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Ableton Compressor Tutorial – Drum Buss Punch & Groove

This Ableton Drum Compression Tutorial shows you how to add groove and punch to your drums. This technique works equally well for Deep House, Tech House and any other electronic dance music genres. We are adding compression using a drum buss. To create this in Ableton Live 9, either group your drum tracks or create…

Ableton 9.5 Tutorial – Reinventing Chords & Melodies with Simpler

In this Ableton Live Tutorial we take a look at pad sound design, specifically how to freeze a reverb and record it to make lush pads ideal for Tech House, Techno, Deep House and of course ambient genres. This technique offers a wide range of variations from altering the source synths and samples through to…

Ableton Drum Rack Tutorial – House Drums With Chokes

This Ableton Drum Rack Tutorial shows you how to use choke groups for a classic house music feel. This technique works equally well for Deep House, Tech House and any other electronic dance music genres. The choke groups can be used to enhance the groove and keep a nice clean sound in the drum loop….

Ableton Drums Tutorial – Realistic Drums Using Quantize

This Ableton Drums Tutorial shows you how to use groove pool quantize to balance out your recorded drums in real time so they retain a realistic human feel whilst remaining tight to the groove. Underground electronic music such as Deep House, Techno and Tech House rely on a killer groove so mastering this area of…

Ableton Gated Reverb Tutorial Enhanced Groove

This Ableton Reverb Tutorial shows you how to use Gated Reverb to thicken out drums such as claps, snares, toms and other percussion. This sound design tutorial works perfectly for all underground dance music genres including Deep House, Tech House and Techno. So let’s look at five steps for setting up a gated reverb effect….

Ableton Deep House Bass Operator Tutorial

Ableton Tutorial – Adding FX interest to drum patterns

In this Ableton Live Tutorial our head tutor, Keith Mills, shows you how to add interest to your drum rack loops by using the main audio effects in your track. Using a Techno rhythm with dub delay stabs and plenty of atmospheric reverb we explore sending claps and tom drums to our main track returns….

Ableton Tutorial – 5 MIDI tips for faster workflow

In this Ableton Live Tutorial we cover our head tutor, Keith Mills, top 5 MIDI editing tips to speed up your workflow and help get those creative ideas into Ableton before they get lost forever! At Quantize we are all about finishing more tracks. Using fluid and fast editing helps keep you in the creative…

Ableton Tutorial – Deep Spacey Pad Sounds

Ableton Tutorial – Understanding FM synthesis in Operator

This video is a sample from the Quantize Courses “Pads & Atmospheres Sound Design” Ableton course. Click here for the course details. In this Ableton tutorial we look into frequency modulation to understand exactly what it is and how it can be useful in designing evolving pad sounds. This tutorial uses Ableton’s Operator synth and provides…