Masterclass | Culprate - Creating a track in Ableton Live
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- Опубликовано: 8 сен 2024
- Drum & Bass producer and sound design Wizard, Culprate talks through his creative and technical approach to creating a track in Ableton Live. A thorough look into sampling, synthesis, sound design, foley and audio processing.
This masterclass was recorded in 2017 with our Electronic Music Production Degree students in Bristol.
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FYI: In case your ears don't notice it, the entirety of this masterclass was recorded with a clipped output. So when Culprate shows them examples of A/Bing plugins, don't pay attention to the distortion, because every sound throughout the video is going to sound far more distorted than what everyone else was actually hearing at the time of that event.
Btw, Culprate is a pro and would've fixed the issue immediately had he known about it.
The masterclass is still worth watching tho because it's loaded with great tips and techniques so thank you dBs Music for sharing.
agreed, it's packed with great tips.
a tad ironic dont you think lool
right? he asks for more gain and im like nooooo dude no stop, ah well
John, sorry, maybe a bit more level?
...so that's why.
I was a bit surprised a guy who let everything clip so badly was asked to give a masterclass.
Legitimately one of the best production tutorials on youtube
HOW DID I NOT KNOW ABOUT THIS?! Sorry about caps, but I'm just so happy to have found this. :)
ikr? I watch all the videos and this one just came up
This is the secret bonus level of Culprate, played backwards this entire lecture is also an album.
The one sound he couldnt place his finger on is a walrus. A very popular youtube video was a woman prompting a captive walrus to make specific noises.
He may mention it later, as im 20 minutes in. but theres a wonderful video with excellent walrus sounds.
Love the sub bass and white noise technique
herzeyloid!!
im trying to find the moment he starts to talk about that
If you like that you should check out the Hybrid Minds - Meant to be (Insideinfo remix). Not saying anything bad about Culprate though, his music is wicked!
yea man, I stumbled upon this a couple years ago by taking my subbass and white and my drums and heavily distorting compressing limiting the hell out of them and got this insane bass texture and I was like whaaaaaaaat! and then to see culprate doing an extremely similar technique only solidifies what a cool way to create that sort of bass
Now do koan sound tutorial please! :D oh my god i love this channel
"John, sorry, you might wanna give it a bit more level?"
Thats my man.
2:34 "John sorry, you might give it a bit more level?" and the sound is fucked for the rest of the video...
Thomas O'Malley Lmao, definitely using it in a track
hahahahhaha amazing
hahaha this comment is exactly what I was thinking
Couldn't help but notice the "SKOPRATE" folder. Beside the amazing class you're a proper fuck for the tease! Beautiful work man big ups dB
If you follow Culprate on Twitch, you can watch him producing tracks with Skope :) Mad stuff!
21:44 Man, "Fester" is one of my lifetime favourite tracks.. amazing work.
Great info from one of my favorite producers ... also, really hilarious how many times things were called "not advisable" ... lol
This one tutorial gave me more great tips than the last thirty I watched combined =)
Damn so many useful tips/tricks!
This is wicked, gonna watch this when I'm stuck for inspiration. All about that crunchy sound design! Cheers for the upload 👍
Yin is your masterpiece. It's like.. I feel every single sound in the tune and it pumps through my body and unites me with the universe. Words can barely describe it.
damn so many gold nuggets! thank you Culprate!
I've learned things I didn't even know where possible in ableton
Culprate's such a boss.
LITERAL GOLD
Transient shaping with Saturn at 1:01.. Ace
oh man thats a hell of a treat !!!
It's nice to see someone else going through effects on their tracks and wonder what on earth theyre actually doing hahaha
need to rewatch it
Culprate Bashes ... completely ;) propz to both the artist and the school! And thank you for the free vid!
its free because some fucking idiot fucked up the recording
wow awesome!
Holy shit! Yes!
5:45 I've been trying to figure out that fuzzy sub bass sound for so long...thank you jeebus
That one where you said "This is what it sounds like at first" sounds like a fucking sick variation you could have fit in the track (If you didn't)
Damn I hope this song gets released it was previewed on sound cloud ages ago
ResmaDnB UK
Culprate-Fester
Sure you've heard it by now but just incase 😌
1:01:30 wow nice
Nice percussion tip with those beats transients.
I don't think you're using Msed at all set up like that. The idea is you put it on a channel in decode mode and bus to two aux channels. on one you put msed set to mid and the other set to sides then the outputs of those aux go to a third channel thats your output. That channel has msed set to re-encode. Now you have a channel with just mids and another with only panned information, your sides. Now you can do what you want like add distortion just to the mid or add crazy reverb just to the sides or whatever. There are loads of MS plugins that let you eq in ms or whatever but msed still gives you the most flexibility. It's a bit complicated but once you get your head around how it works its awesome. Mid side processing is a game changer.
Great video
Max 4 Live doppler is also very good!
23:13 the dude at the left looks litterally like cookie monsta
yo I read 'the dude that left' and watched 2 more minutes waiting for the camera to change back and see if he really left lol
Interessting that he says 3k is the spot for aggressive sounds because Virtual Riot has always said to turn down at 3k because its the frequency our ears hear as the loudest. I suppose that could explain why it makes sounds aggressive, but by the same token, boosting those frequencies mean you cant get your track as loud because those frequencies are most sensitive.
Cut them frequencies for general sounds, and use foley to cover that area of the spectrum. Vocoder is great too!
49:45 - sampled bass mod
1:00:42 - saturn drum trick
*My joint favourite artist* (with KOAN Sound,It's been years & I still can't decide who I prefer lol)
*is showing me how to produce shortly after my laptop got stolen from my house by a little thief :'(*
So annoying...But thanks Culprate :D
классный саунд
Drum and bassically
what are you calling the bounced bits in the beginning? tablars/tabulars? what is this?
Tabla as in the drum I believe
the clipping is fucking intense :D
man i wanna hear the entire thing
A bit late now.. 😅 Hopefully you've already heard it. But it's called "Fester".
Is it always better to layer a top end over my basses? Im a few months into my neurofunk journey and im trying to learn everything i can.
15:00
So when Culprate first lays down a track, he doesn't worry about the levels at all. When he bounces everything into a new project, then he starts worrying about the levels. Within this new project, he also repeatedly bounces each of the tracks in place to process them individually.
Have I got this right?
1:10:28 ''distorting the *low end* of a *sine wave* '' ???????????????????????????????????????????
Ye it adds nice harmonics then all you have to do is cut out the ones you don't need. Like he said, better to cut than add.
chimpalahee I think you missed my point, a sine wave is made up of its fundamental alone, it doesn't have a ''low end'', its only one frequency...
Stephen Ward You're absolutely right and a sine wave can can be at any specified frequency in the spectrum and no matter where it is, saturation will still add extra harmonics..
chimpalahee Ahh yeah that's what he was probably talking about youre right, just didn't articulate it in the correct manner.
Distorting a low frequency sine wave, rather than the low end of a sine wave.
^^ GRM tools are here : inagrm.com/en/store
but lot of gold is present so i will forgive you the shit recording:D
big up Culprate and dBs
are these all native to Live plugins?
which track is it?
Culprate - Fester
Lots of bad practices to overlook in this project but it's cool to hear him talk about it.
Seth Taylor He’s not big on naming his tracks...
What's the track he's explaining ?
fester
Nobody:
Culprate: Oh yeah this plugin is like... 30 years old?
like sort of bass like sort of sort of like
20:46 sea lion from yt mate ;)
funny how most people do things the same way with out learning from anyone after experimenting
How would you go about doing the stuff he does at 25:00 on FL? I'm using Edison and the built in FL sampler and I'm completely clueless on how I can achieve the same effect.
My tip, stop using FL... not an insult to you, but it's so limited compared to ableton, I recommend the switch man
No offence taken at all! I know FL is a bit limited, but after 5 years of use I'm finding it really hard to make the switch. Any books/tutorials you'd recommend on learning the ins and outs of Ableton - just to make the switch a bit easier? Thanks
Dont worry man. Billain uses FL. .... and we all know about him.
Enei and Emperor do to, I think it's allright
go watch some of fractures tutorials on ableton, you can get the basics by just watching his process.
This guy asking what the midside plugins do... cmon.
Yup msed is a game changer once you get your head around how it works
does it bug anyone else that he doesnt play the whole set the entire fucking time...i just wish he would play it over and over rather than bits and pieces idk why its frustrating me so much l o l
Dylan Forrest that's how he probably works alone. he probably can't help it and doesn't know he's doing that.
there is something wrong with the sound
amazing tutorial but more focus on how the track was arrangement would be good, rather than spending 10 mins tweaking a sound
focus using your ears and eyes. arrangement is a piece of piss and ease of it comes from listening to LOTS of similar music.
It's not Foley. You used the correct term yourself "Found Sound" common mistake but Foley is specific to film sound. It is performed by foley actors with props in a studio in time with the on screen action. Almost all sound heard in a movie is added like this. They don't record much environmental sounds on location when shooting.Named after Jack Foley who pioneered the technique. Big name in Hollywood and the history of cinema. Using found sounds in music is not Foley. A great film to watch where you see them at work is Berbarian Sound Studio.
Ah man, I cant watch the rest of this now hes clipped the output. Rubbish.
what you mean?
WTF... He's not even teaching... "uhhhhm - yeah" "ummm on top of that, yeah" Then scrolling up and down for no reason, clicking n' stuff... This is not how production should be taught! this guy can't teach! "uhhhh" then "yeah" everything he explained was so vague... didn't even get to 15 minutes.
He's not a teacher... He's a music producer--an artist. And as the saying goes "creative minds are rarely organized". Culprate is brilliant, but clearly you don't have an appreciation for his skill and craft.
Thousands find this video extremely informative. Try patience, and you can learn a lot.
What Connor said ^ lol hopefully you decided to rewatch this video and get some good knowledge. This guy is a genius and he taught quite a lot.
Teachers have sticks up their asses. I find it much more pleasant to listen to someone who freely talks and not just uses some rhetorical manipulation techniques.
Maybe you guys right... I have no patience... the reason for that I hate wasting time... Yeah you can come up with arguments leading to conclusions such as this wouldn't be a waste of time at all... etc.
maybe I had a plausible reason to elicit my concern perhaps it may help Culprate, if he's so genius then he'll be able to take criticism constructively positive way ;)
It's merely a capture of a thought process obLivious to Culprate's fame; the first impression of a video, honest sharp skepticism.
@@AlexSage Also understandable.. Cheers! :)
Straight up thought this was going to be a video of Culprase creating a track lol lame misleading title D: