Friday Forum Live! – How to Get Involved / Watch Past Broadcasts - Electronic Music Production News and Tips. We have launched a new interactive series Friday Forum Live! If you want to join in head to our Facebook page here each Friday where we will post a link to watch the live broadcast. Hosted by Point Blank Course Advisors David Reid or Luke Hopper and one of our team of instructors, the sessions are designed to give you a taste of how our online school masterclasses work. You can ask us any question you like about production and our online courses so you are fully informed about our methods of interaction and feedback online.
The live broadcasts commence at 1pm (BST) every Friday. Watch previous archived broadcasts below: Explore how Point Blank Online works further with our free course samples. Untitled. Music Courses, Online Music Production Training, Music Software Lessons, Real Instruments, Recording. EMusicTips. iOS Music And You | Music Production On Your iPhone And iPad. Trash_Audio | Ableton Live: Grain Delay for Quick Sound Design. If I was able to modify the Ableton GUI even a little bit, I’d design a light to shine down like rays from heaven on a few of the different plug-ins that come with Ableton because they are pure game changers! One of these would be the Grain Delay, which is possibly one of the most understated. Its plain packaging hides the fact that it is able to create some amazing textures and sounds from anything that you throw at it.
In fact, I’ve used it to randomly generate sounds that have left people scratching their heads later in terms of how I actually did create them. One technique that I love would be using the Grain Delay to randomize various drum hits in realtime, and record this process from within Ableton using the Resampling function, then edit the randomly generated sounds for a whole new set. Let me show you what I mean: Step 1 - Find a Starting Synth Patch I’m going to start off with a simple, self-made drum loop that I made in Ableton Live with a Drum Rack. Step 2 - Add a Grain Delay. Blog. Livid Instruments. Top 10 DIY Mastering Mistakes (Part 1) This is Part 1 of a two-part series by UK mastering engineer Ian Shepherd, who runs Mastering Media and the Production Advice website. Despite what anyone tells you, you can master your own music at home – with plenty of time and effort.
There are a lot of places to go wrong though, so this post aims to help you avoid some of the most common pitfalls. Here are my “Top Ten” DIY mastering mistakes: 1. Tracks are matched, not balanced People often talk about “matching” levels and EQ in mastering – that’s not what it’s about. If you match all the levels and EQ, everything will sound the same ! Aim for consistency but not uniformity. 2. We’ve all been there – you spend hours working on your songs, finally burn a CD and head out to crank it up in the car – and it suddenly sounds boomy, dull and muffled. If the overall sound lacks top in comparison to most other music, people will think it sounds dull, even if it sounds great in the studio. My top mixing tip – no effort required 3. 4. 5.
Ableton Live. Home Studio Corner.