If the effect rack file doesn't unzip for you properly or is displayed as a text document, simply add the .adg file ending to the unzipped file and you should be good to use it in Ableton. User and installation guide is attached too. :)
tried this too. i guess ill just follow the tutorial and ill eventually have the same results,,thanks love all your tutorials... any chance you can teach us how to make the tracks "dynamo city- one night in hackney or stefano noferini - this is fucking house music " thanks =) ps. youre awesome
Hi, Chris! Awesome tutorial, thank you so much for your time and effort in bringing these tips to the techno producers which in their early-career like me. And, please, keep up the great work!
very nice !! Happy to see the master in action. I always been a big fan of your music( the scientist, all of the light, freedom and the unreleased yet "true love" are my favorite), keep doing this kind of stuff, you're helping a lot mate !
Thanks so much, I appreciate that! I'll make sure to keep these going, if you have any suggestions on topics you'd like to learn more about pls let me know.
I would really like you to explain your track “freedom” the first time I heard Steve drop it in his ultra live stream I went nuts! So maybe explain a little on how you did that sick bass and how you processed your leads etc.
Great tut, subbed! It would be great to see how you arrange and process your percussion elements (not the standard hats / claps, but rather various impacts & one shots) in these techno tracks.
Man what the actual fuckkkkkk?!!??!?! That initial base was TOP NOTCH, fucking brilliant, hats off, seriously impressed!!! (and I am not easily impressed ahah)
Easy enough to make the sound of a kick drum..What,s it going to sound like when you begin to group the sounds of other instruments around it ? Unless you intend the kick drum to be the only sound in your composition?
Hey great tutorial! I got a question about when you placed the BOOM into a MIDI "SUB" track. I can't figure out how you did that. Could you tell me that?
Just add a MIDI channel, double click it so it opens that little window a the bottom, then drag & drop your kick sample in there. It will automatically open Ableton's 'Simpler' and you can play it on your keys.
Hey man! Great How-to.. this effect rack was something I was looking for a while. It fits perfectly in my way of producing. I dont use the same kick twice, I mostly use a 909 or a 808 on top... i tweak it with a roland TR09 wich I record into ableton. I put a second one below it, a kick with a long tale, mostly from a sample pack. I fade this one out, so you lose the body and click and just have the tale. then off course the bassline. Afterwards I always resample those 3. It brings them a bit together. AAAAnd you can EQ again... and again... and again :D! Im thinking of buying a external mixer so I can send the audio to the external mixer and back into ableton, they say it gives it a natural white noise...
Glad you like it, and appreciate you explaining your process! Little hint on natural white noise: There's a lot of free vintage/tape FX racks for Max For Live that you should give a go ;)
Is it possible for you maybe to make a tutorial about how you handle the low ends in the EQ for a good mix? Like handling kick and base EQ:s for this type of darker electronic music? It's just that everyone is focusing on youtube how to make kicks and compress them. But nothing about how to handle the EQ's with kicks together with base for this type of music.
Thank you for that awesome tutorial. One thing I’d like to ask: When experienced people talk about low end frequencies they usually propose to have just one leading element in the mix (Kick OR sub bass). The other elements have to make space by using EQs or /and sidechain compression. Your approach seems to be more about laying similar frequencies without giving any priority to one element. Is there something to care about while mixing/mastering to don't make the low-end mix sounding muddy?
Good question! Thing is, in say 75% of the cases thats completely correct, but in Techno especially things sometimes/often are supposed to sound muddy & diffused. Not really being able to grasp what the actual low-end is but still covering the full frequency range while maintaining punch and that sort of "rolling" effect do add to that. I do still recommend EQing the harsh frequencies that are interfering out ofc, and slightly boosting the ones that are lacking (however boosting in an EQ should always be a last resort only).
Do you having mixing tips for this? Like EQ/compression settings to get this to sit well in the mix without being too muddy when you added the other low end elements of the track?
Fuck me. AMEN. Finally, a guy who gets results sharp and efficiently with clear-cut instructions. Thank you so much for this tutorial my friend have you got any courses available? I would gladly pay you for them?
Chris, I'm not sure anyone has told you this but you have great natural skill with tutorials. I'm assuming your overlooking your potential with this due to your natural ability to execute. This is usually what happens with naturals in any field. They think it's easy, and it is, for you. My name is Scott it's a pleasure to meet you. I certainly would be interested in any of your courses, you are worth paying my friend you really are. I've been producing on and off for a few years but recently just got back into full flow. Would you be interested in mentoring me if I paid you. The quickest way to achieving anything in life is to find someone who's shit hot already and be blessed with their wisdom. I don't need a lot mate don't worry I won't be pestering you every day. Maybe an hour a week or so. Tutorials are great but being able to chat to someone with instruction is worth it's weight in gold. I know I have so much potential it just requires someone to help me develop fundamentals to get it out. It's cool if your too busy I'm assuming you have a lot of projects on the go already so please feel obliged to tell me to' do one' if your schedule is full haha I understand bro. Peace.
Quick question, why aren't you sidechaining the boom/sub to the attack of the original kick? Wouldn't this make it less muddy, or do you want them playing over eachother? Thanks for the tutorial though. Super helpful.
Super valid point, I do sometimes! The kick in this case was quite short and punchy and it didn't really sound as if anything was clashing so I decided to have them play together, also sometimes in the boom I add delay in the attack so that sort of takes the initial punch that could interfere away anyway without needing to sidechain. I feel a lot of people use too much sidechain compression, so much so that It all sounds very obviously sidechained/digital.
I've used FL during 2 years, and finally downloaded Ableton. And for me, Ableton is more intuitive for the beginners and I take more pleasure when I make techno on this Daw. I'm not a professionnal but it's just my point of view. Sorry for my not very good english :)
Totally love the tutorial - has a different unique sound compared to other tutorials i have ran into on youtube. I am stuck on creating the sub. When i drag my kick.wav file to my midi track in ableton 10 (using arrangement view) my kick automatically maps to the drum rack. When I play my midi keyboard it does not trigger the kick in multiple note (like your example), it only triggers on 1 keyboard note (c1) -- how do I make the kick trigger in multiple notes with multiple octaves? (i saw in many forums to convert the drum rack from "simpler mode" to "sampler mode" but I believe it is already on sampler mode as when I right click on the kick wave form in the drum rack, i do not get any options to convert to sampler. Am i missing something here? Sorry to sound like a novice. Also, it is not my midi keyboard as I can create midi instruments and play those no problems (like Serum). Hopefully you or someone here can help me! Thanks in advance.
Hmm that's news to me, but theres an easy fix: Just go to Instruments > Simpler and drag that into your MIDI channel first, then Drag the Kick WAV sample into the simpler. It's just one additional step but has the same result as my drag & drop.
I drag the file and drop it to a track but it shows “The corpus effect is not available, Please open the license/maintenance tab in live’s preference to authorize a product"
is there any chance to get the FX rack without build it up from scratch? would be very delighted! because the link didn't provide me the rack. Thanks in advance!
If you update your Ableton Live to the latest version all parameters should be there, if you're on a version lower than 9.7.5 it might just open the rack in default.
thanks for the quick reply Chris! really appreciated! the problem ist that when I click on the "Hypeddit" link & enter my email, nothing comes up next. It stays there. I couldn't get to the next level.
Its a short white noise, set to mono, with a guitar amp on top, then filtered the hi end out. Dotted 8th delay on top with like 25% wet and 35% feedback. Slight compression at end of the chain. :)
As I said, hero. Suggestion; All of the lights warehouse mix, second drop, those absolutely stomping snares, how'd you get them so clean on top?!? Stuns me every time
Depends, I usually have my speakers, headphones can be misleading unless you REALLY know them inside out. I still do a lot of pre-mixing work in headphones though but the final mix should always be double/triple checked on various sets of speakers & systems.
Yeah, honestly it depends a lot on choice of sample too, many techno kicks from sample packs these days sound fine standalone and literally just need a bassline. This is if you're working with super basic source material and want that roomy feel. Also ofc you'd need to cut/eq overlapping frequencies etc.
If the effect rack file doesn't unzip for you properly or is displayed as a text document, simply add the .adg file ending to the unzipped file and you should be good to use it in Ableton. User and installation guide is attached too. :)
tried this too. i guess ill just follow the tutorial and ill eventually have the same results,,thanks love all your tutorials... any chance you can teach us how to make the tracks "dynamo city-
one night in hackney or stefano noferini - this is fucking house music "
thanks =)
ps. youre awesome
Huge thanks
Super usefull tutorial,
I go back to check on it from time to time..
Thanks a lot man!!
Love this tutorial man! Thank you! :)
my pleasure!
Hi, Chris!
Awesome tutorial, thank you so much for your time and effort in bringing these tips to the techno producers which in their early-career like me.
And, please, keep up the great work!
Absolutely loved this, would be awesome to see a tutorial on other techno drums, like what you can do with claps, snares etc.
Thanks for the feedback, i'll get to that in a other one then :)
Great tutorial man! A lot of information in a short time. Keep going!
This tutorial was amazing! Thanks for sharing how you built these sounds. Definitely using these tricks to build a heavy bass line in future projects
Bang on mate, straight to the point, very useful, thanks.
Oh thank you dude! Exactly what i was looking for. I was thinking why my low end was sounding like a shart, then you reminded me of corpus.
this_is_simply_genious
Genius. been looking for something like this for a while! Huge time saver.
finally a solid tutorial on low ends!
very nice !! Happy to see the master in action. I always been a big fan of your music( the scientist, all of the light, freedom and the unreleased yet "true love" are my favorite), keep doing this kind of stuff, you're helping a lot mate !
Thanks so much, I appreciate that! I'll make sure to keep these going, if you have any suggestions on topics you'd like to learn more about pls let me know.
I would really like you to explain your track “freedom” the first time I heard Steve drop it in his ultra live stream I went nuts! So maybe explain a little on how you did that sick bass and how you processed your leads etc.
indeed
Excellent video man. thanks very much.
Great tut, subbed! It would be great to see how you arrange and process your percussion elements (not the standard hats / claps, but rather various impacts & one shots) in these techno tracks.
Hey man, love your vid! Could you do an tutorial on how to make those chord stabs?
Wicked! Sounds so clean!
Thank you for this video. Please make the same tutorial about kick/bass relations in progressive house tracks.
Man what the actual fuckkkkkk?!!??!?! That initial base was TOP NOTCH, fucking brilliant, hats off, seriously impressed!!! (and I am not easily impressed ahah)
Hey can you show the chord stab? Thanks for the video and rack!
Just subscribed! Very cool stuff! I tried it on a low cut Tom and it sounds very bouncy.
Great tutorial mate !!!
Great tutorial :-)
subbed
nice one! do you have anything on your kick + boom group?
Easy enough to make the sound of a kick drum..What,s it going to sound like when you begin to group the sounds of other instruments around it ? Unless you intend the kick drum to be the only sound in your composition?
hi hat is really missing there and later a sliced snare with auto filter. Great tutorial, thanks!
This helps a ton!!!! thank you! i make techno myself!
great job Chris - im subbed, can we have more content please this stuff is golddust
Thank you Mark, last couple of months I had so much work on, I'm planning on uploading more towards autumn.
Hey great tutorial! I got a question about when you placed the BOOM into a MIDI "SUB" track. I can't figure out how you did that. Could you tell me that?
Just add a MIDI channel, double click it so it opens that little window a the bottom, then drag & drop your kick sample in there. It will automatically open Ableton's 'Simpler' and you can play it on your keys.
So good! Looking forward to more
thank you very much for this video
Got my sub, thank you for this
Hey man! Great How-to.. this effect rack was something I was looking for a while. It fits perfectly in my way of producing. I dont use the same kick twice, I mostly use a 909 or a 808 on top... i tweak it with a roland TR09 wich I record into ableton. I put a second one below it, a kick with a long tale, mostly from a sample pack. I fade this one out, so you lose the body and click and just have the tale. then off course the bassline. Afterwards I always resample those 3. It brings them a bit together. AAAAnd you can EQ again... and again... and again :D! Im thinking of buying a external mixer so I can send the audio to the external mixer and back into ableton, they say it gives it a natural white noise...
Glad you like it, and appreciate you explaining your process! Little hint on natural white noise: There's a lot of free vintage/tape FX racks for Max For Live that you should give a go ;)
Man you're a legend!
Great tutorial, it was really useful. Which type of filter did you use at 5:53 for the kick and the boom, when they're running together with the hat?
Great stuff....Thanks
this is great man !
very helpful, thanks
Big thanks Chris!
Is it possible for you maybe to make a tutorial about how you handle the low ends in the EQ for a good mix? Like handling kick and base EQ:s for this type of darker electronic music? It's just that everyone is focusing on youtube how to make kicks and compress them. But nothing about how to handle the EQ's with kicks together with base for this type of music.
I'll put that in one of the next ones!
Nice one! Also, great to see you on youtube. Best of luck! Will tell some friends about the channel.
cool video thanks
How can we make that kind of dark stabs man? Thank you so much.
Thank you for that awesome tutorial. One thing I’d like to ask:
When experienced people talk about low end frequencies they usually propose to have just one leading element in the mix (Kick OR sub bass). The other elements have to make space by using EQs or /and sidechain compression. Your approach seems to be more about laying similar frequencies without giving any priority to one element. Is there something to care about while mixing/mastering to don't make the low-end mix sounding muddy?
Good question! Thing is, in say 75% of the cases thats completely correct, but in Techno especially things sometimes/often are supposed to sound muddy & diffused. Not really being able to grasp what the actual low-end is but still covering the full frequency range while maintaining punch and that sort of "rolling" effect do add to that. I do still recommend EQing the harsh frequencies that are interfering out ofc, and slightly boosting the ones that are lacking (however boosting in an EQ should always be a last resort only).
have you tried to side chain the kick with the bass frequencies ¿?
You didn't side chain the sub with the kicks and they are not collapsing, is it because of the position in the grid only?
Please make walkthrough video of VTOPIA Chris Avantgarde Remix )
great stuff, thank you.
Do you having mixing tips for this? Like EQ/compression settings to get this to sit well in the mix without being too muddy when you added the other low end elements of the track?
At 5:55 did you just reduce the low frequencies for your main kick to get that softer part or how did you achieve that?
Yeah that's achieved with a simple Hi-Pass filter :)
Fuck me. AMEN. Finally, a guy who gets results sharp and efficiently with clear-cut instructions. Thank you so much for this tutorial my friend have you got any courses available? I would gladly pay you for them?
Thank you mate, I don't yet but I've been thinking about it at some point! Free TH-cam content is is for now, but keep an eye out.
Chris, I'm not sure anyone has told you this but you have great natural skill with tutorials. I'm assuming your overlooking your potential with this due to your natural ability to execute. This is usually what happens with naturals in any field. They think it's easy, and it is, for you. My name is Scott it's a pleasure to meet you. I certainly would be interested in any of your courses, you are worth paying my friend you really are. I've been producing on and off for a few years but recently just got back into full flow. Would you be interested in mentoring me if I paid you. The quickest way to achieving anything in life is to find someone who's shit hot already and be blessed with their wisdom. I don't need a lot mate don't worry I won't be pestering you every day. Maybe an hour a week or so. Tutorials are great but being able to chat to someone with instruction is worth it's weight in gold. I know I have so much potential it just requires someone to help me develop fundamentals to get it out. It's cool if your too busy I'm assuming you have a lot of projects on the go already so please feel obliged to tell me to' do one' if your schedule is full haha I understand bro. Peace.
pleasure Scott, can you tweet me @chrisavantgarde, let's get in touch
Great Quality!
thank you!
Quick question, why aren't you sidechaining the boom/sub to the attack of the original kick? Wouldn't this make it less muddy, or do you want them playing over eachother?
Thanks for the tutorial though. Super helpful.
Super valid point, I do sometimes! The kick in this case was quite short and punchy and it didn't really sound as if anything was clashing so I decided to have them play together, also sometimes in the boom I add delay in the attack so that sort of takes the initial punch that could interfere away anyway without needing to sidechain. I feel a lot of people use too much sidechain compression, so much so that It all sounds very obviously sidechained/digital.
Thx!
Thank you very useful. What did you use for chord stab?
Its an audio sample in this case that I bounced from a U-He Diva patch, I create my own little libraries.
Chris Avantgarde can I download this patch?
I would love to have this patch. Sounds amazing to play with :D
Thanks for the rack Chris. The rack isn't loadable in Ableton live 9.5, need to build from scratch.
really? that will probably have to do with me being on 9.7.5 right now, maybe just update your live and it should work
I thought the same, It worked with 9.7.5 Thanks :-)
@Einzigkeit: could you please upload it somewhere else? The link is not working.
thanks in advance.
nice thank you !!!
Thank you man, you really helped me out. I did this with fl studio, what do you think about fl studio for making techno music?
I've used FL during 2 years, and finally downloaded Ableton. And for me, Ableton is more intuitive for the beginners and I take more pleasure when I make techno on this Daw. I'm not a professionnal but it's just my point of view.
Sorry for my not very good english :)
Totally love the tutorial - has a different unique sound compared to other tutorials i have ran into on youtube. I am stuck on creating the sub. When i drag my kick.wav file to my midi track in ableton 10 (using arrangement view) my kick automatically maps to the drum rack. When I play my midi keyboard it does not trigger the kick in multiple note (like your example), it only triggers on 1 keyboard note (c1) -- how do I make the kick trigger in multiple notes with multiple octaves? (i saw in many forums to convert the drum rack from "simpler mode" to "sampler mode" but I believe it is already on sampler mode as when I right click on the kick wave form in the drum rack, i do not get any options to convert to sampler. Am i missing something here? Sorry to sound like a novice. Also, it is not my midi keyboard as I can create midi instruments and play those no problems (like Serum). Hopefully you or someone here can help me! Thanks in advance.
Hmm that's news to me, but theres an easy fix: Just go to Instruments > Simpler and drag that into your MIDI channel first, then Drag the Kick WAV sample into the simpler. It's just one additional step but has the same result as my drag & drop.
good shit
You don't mono your bass and subb?
I drag the file and drop it to a track but it shows “The corpus effect is not available, Please open the license/maintenance tab in live’s preference to authorize a product"
BrillanT!!!
Great stufff
Wow ;-) would like to see the chords stab
any idea why i cant open the pack? I have ableton standard and it says "corpus effect not available." :(
It might be that Ableton Standard doesn't include Corpus as an effect, only Ableton Suite - just assuming though, perhaps worth checking with them.
is there any chance to get the FX rack without build it up from scratch? would be very delighted! because the link didn't provide me the rack. Thanks in advance!
If you update your Ableton Live to the latest version all parameters should be there, if you're on a version lower than 9.7.5 it might just open the rack in default.
thanks for the quick reply Chris! really appreciated!
the problem ist that when I click on the "Hypeddit" link & enter my email, nothing comes up next. It stays there. I couldn't get to the next level.
sent it to you on Facebook :)
awesome! thank you so much!
I already did what it takes to download but not download it at the same time
When I add the wrack to my kick it totally silences it. What am I doing wrong?
I can't see the effect rack in ableton :( Does it work with ableton 10? pls help
Amazing! More tutoriala plz
Thanks! I had so many other projects going on recently, I'll get more done in the coming weeks. Anything in particular you'd like to learn about?
🖤🖤
How did you make the hihat?
Its a short white noise, set to mono, with a guitar amp on top, then filtered the hi end out. Dotted 8th delay on top with like 25% wet and 35% feedback. Slight compression at end of the chain. :)
i get alot of grain and distortion when i play all 3 together
Techno drums please
H6
why did it say you control my youtube when i tried to download the file..i dont understand
Hey man, that's simply for the "subscribe to download" gate from Hypeddit.
i can't get it to work.. i'm sorta confused...=( love the tutorial
I dont understand how to copy a Kick
As I said, hero. Suggestion; All of the lights warehouse mix, second drop, those absolutely stomping snares, how'd you get them so clean on top?!? Stuns me every time
wrote that down for a future one! thanks for the suggestion!
Chris Avantgarde love this man! Looking forward for the next ones
hi
How can I open the file?
After you have unzipped the download you can simply drag & drop the .adg file onto your Ableton MIDI or Audio channel.
hey chris do you use headphones for this process?
Depends, I usually have my speakers, headphones can be misleading unless you REALLY know them inside out. I still do a lot of pre-mixing work in headphones though but the final mix should always be double/triple checked on various sets of speakers & systems.
TERRIFIC Tutorial!!
why add the boom part if you have a sub bassline going on, isn't it gonna become too boomy and subby this way?
Yeah, honestly it depends a lot on choice of sample too, many techno kicks from sample packs these days sound fine standalone and literally just need a bassline. This is if you're working with super basic source material and want that roomy feel. Also ofc you'd need to cut/eq overlapping frequencies etc.