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Description
Learn The Foundations
of Music Production
In this multi-step course program you will jump start your learning all the essential knowledge for producing music in Ableton Live
About This Program
Learn the foundations of Music Production from Beginner to Advanced using Ableton Live 11.
Get an intensive deep dive into one of the best music production tools out there! Together with PML Tutors Francois and Guido, you will produce a track from start to finish and learn mixing and mastering techniques.
After this class you can finally focus on making music, because you know Ableton inside out. We share all our knowledge - so you will be familiar with the techniques professional producers use.
Software Requirements: Sound files compatible with Ableton Live 11 Suite or Higher. Xfer Serum (for Part 5 only) (Live is not included with the program.)
What You Get
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90+ Video Lessons, 10h+ Hours of Lessons
- Full 2h+ Ableton Interface, Instruments & FX explained
- Full 3h+ Course Track from Start To Finish in Live 11
- Full 3h+ Track from Scratch with Serum in Ableton Live
- Full 2h+ Mixing & Mastering in Ableton Live
- Ableton Session View explained
- Bonus Sessions: Making Beats from Scratch
- Drum Sample Pack included (500+ HQ Loops and One Shots)
- 15+ Ableton Instrument Racks and Effects included
- 10+ Ableton Projects (House, Techno, Melodic)
- Royalty Free Loops and One Shots. Ebooks and PDFs included.
Course Introduction
You Will Learn
Ableton's Interface
Instruments and Effects
Production Workflow
Cut years off your learning curve
Make Music your first language
Get an intensive deep dive into one of the best music production tools out there! After this class you can finally focus on making music, because you know Ableton inside out. We share all our knowledge - so you will be familiar with the techniques professional producers use.
Your Tutor
Your tutors Francois, Attila and Guido will teach you everything you need to know to make music in Ableton Live.
Your Lessons
In 90+ lessons your beginner’s questions get answered in great detail. Learn at your own pace and whenever you want!
Your Access
You get instant & full lifetime access to all courses and sounds with a risk-free 5 day refund period. Secure & easy!
All you need to make great tracks
Avoid Getting Stuck & Start with the Sounds We Use
Throughout this class, our tutors and producers will take you through the interface, go through the functionalities, make a track from start to finish, mix and master it. You’ll be able to learn the full process, step by step.
Hands on Ableton
Interface Essentials
Learn the interface in detail and will get an understanding of the most important features, before we start making our first track.
Tools & Functions
Learn what Ableton’s tools can help you achieve and how you can customise them for your individual needs. Ableton is extremely adaptive, so you can set up a workflow that feels natural. Here’s where you learn how!
Stock Effects
Ableton comes with a huge selection of built-in stock effects. PML tutor Attila shows you the 18 most important and useful audio & midi FX - what they do, when you use them and the best settings to start.
Start to Finish: 2 Full Online Courses
Start to Finish
We start with an empty project and you’ll learn all the steps in great detail so you truly understand what you need to do to produce your own track. We cover the topics from essential music theory, sound design, arranging your ideas to complete tracks and achieving pro sound.
Project File
You will get access to the project file of the exact track we are producing together. That way you can follow along step by step not only in the video lesson, but on your computer. Also, you can use the project file as a ready mixed and mastered starting point for your next song!
Individual Learning
You get instant access to every video at once and can pause or rewatch every single lesson to learn at your own speed - as often as you want. This will help you secure your learnings, so you know when you are ready to move on.
The Track We Produce Start to Finish in Ableton Live 11
The Track We Produce in Start to Finish with Serum
Mixing and Mastering
The Basics
Our mixing engineer Guido from CatandBeats/Amsterdam will show you the whole process of professionally mixing a track - from opening the project to preparing it for mastering. More crispiness or more low end? This part of the class explains all best practice tools and techniques.
Learn to Listen
The process of mixing and mastering is closely connected with an engineers abilities to listen and eventually “feel” a song. But everybody can learn to do it! We show you techniques to listen to the right elements, use the right tools to achieve the right sound - every time!
Louder?
Mastering is not only about making a track louder - but it is very important to achieve competitive levels for your tracks. Guido shows you effective compressor settings, EQing techniques and many little tricks from mixing thousands of tracks. Make your tracks sound professional!
Bonus: Samples, Racks & Project Files
500+ Premium Samples Included
Get sounds, one shot samples and loops that just work. This collection has been compiled over years with the best samples and loops to ensure you sound great instantly. No wasting time looking for the right sounds - you got them right here!
15+ Ableton Project Files and Racks
We created beginner friendly drum racks with matching samples already loaded in, so you get a big head start! Ableton certified trainer ELPHNT’s best Ableton only FX & instrument racks are also included to give you access to professional tools, without having to buy expensive plugins.
E-Book
With the help of this E-Book you find out what you really need to start making music - and even more important what you don’t need! It gives you info and hints what you want to look out for and what a perfectly adaptive system to start looks like.
Fully Produced Educational Ableton Templates
Deconstruct Ready-to-Release, Professionally Produced Tracks as Ableton Project Files to analyze, alter, and jump start your own music. Each template is packed with loops, presets, Midi and more.
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Sample Previews
Preview some of the Sounds Included in this Course
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Curriculum
Improve your skills in 90+ online sessions - with project files, questionnaires and lifetime access. This class is designed to not only bring you up to speed, but to level you up drastically as a producer.
Part 1 - Hands on Ableton
In this first part of the PML Ableton Beginner’s Class you will get familiar with Ableton Live. You will learn the interface in great detail. Ableton Live will start feeling more natural to you so can start focussing on what you really want to do - making music!
- Downloads
- 01 First Overview (3:32) Free Preview
- 02 Preferences (3:09)
- 03 The Browser (8:22)
- 04 Loading Audio Files (2:01)
- 05 Session View (6:54) Free Preview
- 06 Session To Arrangement (2:43) Free Preview
- 07 The Arrangement View (4:43)
- 08 Midi Tracks & Midi Clips (3:58)
- 09 Loading an Instrument (8:23)
- 10 The Mixer Section (6:12)
- 11 Faders and Controls (5:04)
- 12 Audio Effects (6:51)
- 13 Midi Effects (4:05)
- 14 Midi Clips (8:19)
- 15 Loop Pan (4:37)
- 16 The Master Channel (6:17)
Part 2 - Start to Finish: Ableton Live 11
Full Ableton Live Intro - How to Produce a Deep House Track Step by Step. Tutorial Series explaining Everything for Beginners. Includes Free Project File Download.
- I - Absolute Basics: What's needed to produce music (1:41)
- II - Downloading The Files + Setup (1:37)
- III - Our Production Process in this Course (1:45)
- IV - Basics of the Interface and Settings (6:28)
- 1.1 - Chords - Getting started in the Session View (6:59)
- 1.2 - Chords - Writing Chords in the Piano Roll (10:50)
- 1.3 - Chords - Creating the Sound in Wavetable and adding Audio Effects (8:48)
- 2 - Piano Sound, Midi editing (12:09)
- 3 - Pluck Notes (14:26)
- 4 - Kick Drum (8:09)
- 5 - Pluck Sound Design with Wavetable (12:43)
- 6 - Basic Bass with Wavetable (11:58)
- 7 - Sidechain (5:03)
- 8 - Editing the Pluck Pattern (Velocity, Filter) (9:44)
- 9.1 - Pad Swell Part 1 (7:40)
- 9.2 - Pad Swell Part 2 (16:22)
- 10 - Simple Clap (5:20)
- 11 - Hihat Offbeat (4:32)
- 12 - 16ths Hihat (13:25)
- 13 - Field Recording (4:06)
- 14 - Deep Clap (12:07)
- 15 - From Session View to Arrangement View (13:23)
- 16 - Deep Pluck (15:37)
- 17.1 - Basics of Song Arrangement (2:18)
- 17.2 - Arrangement Part 1 (Session A) (10:15)
- 17.3 - Arrangement Part 1 (Session B) (10:19)
- 18 - Transposing the Track (14:09)
- 19.1 - Arrangement Part 2 (Session A) (12:13)
- 19.2 - Arrangement Part 2 (Session B) (10:59)
- 20.1 - Arrangement Part 3 (Session A) (12:29)
- 20.2 - Arrangement Part 3 (Session B) (7:20)
- 21.1 - Adding Ear Candy and Return Channels (Session A) (14:00)
- 21.2 - Adding Ear Candy and Return Channels (Session B) (13:58)
- 22.1 Mixing: Basics (4:20) Free Preview
- 22.2 - Mixing Session: Cleaning & Balance (Session A) (12:44)
- 22.3 - Mixing Session: Cleaning & Balance (Session B) (12:59)
Part 3 - Ableton Audio & MIDI Effects and Wavetable Sound Design
PML tutor Attila explains all important Ableton stock plugins in detail. He shows you what they do, what the best settings are and how they can be used creatively - all within Ableton and without having to buy anything else!
Part 4 - Learn Ableton Session View
You will learn the essentials about clips, scenes, loops and eventually recording your ideas to full tracks from Session View into the Arrangement View.
- The History of Ableton (3:54)
- Quick Talk: Session View vs. Arrangement View (4:27)
- Tracks in Session View vs. Tracks in the Arrangement View (8:41)
- What are Clips? (3:40) Free Preview
- What are Clip Envelopes? (8:17)
- Linked vs. Unlinked Envelopes (12:08)
- Clips in the Session View (9:10)
- Launch Quantization (5:09)
- Recording MIDI Clips (18:49)
- New Follow Action Features (9:26)
- Recording into Arrangement View - Live Jam Session (16:27)
Part 5 - Start to Finish: Making A Track with Ableton Live + Serum
We will guide you through the whole process of producing a professional sounding track - from a blank project to a finished master. You can pause and rewatch every single lesson and learn at your own speed as often as you want.
- Downloads
- 01 - Let's Start (12:29)
- 02 - Adding Drums (15:40)
- 03 - Hat Loop & Kick (13:16)
- 04 - MIDI Notes & Clip Editing (11:24)
- 05 - Tweaking the Offhat (11:22)
- 06 - Adding 16th Hihats (7:04)Free Preview
- 07 - The Chord Progression (12:49)Free Preview
- 08 - Chords & Voicing (18:34)
- 09 - Loading Serum (9:58)
- 10 - Managing Presets (8:24)
- 11 - Writing the Bass Progression (15:00)Free Preview
- 12 - The Arrangement View (30:00)
- 13 - The Background Pad (15:46)
- 14 - The Pluck (11:15)
- 15 - Swell Pad (10:56)
- 16 - Starting to Arrange (17:06)
- 17 - The Full Arrangement (11:18)
- 18 - Adding Drums and Fills (15:50)
- 19 - Chords & Strings (24:03)
- 20 - Fine Tuning the Automations (23:14)
- 21 - Arpeggios (11:03)
- 22 - Mixing (24:11)
- 23 - Mastering (11:27)
Part 6 - Mixing & Mastering
Guido from CatandBeats in Amsterdam will teach you how to listen to the right elements and frequencies, which tools and FX to use and how to polish your track to radio or club quality.
- Downloads
- 01 - What is Mixing (3:52)
- 02 - The SPL trick (7:14)
- 03 - Setting up your project file (7:42)
- 04 - Setting up a new balance with just volume (6:44)
- 05 - Mixing with EQ (4:05) Free Preview
- 06 - The concept of an EQ (4:42) Free Preview
- 07 - Eqing the clap (6:03)
- 08 - Layering the hi hats and panning (8:10)
- 09 - Sidechaining, Warping and Tking Notes (3:40)
- 10 - Mixing with Reverb (10:36) Free Preview
- 11 - Depth and Delay (6:48)
- 12 - Distortion and Amps (4:58) Free Preview
- 13 - Adding Saturation (7:23)
- 14 - Music lives in the mids.mp4 (2:32)
- 15 - Splitting the bass up (4:29)
- 16 - Last little bass trick (7:45)
- 17 - Which melodic part to start mixing in.mp4 (4:17)
- 18 - FX throwing a filtered pad (5:13)
- 19 - The Pluck (8:28)
- 20 - The Arp (9:14)
- 21 - Mixing Pads (8:45)
- 22 - creative lead FX (8:00)
- 23 - Melodics - Creative fx lead 2 (10:37)
- 24 - What is Compression (6:16)
- 25 - More common settings (4:46)
- 26 - Drumbus Compression (9:19)
- 27 - Controlling the melodics (4:11)
Part 7 - BONUS: Making 5 Beats from Scratch
PML Tutors producing sounds and tracks from scratch in the styles Deep and Piano House, Breakbeat, Progressive House, Melodic Techno... + more.
Part 8 - BONUS: Playing Live using Ableton
PML Tutor and artist Ben Böhmer shows you how to perform your music live using Ableton Live.
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I've surfed the Internet over and over and nothing comes close to your courses, so thumbs up, and keep up the good work!"
- Claude
-Reggie.
I learned masses, especially motivating as the track itself is a great piece of music. Francois your tuition is smart, concise and you always have the learner in mind. Also really liked your approach to production and impressed with your knowledge of both production and theory.
Thanks and keep up the good work!""
- Simon (Tokyo)
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FAQs and Requirements
When does the course start and finish?
The course starts now and never ends! It is a completely self-paced online course -
you
decide
when you start and when
you finish.
How long do I have access to the
courses?
How does lifetime access sound?
After enrolling, you have unlimited access to the courses for as long as you like -
across
any and all devices you own.
What type of audio files are the
samples?
24bit 44.1K WAV Files
What if I am unhappy with my order?
We
would never want you to be
unhappy! If you are unsatisfied with your purchase, contact us in the first 48 hours and
we
will give you a full refund - due to the digital download nature of the optional sound
packs, we can only refund the courses parts. No refund on bulk / pack orders. One refund
per
person.
How do I access course files, if any are
included?
If you're getting the
basic course option, a download link will be provided above or below the video of the
first
or second lecture of the course (usually named 'Setup & Downloads'). In case you're
getting
the course with one of the pack options, the additional packs will be delivered to you
via
email.
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course?
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of "Course …"". Follow the "Confirm your account" link in that mail and you will end
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you. You can then always
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If you already have a courses account, the new course will be added to your profile
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There is one way of watching videos offline for example if you are travelling with an
iPad
and
you are not always within
reach of a stable internet connection: We have activated the option of MyTeachable
accounts
on
our videos so you can
watch videos offline through the “Teachable Online Courses” iOS App.
I already own some courses/packs. Can I
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Will future courses be automatically added to my
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The bundle is a
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courses / packs will not be automatically included.
Is this a subscription to future
products?
No. This is a one time payment
for the courses/packs currently included in the bundle
What if I have further questions?
We
are available to help you with any
questions, get in touch via:
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- Ableton Live Suite 11.0 or Higher
- Xfer Serum (Only required for Part 5)
