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Mixing the Bass and Kick | Quadrophone

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Mixing the Bass and Kick. Because the bassline and the kick drum are the two lowest-frequency elements of your track, they’ll often end up occupying the same space in the frequency spectrum. When they overlap, they can cancel each other out, causing your track to lose some of its low-end impact. Use a few tricks to keep the bass and the kick separate:. Sidechaining the bass to the kick tells the bassline’s volume to go lower whenever the kick plays, then go back up when the kick stops. Add the Ableto...

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Tune Synths to A432 in Ableton | Quadrophone

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Tune Synths to A432 in Ableton. Many modern soft-synths support retuning to A432 right out of the box: Omnisphere, Trillian, and Albino, for example, let you set the master tuning frequency in the options menu, while synths like Absynth and Pianoteq can open special tuning files. If the synth you’re using doesn’t support retuning, you can use a specialized plugin to tune A to 432Hz in Ableton. You’ll need to grab two files before you can tune the synth to A432: a microtuning VST and a scale file. Now we’...

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A dance track usually has a looser structure than a hip-hop or pop song but it does have a structure. Following a structure when you’re arranging your track makes it more DJ-friendly and therefore more likely to get played out in a club. Tune Synths to A432 in Ableton. The idea that the note A3 should correspond to the frequency 440 Hz is a fairly recent one; although A440? S been in use since the 19th century, it’s only since the 1950s that it’s been accepted as the standard tuning. Using MIDI tracks to...

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Using the Ableton Scale Plug-In | Quadrophone

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Using the Ableton Scale Plug-In. A musical key defines the relationship of the notes in a song. Without going into too much music theory, keeping the different elements of a track in the same key is essential to making them fit together musically. Ableton’s Scale MIDI plug-in automatically shifts the notes in a MIDI track into a specified key. Let’s set the Scale plug-in to use the key of C major. Adding Movement to Pads. Build a Bass Mono/Stereo Rack in Ableton. MIDI Drum Patterns for EDM.

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The most comprehensive and powerful mobile app for music producers. The app includes five functions: a delay calculator, a frequency translator, a chord finder, a harmonic mixing wheel, and an EQ guide, all optimized for working with your DAW. A virtual set of Brian Eno’s Oblique Strategies cards for Android devices. Use them to break creative blocks and approach music from new directions. No Android? There’s a web version here. Just drop the rack onto a synth’s channel and play a note. These 25 KSD-form...

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NI Massive Wavetable Images. Native Instruments’ Massive synthesizer uses a unique set of wavetable oscillators to produce sound. Some of the oscillators are self-evident: Square-Saw blends square and saw waves, and Sine-Triangle mixes a sine and a triangle. Stretching out audio can do magical things to it: hidden melodies appear, transients crumble into blurs, and tiny blips of sound turn into rich soundscapes. How to Create a Multi-Sample in Ableton Sampler. Make a Track from Found Sounds. Keytracking ...

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How to Synthesize Drums | Quadrophone

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How to Synthesize Drums. Samples make creating beats quick and easy, but knowing how to synthesize your own kicks, snares and hi-hats will give you a better understanding of how drum sounds work. Start up Ableton’s Operator synth, then create a new MIDI clip. Add a note on each quarter beat. It doesn’t matter which note you use: you’ll be setting the pitch using the synthesizer itself. Click the Filter box to turn on the filter, then select Low 24dB as the filter type. Start playing back the MIDI cli...

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Blog | Quadrophone

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Brian Eno’s Oblique Strategies. I wasn’t incredibly impressed with any of the online version of Brian Eno’s Oblique Strategies cards that I’ve found, so I made my own set; check it out here. You can read more about the history and philosophy of the Oblique Strategies over here. And here’s how to find it:. Click the wavetable selection button. Click the Next Wavetable button. For a look at Massive’s non-secret wavetables, check out this article. Fix the Ableton Generic Unix Executable Problem on a Mac.

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Presenting our first Official Remix Competition! May 7, 2014. July 22, 2014. The track to be remixed, reimagined and tweaked is Burning Babylon. 8216;s “Into Twilight”, from his 2006 album Garden Of Dub. Contest rules are in the Zip pack. Upload all entries to soundcloud and add them to the Vancouver Producers Forum Soundcloud Group for consideration: https:/ soundcloud.com/groups/the-vancouver-producers-forum. The original track is available for reference in the sample pack below. Site by James Podles.