What I love the most about this is that there’s no top secret producer tricks to a lot of his stuff. He just has a really good ear and insane ability to lay down ideas quickly.
QUICK RECAP 1) sing the melody - 0:01 2) counter melodies can make the song come alive - 1:11 3) quantize just the right amount - 2:03 4) identify the main song idea, work on that - 3:21 5) sketch ideas fast, finish the best - 4:25 6) automate, automate, automate - 6:05
Also, around 5:20 he says his synths/sounds often start off super simple/basic, but then he bounces them to audio and starts to make them sound crazy/complex.
@@SolStateMusic I think the way I see it is personifying - not necessarily using senses. Giving each part a personification, acting as if it’s a human, and leading it through a story or it’s own life.
I love this guy so much. Zero ego, completely in touch with the rest of the world's sensibilities, wise as heyell, super positive all the time somehow, and a fkn genius of a producer/musician. I'm so happy it's Skrilly Season right now, and I hope his two albums have a combined 59 songs when it's all out.
@YoStefan commercially skrillex is the best example. He made dubstep more successful and he started the shit with diplo and justin bieber which is really original as skrillex-y sound and not generic house shit.
skrillex's such a cool guy. He gives free producing lesson, sometimes shows his abletunes projects. I dont know any other musician of his level who has ever done something like it.
Coolest dude. Postponed a concert in my country. Year and a half later comes and makes 2 hour set. And Im in Bulgaria. We thought its not lucrative enough for him to ever come, and it wasnt. There were only 3-4k people on that 2 hour beast party and tickets were 35$. Despite that Sonny had a blast with us, lit a cigarette, and in the end he sang a song to us which almost made me cry.
deadmau5 has some amazing production streams which i highly recommend checking out. theyre a bit better than skrillex's because he actually shares his whole screen, whereas skrillex is using just his phone to show the screen. but im sure if skrillex does more of these he'll improve how he shares the views of his DAW. it's still pretty awesome to hear his thoughts on production and see his workflow
I’ve been waiting for a video like this since I first heard him. No one else comes close to the number of great ideas he has in a song. Just the sheer volume of great sounds, in the right places. How does he not let the tech get in the way? When I try this I end up layering EQ to a snare for 4 hours. How does he always manage to select the right sound for the song, and get it to be perfectly in the groove. He’s unmatched.
hey can i just appreciate that the video just starts and gets to the content we're all here for. no repeating the video title, or unrelated footage of skrillex doing live shows. straight. to. the. point. Thank you
yeah, he makes many sounds with operator, which is an insane synth. you can make any sound with it. The intro sound of scary monsters and nice sprites is most likely made with operator, you can make it in seconds.
this is a long shot but do you happen to have Vengeance Essential Clubsounds Vol 3? i opened up an old project file and im missing VEC3 Special Sounds 95 Root G 128 BPM and it was crucial for the song. lemme know! thank you!
Tips from the video: 1 sing the melody 2 counter melodies are cool 3 Quantize,but dont over do it. 4 Identify the main song idea and build around it. 5 sketch ideas first and then build the track on them. 6 Automate whenever possible. His favourite vst : Basically he loves all the ableton vst. Thank you. Hope this eases your effort.
I love how he can closely duplicate and make most of the sounds he’s talking about with his voice. Makes sense with his past projects and level of musicality with his computer.
Encouraging to see that you don't need 4k of UAD plugins to sound good. Just the right attitude and a willingness to learn the basics of sound design and mixing. (From someone who bought 4k of UAD plugins and hardware and now can't sell them coz everyone is broke, fffffffs!)
Totally. One huge thing I noticed making the video is Skrillex really enjoys the process and has fun. Have fun for long enough and you'll be great, plugins or not.
If you want to set the mood, I think the screensavers he is using are here - bzamayo.com/watch-all-the-apple-tv-aerial-video-screensavers#9c6b969b62012359e5a4ead2ba3889e8
This was amaziiiing I thought it would be as those cold yt tutorials But Skrillex is so viby and chill in his creative process. He is saying "hey you, don[t be shy. Take that sound, that idea, make it big"
1:24 I really wish he would release this already. I don't even care if he does anything else with it. Just that loop is something I could listen on repeat.
I used to talk so much shit about him back in the Skrillex vs Zomboy days. I felt so ashamed when he released his Mumbai Power project screengrab as a music video for EVERYONE. shit was crazy. It blew my mind how simple but effective his creative process is
I forgot how much I love to hear him sing! His voice is naturally angelic. I know it sounds silly, but I tear up just from listening to him sing the most random stuff.
This is AWESOME! I got this video at just the right time for it to have a huge impact in my production. Thank you so much for sharing these clips! I love getting insight into Sonny's process!
I do t produce anymore but when I did this reminded me of one simple fact. He really made and gave the best lesson to follow here.... Keep it fast and keep it simple and build around an idea. Before I knew hardly anything about producing I made great beats and tunes. Learnt a shit ton with a million plug ins and then the music making stopped and it became some impossible science.
Same... i got stuck somewhere and got burned out, i was trying to get my tracks sound like cinaplex movie theatre, downloaded 500 plugins etc... Thanks for posting, i just realized this.
Glad to see you back making fire Sonny. Ive headbanged to your Music since From First To Last and your 2nd album Heroine was the soundtrack to my life for awhile. So much gut wrenching emotion throughout that whole album with your powerful highrange vocals on top of Metal Guitar Riffs. I just switched from FL Studio to Ableton and love these In The Studios with you. Really gets me motivated to write music and your philosophy of creating music is very helpful and inspirational. Thanks again Sonny for all the great music over the years 🙌
Edi Stefi Virtual Riot is the majority of producers favorite skilled producer but he got inspired from Skrillex and so did many other producers so Skrillex started a revolution for many EDM producers.
I can't believe Skrillex does his productions on a Macbook and not on a professional studio computer. Beyond that, the content of his music is more than admirable.
And there are people out there who make music with their phone. Really, music production is really accessible now. You don't need lots of expensive equipments an stuff to make music.
Lets face it, many of us who produced music for years came up with thousands of those simple melodies and just said, oh well, that's s**t and binned them. Absolutely incredible how he takes something so simple and build on top of it to make it shine. Amazing!
What i can kinda understand from this is that he mainly uses his voice as a synth and he uses sampling instead of like synthesis for the most part. That's actually pretty awesome if you think about it.
I sing my melodies before creating since I was 17 years old, now I am 31 ... all this time I thought I composed badly when doing it like this, now I realize that I do the same as skrillex haha, in fact I record my melodies in the celu style ... lalala heeeeyyyy and then I turn it into a melody
I felt so happy watching this, it felt like I was actually in the studio with him. I wish he'd do more of this kind of thing but more in depth. :-( still, my dream came true after 9 years of trying to peak at Ableton on his laptop in anyway I could. Such an inspiration.
don't like his music but i have to admit that this guys it's a genius when he's talking about production btw thanks for sharing this content on youtube bro
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"You can make anything out of anything." -Skrillex
Yux Dee when?
@@七星濃-u5o 9:33
100% true
Alchemy
Eliminate proves that
What I love the most about this is that there’s no top secret producer tricks to a lot of his stuff. He just has a really good ear and insane ability to lay down ideas quickly.
QUICK RECAP
1) sing the melody - 0:01
2) counter melodies can make the song come alive - 1:11
3) quantize just the right amount - 2:03
4) identify the main song idea, work on that - 3:21
5) sketch ideas fast, finish the best - 4:25
6) automate, automate, automate - 6:05
raisethetrebleTV pretty basic shit.
Also, around 5:20 he says his synths/sounds often start off super simple/basic, but then he bounces them to audio and starts to make them sound crazy/complex.
Thank you
I love his talk about drums. "it doesn't have it's full confidence yet, but it will". Picturing drum beats as confidence.
Yes! Like a lot of masters, he seem to combine senses - using visual inputs to create a mood, and stories to inspire sound choices.
Ladonbeats66 On IG ! i dont need to do anything
@@SolStateMusic I think the way I see it is personifying - not necessarily using senses. Giving each part a personification, acting as if it’s a human, and leading it through a story or it’s own life.
I love this guy so much. Zero ego, completely in touch with the rest of the world's sensibilities, wise as heyell, super positive all the time somehow, and a fkn genius of a producer/musician. I'm so happy it's Skrilly Season right now, and I hope his two albums have a combined 59 songs when it's all out.
watching Skrillex producing is every producer's dream
It's taken 10 years, but its worth every second!
@YoStefan And au5 :)
@YoStefan commercially skrillex is the best example. He made dubstep more successful and he started the shit with diplo and justin bieber which is really original as skrillex-y sound and not generic house shit.
Nope
@@anonymoususer2764 and infected mushroom too. Though they don't stream but give rare tips
skrillex's such a cool guy. He gives free producing lesson, sometimes shows his abletunes projects. I dont know any other musician of his level who has ever done something like it.
True. He said ONLY good things about tons of people in the full 2hr stream. Good guy
Coolest dude. Postponed a concert in my country. Year and a half later comes and makes 2 hour set. And Im in Bulgaria. We thought its not lucrative enough for him to ever come, and it wasnt. There were only 3-4k people on that 2 hour beast party and tickets were 35$. Despite that Sonny had a blast with us, lit a cigarette, and in the end he sang a song to us which almost made me cry.
Check habstrakt stream, is so good
@@palmaflora461 Good Tip! Thanks
deadmau5 has some amazing production streams which i highly recommend checking out. theyre a bit better than skrillex's because he actually shares his whole screen, whereas skrillex is using just his phone to show the screen. but im sure if skrillex does more of these he'll improve how he shares the views of his DAW. it's still pretty awesome to hear his thoughts on production and see his workflow
I’ve been waiting for a video like this since I first heard him. No one else comes close to the number of great ideas he has in a song. Just the sheer volume of great sounds, in the right places. How does he not let the tech get in the way? When I try this I end up layering EQ to a snare for 4 hours. How does he always manage to select the right sound for the song, and get it to be perfectly in the groove. He’s unmatched.
This nigga was the reason I started making my own music back in the days
Hope it's still going well!
this nigga
I love this guy, he loves what he does and I respect him so much for that.
Yea, his passion is inspiring for sure!
his love for music is attractive.
Very much so
hey can i just appreciate that the video just starts and gets to the content we're all here for. no repeating the video title, or unrelated footage of skrillex doing live shows. straight. to. the. point.
Thank you
Thanks for the nice words
Skrillex is just one of those heroes that can vibe with the stock ableton plug ins, aside for external synthesizers and sample packs
yeah, he makes many sounds with operator, which is an insane synth. you can make any sound with it. The intro sound of scary monsters and nice sprites is most likely made with operator, you can make it in seconds.
It was FM8, but it’s the same principle
LMFAO Skrill still using Vengeance samples in 2020, my MAN!!!
Never delete those VEC folders kiddos, stilll got mine from 2011. 💪
Hhah yea 2020 and Vengeance still rules the music world.
this is a long shot but do you happen to have Vengeance Essential Clubsounds Vol 3? i opened up an old project file and im missing VEC3 Special Sounds 95 Root G 128 BPM and it was crucial for the song. lemme know! thank you!
@@seansmith858 Nah, sorry.
@@seansmith858 i got you fam dm me on twitter @jeraeve
@@seansmith858 Absolutely! Are you on reddit? It will be easier to send you a link on there.
Tips from the video:
1 sing the melody
2 counter melodies are cool
3 Quantize,but dont over do it.
4 Identify the main song idea and build around it.
5 sketch ideas first and then build the track on them.
6 Automate whenever possible.
His favourite vst :
Basically he loves all the ableton vst.
Thank you. Hope this eases your effort.
I love how he can closely duplicate and make most of the sounds he’s talking about with his voice. Makes sense with his past projects and level of musicality with his computer.
Yes! The idea there is almost no disconnect between the idea and the Ableton project is amazing.
He knows music theory so knows what key hes singing in so therefore what key it will be in his daw
Encouraging to see that you don't need 4k of UAD plugins to sound good. Just the right attitude and a willingness to learn the basics of sound design and mixing. (From someone who bought 4k of UAD plugins and hardware and now can't sell them coz everyone is broke, fffffffs!)
you're rich, you'll be fine (sorry)
@@MiDnYTe25 .........
Totally. One huge thing I noticed making the video is Skrillex really enjoys the process and has fun. Have fun for long enough and you'll be great, plugins or not.
@@MiDnYTe25 wipes tears with UAD interface
LMMS
So true everything he says. Also the TV in the background is so cool. Skrillex is a boss for sure!
If you want to set the mood, I think the screensavers he is using are here - bzamayo.com/watch-all-the-apple-tv-aerial-video-screensavers#9c6b969b62012359e5a4ead2ba3889e8
@@SolStateMusic Thanksss
This was amaziiiing
I thought it would be as those cold yt tutorials
But Skrillex is so viby and chill in his creative process.
He is saying "hey you, don[t be shy. Take that sound, that idea, make it big"
Skrills always been the man. Since I was like 8 man I'm 20 now
Haha going on 12 years! Yea, I love how humble he is too
I was like 14 when I found his stuff and that’s also when I started producing I’m now 27
Good stuff skril. One of the legends. You gotta come back and start dropping those sick beats again.
is this the skrillex masterclass I was waiting for? For free? ok
it was actually streamed on instagram
Yes, this guy's lying! This is from his Instagram live on 27th March, 2020.
yeah but he also went live on twitch as well
1:24 I really wish he would release this already. I don't even care if he does anything else with it. Just that loop is something I could listen on repeat.
I used to talk so much shit about him back in the Skrillex vs Zomboy days. I felt so ashamed when he released his Mumbai Power project screengrab as a music video for EVERYONE. shit was crazy. It blew my mind how simple but effective his creative process is
Holy dude he needs to release all the tracks he’s showing off.. like mans a genius can’t wait for the new album!
I can't wait untill this song comes out. It's unreal already.
This was amazing. Thank you, Sol State and Skrillex.
me encanto ! muy util espero sigan haciendolo. saludos de Argentina
Drinking game idea: take a shot everytime skrillex says "you know"
haha good luck winning that one
yes.
love him and love this video but that man is high on some goddamn cocaine.
this guy seems like he'd be pretty cool to hang out with
like his voice just makes me wanna come over to his house and play Xbox with him
Yea totally, despite his success he's still very humble
Thank you for putting this together!
6:33 do you feel me? oooooo
Super dope! 🚀
Thanks, learned some tricks from you too!
I've been looking for this video everywhere, so glad I found it :D
Thank you, hero. And that stream is gold for every producer!!
Thanks for your support!
This man is always be an inspiration for me, love him
4:05 knowledge gem right there
I forgot how much I love to hear him sing! His voice is naturally angelic. I know it sounds silly, but I tear up just from listening to him sing the most random stuff.
He's the new Adelle for sure ;)
@@SolStateMusic *Adele
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This is AWESOME! I got this video at just the right time for it to have a huge impact in my production. Thank you so much for sharing these clips! I love getting insight into Sonny's process!
Thanks a lot, mate for compiling up this video! Missed the stream because of the time-zone difference.
You're welcome! Hope you enjoyed it!
Skrillex needs to make more 2step and Garage. Would love to hear his take. Very creative dude. Respect.
He just came out with a new 2 step garage album
Damn dude totally called that one 🫣
need his pro L sauce tho
I do t produce anymore but when I did this reminded me of one simple fact. He really made and gave the best lesson to follow here....
Keep it fast and keep it simple and build around an idea. Before I knew hardly anything about producing I made great beats and tunes. Learnt a shit ton with a million plug ins and then the music making stopped and it became some impossible science.
This is tripin me out
Same... i got stuck somewhere and got burned out, i was trying to get my tracks sound like cinaplex movie theatre, downloaded 500 plugins etc...
Thanks for posting, i just realized this.
Woah - how long would y'all spend on songs and sounds?
My dude 💛💛💛💛 loved watching this live. Thanks for the video!
Glad you enjoyed :)
This livestream changed my life
7:48 just a baby learning how to walk 😂😂😂
You may not like dubstep but Skrillex is a god producer
Close your eyes and imagine Jonah Hill is the one producing.
lmao for real
I hate that you’re right 😂
Love the content. Condensed and easy to understand!
Thanks! The original was 2 hours, and very fragmented. Glad you learned something
My idol finally made a production tips 🙏🙏🙏
He's the best!
So awesome on it all
4:59 OG Massive right there
YOOOOOO!!! Thank you for makin this! Great tips
Happy to help! Thanks for the support
I wish we all could have seen the Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites project file.
Yeah, It'd be interesting to see how his Ableton projects changed over the years
'...Like Daft Punk, half human, half robot.' This totally hits different now.
"Deleted Twitch Stream"
Opens with Skrillex: EeeuueaaaUuEghaaaaaUhhhuggg
Yeah wonder why it was deleted...
U suck
I can't tell if you're against him or making a joke
Bitch he's boss stfu
That's obviously a joke
xd
So dope watching Corey Feldman make supahotfiya!🔥🎵
Glad to see you back making fire Sonny. Ive headbanged to your Music since From First To Last and your 2nd album Heroine was the soundtrack to my life for awhile. So much gut wrenching emotion throughout that whole album with your powerful highrange vocals on top of Metal Guitar Riffs. I just switched from FL Studio to Ableton and love these In The Studios with you. Really gets me motivated to write music and your philosophy of creating music is very helpful and inspirational. Thanks again Sonny for all the great music over the years 🙌
he could do a live showing how they made their old songs, like Cinema, etc.
For sure - i'm sure he would sell enough tickets
actually I don't think he can, his laptop got stolen so all those projects are probably long gone sadly
@@nice_sprite5285 ah, that's right. Well tbh, any studio session with him works for me :)
@@nice_sprite5285 what if the one who stole it shares it
@@nice_sprite5285 how did tou know men..?
Skrillex is the most craziest thing to ever happen in the Electronic Music Scene.
Throbbing Gristle and the history of experimental electronic music disgaree
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Him and flume lol
Nah burial is, nuff said
@@karvn1148 burials great but hasn't left an impact like skrillex has
Skrillex is the best music producer ever and no one can change my mind
And a tattoo was born...
Sol State what do you mean tattoo?
Nah, Scott Storch is the best.
Edi Stefi Virtual Riot is the majority of producers favorite skilled producer but he got inspired from Skrillex and so did many other producers so Skrillex started a revolution for many EDM producers.
@@七星濃-u5o Edi seems like a big Skrillex fan, so I thought he might get a tattoo
So humbling to get inside this man's work flow.
HE HAS SO MANY SOUND OMFG
Really interesting to see how he pulls together his ideas - thanks for sharing!
You're very welcome. Check out his official "Mumbai Power" video if you want to learn more about his Ableton process.
Dude is a such a freaking beast !!!!
Man… he's truly one of a kind
Such a likeable dude💚🔥
It's a reflective understanding of masically cool math spirit
I can't believe Skrillex does his productions on a Macbook and not on a professional studio computer. Beyond that, the content of his music is more than admirable.
Many top producers actually work from laptops since they travel so much!
And there are people out there who make music with their phone. Really, music production is really accessible now. You don't need lots of expensive equipments an stuff to make music.
There are tons of producers that make it on a MacBook and the professional studios use Macs.
his new album is gonna be lit AF
Update: It's lit (quest for fire)
thank you for putting this together. this is awesome
My pleasure! Happy music making
oh my god, I love him 💜
Lets face it, many of us who produced music for years came up with thousands of those simple melodies and just said, oh well, that's s**t and binned them. Absolutely incredible how he takes something so simple and build on top of it to make it shine. Amazing!
Reminds me of that quote "if i had more time i would have written less".
I think this just proves that Sonny is a musical super-genius.
He's a boss!
What i can kinda understand from this is that he mainly uses his voice as a synth and he uses sampling instead of like synthesis for the most part. That's actually pretty awesome if you think about it.
hes just using his voice to brainstorm melodic ideas, not as a synth
4:18 that’s fire
Yeah i fucking love it
I sing my melodies before creating since I was 17 years old, now I am 31 ... all this time I thought I composed badly when doing it like this, now I realize that I do the same as skrillex haha, in fact I record my melodies in the celu style ... lalala heeeeyyyy and then I turn it into a melody
Soooo many producers do this, Virtual Riot, Timbaland, etc...don't feel bad. I think its a sign of musical becoming part of you
Skrillex should really make an essentials plug in to help with mixing, KSHMR recently made one and its beast for house music (spinnin records style)
would be cool for sure, though I've heard most of his sound comes from sound design
Scary monsters/nice sprites changed the world 👽
I felt so happy watching this, it felt like I was actually in the studio with him.
I wish he'd do more of this kind of thing but more in depth.
:-( still, my dream came true after 9 years of trying to peak at Ableton on his laptop in anyway I could. Such an inspiration.
Great to hear! I've also been searching for ages, such a joy to finally see behind the scenes! Hope you learned something good!
woahhh the melody @ 3:12 sounds like the new Skrillex track Fine Day Anthem with Boys Noize!!
Skrillex is in other spectrum of creating music
Massive and vengeance in the same video in 2020 is rare as hell
Awesome man 😵👍
Thanks! Glad you liked it
Thank you Skrillex I love you
Thanks for this! 🙌
if this quarantine births a new skrillex ep, album, or even song...i will be happy
All the artists are busy creating right now. Plenty to look forward to :)
First part is actually in depth tutorial how the producer designes screeches and growls.
No one:
Me to my voice memo app at 1 am: @0:10
hahaha
My producing IDOL!!! Loved his style of Dub Mixing!
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don't like his music but i have to admit that this guys it's a genius when he's talking about production btw thanks for sharing this content on youtube bro
Thanks for watching! Glad it helped
Thanks for this video mate! I love it! Inspiring
Great to hear! Happy music making ;)
after all these years he’s still using massive 😮
amazing dance cooler - Skrillex
Genius at work
God bless you bro!!
Thanks you too!
You are really great thankyou for helping me out make more videos . I will share
Aw thanks, really appreciate the support! Happy music making
4:20 wish there was a dubstep beat
god i hope this song gets released
Yes! Would be cool to see how it changes