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For this tutorial, Point Blank’s Course Content Developer, Chris Martin, shows how you can chop up samples like Four Tet and Bonobo in Ableton Live. Four Tet and Bonobo are best known for their ethereal take on dance music, maximising on emotive arpeggiators, luscious textures and hypnotizing melodies. The pair have become a staple in the […]
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This year at Point Blank HQ we’ve been busy creating a variety of music-making and performance tutorials to cater to your needs. We’ve covered Ableton Live, Logic Pro and more making sure we explore all the tools available to producers at either beginner or advanced levels. Below find out how to score your own thriller movie, how […]
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For this tutorial, Chris Martin, one of Point Blank’s Course Content Developers, shows how you can use resampling techniques in Ableton Live to create interesting drum edits – with plenty of variation. To demonstrate this, Chris loads up a jungle style breakbeat loop with a bassline and uses a time-stretching and resampling technique (dropping the […]
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At Point Blank, we love helping eager musicians hone their skills and level up their production techniques. To help with this, we are all about giving away freebies to our students and followers. Our online school is one of the most comprehensive of its kind when it comes to learning electronic music production – so we’ve […]
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Ableton Push changed the way a lot of us make music. It’s a sequencer, performance hub, keyboard and drum machine all in one. Having an “in key” mode to play chords, melodies and basslines takes the pressure off of possibly playing a wrong note but what happens when you’re writing with someone who plays piano or […]
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At Point Blank, as well as being able to study short courses that enhance your musical skills, we also offer Diploma and Degree courses that can provide more in-depth tuition. Our professional and practical Diploma courses cover everything from music production and DJing, to music business and more and allow you to study from either our London […]
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For this tutorial, we show how you can sidechain your reverb sends in Ableton Live using a few simple techniques. Sidechain compression is a ducking effect that can be used to separate different elements in your track. It usually works by one element being sidechained by another and cancelling out a certain sound or frequency. It’s a […]
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We’re back with another masterclass, this time with DJ/producer Denis Sulta, breaking down his track, ‘It’s Only Real’. Denis Sulta, real name Hector Barbour, is a Glasgow native best known for his meticulous and diverse approach to dance music. He’s released music on influential labels such as Dixon Avenue Basement Jams, Numbers and Ninja Tune, as well as his […]
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For this tutorial, we show how you can create a growling mid-range bass in Ableton Live using a simple bass sound. The growling bass with lots of mid-range presence is used across a range of genres but is particularly popular in the realms of drum and bass, dubstep and EDM. In the video below, our expert lecturer Ali […]
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We’re back with another deconstruction, this time with our Course Content Developer, Chris Martin, breaking down LFO’s classic techno track, ‘LFO’. If you’re new here and not familiar with what a deconstruction entails, it’s where we take a well-known track, break it down to its core elements and recreate it before your very eyes. Released via Warp […]
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