Producing a Future Bass track from start to finish inspired by artists like Flume, San Holo, Cashmere Cat, Odesza

Required:

• Basic understanding of using Ableton (like loading files, creating MIDI clips, loading instruments)
• Ableton Live 9.2 Standard (or higher)
• VST: NI Massive (1.3xx or higher)
• no other 3rd party plugins needed (SERUM would be optional)

The course will take around 5+ hours and walk you through:

• Idea generation (first in Session View, later we switch to Arrangement View)
• Writing powerful Future Bass chords and advanced MIDI writing techniques
• Writing fat and powerful drums
• Writing melodies
• Sound Design (with NI Massive - and optional with Operator and Serum)
• Making vocal chops and glides
• Creating chord slides, glides, pitch effects, LFO shapes and techniques, frequency shiftings
• Filtering, EQing, Vibrato, Envelope shaping
• Layering and sound stacking
• Creating crazy little fills and breaks for huge drops
• Creating Future Bass arpeggios and melodies
• Adding sphere with resampling and reversing sounds
• Creative arrangement (taking your 8 Bar loops and turning them into a full song)
• Mixing: We are completely mixing the track using techniques like "Frequency Masking", Mid-Side mixing, and many more
• Mastering: in the end we are fully mastering the track with a custom Ableton effect rack chain.
• Bonus: Serum sound designs, more vocal chops, ..