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Underdog Electronic Music School
Belgium
Приєднався 25 сер 2020
Learn electronic music!
See all the Underdog educational courses on www.underdog.brussels!
See all the Underdog educational courses on www.underdog.brussels!
Is Live 12 the future of MIDI?
Ableton Live 12 has new MIDI tools that are pretty awesome! Let's explore together what's possible.
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Content:
0:00 Ableton Live 12 MIDI tools
1:03 Humanise your MIDI
3:17 Time warp is the GOAT
4:19 Transform your MIDI
6:04 Harmonic transformations
7:16 Techno acid riff generators
8:22 Rhythm generators
11:47 Stacks are chords FYI
13:35 Time warp everything
14:12 A sneeze of notes
16:43 What's my take?
My Foundations courses ► courses.underdog.brussels
Underdog Mailing List ► eepurl.com/gZmNbv
Patreon ► www.patreon.com/underdogmusicschool
Discord ► discord.gg/trDbVcDHB3
Content:
0:00 Ableton Live 12 MIDI tools
1:03 Humanise your MIDI
3:17 Time warp is the GOAT
4:19 Transform your MIDI
6:04 Harmonic transformations
7:16 Techno acid riff generators
8:22 Rhythm generators
11:47 Stacks are chords FYI
13:35 Time warp everything
14:12 A sneeze of notes
16:43 What's my take?
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Meld: Ableton Live 12's most advanced synth?
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Ableton Live 12 has a new synth called Meld. Is it any good? In this video I explore it with you, and in the process discover I actually vastly prefer Ableton's other synth: Drift 😂 But Meld is pretty cool too, especially for deeper sound design and weird leftfield stuff. Check it out! My Foundations courses ► courses.underdog.brussels Underdog Mailing List ► eepurl.com/gZmNbv Patreon ► www.pat...
The art of musical subtlety
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Electronic music is too robotic? Or is it a skill issue? Let's look at a cool way of adding organic flavour to your rhythmic synthesizers, using chordal polymeters. My Foundations courses ► courses.underdog.brussels Underdog Mailing List ► eepurl.com/gZmNbv Patreon ► www.patreon.com/underdogmusicschool Discord ► discord.gg/trDbVcDHB3 Contents: 0:00 sixteenth note patterns can get intense 0:41 a...
Am I too old to start making music?
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I sometimes speak to people who are embarrassed by their age, thinking maybe they're too old to get started making music. I'd like to talk about that in this video, to look at it from a bunch of different angles - are you too old to start pursuing this? My Foundations courses ► courses.underdog.brussels Underdog Mailing List ► eepurl.com/gZmNbv Patreon ► www.patreon.com/underdogmusicschool Disc...
Dungeons & Dancemusic
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🧙🏻♂️🧙🏻♂️🧙🏻♂️ Welcome, young beatmaker! Racso, the dancefloor sorceror, will teach you the six essential attributes of a powerful dancefloor beat. Strength, Dexterity, Constitution, Intelligence, Wisdom, and Charisma - the six perspectives you want to master to cast dancefloor magic. My Foundations courses ► courses.underdog.brussels Underdog Mailing List ► eepurl.com/gZmNbv Patreon ► www.pat...
My first impressions of Ableton Live 12
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Ableton Live 12 is here, and I have totally ignored its development so far, so we can discover it together! In this video I'll give you my first impressions of this new and improved DAW, and discuss whether it's right for you to upgrade from Live 11 or not. My Foundations courses ► courses.underdog.brussels Underdog Mailing List ► eepurl.com/gZmNbv Patreon ► www.patreon.com/underdogmusicschool ...
The simple theory concept behind 'adore u' (by Obongjayar & Fred again..)
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Obongjayar wrote this gorgeous song, and Fred again.. reworked it - now the two songs tell a dramatically different story, despite sharing 99% of the lyrics - so how did that happen? In this video we explore the concept of 'juxtaposition' in art composition: the combining of two very different ideas, that leads to an unresolved tension that the audience actively wants to resolve, drawing them d...
Techno remix workflow: making a mindmap
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My friend sent me some stems for a techno track, and asked if I wanted to do something with them, so let's listen to them together & make a plan to remix these stems! My Foundations courses ► courses.underdog.brussels Underdog Mailing List ► eepurl.com/gZmNbv Patreon ► www.patreon.com/underdogmusicschool Discord ► discord.gg/trDbVcDHB3 Oli's socials ► oliverbradford X/Y/Secret ► x...
Steal my avant-garde techno workflow
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Musical riffs have 3 dimensions: a rhythmic motif, a melodic contour, and an evolving timbre. We can design these three dimensions separately, and get exciting and surprising results. My Foundations courses ► courses.underdog.brussels Underdog Mailing List ► eepurl.com/gZmNbv Patreon ► www.patreon.com/underdogmusicschool Discord ► discord.gg/trDbVcDHB3 Contents: 0:00 Electronic music is the coo...
A silly little guide to music theory (for beginners)
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There's this cute website that offers an interactive guide to music theory, so let's check it out together and refresh our fundamentals! Check out the explorable explanations website yourself ► explorabl.es/ My Foundations courses ► courses.underdog.brussels Underdog Mailing List ► eepurl.com/gZmNbv Patreon ► www.patreon.com/underdogmusicschool Discord ► discord.gg/trDbVcDHB3 Contents: 0:00 Exp...
If you hate your hihats, watch this video
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The hihat and high percussion in your music is the energy infrastructure of your track: it's super important to get right, but can't be too interesting or it will distract from the lead elements. How do we program good hihats? How do we make them sound alive? This tutorial shows concepts that apply in all different DAWs as long as you have a sampler plugin. I'll be working in Ableton Live 11, m...
How I use a synth despite having no talent :)
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Make hardware synthesizers work for you, even if you have no piano or keyboard skills! This is a tutorial for all the electronic music music producers and composers who use a software-first approach to making music. My Foundations courses ► courses.underdog.brussels Underdog Mailing List ► eepurl.com/gZmNbv Patreon ► www.patreon.com/underdogmusicschool Discord ► discord.gg/trDbVcDHB3 Contents: ...
The eurodance tutorial nobody asked for
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Let's produce some nineties eurodance music! This video features a tutorial recipe to make a classic dance music anthem like it's 1994. The original song is Ku Minerva's "Estoy Llorando por Ti (Remix)". My Foundations courses ► courses.underdog.brussels Underdog Mailing List ► eepurl.com/gZmNbv Patreon ► www.patreon.com/underdogmusicschool Discord ► discord.gg/trDbVcDHB3 Contents: 0:00 Time tra...
Four steps to techno harder
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A playful formula in four parts to generate harder techno material. My Foundations courses ► courses.underdog.brussels Underdog Mailing List ► eepurl.com/gZmNbv Patreon ► www.patreon.com/underdogmusicschool Discord ► discord.gg/trDbVcDHB3 Contents: 0:00 follow along 0:20 Drum machine w/ distortion 1:14 Distort and resample 3:14 Equivalent machines 4:05 The Culture Vulture 5:10 Nailing the vibe ...
Is electronic music burning you out?
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When making art we sometimes get stressed and anxious - why is this happening to us? Let's talk about the "cortisol pit" and why electronic music producers are particularly vulnerable to it. We'll also talk about Receptivity Discomfort, a different type of discomfort that we experience when we try to open ourselves up to new ideas. My Foundations courses ► courses.underdog.brussels Underdog Mai...
I misunderstood how Four Tet makes music
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I misunderstood how Four Tet makes music
Techno rumble secrets nobody is talking about
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Techno rumble secrets nobody is talking about
You make dance music, but where is your metronome?
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You make dance music, but where is your metronome?
Do seventh chords belong in electronic music?
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Do seventh chords belong in electronic music?
How to catch your audience off guard (in a good way)
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How to catch your audience off guard (in a good way)
Four steps to create your own home studio
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Four steps to create your own home studio
Is modular most direct way to make music? (feat. Joranalogue)
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Is modular most direct way to make music? (feat. Joranalogue)
getting a little too excited about resonators
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getting a little too excited about resonators
An embarrassingly simple art concept
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An embarrassingly simple art concept
Two James Blake-ish drum techniques
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Two James Blake-ish drum techniques
As a drug addict, I have to say - thank you!
Can't you just quantize the Arp notes to triplets ?
Oscar this is one of my favourite videos ever and I keep coming back to it. I now constantly visualize the rumble as a super colourful 3d sculpture around this fat kick in the middle that ripples. I have a question, for mixing the kick and rumble MASTER chain with the bass, would you then add another bus on top for (MASTERY+Bass)? And in general, when you have a rumble like this would you recommend the bass is kept simple to not clash with the rumble?
Thank you UA-cam Algorithm for show me this!
The reverse midi is great for flipping patterns that the random generators create also forgetting experimental
Is this what happens when Annoying Orange gets high on crack? xD
Bravo
Top 3 of best Techno videos in UA-cam, great job, and great Oscar ! :)
You make simple things simpler
New boots and cats
Absolutely amazing that I stumbled across this today. I find myself heading to the Cortisol Pit often, and as someone just getting into music production I can see why it might put people off making music permanently. There's also so much expenditure pressure in this hobby. "If i get that sample pack or plugin then I'll be a better musician!" Its counter productive, what you really meed to be doing is making more music. I think I might try a process where i limit my time into Sound Design and Arrangement to try and avoid the pit going forward. Fantastic content @OscarUnderdog
Hey Oscar, you're a good teacher :) Keep it up !
Great!!!
Doesn’t understand why people use invert/reverse on midi. Then shows features in random order because he is a a rebel. 😂
You have no idea how much I have learned (and continue to learn) thanks to you and this channel since I bought my first synthesizer in 2020 during quarantine. Muchas gracias desde Argentina!
11:42 LOOOOOLL
Wow so beautiful yet so simple, I found your UA-cam videos very informative & very inspiring ❤ love your work, great song
fkin best video for me in the las 10 years... if it was a religion I would be on my knees now.
Excellent video mate. Thanks!
🎶 ͲᎡႮᎬ ᎷᎪՏͲᎬᎡᎽ ϴҒ ᎪΝᎽ ՏᏦᏆᏞᏞ, ͲᎪᏦᎬՏ Ꭺ ᏞᏆҒᎬͲᏆᎷᎬ 🎶 U certainly have mastered them 👏🎖️👏
AI is the future of everything, learning anything seems pointless
How about thinking of art as a process if self discovery? No AI needed there.
The song in the end is super sick, has some Sascha Funke / Ben Böhmer vibe
oh !! This is crazy why we can do now with midi ! Thanks Oscar
Hey bro, I appreciate your content. Please could you tell me which plug in do you use to add a keyboard bellow for native ableton instruments? That is something which disturbed me a lot...don't see the keys when I am playing, as bass player I always fell bad. lol.... thank u bro
Im using Scaler2 vst but then i edit out the rest of the plugin… i dont have a really elegant solution for it tbh!
I still miss the midi manipulation of the old midi programs like KCS, soundscape, bars n pipes et others... still unmatched
Killer
* giggles quietly in Logic Pro *
After this video i now believe in hypnotism
hey my live hero , u get back in uk 80's coldwave ? , hope enough cheeky ,anyway, u r still the best pedagogue i know , keep on mate ......
reverse midi, bounce to audio, reverse audio (making it forward again) = forward melody, reversed voice
Very helpful video, many thanks! 🙂
3:00 Reversing midi is great for recording audio of the sequence (mostly likely with effects that create extended trails: reverb is the obvious candidate, but it could be delays or other granular effects) and then reversing the recorded audio again. This gives you the intended melody but with a reversed envelope and a ghostly effect where each note rushes in. Invert is useful in multiple ways, too. You might like the gist of a melody and love the rhythm, and just decide to flip it to see if it's better. It's also useful when making harmonies.
Do you mean you reverse the melody, apply the reverb, print to audio and then reverse the audio?
@@marcellkovacs5452 Yeah, or even route it so that you're only bouncing the effects and not the original audio if you like, and match them together as you wish
It's more the other way around. MIDI is maturing and we're finally starting to see that propagate into the major DAWS now. FL Studio added MIDI scripting and support for more of the new additions to the MIDI spec for example. I wouldn't be surprised if new MIDI features are part of why CLAP works the way it does. I'm sure they'll all have moved over to the "MIDI 2.0" way of doing things before long and we'll have bidirectional communication and all of the other cool things MIDI can do now.
No matter what you’re given, you have a gift to make it sound good.
I love ableton , i quite liked your analysis. I have a question, surely you also Use and know the reason 12 counterpart of Ai generators (called by propellerhead “players”) i have now checked both. Whats your take on reason compared? To me their players seems i admit more usable, in terms of interface, and they provided more guidance to direct you obtaining musical oriented results. Live12 seems more complex to understand still how and what you can do with them. It opens possibilities but interface and results leave me a bit perplexed. So far scanning the web and youtube i only hear random generated progressions, which are becoming quite boring.
suchhhh a sick idea.
The midi tools generate some stuff, yeah. Im wondering how i can use them for specific genres like Tech House ? Please advise
Techno is FUN 💃
While these new MIDI tools are interesting & almost certainly useful, it does feel very much like Ableton has created Live 12 to expand their user pool to include aspiring producers with zero musical background rather than focusing on new feature sets (like Atmos support, or being able to have different tempos on different channels) which would allow their existing, experienced producers who need some of these things to remain relevant in a rapidly changing industry. We are a long way from the DAW which was birthed to make live, real time electronic music production & performance a reality.
"Changing the timbre is the secret weapon of electronic music." 💯💯💯
Great one again. Thanks man!
never thought dnd and music production would team up, great work as always
3:05 TENET
i was very amazed at first but so far I haven't used it much. probably takes a while to adopt and I might depend on more creative people than me to show me how to actually implement the stuff in tracks in a meaningful way
I love you Oscar hahaha
Definitely jetlagged
This is good to start a song but this is too unpredictable once you have an idea of where to take track.
Oscar reverses MIDI at 3:00 Me: Ohh I like that. Oscar: I hate it. Me: :(
I did like it better than the original, myself, lol
I found it a nice exercise to try those 4 sounds in a kata, ie from a sequence i try to switch between those sounds. It’s rapidly showing me the key settings on my particular synth to achieve those sounds. Super helpful.
Hey Oscar love the vids will you ever do a hardgroove techno video?