How to make Lush Plucks like Four Tet
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- Опубліковано 15 тра 2024
- In this tutorial we have a look at how to make lush Four Tet style pluck melodies, like those found in his song LA Trance. We'll explain the concepts, and then remake it using Xfer Cthulhu as the main arpeggiator, and a combination of Wavetable & Sylenth1 as the synths.
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Contents:
0:00 Intro
1:10 Preparing the 4 Chords
3:09 Using these chords to make a motif in Cthulhu
5:12 Sound design some sawtoothy plucks
6:55 Subliminal modulation with M4L LFO
8:22 Adding ping pong delays + making a macro
11:32 Creating secondary counterpoint melodies
13:10 Separating the counterpoint by lowering an octave
15:33 "Draw the rest of the owl"
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Wow.. the boundaries now feel unlimited.. as if someone opened the box i was stuck in and i stood up to look around!!
My skill level for creating melodies just tripled!! Thank you sooo much!!!
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nicely explained, not overly technical. as an artistic soul with no technical mojo it is super helpful and fun to reproduce and go from there.
Really loving the channel so far mate. I gotta say, I don't really make music that sounds like anything you make (although I usually like it!), but I love these tutorials because they show a really good work flow. I've been making music for a long time, but I'm relatively new to electronic music and even newer to ableton. You do a great job of showing how to get the sounds in your head into your daw. Cheers.
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This is absolutely sick. I only have Maschine but I can see how this carries across easily. Really great pacing with the videos, I feel like a lot of creators go too slow but you pack a lot in while still allowing us to keep up.
Man, you're so clear, concise and to the point. Your teaching skills are phenomenal, I love trying everything you've been showing us all - thank you so much!!
the video is not only to make things like four tet , also you can use it as inspiration to make another thing completely different , oscar your are amazing , really feel gratefull about all of this content that you share !
I never comment on videos really but this is some great stuff. Your teaching has led me to produce some sick deep/dark bicep type tracks in my own style. I love these videos so much. Super easy to follow. Thank you so much.
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Oscar, you are so awesome. Every Underdog tutorial I’ve done helps with grasping music theory concepts, developing technical skills, learning Ableton workflows and reminders to move quickly with creative decisions. Thank you so much. Will definitely book future sessions when I’m further along.
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I haven’t even watched video in it’s entirety, but I’m commenting as I know I’m about to learn some cutting edge stuff! For anyone pondering, this guy knows his shit!
Fantastic stuff. Even though the examples are in Ableton, these concepts can definitely be taken to other mediums. Excited to give these techniques a try on the Digitone!
The former of this channel is so instructive, beyond the individual lessons it's teaching how to analyze music you enjoy to replicate the key elements. Thank you so much for all the great videos!
Wow. You absolutely blew my mind. Amazing tutorial. And even better that you are using (mostly) Ableton tools. This is fantastic stuff. Thank you!
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Really like this one. Instant buy of the Cthulhu for it's arp.
If I where to change one thing I would skip the LFO effect and use the built in LFO in Wavetable, just turn off the Retrig on it.
Cthulhu is great. I watched Deadmou5 use it in a video and I was sold. Thanks for the nice video.
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Thanks for that! 👨🚀
"The rest of the owl." Gets me every time 🤣
Awesome video! Because of it I ended up getting Cthulhu and diving right in. That arp is now my favourite plugin! Was able to take my work in progress song and create an awesome melody for it!
Super cool man, it's really good like that. And I haven't even scratched the surface with its randomisation options, and its chords engine!
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Draw the rest of the owl reference cracked me up. Excellent content. You have a great way of packing lots of info into your segments that is very easy to understand & integrate.
Cheers! 🌈
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Thanks!
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3 years of watching music production on UA-cam, You are the 1st ever person ive seen using lfo from max. Wow i thought i was the only person using it.
fucking exactly! i completely forgot the thing existed because it's one of the five m4l devices i have. first time i've seen this dude and i just completely forgot how to really use the advantages ableton offers, learned so much instant sub
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Cthulhu looks like the closing scene on "close encounters of the third kind" Great tutorials
great vid. anything more about stuff "motifs, secondary melodies and counterpoints" is super welcome --- arrangement and instrumentation is difficult - this helped a lot already, thanks
This is great. I love Four Tet !
Hey Kim, long time no see man 😄
@@OscarUnderdog hey. loving the content man, even if I understand maybe 40% of it :) .
Awesome thanks
Wow, amazing stuff.
Cheers Keith 😁
@@OscarUnderdog credit where it's due. You got a sub from me after the Bicep video anyway!
Building melodies is definitely something I would love to improve. I've shared this one too, looking forward to more content!
Dude i love when u throw terms that i ve never heard of it motivates me to learn more haha , thanks for the great video !!
Thanks for the support Rafeek! Yeah I'm just slinging vocabulary there, trying to get the viewers to think about these things more conceptually - that way they are not totally locked into any particular tool. Once you understand the principles, there are many ways to appraoch any musical idea!
amazing vid
I totally fell in love with this process. I wanted Cthulu immediately. Asked Xfer if my existing system, based on Maschine would run it. Got a lovely email back from Steve with a No, so I went to work researching Maschine user experiences in Ableton, found some positives, bought a Novation Launchpad mini, which arrived yesterday and at 9 last night I had Cthulu talking strange magic inside a free copy of Ableton live lite. Monster Arp indeed. Thank you so much for the introduction. In my emails with Xfer, I name checked you as the inspiration for my inspiration. You also made me realise how intuitive Ableton is. I'm appreciating this even more as a total newbie in it.
Reviewing this video there's quite a jump from where you talk about the VST to showing it arping the chord progression. I can see 3 lanes in white, one of which is titled Arpeggiator, the bass drum marking time in orange, which I assume is the framework.
Did you copy the chords into a new midi channel, then drop Cthulu onto it or the other way round I wonder? I will probably be able to work that out by trial and error.
As you might read, I'm overexcited.
Loving the enthousiasm 😀🧡⚡
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Oscar thank you for your lessons!Maybe you could show us the sound design behind Umek's plucky synths like the recent killer "Frequency Differ". 🙏
Almost 1k subribers, 6 months later over 50k ! Awesome work !
I know right 😃 It's been a crazy journey. So happy people are finding the channel. 💚
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Very good tutorial!
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Great video and presentation :)
Thanks 😁
@@OscarUnderdog anytime :) thanks for helping me get back into smashing beats again :)
I love Four Tet!
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Really enjoyed this! Big fan of Four Tet and your deconstruction and explanation was superb.
If you were to do another analysis of an artist, could I please request Barker? He’s got a really interesting and striking sound quite unlike a lot of other stuff out there.
Oof yeah, Barker is incredibly deep. So beautiful :)
Man, this stuff is super helpful. I may need to switch to Ableton from Studio One.. 😅😬
Cool, Men! Really Cool
The first chord is a Bb Major. Bb-Fm-Db-Ab. The Ableton techniques are cool 👍
Very lovely and yamahesque (imo)
Great channel! What's the mixer behind you? I'm curious because it's a nice size and I'm looking for one of a similar size that's decent. Cheers.
this is pretty nifty! may need to buy cthulhu now..
That's always the risk :D But it is definitely a pretty "endgame" arp/sequencer, I don't think you'll ever need another arp after that...
@@OscarUnderdog yeah I certainly like what it does compared to abletons stock one (judging from your video anyway)