40:08 "The way that a multiband compressor works is it needs to have split points... The way that a splitter works is by using EQs, and the way that an EQ works is via delays and phase." The sign of a great teacher is one who can break things down to it's essential properties and use these basic ideas to explain the most complex uses. Thank you for this lil nugget Mr. Bill. (Also Woulg is awesome)
Audience member: "Hey, Mr. Bill. You're amazing, love your music. How do you approach X thing that most people have a specific answer on and say there's a right and wrong way to do?" Mr. Bill: "Yeah I just fuck around and do everything wrong on purpose and then I find cool shit and then when it sounds bad later I do more super wrong shit until it sounds cool again. Also I don't really have any structure in general. That would be weird, it sounds like a nightmare. I would fucking hate that *chuckles*. But that might be good for some people." Audience member: "Uhhhhh.....ok, thanks?"
20 minutes in and he already has 15 audio effects grouped into one Operator, and still dinking around with it. This is what I came here to see, now it's time to get the popcorn!
27:53 It seems like adding some clicking sound on top makes it all coherent, so that crazy note jumps in midi are any notes of a chord progression but just velocity information which by the way sounding very funky / progressive. 39:15 Serum FX has more than just one all pass filter. It has that ott compression too.Turning the compression ratio to max to use it as a limiter. Or you can turn the rate of a phaser to zero to use it kind of a single allpass filter. A phaser is anything else but just a regularly moving allpass filter.
im like 35 minutes in and already impressed. (1) the man came prepared but even better (2) he has actually no qualms sharing his process / knowledge (because hes confident in his music meaning: not everyone who has the 'secret knowledge', will get the same sound / quality of tracks).
1:22:00 Makes me think of something Amon Tobin said in an AMA which I remember as 'the more I work as an artist, the more convinced I am my role is simply to say yes or no'...
48:45 basically, fast-fourier transform (FFT) is one of the core algorithms of digital signal processing, and is based on the law that states any signal of any complexity can be reproduced through a sum of individual sine waves.
38:19 Idea Jams The concept is to take the tools at your disposal, use them in ways they're not supposed to be used or just really creative ways, record the output and figure out how to contextualize it for music later.
that was incredibly helpful. Great to see someone developing techniques around the fact they sound good, not because people have told you not to do something. Super un-traditional production, which is fucking amazing.
man i love recognizing the level you guys are at, i just been dabbling for 2 years, went to Pyramind (love you guys) in SF for music production. I enjoy these tutorials
Bill's so right about boosting frequencies and bumping db on effects like crazy cause they literally birth results - they wouldn't be included in daws/tools for no reason its, cool to see someone actually demonstrating it.
Really love the concept he starts on with approaching sound design from effects as a starting point. Gets a little harder to pay attention once he starts on the knob tweaking but great stuff conceptually
Yeah, that always comes later. The main idea is just trying to come up with things that are sonically interesting. Justifying those sonically interesting things as music is a whole other challenge.
@@MrBillsTunes Thank you very much for the reply! Makes sense 👌🏻 I'll give it a shot. And thank for all of the content you put out, I appreciate you taking the time to educate, I'll bake you a mud pie some time.
Awesome vid, it's amazing how much of this translates over to logic. I appreciate some of the insight into using "idea jams" to grab snapshots of different sounds. The playhead trick is a huge reason I'm interested in ableton as logic can't do that. Have you ever looked into Bitwig?
This shit convinced me to give you money. Apophenia is killer too, been listening to it nonstop. Gonna try and catch you at Meow Wolf. Thanks for everything man.
58:25 In Ableton 10 you can alt-drag from the playhead in the clip window, and it won't shorten or lengthen in the arrangement. Saves some time not having to do the whole duplicate thing! I'm thoroughly enjoying your content though, awesome stuff
Wow, it's nice to feel like I'm doing things right for once. My most used synth is 3xOsc and this is why! Start with something minuscule and just pile on fx.
This video is so insanely helpful, like holy crap thanks so much mr bill. Seriously, this video is so dense with useful info it makes my brain hurt. Time to go "idea jam" with all the new cool techniques I just learnt!
Learned a lot from Mr Bill tutorials years ago. Although I’m orthodox when it comes to music production. It’s nice to learn different approaches and techniques to reevaluate workflow. Personally I always end up back to classic approaches which mainly has to do with music style. I just never liked glitch and dubstep. Still, much respect for creative pioneers like this dude.
I like this approach. It's so odd how he's advocating for printing your sounds as quickly as possible, but also playing for hours. So much better than ages spent tinkering.
I studied at SAE too. One of my lecturers, he hated rules too taught us that you need to learn the rules so you know how to break them. without knowledge of your subject, ie. audio. your just throwing shit into shadows but if all you do is follow the 'rules' or do things the 'right way' your not really creating. Learn the rules so you know how to break them, I feel like Mr Bill is a perfect example of this.
Also FFT or Fourier transforms in general are just a way to take a signal form the time domain to the frequency domain. You don't really have to know the details of the algorithm just that that is what its used for. A simple way to visualise it may be the difference between looking at a wave form or a spectrum analyser. One gives you the full signals amplitude changes over time the other gives you the amplitude of each frequency over time. So imagine a saw wave: They are just constructed by stacking a series of sinewaves along its harmonic series right? In the time domain it looks like what you are probably familiar with a saw wave, it's namesake, a saw. In the frequency domain you will be able to see the various peaks of its harmonic series. In all saw waves this pattern will be true but the difference between different types of saw waves will be the amplitude differences across its harmonic series. Or more simply imagine it then morphing into a sine wave, you would see a sine shape in the time domain but you would see one peak in the frequency domain (excusing for noise) which would be the fundamental. Or a square would be almost the same as a saw except you would skip every odd harmonic. Either way. If you see FFT/ FT/ DFT etc. All you are doing is that transformation (unless its inverted, in which case you are doing the opposite)
Depends what you’re using it for. A soft clipper will limit your signal but will produce distortion, which is desirable in many cases. A basic limiter generally won’t distort as much but high amounts of gain reduction will suffocate the sound in an unpleasant way.
Hi Mr Bill I'm trying to find a video that I saw demonstrating how to play with tempo and construct a build up like Infected Mushrooms 'Bliss on Mushrooms'. If I remember correctly, it was possible to drastically manipulate the tempo of one track whilst keeping the global tempo stagnant. Can anyone point me in the right direction?? I've searched for hours now for this illusive video....
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40:08 "The way that a multiband compressor works is it needs to have split points... The way that a splitter works is by using EQs, and the way that an EQ works is via delays and phase." The sign of a great teacher is one who can break things down to it's essential properties and use these basic ideas to explain the most complex uses. Thank you for this lil nugget Mr. Bill. (Also Woulg is awesome)
"The sub should be a different instrument doing a sub and the shit on top should be doin' top shit"
-Mr.Bill 2019
Probably one of the best tips in the video. Good insight. And clear language :D
31:52 "I just kind of eye-balled it and ear-balled it" this is what makes Mr. Bill's tutorials most entertaining to watch
@@caro_lam The key to pleasing you is having another mans balls near different parts of your face?
The GOAT Ableton instructor. Some absolute gems in here MB.
Audience member: "Hey, Mr. Bill. You're amazing, love your music. How do you approach X thing that most people have a specific answer on and say there's a right and wrong way to do?"
Mr. Bill: "Yeah I just fuck around and do everything wrong on purpose and then I find cool shit and then when it sounds bad later I do more super wrong shit until it sounds cool again. Also I don't really have any structure in general. That would be weird, it sounds like a nightmare. I would fucking hate that *chuckles*. But that might be good for some people."
Audience member: "Uhhhhh.....ok, thanks?"
Words to live by.
Amazing
"that would be three hundred dollars, thank you very much"
One of the best free videos on his RUclips definitely worth watching all the way through.
33:08 Dry erosion
38:00 all pas filter
44:40 external instrument
46:00 RT60
56:28 Gate sidechain
1:35:00
🙏
I just rewatched after three years. Watched all the way through.
You are the most professional producer in the world.
Mr. Bill, you are a genius and a saint - respectively, for fucking around to this extent and then sharing it.
20 minutes in and he already has 15 audio effects grouped into one Operator, and still dinking around with it.
This is what I came here to see, now it's time to get the popcorn!
27:53 It seems like adding some clicking sound on top makes it all coherent, so that crazy note jumps in midi are any notes of a chord progression but just velocity information which by the way sounding very funky / progressive. 39:15 Serum FX has more than just one all pass filter. It has that ott compression too.Turning the compression ratio to max to use it as a limiter. Or you can turn the rate of a phaser to zero to use it kind of a single allpass filter. A phaser is anything else but just a regularly moving allpass filter.
Breaking all the rules with some of these techniques. I LOVE IT! Ableton POPE Right HERE! P.S Nice Laptop
Hahahaha its funny to see u here......
beep beep☺️☺️☺️☺️
😏
im like 35 minutes in and already impressed. (1) the man came prepared but even better (2) he has actually no qualms sharing his process / knowledge (because hes confident in his music meaning: not everyone who has the 'secret knowledge', will get the same sound / quality of tracks).
1:22:00 Makes me think of something Amon Tobin said in an AMA which I remember as 'the more I work as an artist, the more convinced I am my role is simply to say yes or no'...
48:45 basically, fast-fourier transform (FFT) is one of the core algorithms of digital signal processing, and is based on the law that states any signal of any complexity can be reproduced through a sum of individual sine waves.
Thankyou so much! Kickstarted me back into music production and i'm loving it again!
This is so insanely dense with info. I’m going to have to relisten like 2-3 times. Great stuff.
38:19 Idea Jams
The concept is to take the tools at your disposal, use them in ways they're not supposed to be used or just really creative ways, record the output and figure out how to contextualize it for music later.
Big up to Mr Bill and his insane level of knowledge on music production skills and techniques. Thanks for sharing 🙏
Love the song @28:00
"If you just mess with this for an hour you'd have all the sounds" -Noted
"'How did you come up with that?'
'I'd run out of ideas one day.'"
How have I never heard of this guy until now? He's amazing and a genius
that was incredibly helpful. Great to see someone developing techniques around the fact they sound good, not because people have told you not to do something. Super un-traditional production, which is fucking amazing.
This was incredibly insightful and extremely to the point, especially when reacting to questions from the audience. Thanks for sharing!
Its so epic to see a poster with "Culprate" in the background
Super interesting and inspiring! Became a Hardcore Abletoneer before I even finished this video.
Mr. Bill is the man for sharing such crazy tips and tricks all the time. Everyone else's tutorials are boring in comparison.
Amazing crowd asking all the right questions 😀
;) Yeah, sure they do...
man i love recognizing the level you guys are at, i just been dabbling for 2 years, went to Pyramind (love you guys) in SF for music production. I enjoy these tutorials
the part where he explained how EQs use phase absolutely blew my mind.
got a timestamp?
"Alright 20 minutes of idea-jams, 40 minutes of writing music, then I'm going to go eat some yogurt.." dude lol
So many gems in here. Mr Bill is the 🐐
Did he release that track already? 27:44
super cool, very entertaining, lot of inspiration, thanks Bill! :) props to BPM College & Fusion Culture for making this happen
Bill's so right about boosting frequencies and bumping db on effects like crazy cause they literally birth results - they wouldn't be included in daws/tools for no reason its, cool to see someone actually demonstrating it.
Idea jamming to this video as I’m watching it is a very relaxing evening experience
@58:20 ...I had no idea this was possible. genius, huge time saver.
you're a legend bill
I've watched this video so many times
I add ott to my soft sounds, really makes everything super emotional
"The rt-60 is like 1 second in here..." and you'll be like "awe shit, how do I fix that?"
I just lost it lol
Really love the concept he starts on with approaching sound design from effects as a starting point. Gets a little harder to pay attention once he starts on the knob tweaking but great stuff conceptually
I got a lot of inspiration right now. Thanks a lot for your great tips.
So so helpful, any ideas how you'd keep the idea jams in key or would that come later when incorporating it into the project/song?
Yeah, that always comes later. The main idea is just trying to come up with things that are sonically interesting. Justifying those sonically interesting things as music is a whole other challenge.
@@MrBillsTunes Thank you very much for the reply! Makes sense 👌🏻 I'll give it a shot. And thank for all of the content you put out, I appreciate you taking the time to educate, I'll bake you a mud pie some time.
Awesome vid, it's amazing how much of this translates over to logic. I appreciate some of the insight into using "idea jams" to grab snapshots of different sounds. The playhead trick is a huge reason I'm interested in ableton as logic can't do that. Have you ever looked into Bitwig?
This is effing awesome 💖
My Tuesday all of a sudden feels like a Saturday!
Great stuff. .. Tear up the book and start again.
Thank you Mr. Bill!
I added 15 OTT's on kick drum and it blowed my mind haha
what's an OTT?
@@ostrol1590 Kind of multiband compression.
@@alfredhitchcok aaa cheers ye
Tomás Frazer it’s something you need in yer life
I added 15 OTT's to my master and it blew my ear drums
This shit convinced me to give you money.
Apophenia is killer too, been listening to it nonstop.
Gonna try and catch you at Meow Wolf.
Thanks for everything man.
58:25 In Ableton 10 you can alt-drag from the playhead in the clip window, and it won't shorten or lengthen in the arrangement. Saves some time not having to do the whole duplicate thing! I'm thoroughly enjoying your content though, awesome stuff
Many thanks for making this available for everyone.
Why quality is only 360?
It was just processing, it's 1080p now :) Enjoy.
Wow...seriously pro production!
Não há ninguém melhor que você, sou seu fã!!!!
tbm sou
omg, 1 h and 40 min??? i love u
right on! thank you dude!
🙏dude thank you for all that you do
52:53 Did you ever do a talk about making your idea jams musical? Would love to see it
I ate two avocados while watching this.
43:57 - How to properly trigger serum FX!
hehhee, right now i'm appreciating all the little bitwig things that let me slide clips around from my audio noodles jams
Who is the artist that uses razor at 1:18:11? Tippa or something? Also dope class, I wish i had ableton.
tipper
Congrata. You are one od the best out there
Does he have any videos on how to make these crazy sounds musical like he said?
thank you! excellent work very inspiring
Avocato man is back at it again dropping knowledge.
Wow, it's nice to feel like I'm doing things right for once. My most used synth is 3xOsc and this is why! Start with something minuscule and just pile on fx.
54:15 WHAT!? I did not know that and I have been teaching and using Ableton for over 10 years.
You can also import all your sessions into the "Places" browser and open from there.
15:51 "Serum has had a massive impact on synthesis"
Why'd you have to do that to us?
It took over a week for this joke to sink in for me lmaooooooo
i dont get it xD
@@Twat2024 serum had a MASSIVE impact one synthesis
@@Repayola I know lol, I was there when it happened, I just don't understand the joke
@@Twat2024 Massive is another synthesizer, it used to be the most popular synth before serum was released
some incredibly useful tips and tricks throughout this whole video. thanks for the upload.
the tune at 55:00 is now the podcast intro
This video is so insanely helpful, like holy crap thanks so much mr bill. Seriously, this video is so dense with useful info it makes my brain hurt. Time to go "idea jam" with all the new cool techniques I just learnt!
Dude wtf was that track at 54:53. Has he released that yet? That shit was niiiiiiiice.
I don't know if youll see this but how do you feel about glitchmachines plug ins?
Thank you for sharing your experience and knowledge
Learned a lot from Mr Bill tutorials years ago. Although I’m orthodox when it comes to music production. It’s nice to learn different approaches and techniques to reevaluate workflow. Personally I always end up back to classic approaches which mainly has to do with music style. I just never liked glitch and dubstep. Still, much respect for creative pioneers like this dude.
i relate to your thinking so much.
1:29:00 does it have a name that song?
Yeah, its « Apophenia»
bill the world needs to hear "peekaboner"
I like this approach. It's so odd how he's advocating for printing your sounds as quickly as possible, but also playing for hours. So much better than ages spent tinkering.
52:13 How did you/he pitch down an octave so quickly like that? Thx in advance.
Click on the knob for pitch, hold shift and then press then the down arrow! Most octave-based changes in ableton like this work similarly!
@@johnweill725 Thank you!
Wait at 58:50 how does he know tuning that sample by 1 semitone will put it in key?
Edward Mortimer-Tsushima he knew the key he made the sounddesign in and the key the song was in...
I studied at SAE too. One of my lecturers, he hated rules too taught us that you need to learn the rules so you know how to break them. without knowledge of your subject, ie. audio. your just throwing shit into shadows but if all you do is follow the 'rules' or do things the 'right way' your not really creating. Learn the rules so you know how to break them, I feel like Mr Bill is a perfect example of this.
AFTER THE 3 glue compressors i get a popping sound, how come?
nvm found it, freq. on operator was too high :P
Ahaaaa, the RT60 artifact section at 49 mins had my cat wiggin out!
This is very precious
I'll be seeing you at Camp Bisco
are you still planning on doing bitwig videos or did you switch back?
Also FFT or Fourier transforms in general are just a way to take a signal form the time domain to the frequency domain. You don't really have to know the details of the algorithm just that that is what its used for.
A simple way to visualise it may be the difference between looking at a wave form or a spectrum analyser.
One gives you the full signals amplitude changes over time the other gives you the amplitude of each frequency over time.
So imagine a saw wave: They are just constructed by stacking a series of sinewaves along its harmonic series right?
In the time domain it looks like what you are probably familiar with a saw wave, it's namesake, a saw.
In the frequency domain you will be able to see the various peaks of its harmonic series. In all saw waves this pattern will be true but the difference between different types of saw waves will be the amplitude differences across its harmonic series.
Or more simply imagine it then morphing into a sine wave, you would see a sine shape in the time domain but you would see one peak in the frequency domain (excusing for noise) which would be the fundamental. Or a square would be almost the same as a saw except you would skip every odd harmonic.
Either way. If you see FFT/ FT/ DFT etc. All you are doing is that transformation (unless its inverted, in which case you are doing the opposite)
As much as I like Mr. Bills tuts, but the audio connection from Ableton sounds like crap. Did you route it through a telephone?
Yeah we thought routing it through a telephone would make the most sense. Lesson learned I guess ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@@MrBillsTunes legend
At least it’s not Morse Code...
1:37:29 Holy F-ing Bannanas pleeeeaaase release that Griz/Boogie T remix!!!
he's got mad amounts of unreleased tunes/remixes/collabos that im so excited to hear at some point its nuts
Is it out yet ): Keep me updated
thank you so much for the serum trick
with the harsh bass why didnt you add any movement in that chain
is it better to use a limiter on the end of a chain for sound design or a saturator with soft clip?
Depends what you’re using it for. A soft clipper will limit your signal but will produce distortion, which is desirable in many cases. A basic limiter generally won’t distort as much but high amounts of gain reduction will suffocate the sound in an unpleasant way.
Hi Mr Bill I'm trying to find a video that I saw demonstrating how to play with tempo and construct a build up like Infected Mushrooms 'Bliss
on Mushrooms'. If I remember correctly, it was possible to drastically manipulate the tempo of one track whilst keeping the global tempo
stagnant. Can anyone point me in the right direction?? I've searched for hours now for this illusive video....
So damn good!
That "oh man" at 1:12:35