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Harvey McKay

by Harvey McKay

Beginner and Intermediate

01h 38m

How To Make

How To Make Techno 2019 with Harvey McKay

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How To Make Techno 2019 with Harvey McKay
Tutor

Harvey McKay

Duration

01h 38m

Software

Ableton Live Ableton Live

Level

Beginner and Intermediate

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Course description

Sonic Academy is proud to welcome a brand new tutor this week, Glasgow based driving, soulful Techno producer Harvey McKay.

In How To Make Techno 2019 Harvey shows us his creative process in making a dark, brooding, and downright sinister techno track from start to finish in Ableton.

Starting with a sub layered overdriven and saturated kick we build tension with a rumbling bassline, pitched and crunched down hi-hats and a snare before adding the sinister main synth line created in u-he's Repro. Once the elements are in place we build up the scenes in Ableton's session view before recording as if playing live to lay down the basic arrangement. It's then a case of tweaking automation and editing the playthrough to get to the final mixdown so it can be sent off for mastering.

This is a course that proves you don't need a whole ton of plugins and gimmicks to create a banging floor filler, just careful selection of the right sounds with minimal processing can get you there!

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Promo 01:00
Tutorial 01 - Playthrough and Intro 06:28
Tutorial 02 - Kick 05:37
Tutorial 03 - Foundation 04:10
Tutorial 04 - Adding Tension and Snare 03:47
Tutorial 05 - Main Synth 08:04
Tutorial 06 - Vocals 02:16
Tutorial 07 - Basic Clip Arrangement 17:32
Tutorial 08 - Fine Tune Clip Arrangement 07:25
Tutorial 09 - Clip Recording 07:01
Tutorial 10 - Arrangement Smoothing 18:10
Tutorial 11 - Further Tweaks 12:09
Tutorial 12 - Final Changes 04:45
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