Beatmaking with !llmind (Kanye West, Drake, Jay-Z) and KOMPLETE NOW | Native Instruments

2x Grammy winning,10x Grammy nominated, 45x platinum - that's a one-of-a-kind success story. East Coast producer !llmind (Kanye West, Drake, Kendrick Lamar, Future, J Cole, Travis Scott) makes a moody rap banger from scratch using Native Instruments’ KOMPLETE NOW subscription bundle.
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‪@IllMindproducer‬ the Blap God breaks down his beatmaking philosophies and creative choices as he layers HYBRID KEYS and LO-Fi GLOW in Reason to create a multi-textured melody, then kicks it up a notch with huge sub bass, trap hi-hats, and hard-hitting kicks from MASSIVE X and BATTERY NOW, all powered by NI’s KOMPLETE KONTROL S61 keyboard.
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00:00 - Intro
01:51 - Building a foundation with HYBRID KEYS
03:08 - Using HYBRID KEYS synth leads for a spacey ’80s vibe
04:01 - Layering textured synths in LO-FI GLOW
04:34 - Creating an audio group and pitching
06:26 - Recording a vintage synth line with RETRO MACHINES MK2
08:24 - Building trap hi-hats & snare rolls in BATTERY
10:08 - Adding fat sub bass with MASSIVE X
12:22 - Choosing hard-hitting kick drums & ghost notes
13:53 - Track arrangement tips
16:50 - Adding transitions & ear candy
18:05 - Final steps in the DAW
18:56 - Metapop remix challenge
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[@NativeInstruments]

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[@Vmadethebeat]

🎹🔥🔥🔥

[@blackmagivervoodoobeatz1945]

Good session...

[@HOLLASOUNDS]

I like that He is using My chosen DAW which is Reason.

[@coreyhayward484]

he is awesome hands down

[@aktive80]

I love when producers share their methods. It defines the love they truly have for the craft. And this is dope.

[@articaprodz]

God bless his soul he's using reason... you never see people use reason to make hits, and it has some of the baddest synth tones.

[@willis2780]

Dj Khalil and Dj BattleCat & Dj Babu have all used Reason too.

[@immax79]

True... I've worked in Reason since it first came out, and with the adding of VST's etc. i feel pretty confident i can do some serious stuff on sound design. That being said, i'm lucky enough that i got a somewhat nice studio which helps and goes a long way BUT it still comes down to the mind behinde the screen. I've seen 14 yrs. old kids doing crazy stuff on crappy equipment.. My favorite synth which helps a lot in my productions is Serum, combined with LFO tools and Infected Mushrooms plugins from Polyverse❤️🙏🏼🔥

[@aro7975]

God bless your soul to think that talented people can't use any program to make hits. It's a program, not music. I don't use reason but use whatever you want man.

[@pighater951]

It's preference bro ☺️ rookie u have clue🤣😂 !!!!

[@l.o.fmusic9765]

Bro there are plenty of big hits made on reason hip hop to dance and pop it's all the same daw formats it all about the producer

[@musictalentschool-stuttgar208]

Shout out to all the Reason Users!!! Amazing to see Reason on the Native Instruments Channel!! :-)

[@BarryDanielMusic]

To see the diversity in genre, culture, creative process in the Sketches Series definitely shows how NI has its influence on the game. So happy to see the Blap-god Illmind on here doing his thing.

[@SF_Native]

I love watching producers make beats. I am a super beginner at it, and when I see this it's inspiring but also overwhelming. One day!

[@NativeInstruments]

Go for it!

[@venom23mc]

Me too bro 💪🏿

[@jubeijackson6602]

Just take it one day at a time! You honestly can’t rush the process. Sure, you can binge producer information on KZbin but you can’t binge experience. Stick with it.

[@ayyubfaiyaz3368]

I wish I knew how to makes beats

[@CaptainCorpuscle1]

@@ayyubfaiyaz3368 you just select the sounds and push the buttons then quantize

[@prodbyrt1956]

Give this man a medal.. He made a masterpiece without using MOUSE

[@NativeInstruments]

'Talent' 🤌

[@DuckAlertBeats]

'masterpiece:

[@ET2carbon]

How is this a masterpiece? I didn't hear a single unique thing

[@mukwanatimothy6426]

@@ET2carbon are you better than him

[@pmpbeats]

That transition is crazy. I never thought of choppen like that to get that drum drop. Simple shyt

[@jarvisjennings5043]

REASON GANG!!!!!!!

[@RoitownINK]

I haven’t seen this yet but I know it’s fire! Respect for !llmind for doing so much for beatmaking community and being an innovator that he is in our industry.

[@Beatsbyend]

Always rooting for a !llmind one of my biggest inspirations as a producer, much love ⚡️⚡️⚡️

[@Jpetersson]

No no no no, take that ring off!

[@PeezyTechMusicTV]

REASON!!!!! YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@johnSF88]

Really helpful and insightful! Thank you Native and !llmind!🙏🏿🙏🏿

[@mkirbymusic]

Damn this was awesome. @Ill Mind always has a great workflow and love seeing him basically give a masterclass and using these NI products

[@ET2carbon]

Entirely way too slow and archaic methods. Music isn't made like this anymore. Can't believe Native Instruments put this video out.

[@AikiraBeats]

I'm glad he showed how he to format the song as well as how to catch that vibe for the artist. This was extremely helpful.

[@ET2carbon]

You mean copy and paste on a timeline haha. Slow

[@jerzboybeats9555]

Man shout to Jersey. Born and raised. Never forget my roots. I may be in the south but I’m Jersey all the way. Awesome video NI. ‼️‼️

[@tonsshameless8741]

I came across illmind back when i was the biggest justus leauge fanatic. His sample bass shit in the earlly 2ooos was incredible. Shout out to the. North carolina music scene back in the 2000. Best musical era in my life. I started making beats using COOL edit. Old editing program. I use to fuck with. I love that shit. Man illmind is a dope producer insane how he became one of the biggest industry go to. Producers.

[@ReasonStudios]

🔥

[@NativeInstruments]

👋

[@zurdamusic4334]

I'll love to see you 2 beast develop together more integration.

[@shayansya7053]

@@zurdamusic4334 YES! I've been a long time Reason user, and recently got the Maschine. Would love to see more integration of NI hardware into Reason.

[@BobbyBriscoeBeats]

Nice, I picked up the Komplete 12 bundle so I only own a couple of these already. Gonna give this a spin.

[@CarlitoBTS]

Yoooo #ReasonGang !! Good to see one of my favorite super producers on it 💪🏼😎👍🏼

[@HOLLASOUNDS]

Reasons dope.

[@Esotericvaultofgems]

You just helped me understand format quick, thanks !llmind & native instruments 🙏🏼,🤝🏼,💎.

[@dennissantana970]

Ok, you can see Ilmind is using KOMPLETE NOW as a plugin within Reason. Dope!!!!!!!! Cause I've been a Reason user since 1.0, now on 12 and just got into NI Maschine about two years ago and loving it (got a Maschine Studio Platinum Limited edition).

[@HOLLASOUNDS]

Yep however you will notice that Illmind dont say or talk about Reason because they are in direct competition with NI Komplete Plugin because of the Reason Rack plugin.

[@acavbeats]

This is amazing. Inspirational in many ways

[@smoovart]

I just picked up that Vapor Gray Komplete Kontrol controller. It looks so cute with my Maschine Studio

[@Bstixproduction]

Love the Komplete (get it) break down lots of gems and reason wow you don’t see that often!

[@ET2carbon]

Pun intended Get it. Harharhar

[@DonovanJamesOfficial]

Can't go wrong with hybrid keys. Its beautiful. Runner up is spitfire Labs. Soft piano is amazing

[@NativeInstruments]

It really is!

[@ET2carbon]

It sounds generic

[@GudXM]

That -5 semitone 💎 is 200iq fire 🔥 Thanks for continuing to inspire !llmind

[@SW33T_Dr34M]

You must be new at making music

[@Vaderious2905]

@@SW33T_Dr34M no need bruv

[@lowliet1095]

No

[@switterbeet]

This video was very fun to watch and good to follow through, hes a good presenter. Im looking forward to see more of these video!

[@NativeInstruments]

More is on the way 👀

[@ET2carbon]

Good presenter? Boring as......

[@malikdavis6091]

reason gang

[@forsale313]

Honestly you cant beat NI for "straight outta' the box" sounds (even the old stuff) for getting right to the business. Thanks for the video.

[@pedritoricafrente9920]

J

[@peakingmantis5331]

This man has been here for the culture for a long time. And he uses REASON my fucking guy.

[@jaxxtraxx]

This is so dope!!! So many gems

[@DJ279V]

Cool video and building process. I still prefer the hardware and manual build process of the 2000xl, but cool to see how technology is helping the workflow. Illmind is solid as a producer!!

[@derekhodges9426]

Most Definitely a good interpretation and illustration of creativity! 👍👍

[@carolinaboyent7959]

I just got this...bro killed this video, hope for more. Native should pay the hell out of you $%

[@s-b6218]

Really useful video. The structure and format of the midi is where I always get stuck

[@Digital_Mozart]

Reason Gang, yessirrrrr

[@karimshehata5358]

cool explained, thank you so much :-)

[@AndrewPurcellmusic]

As someone who comes from a totally different angle music wise, I really enjoyed watching this, really informative, and surprisingly similar in method....thank you for this

[@morbida]

this is gold

[@kkrotobeatz]

you know he is about music when you see him bumping his head every time he hits the space bar...👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

[@darrenhirst9900]

Native instruments are as dope as the producers. Respect to you guys.

[@ET2carbon]

They should have known this is an old way of production and made them look bad

[@drehassan1901]

This is dope foreal 🔥🔥🔥

[@yenthesage2717]

This was 🔥🔥🔥!

[@henrikemanuelsson7080]

Cool workflow with bounce in place - keeping things moving forward

[@unkletonebeats1956]

Beastmode!!

[@kingdan6776]

He is one of my favorite producers and I have been into hip hop since the 80s

[@m-chopbeats7526]

same... but changed styles... I know he was always good at sound design though... likes creating original music

[@esahm373]

Great advice on arrangement!

[@sahilmusic4590]

Illmind is aa superb producer. I liked his work

[@ET2carbon]

Superb? He did linear timeline editing after converting perfectly usable MIDI composition and made an elementary degree of copy paste edits. I haven't seen a composition made this way in over a decade. Shame on NATIVE INSTRUMENTS

[@Iamdisassociation]

make it look so easy so smooth w it

[@beardedelephant3023]

The fact that you are using reason to create is crazy bro. The only program I’ve ever used.

[@tizzybeatz3761]

Man they be sleep on Reason. It’s the best DAW imho

[@beardedelephant3023]

@@tizzybeatz3761 no doubt

[@HOLLASOUNDS]

Hopefully ReasonStudios will contact illmind and invite him onto there channel as a feature, would love to see him on a livestream with Ryan Harlin, that would be dope.

[@HOLLASOUNDS]

@@tizzybeatz3761 Party ReasonStudios fault they need to do more to work with producers like Illmind, hopefully they will expand there affiliate program.

[@ObsidianRST]

!llmind dropping gems 💎💎💎

[@diamondwest35]

Masterclass

[@victornoagbodji]

So happy to see !ll here 😄

[@polasbeatz]

G.O.A.T 💥💥💥

[@persianplug]

i love illmind he is dope producer

[@dafingaz]

Let’s go!!!

[@ayo2315]

MPC X and Komplete🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾!

[@nebstaism]

Battery is such a dope drum machine 💯

[@kenzoblytheproducertv4934]

Dope

[@DGProductionsCo]

The beat hard asf 🥶🥶🥶

[@Maelzelmusic]

I already picked up Kompkete 13 collector’s edition, but if I hadn’t I’d be quite happy with Komplete Now in the meantime

[@Magnificent68]

Dope 100-

[@gregy797]

that metronome sounded good on it, Reggae thingymabob ting sounding.

[@DropOneDaProducer]

Best Video ever!

[@_mazf_productions3147]

🔥🔥🔥

[@masterwilliam2189]

imma collab with illmind one day, speaking it into existence

[@davidtrig]

Or me start small bro

[@dannydaniel8975]

Native instruments does it again!!

[@JAY-zl4vg]

Legend! A lot of my instincts were the same I just need to make good music now lol

[@squalley]

I jus got the ultraviolet S49, which was right on time as I just remodeled my studio. #DayOneMassiveUser 🥰

[@jaderene]

!llmind is that 🐐

[@D0peSince85]

!llmind is one of the 🐐 s

[@TuuRaww]

Def just bought this bcuz of the video😂😂💪🏿

[@chazhamasima3311]

legend

[@eddy4719]

you simply can't not love this guy.

[@promiseesimorp2519]

Sounds funny when you say, "can't not" 🤓 but I get you 💯, he's a GOAT

[@eddy4719]

@@promiseesimorp2519 honestly. I'm not native english and a little drunk, but i love the fact you got it

[@HOLLASOUNDS]

I love Reason the DAW He is using.

[@chaachocino]

🔥🙌🏿🔥

[@janschwabauer2313]

illmind da goat

[@romenpheonixx7005]

TIIIIIIIIIIGHT!!

[@virgo47]

NOW or not... I love Hybrid Keys since I've got it.

[@del-marmare1646]

Very nice

[@arcanehernandez867]

He's an awesome producer! He produced a few tracks for my brother Silent Knight. Btw he's performing at B.A.M (Brooklyn Academy of Music)

[@G.Man-]

Illmind's beats were soo much better when he used to post on the UGHH Producer Forum around 15/20 years ago

[@HOLLASOUNDS]

That's your opinion, not everyones fact. This is a demonstration video made to demonstrate Komplete.

[@RicochetRockNice]

I really love his work ethic and how he arrives at his sounds and puts them together would have loved to get in on the remix unfortunately I'm in transition until I get my new studio up and going Salute to Illmind.

[@FLAVMEDIA]

DOPE BTS !LLmind

[@blackmagivervoodoobeatz1945]

Good session...

[@BEATMAN.]

Biggest flex of the year

[@MecheGT]

Reason need to use this lol 😆

[@Bushdoctorbeats]

I think I'm getting back into Reason, looks dope. Dropped it for Logic about a decade ago (I think my last was v5), and still got thousands of .rsn files doing nothing.

[@HOLLASOUNDS]

Yes come back to Reason, 12 is dope HD 4k graphics you can put Reason on a huge wide screan TV looks great. It now has VST3 so all your plugins work great, you can now make your own Combinator with custom face, you can make it look like Minimoog covered in knobs and slidders. Works as a plugin so you can load Reason rack devices into any DAW. I love it.

[@Iredidv]

I have a way to make the kontrol series work in reason...thinking about making a tutorial. Basicly you add the kontrol as a normal midi device,but for the transport it uses mackie protocol,so add a mackie controller and push play on the transport and it will be mapped. Loop won´t work as it sends ´end as a mackie instructies,just click loop in reason to map midi knobs to,click loop on the kontroller and then it will work. You ca go further and add metronome,dub/alt anything you can map is possible to the 8 buttons on top,and leave the knobs with midi cc to map them to a few functions. BuT choosing the kontrol instrument works by choosing instance,but you have to select the track manually. Now one thing,i hope ni and reason studios work together to make the kontrol keyboard fully compatible. The remote protocol dates from reason 2.5...not much people still use the korg kontroller,or the old maudio 25 keyboard...it needs an update,then reason and komplete will be heaven together. Also i can´t wait for maschine to support vst3, running reason instruments,fx,players etc in maschine will be awesome,and save cpu (vst3 sleep feature)

[@HOLLASOUNDS]

Cant you just put the Kontrol VST in a Combinator then control it from there?

[@AAAASMAR]

Humble

[@AveMcree]

Ill Mindz is Reason gang????

[@SekundSun1986]

I was thinking the same thing! He's been using straight protools last I checked

[@davidtrig]

He switched a couple years ago

[@mlaws11291]

@@davidtrig he used reason from the beginning. Back when he had an ASR he was using it with Reason. He switched to Pro Tools for a min but he was using Reason back in the day too

[@HOLLASOUNDS]

Yep and you should be to.

[@titsticklerthompson981]

You're late, he been reason.

[@eduwaine]

How do you keep expansion sample instruments on keyboard without tempo changing?

[@lightafluident.9950]

#ReasonGang!!!!

[@Vmadethebeat]

ILL🤯 #LLegend

[@modmon3567]

Love to be in that position were i cant even be bothered naming the artists ive produced for lmao

[@l0vekosha420]

JERSEY!!!

[@thegroove2000]

Im sure ill mind prefers and still uses battery 3. Is that right?.

[@redman1829]

Ah a fellow reason user I love it

[@ronkelly3599]

Every rapper: "No more of them sci-fi spy movie beats plz." Illmind: *Nails a sci-fi spy movie beat*

[@NativeInstruments]

😂 💯