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by Harvey McKay

Beginner and Intermediate

01h 28m

How To Make

Dark Techno 2020 with Harvey McKay

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Tutorial 12 - Sidechain Synth
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Tutorial 13 - EQ Check
Tutorial Description

Here we add a white noise effect for more drama and fine tune the main synth with sidechain

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Ableton Live

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Tutorial 01 - Playthrough and Introduction 04:57
Tutorial 02 - Kick, Hook and Hat 08:37
Tutorial 03 - Pads 04:04
Tutorial 04 - Vocal Tools 04:29
Tutorial 05 - Top End Percussion 06:20
Tutorial 06 - Initial Arrangement 04:42
Tutorial 07 - Break Arrangement 08:45
Tutorial 08 - Drop Arrangement 07:34
Tutorial 09 - Record to Arrangement Page 08:49
Tutorial 10 - Refine Layout 10:27
Tutorial 11 - Mixdown check on Monitors 07:46
Tutorial 12 - Sidechain Synth 08:22
Tutorial 13 - EQ Check 04:01
Course description

This week we proudly welcome back Harvey McKay for another 'How To Make' techno tutorial and again he's making it Dark!

With its pounding driving kick and filthy gritty synth line created in Repro, this is one for the warehouse. A sinister late-night track for all you techno headz out there.

Harvey keeps it simple building the clips up in Ableton's session view before arranging them out, recording them live so they can be tweaked further in the arrangement page and then mixing down and fine-tuning.

This course is all about getting great sounds at source level that really pay off when it comes to workflow and getting results fast.

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