This first part of the course explains how to import the sounds and arrange the beats for the track. It demonstrates the basic rules of creating that classic Techno sound in Ableton. This tutorial will give you an insight into beat programming.

This lesson concentrates on installing a free VST soft synth and adding the sample pack sounds provided into the Ableton Sampler plug-ins. It also lays out the music into an arrangement that starts to build the music up to create the main frame of the track. We add a bass, and four other separate sounds to create the groove. Please make sure that in this lesson you download the free VST soft synth in the external resource link within the file.

In this lesson we begin to arrange the recorded work in Ableton and work on the intro and the build up. We focus on adding the right sounds in the correct order to create a nice and steady flow of music.

Lesson 5 continues from the previous session finalising the arrangement by laying out all of the beats and sounds into a complete track.

In this lesson now that the arrangement is complete, we begin to add the filtered automations to the key sounds and add the sound effects to finally complete the track.

This lesson is the mix down, where we strip the track back and start to eq all of the individual drum sounds and synths. We focus on using spectrum analysers and compressors and other plug ins to help get a nice sounding and well balanced mix.

The final lesson focuses on mastering the track. This way of mastering is a simple and useful way to test drive your final track in your DJ set on a loud system, or just to play on your system at home. This topic demonstrates the usage of Multi-band Dynamics and limiters to give the track a louder sounding finalised wave format.

The final track that we will be producing. Take a listen and see if this is the kind of music that you would like to produce on this course. If so please consider signing up for the course.