This is a lot easier to do in Bitwig, because you can have your clips open next to your arrangement. You can use the clips to make your 4- or 8-bar sections, and then drag them straight into the arrangement where you need them, without switching views. You can put all your instruments into a group, and that allows you to use that top level group to drag entire song sections around with one click and drag, without having to multiselect. The top-level group is your arranger track, same as other DAWs that have that concept of a top-level section arrangement track.
This is absolutely the best arrangement advice I've found. I just tried it and was able to put my song together so much quicker 🙌Definitely subscribing! P.S. I stopped at the 3rd minute cause I was excited to try this technique 😂
Used to do this on logic...years ago. Got away from producing and have come back to it in the last few years in Ableton.. have struggled but i will use this to get out of the loop.. It works
I am baffled about how long it took for me to realize the true use of the arrangement view and the session view. Something that should've been among the 1st things to learn when working in Ableton somehow got skipped. This now opens a whole new view on work-flow. Haha AWESOME! 😂👌👌👌
Thanks for videos, bro. It's a pity TH-cam doesn't subtitle very well because of the speed of speech, but in general I understand very well what you say. I really admire your work and I am very happy to have access to quality content for free. I hope one day I can repay you in some way. Hugs from Brazil.
Haha, kind of but actually it's the opposite. Buggin' is very inspired by Trippin'. The original version of Trippin' is a track from 2001 by Goldtrix and it is actually a cover a Jill Scott song called It's Love. This is the original version of Trippin', which Liv and I have covered. Confused yet??? Lol.... th-cam.com/video/FkZYdwcs5Io/w-d-xo.html
@@dilbydj damn I’m blown away, now that is some real music knowledge. DJs really don’t need the next new song, library’s existing from 20+ years with house songs to today standards!
you are a workaholic ; ) great Content - you are kind of big talent ... Can I ask which Headphones you use here - are these AiAiAi wireless ? thx and greetings from Berlin ✌
Curious why not start in session view? You’ve basically applied the idea of a loop based modular session view to the arrangement view, which is cool too if you don’t have session view I guess. Well, works either way….party on ya freaks 😂🎉🖤
Kinda helps, the blocks of patterns is a good idea. Wish you used the terms like build, drop and break more often because its hard to follow which parts of the song your setting up The video's appreciated tho!
If you look at the Kick track you can see where the breaks / builds / drops etc are. I do agree though, I could've explained it better. The concept I had was actually demonstrate that it's possible to do it quickly, rather than just say it, which Is why I did the timer etc. A downside of that is that it's all off the cuff and I'm literally trying to do it fast in one take with no cuts, so the narration is not as polished as it could otherwise be. I'll take it on board. thx :)
@@dilbydj oh yeah that definitely makes sense, it also helps to keep the arranger mind off the grid a little & focus on what we're hearing, so I liked the technique 👍
Hey Dilby, I have about 30+ 4,8, 16 bar loops as you described in the first coupla minutes of this video. Big help, bro! However, please go into more detail on the 'variations' on how you created variation on each stem. Else, I am asking for a simplified version, dude!
The variations were very simple. I did go over them pretty quickly, but it was mainly just opening and closing filters with automation applied to different blocks. The key is making distinct variations. It could be in, pattern, tone, sound source, pitch (octave), effects, anything really, just make some variations that you think sound cool and go through the process. The point is not to get a perfect arrangement, but to just get an arrangement quickly. Reading your comment, that sounds like something that could be helpful for you. Give it a go. Good luck and thanks for watching!
Hi Dilby! I am a big fan of the sound quality of your work. Your tracks and tutorials always sound fantastic. But why dont you invest in a proper mic to record your voice? There is always this constant noise floor when you talk. Nevertheless keep on doing this great productions. Big respect, Marcus.
Yeah, I know dude, it annoys me every time I make a video. I have invested but it hasn't really solved the problem. I use a 300 EURO lavalier microphone to record. I have another mic for recording vocals etc, but I can't work with it in front of my face.
Hey Markus, this motivated me to look into it more and it seems that it is because the camera has really terrible noisy preamps. So, if I record the audio onto a separate device, like my Zoom H4n I actually get a very clean recording. I have one video recorded for next week which will have the noise floor issue, but after that it should be solved! 🙏
@@dilbydj Great to hear! And this was in no way meant to be rude. It just is a bit annoying when it's a long video and you hear that noise so often. I knew that you would be aware of that already because music wise your tracks sound fat and clear and it would make no sense if you wouldn´t hear that yourself there! Big respect!!
I feel like if I just sit in front of Bitwig, fuck around with house samples long enough and think housey thoughts, I'll end up with a house track just by screwing around. When it comes to drum and bass though, it's completely different. I feel like if I'm not laser focused, have a main plan, a back-up plan and three other contingent plans to go and rescue the soldiers that are now prisoners of War who might never see their family again, nothing is going to happen and it doesn't. Which is really odd for me because I've been into drum and bass for almost 30 years now. I dunno. I just have some weird mental block about it, but yesterday I just actually sat down and powered through it. Two technically because the first one I was on I stopped even though I was almost all the way through because my new base synth (Heartbeat by Softube. It's awesome.) started doing something really cool and then my thought was that I could make an entire track around what it was doing and so I did! But I'd still love to see you do that with a DnB track. I'm not implying that you can't. I just want to see it so that I know I have no excuses. Liked and subbed. Mostly because of how you say "coo" as you knock it out piece by piece. Thanks! Great vid! ⚡🤘⚡
I have to admit, producing for nearly 20 years and I still dread arrangement, specifically breakdown to buildups into a drop/climax.
Hope this helps!
Same Here, It's the only part of music making I dread.
Same!! 😂
Your videos are getting better and better mate
Thanks buddy ✌️
One of the "finally make sennce" out of 8-bar loop tutorials! Thank you Dilby!
Awesome. Glad to hear that.
Great video. I've struggled with arrangement for so long and I'm looking forward to testing this out.
Nice one, hope it helps mate!
aaah the dreaded arrangement phase ... thanks so much mate, great tutorial again!
My pleasure!
This is a lot easier to do in Bitwig, because you can have your clips open next to your arrangement. You can use the clips to make your 4- or 8-bar sections, and then drag them straight into the arrangement where you need them, without switching views. You can put all your instruments into a group, and that allows you to use that top level group to drag entire song sections around with one click and drag, without having to multiselect. The top-level group is your arranger track, same as other DAWs that have that concept of a top-level section arrangement track.
Nice. Sounds good. I use 2 monitors myself so have it setup similar and just drag from one screen to the other.
Loving your vids man! Thank you so much it’s brought a new breath in to my producing ❤️❤️😎
Great to hear Nathan. Keep it up mate ✌️
I’ve been binge watching your vids for a week solid! Top stuff 😊
Awesome! Thank you!
Genius. Well done!
Thanks 🙏
This is absolutely the best arrangement advice I've found. I just tried it and was able to put my song together so much quicker 🙌Definitely subscribing!
P.S. I stopped at the 3rd minute cause I was excited to try this technique 😂
Really nice technique! I half expected you to consolidate the parts back to the session view and then live arrange though.
Used to do this on logic...years ago. Got away from producing and have come back to it in the last few years in Ableton.. have struggled but i will use this to get out of the loop.. It works
Used to arage like this in Dance Ejay, When I was a child.
Nice 💪
I am baffled about how long it took for me to realize the true use of the arrangement view and the session view. Something that should've been among the 1st things to learn when working in Ableton somehow got skipped. This now opens a whole new view on work-flow. Haha AWESOME! 😂👌👌👌
I hope to hear the track your arranging sometime in the future!
Thanks for videos, bro. It's a pity TH-cam doesn't subtitle very well because of the speed of speech, but in general I understand very well what you say. I really admire your work and I am very happy to have access to quality content for free. I hope one day I can repay you in some way. Hugs from Brazil.
Yes, you are right but I hope it will get better.
Love love love.. keep going ya good thing!
Thank you! Will do!
Super helpful video. Thanks man!
Glad it helped!
I'm getting some dance Ejay vibes with this arrangement technique, practically identical.
Fuckin hell bro😂 does that even still exist? I had that back around 2002 lol
Boss track that. Straight on to my Spotify list and a follow. 👍🙌
Awesome! Much appreciated 🙏
Trippin’ sounds Hot Since 82 inspired. Banger tune dude, definitely adding to my Spotify playlists! Thanks for the vid
Haha, kind of but actually it's the opposite. Buggin' is very inspired by Trippin'. The original version of Trippin' is a track from 2001 by Goldtrix and it is actually a cover a Jill Scott song called It's Love. This is the original version of Trippin', which Liv and I have covered. Confused yet??? Lol.... th-cam.com/video/FkZYdwcs5Io/w-d-xo.html
@@dilbydj damn I’m blown away, now that is some real music knowledge. DJs really don’t need the next new song, library’s existing from 20+ years with house songs to today standards!
Beast mate! Defo looking forward to getting more efficient! 👊🔥
It helps! Quantity > quality in my opinion.
thanks D, yep on to more consistency now@@dilbydj We got #1 jackin' release, thank you! :p
Now that I clicked on like, I can watch the video hahahaha
tk u so much for ur videos!
You're the best!
Very good tutorial !!! thank you !!!
YES DILBY!!!
Absolute Gold!
Solid 👊
You just broke my head and took it to a new world 🙌🏼 thanks heading to the patron to grab the files and play around like always
The best channel! Always on point! Thank you Dilby 😍
As always, great stuff in a simple and comprehensible form. Love it! Keep up the good work, your videos are really helpful.
Thanks, will do!
This better be good 😊
lol, no pressure!
amazing! more of this videos please!
Always fantastic tutorials as always Dilby. ❤
Thanks dude! Great video
Yes Dilby another quality video
Thank you Ash
@@dilbydj hey dilby, do you do gain staging? cheers ✌🏻
@@Ash-gg2ql yeah
do you have a video on it by any chance?@@dilbydj
you are a workaholic ; )
great Content - you are kind of big talent ...
Can I ask which Headphones you use here - are these AiAiAi wireless ? thx and greetings from Berlin ✌
GOLD ! THANKS
You're welcome 😁
super helpful process, gonna try this out on my next "sketch" if i can actually turn it into a song
Great ideas for me to try out on the millions of 16 / 32 bar loops I’ve saved over the years 🙈 thank you👍🏻
Another amazing video.
Curious why not start in session view? You’ve basically applied the idea of a loop based modular session view to the arrangement view, which is cool too if you don’t have session view I guess. Well, works either way….party on ya freaks 😂🎉🖤
I always start in session view and create my ideas. Then I move to the arrangement view, to arrange.
insane was the tutorial thankssssss
Thank you sir
Kinda helps, the blocks of patterns is a good idea. Wish you used the terms like build, drop and break more often because its hard to follow which parts of the song your setting up
The video's appreciated tho!
If you look at the Kick track you can see where the breaks / builds / drops etc are. I do agree though, I could've explained it better. The concept I had was actually demonstrate that it's possible to do it quickly, rather than just say it, which Is why I did the timer etc. A downside of that is that it's all off the cuff and I'm literally trying to do it fast in one take with no cuts, so the narration is not as polished as it could otherwise be. I'll take it on board. thx :)
@@dilbydj oh yeah that definitely makes sense, it also helps to keep the arranger mind off the grid a little & focus on what we're hearing, so I liked the technique 👍
Hey Dilby, I have about 30+ 4,8, 16 bar loops as you described in the first coupla minutes of this video. Big help, bro! However, please go into more detail on the 'variations' on how you created variation on each stem. Else, I am asking for a simplified version, dude!
The variations were very simple. I did go over them pretty quickly, but it was mainly just opening and closing filters with automation applied to different blocks. The key is making distinct variations. It could be in, pattern, tone, sound source, pitch (octave), effects, anything really, just make some variations that you think sound cool and go through the process. The point is not to get a perfect arrangement, but to just get an arrangement quickly. Reading your comment, that sounds like something that could be helpful for you. Give it a go. Good luck and thanks for watching!
Wish Ableton had a way to make sections in arrangement view so you can just drag and drop and move sections you’ve made like the chorus or bridge
You can kind of do that using the loop brace.
Perhaps you’ve exhausted session view buts one of its strengths is being drag/drop modular good luck 🍀
Hi Dilby, Which company's sounds do you use? (Plucks, Stabs, Vocal) ??? I couldn't find these sounds
As I said in the video, most of the sounds are from my sample pack Underground Shades of House. The vocal is from Splice or Loopcloud
Hi Dilby! I am a big fan of the sound quality of your work. Your tracks and tutorials always sound fantastic. But why dont you invest in a proper mic to record your voice? There is always this constant noise floor when you talk. Nevertheless keep on doing this great productions. Big respect, Marcus.
Yeah, I know dude, it annoys me every time I make a video. I have invested but it hasn't really solved the problem. I use a 300 EURO lavalier microphone to record. I have another mic for recording vocals etc, but I can't work with it in front of my face.
Hey Markus, this motivated me to look into it more and it seems that it is because the camera has really terrible noisy preamps. So, if I record the audio onto a separate device, like my Zoom H4n I actually get a very clean recording. I have one video recorded for next week which will have the noise floor issue, but after that it should be solved! 🙏
@@dilbydj Great to hear! And this was in no way meant to be rude. It just is a bit annoying when it's a long video and you hear that noise so often. I knew that you would be aware of that already because music wise your tracks sound fat and clear and it would make no sense if you wouldn´t hear that yourself there! Big respect!!
Fuckin great mate. Thank you
wouldnt this be much easier in session view ?
Cool
How do you automatically copy the clip when you drag it? That seems much easier than having to do cmd + D and then drag the new clip
Hold CTRL (Win) / ALT (Mac) to click and drag
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My man!
How to put 1000 likes???
Thanks a lot dude!!!!🙌🙌🙌
Hahahaha, awesome!
Nice...👍👍👍
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Nice to see you bro ✌️
@@dilbydj you're welcome...❤️☮️☯️❤️☮️☯️❤️
Dance For Freedom...🔥🙌🔥🙌🔥🙌🔥🙌🔥 (my latest track😜)
Have ever someone told you you look like bob sinclair ? 😅
🤣🤣🤣 lol, nope, never 🤣🤣🤣
i was waiting for something more... sorry
Keep searching Marc, I'm sure you'll find it. Good luck! 🙏
Yes, hello. Can you tell me how to make tracks like @Akurahouse ?
Never heard of them...
@@dilbydj He is Swedish producer. We made track played by ATB at Ultra. 😶🌫
Fantastic tut congrats and thanks a lot, keep it going! 🙏🏻🔥🫶🏻
I feel like if I just sit in front of Bitwig, fuck around with house samples long enough and think housey thoughts, I'll end up with a house track just by screwing around. When it comes to drum and bass though, it's completely different. I feel like if I'm not laser focused, have a main plan, a back-up plan and three other contingent plans to go and rescue the soldiers that are now prisoners of War who might never see their family again, nothing is going to happen and it doesn't. Which is really odd for me because I've been into drum and bass for almost 30 years now. I dunno. I just have some weird mental block about it, but yesterday I just actually sat down and powered through it. Two technically because the first one I was on I stopped even though I was almost all the way through because my new base synth (Heartbeat by Softube. It's awesome.) started doing something really cool and then my thought was that I could make an entire track around what it was doing and so I did! But I'd still love to see you do that with a DnB track. I'm not implying that you can't. I just want to see it so that I know I have no excuses. Liked and subbed. Mostly because of how you say "coo" as you knock it out piece by piece. Thanks! Great vid!
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Great tips!
Cheers buddy 👊