Monday is the best-selling 12″ single of all time so we figured it would be a good song to start this series with. For this and likely all future constructions we will be using Ableton Live 10 Suite. If you do not have Ableton Live or the same version, do your best to follow along. Drums Blue Monday’s drums are really quite simple, they follow four main drum patterns with the same break inserted multiple times throughout the song. Fortunately for us, they were also sequenced on a drum machine which makes recreating them a breeze. Find your DAW’s version of the Oberheim DMX and place it on your drum track, then get started on the patterns below. The …
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Syntorial – Learn How to Synth
This week we want to share our review of the educational software Syntorial. As the name implies it is a tutorial in Synthesis. In this article, we’ll tell you about Syntorial, its features, and give you a rundown of the workflow. What is Syntorial? Syntorial was created by the company Audible Genius, lead by Joe Hanley. Joe create the program after struggling to learn synthesis himself. Joe pulled up his bootstraps and got started on Syntorial by Learning how to code Making a prototype video game style training program to teach synthesis to the world Raising some cashola via Kickstarter Using said cashola to finish said program Releasing Syntorial into the wild Features Below is a list of the features so if you don’t feel like reading through the article you know what the program includes. 129 challenges 147 videos 706 patches 64 parameters 33 random tasks 39 quizzes Watch …
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All About Ableton’s Wavetable – Global Section & Unison (Part 7)
All About Ableton’s Wavetable – Global Section & Unison (Part 7) We continue our series of All About Ableton’s new Wavetable synthesizer. Today we cover the global section and unison controls! As always we included all the previous videos so scroll down for the latest video. divider style=”clear” Part 1 – Oscillators su_youtube_advanced url=”https://youtu.be/H4lL4tSvock” showinfo=”no” rel=”no” modestbranding=”yes” https=”yes” /su_youtube_advanced divider style=”clear” Part 2 – Filters su_youtube_advanced url=”https://youtu.be/xC-KxDa08us” showinfo=”no” rel=”no” modestbranding=”yes” https=”yes” /su_youtube_advanced divider style=”clear” Part 3 – Envelopes su_youtube_advanced url=”https://youtu.be/408L71dQqUE” showinfo=”no” rel=”no” modestbranding=”yes” https=”yes” /su_youtube_advanced divider style=”clear” Part 4 – The Matrix su_youtube_advanced url=”https://youtu.be/fcYyDmIZxVw” showinfo=”no” rel=”no” modestbranding=”yes” https=”yes” /su_youtube_advanced divider style=”clear” Part 5 – LFOs su_youtube_advanced url=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFP79JtVif8″ showinfo=”no” rel=”no” modestbranding=”yes” https=”yes” /su_youtube_advanced divider style=”clear” Part 6 – MIDI Expression su_youtube_advanced url=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KazlYRiyFA” showinfo=”no” rel=”no” modestbranding=”yes” https=”yes” /su_youtube_advanced divider style=”clear” Part 7 – Global & Unison su_youtube_advanced url=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9jvxRFLmEU” showinfo=”no” rel=”no” modestbranding=”yes” https=”yes” /su_youtube_advanced divider style=”clear” If you’d like to learn more about …
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All About Ableton’s Wavetable – MIDI Expression (Part 6)
All About Ableton’s Wavetable – MIDI Expression (Part 6) We continue our series of All About Ableton’s new Wavetable synthesizer. Today we’re covering the MIDI Expression! As always we included all the previous videos so scroll down for the latest video. Come back thursday for part 7! divider style=”clear” Part 1 – Oscillators su_youtube_advanced url=”https://youtu.be/H4lL4tSvock” showinfo=”no” rel=”no” modestbranding=”yes” https=”yes” /su_youtube_advanced divider style=”clear” Part 2 – Filters su_youtube_advanced url=”https://youtu.be/xC-KxDa08us” showinfo=”no” rel=”no” modestbranding=”yes” https=”yes” /su_youtube_advanced divider style=”clear” Part 3 – Envelopes su_youtube_advanced url=”https://youtu.be/408L71dQqUE” showinfo=”no” rel=”no” modestbranding=”yes” https=”yes” /su_youtube_advanced divider style=”clear” Part 4 – The Matrix su_youtube_advanced url=”https://youtu.be/fcYyDmIZxVw” showinfo=”no” rel=”no” modestbranding=”yes” https=”yes” /su_youtube_advanced divider style=”clear” Part 5 – LFOs su_youtube_advanced url=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFP79JtVif8″ showinfo=”no” rel=”no” modestbranding=”yes” https=”yes” /su_youtube_advanced divider style=”clear” Part 6 – MIDI Expression su_youtube_advanced url=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KazlYRiyFA” showinfo=”no” rel=”no” modestbranding=”yes” https=”yes” /su_youtube_advanced divider style=”clear”
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All About Ableton’s Wavetable – LFOs (Part 5)
All About Ableton’s Wavetable – LFOs (Part 5) We continue our series of All About Ableton’s new Wavetable synthesizer. Today we’re covering the LFOs! As always we included all the previous videos so scroll down for the latest video. Come back next week for part 6! divider style=”clear” Part 1 – Oscillators su_youtube_advanced url=”https://youtu.be/H4lL4tSvock” showinfo=”no” rel=”no” modestbranding=”yes” https=”yes” /su_youtube_advanced divider style=”clear” Part 2 – Filters su_youtube_advanced url=”https://youtu.be/xC-KxDa08us” showinfo=”no” rel=”no” modestbranding=”yes” https=”yes” /su_youtube_advanced divider style=”clear” Part 3 – Envelopes su_youtube_advanced url=”https://youtu.be/408L71dQqUE” showinfo=”no” rel=”no” modestbranding=”yes” https=”yes” /su_youtube_advanced divider style=”clear” Part 4 – The Matrix su_youtube_advanced url=”https://youtu.be/fcYyDmIZxVw” showinfo=”no” rel=”no” modestbranding=”yes” https=”yes” /su_youtube_advanced divider style=”clear” Part 5 – LFOs su_youtube_advanced url=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFP79JtVif8″ showinfo=”no” rel=”no” modestbranding=”yes” https=”yes” /su_youtube_advanced divider style=”clear”
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All About Ableton’s Wavetable – The Matrix (Part 4)
All About Ableton’s Wavetable – The Matrix (Part 4) We continue our series of All About Ableton’s new Wavetable synthesizer. Today we’re covering the the Matrix! Come back Thursday for part 5! divider style=”clear” Part 1 – Oscillators su_youtube_advanced url=”https://youtu.be/H4lL4tSvock” showinfo=”no” rel=”no” modestbranding=”yes” https=”yes” /su_youtube_advanced divider style=”clear” Part 2 – Filters su_youtube_advanced url=”https://youtu.be/xC-KxDa08us” showinfo=”no” rel=”no” modestbranding=”yes” https=”yes” /su_youtube_advanced divider style=”clear” Part 3 – Envelopes su_youtube_advanced url=”https://youtu.be/408L71dQqUE” showinfo=”no” rel=”no” modestbranding=”yes” https=”yes” /su_youtube_advanced divider style=”clear” Part 4 – The Matrix su_youtube_advanced url=”https://youtu.be/fcYyDmIZxVw” showinfo=”no” rel=”no” modestbranding=”yes” https=”yes” /su_youtube_advanced divider style=”clear”
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