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Production Tutorial: Creative Extensions

We delve into Live's Creative Extensions pack to open up new possibilities!

00:00 - Melodic Steps
10:46 - Gated Delay
12:57 - Pitch Hack & Spectral Blur
17:09 - Re-Enveloper
20:14 - Color Limiter

'Ascension' – OUT NOW!! 🎉

Our first single in two years lands today.

One chapter of a much larger story...

https://stem.ffm.to/ascension

Exclusive!

Hello friends,

Wanted to give our closest fans an extra early sneak peak of a brand new song being released next week.

So incredibly hyped to share a whole lot more very very soon.

❤️

LP II

The most personal and extensive body of work we've ever put together is complete. 

We've spent the last 2+ years working to make this project a reality, and it truly is the most unique and heartfelt thing we've ever created. Incredibly grateful to all of you for your support thus far 🤍

Stay tuned to our pr...

Production Tutorial: Resonance

This video focuses on Resonance and how it can be used as a creative tool!

00:00 - Intro and theory
01:42 - Resonant filters
02:20 - Resonators
03:38 - Creating a harmonic drone
06:56 - Processing electric guitar with overtones
14:05 - Controlling Resonators' pitch values
18:32 - Intro to Corpus
22:...

Win everything in our online store!

We are giving away 1x every item in our online merch store! (subject to stock)

We will soon be renaming our Facebook fan group. Comment below with your be...

Production Tutorial: Organization

The fourth and final video in our Ableton workflow series! This time we look at the glamorous and romantic topic of Organization, and focus on ways to speed up navigation and optimize tools inside Live.

00:00 - Intro
00:19 - Presets
01:13 - Racks
05:35 - Collections & Categories
06:44 - Samples ...

Track Breakdown: Grounded ft. Javeon

00:00 - WIP versions
02:32 - Vocal recording
04:58 - Vocal mixing
12:33 - Side-chaining vocals
14:25 - Drums
18:45 - Processing drum breaks
26:49 - Glitchy melodic layers
30:06 - Pad + bass channels

Production Tutorial: Creative Tips (Part 2)

The third video in our Ableton workflow series! This time we explore velocity data and all of the ways in which it can be used creatively, including generating complex modulations and relationships between different musical elements.

00:00 - Intro
00:18 - Extracting grooves
02:51 - Random drum break triggering
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Production Tutorial: Creative Tips (Part 1)

The second video in our Ableton workflow series. This time we look at creative ways to use Live’s MIDI and audio tools. We’ve also included the project file below.

00:00 - Intro
00:10 - Matching arpeggiator swing amount with other grooves
02:00 - Simpler slice mode tips
07:53 - Slicing audio to new MIDI tra...

Production Tutorial: Ableton Shortcuts

Welcome to a new series on workflow! We'll be covering shortcuts, creative tips, organization and more. This first video is our 'Ableton Shortcut Bible' which includes every useful keyboard/mouse shortcut you need to know, to help speed up your workflow using Live. W...

Project File: Coffee Grinder

Here is the full project file for the song that we made using only the sound of an old coffee grinder. Runs with Ableton Live 11.

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Exclusive Music: Coffee Grinder

This track was made purely from a recording we made of an old coffee grinder. It was a quick exercise in sound design and arrangement, recorded for the purposes of giving you an insight into our creative/technical writing process.

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Creating a song using only the sound of an old coffee grinder.

For the last video of 2022 we decided to do another full track production video, this time using only the sounds of a coffee grinder.

00:00:00 - Intro
00:00:47 - Making a melodic tone
00:03:40 - Making a bass guitar sound
00:05:42 - Making a guitar sound
00:08:55 - Making a synthy sound
00:...

Production Tutorial: How We Made 'The Adventures of Mr. Fox'

Discord Producer Challenge #005

We have a new production challenge happening over on our Discord server!

For this challenge, we've attached a MIDI file taken from the theme of Titanic. We want you to use this melody to create a new piece of music. 

2022-11-17 17:34:54 +0000 UTC View Post

Audio Stems: The Adventures of Mr. Fox

To celebrate the release of 'The Adventures of Mr. Fox' on vinyl, we are giving away not one but ALL of the original stems!

Expect some more Mr. Fox production-related content dropping soon! 🦊

2022-11-11 16:37:11 +0000 UTC View Post

"The Adventures of Mr. Fox" — Vinyl Now Available

The return of Mr. Fox... a decade later and still sly...

For the first time ever we are releasing "The Adventures of Mr. Fox" on physical format. At the time of writing this EP (along with other records we made during this era) we had no idea how much these tracks would impact and influence so many different people.

Project File: The Zulla

As promised! Find the stems here.

We've included two session files: the full session file, and a version without external plugins. Runs with Ableton Live 11.

2022-10-27 15:02:13 +0000 UTC View Post

Production Tutorial: Making Fat Wonky Beats

Audio Stems: The Zulla

One of our most requested tracks! Next week we will also post the Ableton project file.

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Production Tutorial: EQ & Multiband Compression

This month we balance a track using EQs and dynamic processing.

Production Tutorial: Granular Synthesis

00:00 - Intro to granular concepts
03:42 - Granulator
21:41 - GRM Freeze VST
30:41 - Portal VST
36:32 - Portal and envelope followers

Audio Stems: Silk Wave

Thanks for everyone who voted! And please let us know below which other stems you'd like to get your hands on...

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Poll: August Stems Giveaway

The choice is yours!

UPDATE: Album Album Album 💿

Hello beautiful patrons! To kick things off for August we wanted to start by updating you on what we've been up to recently.

You may have noticed that the content we've been posting here in recent months has not been quite as regular as it was in the past. Over the last few months we have been working hard on our new al...

Production Tutorial: FabFilter Timeless 3

01:16 - User interface + delay visualization
04:04 - Built-in effects + delay functionality
11:04 - Filter + modulation sections
21:11 - Creating textural sounds
29:10 - Creating percussive delays from drums
35:14 - Creating reverb on drum tails
36:32 - Using Timeless to create wonky basslines

Project File: Aeon

Thanks for everyone who submitted ideas for project files... we will be sharing more of these in the future!

We've included two session files: the full session file, and a version without external plugins. Runs with Ableton Live 11.

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Production Tutorial: Q&A (Part 2)

Here is the follow-up to last month's Part 1.

00:24 - How do you approach mixing elements when you want to create a lush and more emotive soundscape?

19:24 - Do you have...

Which of our project files do you want?

Ok, here's the deal...

You get to pick one of our tracks that you want the original session files for. We will choose between the most popular later this week and make it available to all of you!

Comment below with your selection 💬