Making Electronic Dance Music [for Mac]

House Music Legend Olav Basoski shows how he uses Ableton Live to make chart topping dance floor anthems.

Olav Basoski is back and this time he's turned his incredible chart-topping song skills to his new favourite audio tool, Ableton Live 8!

In these new, Pro Level Ableton Live 8 tutorials Olav Basoski shows you how he constructs his monster dance floor anthems in Ableton Live 8. You'll learn insider tips and tricks for structuring your tracks, using compressors, EQs and other DSP effects, and hot mixing tips that will make your songs shred dancefloors the same way Olav's do.

Olav has produced hundreds of Dance records and he owns 3 of the worlds most popular dance music labels: Work Records, Samplitude Records, and Rootz Records. If you want to produce songs like a legend of the house music industry, you need to check out this new tutorial by Olav Basoski.

Table of Contents:

01. Introduction to Clip View
02. Introduction to Arrangement View
03. Kickdrum!
04. Making a Master Plug-in Chain
05. Using the Simpler Sampler
06. Using the Drumrack – Part 1
07. Using the Drumrack – Part 2
08. Using the Drumrack – Part 3
09. Adding Percussion – Part 1
10. Adding Percussion – Part 2
11. Using Hotswap
12. Bassline
13. Making a Sidechain Track
14. Jamming a Synthpart
15. Using Sends and Returns
16. Making and Using Scenes
17. Making Clip Variations
18. Making Clip Variations with Audio
19. More Clip Variation
20. Longer Clip Envelopes Using Unlink – Part 1
21. Longer Clip Envelopes Using Unlink – Part 2
22. Using Audio Loops – Part 1
23. Using Audio Loops – Part 2
24. Controlling Live
25. Assigning Your Own Parameters
26. The Groovepool
27. Building Basic Scenes – Part 1
28. Building Basic Scenes – Part 2
29. Jamming Out a Songsketch
30. Arrangment View Functions – Part 1
31. Arrangment View Functions – Part 2
32. First Arrangement Edits
33. Adding More Samples – Part 1
34. Adding More Samples – Part 2
35. Buildup – Part 1
36. Buildup – Part 2
37. Building Towards the Break
38. Creating a Big Break Sound
39. Enter the Break FX
40. The Break! – Part 1
41. The Break! – Part 2
42. Big Break Build Up
43. Big Break Build Up Synth – Part 1
44. Big Break Build Up Synth – Part 2
45. Resampling the Synth
46. Final Drop
47. The Classic DAW Approach