How to Make Synthwave in Ableton Live (Stock Plugins ONLY!)
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- Опубліковано 25 чер 2024
- How to make a Synthwave style track using only Ableton Live 11 stock instruments and effects.
#synthwavetypebeat #ableton
TIMESTAMPS
00:00 - Intro
00:18 - Drums
04:46 - Sound designing a retro keys patch with Wavetable
07:05 - Creating a chord progression
08:26 - Bass sound design and bass progression
10:41 - Adding an arp
12:10 - Arrangement tips and final beat
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I think this is exactly what I was looking for! Synthwave is awesome! I have no Ableton, no instruments, no nothing, but a desire to learn all this stuff!! Love you!!!
Synthwave is indeed awesome! Glad you enjoyed and have fun learning 🙂
The simplicity of this was exactly what i needed to start learning the synthwave genre!!!! Thank yoou sooooo much!
Thanks! Happy to help!
I CAME TO SAY THIS.
MANY THANKS!
You made me feel good, you really have positive energy and I subscribed and I want to follow you from now on, thank you for your training
Really appreciate that! Thank you!
Fantastic video. Simple, to the point, no BS. A+, no notes.
Thank you!! I really appreciate it.
something about the square wave and the saw wave together brings back NI massive 2012 electronic music vibes.
Thank you!
wow this sounds awesome!
Awesome tutorial. Thank you!
it's so wonderful to see how you just make music. Seeing the whole picture is the best way to learn, instead of teaching small, random tips, because there is no need to fill in the gaps. For the first time I see results when I try to simulate the tutorial from start to finish, I feel like I'm really learning.
Although I still have the newbie mistake: I do things to make something sound good (and it does sound good) but I don't understand why. Hahaha. It happens to me with eq, comp, gate, but you have already motivated me to look for information about it. I thank you so much!
I’m glad the video is helpful! I always liked full process videos more than “tips and tricks” for this reason when I was learning, too. Thanks for checking out the video!
The thing i love the most about ypur videos is that you explain everithing you do❤
Love the shades.
That was awesome!!!🤩
Thank you! 😊
Fantastic tut!
Thanks so much!
Super cool. Thanks!
Thanks for checking it out!
Excellent tutorial, thank you
Thanks so much!
Learning so much from these videos, thank you!
That’s great! I’m glad the videos are helpful 🙂
Kinda fast for a total begginer here, but its just amazing. Ive learned a lot with this!! Thanks!!!
This is probably a step up from total beginner, but I’m glad it was helpful! Thanks so much for watching!
Excellent!
Thanks so much!
Am lucky to have discovered this channel. So much insight is helping me with in my Ableton Journey. Thank you!
That’s great! I’m glad the videos are helpful!
This is the best synthwave tutorial out there! I love your clarity. These are great techniques. Thank you!
I’m happy the tutorial is helpful! Thanks so much!
uhm, that song kind of generated goodbumps. Will watch again when I am home and follow it to the point. Thanks!
Thanks so much for checking it out!
Your channel is such a wee gem. So glad you came up on my home page!
So happy to hear that! Thank you!
You're amazing, this is absolutely preem, thank you 🙏🙏
Thanks so much 🙂
love your content, keep grinding. your channel is gonna be huge!
Thanks so much!! 😊
oh, simplicity is where it's at, love the synth wave lesson! thank you
Glad you like it! Thanks!
Great tutorial I’ve just discovered you and I’m looking forward to watching more
Awesome! Thanks so much 😊
Nice
You just got a new subscriber. This was great!
Thanks so much!
nice tuto thank you
Thanks!
This video is great. Informative, easy to follow along, no filler content or superfluous clips, and now I'm inspired to create some music!
Awesome! Thank you so much!
This was major kick A. Thank you K.
Glad you enjoyed, thanks!
I like how you incorporate theory in with production.
Thanks! I'm kind of a nerd about it, so I have to add it haha. Glad some people enjoy it :)
I love you
This is great. I was liking some vst plugin sounds, but I wanted to make those kinds of sounds in Live with stock plugins. Five minutes later, I had some really great stuff. It took me so long to learn some of the other things like Simpler. I’m really glad to hear your concise explanation of these tools.
That’s awesome. I’m glad the video was helpful!
This tutorial triggers me to make my own synthwave tracks.Love your build ups.😎
You definitely should! Thanks so much 🙂
You make it look so easy!!! I hope to get my knowledge on your level!!! I know it takes time!!!
It definitely takes time! Watch a ton of tutorials and spend time inside Ableton experimenting. It pays off!
@@khartbeats most definitely!!! Respect 👊🏾
nice shades! mmm tempted to have a play with this genre :)
Thanks! You definitely should...it's a fun one!
Thank you for great tutorials🙂
Thanks for checking them out 🙂
This is huge realizing I can make all these sounds with Ableton stock plugins. Also, you didn’t move too fast and made sense. Thank you!
Thanks so much! And yeah, stock Ableton is pretty awesome. I’m usually a lot more creative when I limit myself to the stock instruments/effects.
Really like your channel, nice and chilled with a different style from the usual.
I saw one channel (estuera) saying synthwave was an 'imaginary' genre and wasn't a thing in 80's mainstream music. I looked into this, and it's possibly memories from older 80's movies. I've pinned the style down to a guy called Alan Silvestri, who wrote soundtracks for a few of the 80's 'feel good' PG and under 18 rated movies.
Thanks so much! I do think a lot of modern synthwave is a mash up of a lot of nostalgic (and probably overused) elements from 80s music and culture. Especially offshoots like Vaporwave that are almost a mockery of the culture. Either way, I enjoy all of them 🙂
Holy crap this content is good
Thank you!
Great work! It would be cool to see a retrowave tune with those guitars you have 😎🤟
Thanks! Great idea…I’ll have to work on a retrowave track like that 👍
I come from a rock music background using Pro Tools etc, but only just now getting my head around creating MIDIs in Ableton so this helped a lot, thanks 😊
That’s great that it’s helpful. Thanks!
I've been using Ableton for a little over 4 months, and the midi is so much fun to play around with. Once you get comfy in there with hotkeys and stuff it's so easy to mess around and experiment
So nice ❤
Thanks!
@@khartbeats welcome ❤️❤️❤️
Yes, just what I was looking for! You make it seem so easy. Can you do a tutorial on mixing vocals? That would be great!
Thanks! I’ll see what I can do 😊
amazingly clear , could you make a tutorial about the song "pulsar" from Kavinsky??The composition and the sound of this song is amazing..
Thanks so much! I can add something similar to that to my list of future videos.
👏👏👏
I would love to see more Live Stock videos!
Wtf livestock lol
More on the way…and livestock made me chuckle 😂
awesome work. Wish i could get use to Ableton. I purchased it but could never get use to the work flow.
Synth Wave is one of my favorites to make.
Thanks! I started on GarageBand, so Ableton was my first "real" DAW. It definitely has a steep learning curve and took me a while to develop a good workflow.
8:42 "...and done, we made a bass" 😸 Thumbnail image is sick.
That is definitely the quickest way to make a bass 😆 and thanks! I wanted a super synthwave thumbnail, too.
As an amateur who doesn't always want to spend $ on all the latest gadget software/plugins beyond the already expensive DAWs (even though I have and continue to spend lol ), your videos give me a lot to learn from, just with the stock plugins, and this is soooo rare! Thanks!
It’s hard not to spend money on the new, shiny plugins lol. I’m glad this video was helpful!
Any DAW (especially the expensive version with all the extras) has pretty much everything most of us REALLY need. :)
Haven't Been on the channel in a while and it is awesome to see the growth on the channel! Well deserved and earned. Great vibes K!!! This is vibes of my favorite show Stranger Things and I am an 80s kid! Blessings!
Hey, thanks so much! I’m definitely a fan of 80s music, movies and vibes! I appreciate you stopping by 🙂
@@khartbeats Always! Have to support you sis! You have been doing a great job and I appreciate seeing that consistency! That's what makes it here! Blessings!
Please create Citypop! I'm trying to learn with ableton live 12 lite
Great tutorial! I have a question: why did you always make an effect chain with a separate one for dry and separate for wet signal?
This is basically just a way of doing parallel processing. So instead of setting up a return track for one channel, I usually just do it on that channel.
great video! you just added completly different bass notes on bar 3 and 4 than the lowest chord notes right ?
Thanks! A lot of times I'll use the 3rd or the 5th of the chord rather than the root (lowest) note. It can make the bass a little more interesting.
So great to watch. By any chance do you still have the ALS file to this?
Thanks! And unfortunately, no ALS. I was trying to clean up my Ableton installs and somehow deleted all of my older projects and this was among them. It was a sad, sad day.
I definitely understand. Bummer that happened. @@khartbeats
You are very knowledgeable, how long have you been using DAWs to make music?
Thank you! I've been using Ableton for a few years now, but I've played one instrument or another and been involved with music for a long time.
on point, but why ist the track in mono?
Loved this video! But have a question, but did the video had some skips at 07:43 or how did the last chord got autocompleted?
Hey, thanks so much! I added the last chord and then I skipped over adding some bass notes at the bottom… The chords themselves didn’t change.
@@khartbeats Ah, makes sense! Thanks for the info :D I know i will be revisiting this video several times in the next weeks :D
Hi, Im new and I got a question, which instruments are you using of the wavetable? especially for the bass and for the keys. great tutorial btw :)
Hey, thanks! So the instrument is actually Wavetable…that’s the name of the synth. The bass and keys are pretty similar. They both use sawtooth waves in the Wavetable instrument.
@@khartbeats oh thanks and one more question if you dont mind, why after I duplicate the wavetable it doesnt show on the matix the filter 1 freq?
Wow....very nice....Is there a way to download this set? I try to recreate this, but i'm just a beginner with ableton.
Thanks! I don’t have downloads for this project, unfortunately.
Hi, how do you drop multiple sample in quarter like you do in the video ? there is a shortcut ?
I edited it. There’s no easy way to do it with audio samples. I just dropped one in then control D to duplicate them.
Nice tutorial, i wish you had let the track finish playing before cutting the video to see how you arranged it
Thank you! And yeah, I’ve started focusing more on arrangement in my more recent videos. Lots of people were asking for that 🙂
hi k.hart question can you make techno or techhouse track with ableton stock and stuff gr
I can work on something along those lines.
Thanks for sharing! I love synthwave. I'm still a beginner with Ableton, does anyone know how she dropped the 707 kick on each 1/4 note so fast, what are the steps to do this, thanks!
Hey, thanks so much for checking out the video! Unfortunately, I don’t know a way to put the kicks down as quickly as this…I edited the video to cut that part out. Quickest way is to duplicate, so select the amount of time (like a bar) and then cntrl + D to duplicate it across.
@@khartbeats Thanks for replying. Ok, I know how to do that. I thought there was some more advanced technique that I was not aware of 😆. This is the first video of your channel I have watched and will check out more!
@@pennyc7064 sorry for getting your hopes up 😂 only other thing I could think of doing is saving a premade clip in a template if it’s a simple pattern like this you’ll use repeatedly. Hope you enjoy some of the other vids!
@@khartbeats Great idea! Thanks!
I have Ableton Intro. Can this be done inside that or would it be best to just upgrade to standard or the big dog price?
Intro is pretty limited…if you see yourself continuing music production, I’d say go for Suite. It really has a lot packed into it. You could also stick with Intro and pick up some free or cheap 3rd party plugins to fill some of the gaps.
Thanks. I think I’m going to just get suite. I’m just doing this as a hobby but it really makes it easier when watching videos like yours to be able to just pull the things up that you are. I really enjoyed your video! I’m going to be doing a deep dive on your channel. Already subbed.
@@Unclethunder_Awesome, thanks so much!
what ableton theme are you using?
It’s the davy preset from the free themes pack from Sonic Bloom. If you search for her name on here, she has a video showing them with a link to download the pack.
How do you get that swell-effect? After every kickdrum it sounds like chords with a rising volume, and like a swelleffect
That’s most likely the side chain effect you’re hearing. Every thing is ducking in volume when the kick drum hits and then it comes back up.
@@khartbeats thats so cool. Do you go through that in the video aswell? Or is there another video covering that?
@@komnerfrantornet I showed it kind of quickly around 2:17 in this one. Basically using the compressor on side chain mode to drop the volume of the track based on the kick. I did this same thing to almost every track here.
Do you that for the basstrack also?
@@komnerfrantornet yep! Probably the most important one!
This is a good track but I didn't find the presets.
The only preset I used was the one with Drift. If you open the instrument in the side panel there’s an arrow to open up different presets that way. Hope that helps.
Im assuming that only a fraction of this is possible with the Intro version? Like Wavetables just dont exist in Intro *edit: I just now caught that you're using 11, not 12. doh!
Yeah, this was an older video so I was still using 11. Live 12 added some new stuff for the lower versions, but you could also get something like Vital, which is a free wavetable synth, to use inside Ableton.
no fl studio disliking the video
Not today 😆