Loosen up the neck muscles as we’re going to make a head-nodding boom bap beat reminiscent of the…

Is the order of plugins in a chain important? The short answer is yes. The long answer is a little more complicated.

In this tutorial we look at some of our go-to Waves plugins and their applications across a full beat. 

In this Beat Dissected learn how to programme drums using Ableton 11’s MIDI probability feature. We’ve taken inspiration…

In this new Beat Dissected we use Loopcloud samples to program a drum break with glitched effect loops and a vocal acapella. 

We use Waves’ new lo-fi chain plug-in, Retro Fi, to add warm analogue-style textures and character to a house beat.

In this Synth Secrets, we don our lab coats and do some experiments with two IK Multimedia UNO Synth Pros, using internal feedback to generate transition effects.

In this article, we are using a bass hit one shot in Ableton Live and applying modulating filters plus bi…

We use compression, EQ, modulation and spatial widening to balance a disco mix and create focus.

If you want to sharpen your sound design skills, we’d recommend looking at the excellent suite of plugins from…

We take a deep dive into the combination compressor and saturator and use it to add shine and presence to a house track.

In this Synth Secrets, we’re going to use Ableton Wavetable to show you how to create morphing arpeggios. We…

In this Synth Secrets, we’ll build a thick, dusty bass lifted from an undisputed classic, Boards of Canada’s…

The Moog Grandmother is surprisingly flexible for a two-oscillator monosynth. We use a Dark Series edition Grandmother to create a Boards Of Canada-style ambient track in Ableton Live.