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Does anyone have any good tutorials for electro/house Melbourne shit? im finding it hard to get the sound especially with the basslines and melodys.

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kick + off beat bass + dutch lead line = Melbourne track. its that simple.

just listened yeah tomy is right that stuff is pretty easy actually

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thanks for the help guys but i need some low down in actually going about doing it myself rather then just a few words telling me what it is (i'm new to this) .. the tutorials on youtube don't really help me for what i want to make and the sound im trying to get. I'm having some trouble, mainly with the bassline/melody/build up and whatever in between. heres a few tracks with the sound im trying to look for. Hopefully you guys can steer me in the right direction and show me some tutorials or something that will help me out.

Cheers.

https://soundcloud.com/jack-lefty-roney ... aber-lefty

https://soundcloud.com/samiosman-95/bra ... sman-remix

https://soundcloud.com/brad_smit/chico- ... -brad-smit

https://soundcloud.com/effectzrecording ... -serotonin

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I've just started using Ableton, I've finished a little mashup easy project as a starter. Is there anything I need to do to finish it completely or just make it into an MP3.

Any other tips/tricks about anything would be helpful. :)

Thanks.

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Are any of guys just running ableton live 9 intro is it a waste of time or it worth it for a noob to the program.

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i use the suite and love it, there are a few things that i use that arnt available in lite

use the suite demo, if you like it then buy the product

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SonicBoom, if you still need help with Warping in Ableton I can give you a hand or point you in the right direction.

layout the warping tips and tricks. always someone who needs them (myself included!)

x2! Need to make this a workflow thing I think.

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No worries, mine is so short you'll probably think I'm joking, trust me I'm not. It seems to work wonders for the music I play, Prog House, Techno, Trance. I'm doing this from head so sorry if I miss something.

1 - Turn Auto Warping Off. Ableton is good at doing short samples but it loses concentration (if you can say that) with longer ones e.g. tracks. Only have to do this once.

2 - Set the master tempo in Ableton to the same of the track you want to warp. I'm not sure 100% what this does but it's always good to listen to the track in its intended BPM.

3 - Find the first kick and put a warp marker as close as possible to the start, you want this to be as tight as possible.

4 - Right click the warp marker and select Set 1.1.1 here.

5 - Right click again, select "Warp from here (Straight)"

6 - Turn on your Metronome and play the track (Hopefully its pretty close already)

7 - This bit can vary but I usually go to the last bar with a kick, near the end of the track and zoom in to see if it has strayed off (usually has a tad). Find the nearest transient and hold Shift+Click on the Transient to move it and bring in line with the kick ****DO NOT PUT A WARP MARKER HERE***. Then move it to the bar marker.

That's pretty much it, usually takes me about 30 secs to warp a track now and it comes out perfect. And in 98% of the cases only 1 warp marker needed!!!! Intro tracks need to be done differently, I might do a video for that.

Here's a video I just found that's doing a similar version. Please note I don't think this works with all genres of music.

Also just a side note, I always change my tracks from "Beats" warping to "Re-Pitch".

If you want an example of how good Ableton beat matching + key matching can be have a look at my latest set

https://soundcloud.com/jaymzphoenix/dark-progressive-006

Crapper beat matching can be found in the previous 5 episodes :) as I was trying stupid software.

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To anyone looking to learn the basics of Ableton; I just watched all of these videos and they're amazing. The videos are broken up into topics that make a lot of sense, and none of them are much longer than ~10 min.

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