Boards of Canada Beats in Ableton = Ned Rush

Boards of Canada Beats in Ableton
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Obviously this isn’t going to show you how to sound exactly like BoC. This is just for fun.
Ned Rush is an infotaining universe of ideas for ways to make music, including areas of music production, music composition, sampling, synthesisers and sound design in software like Ableton, MaxMSP, Reason, and on hardware such as eurorack modular, Elektron boxes like the Octatrack and Analog Rytm, also visual art strategies using Jitter, focusing on music genres such electronica, IDM, glitch, jungle, breakcore, electro-acoustic, musique concrete, as well as discussing music via interviews and podcasts, and music performances via livestreams.
Ned Rush is an infotaining universe of ideas for ways to make music, including areas of music production, music composition, sampling, synthesisers and sound design in software like Ableton, MaxMSP, Reason, and on hardware such as eurorack modular, Elektron boxes like the Octatrack and Analog Rytm, also visual art strategies using Jitter, focusing on music genres such electronica, IDM, glitch, jungle, breakcore, electro-acoustic, musique concrete, as well as discussing music via interviews and podcasts, and music performances via livestreams.

[@Sizalyth]

Amazing tutorial and I love Boards of Canada, thank u

[@blokmotion]

i love boards of canada too

[@blokmotion]

this tutorial was also really good

[@clickastlyindustries3033]

“Me using ableton to copy warp bands from 20 years ago” This is my life 😂

[@ailens.c]

you are an insterest person

[@ANDYWOUNDSABRXS]

I thought I was alone... But Ned now helped me try copy Otto Von Schirach.... but i dont have any sweet videos to accompany my D-Grade Miami bass and noise grind.

[@disastrousrobots]

As a 50 year old Dad the sound took me back, the enjoyment of listening to them was knowing or trying to find out the techniques they used to create the sounds.

[@silasward7316]

If you search there's a wealth of (speculative) information on how they maybe got their sounds. BOC is pretty private in genreal and don't do interviews or let people know what techniques they use.

[@disastrousrobots]

@@silasward7316 yes the mystery of how the sounds was created was interesting, I recall reading one interview years back which touched on how they added the warm warbled effect.

[@manfrombkk]

Your humor alone, is worth joining your Patreon.

[@andreaslowing631]

Agreed right at the end haha!

[@SteveSatori]

20 mins in and I know you went for BoC, but to my ears you nailed Plaid

[@jprnn]

I'm half way through this video, and I already have a seed of a new song! Thank you, this is gold!

[@connorbarker3484]

Dude, I'm just a couple videos deep into your content, and I'm already on patreon. Your tutorials are SO refreshing.

[@TontonRico]

Thanks for this long awaited tutorial. Never bored of Canada (greetings from Montreal)!!!

[@ummagumma33]

Couldn't really picture it working with that initial midi recording, but damn if you proved me wrong. Awesome work. Your content is next-level.

[@cockur]

The character tab of the Echo device has tape style wobble and noise too. You can pretty much use it without the delay effect if you set it 100% wet, zero feedback, unsync the delay time and set it to 1ms.

[@JoeParkerAndThePower]

I love these Winky me ole chap. I've always been really intimidated by this stuff, had no idea where to start (what with my general musical strategy being based on 'hit stuff, repeat' usually.. but this series made me feel like I could have a go at this. FANKS LOVE x

[@kosmo_komputer]

If anyone is curious, I found that at 41:48 the whole song stops because the Follow Action chosen is "Other", instead of "Any". "Other" will not play the same clip twice, so the only other available clip for each track was the muted one, as opposed to the same one. If "Any" is chosen, there wouldn't be a need to create a third (unmuted) copy of all the clips. Hope that made sense.

[@fusionistaaaa]

Thank you. I was curious and was going to ask. But I read the comments first. Here we go. Awesome

[@pET3q]

Love this series, nice work. I aspire to your genius level of Ableton production! 😎🤓

[@TheTruth7695]

Love WARp, love this channel, awesome work

[@AllenDavisWV]

I’m almost 50. I’d be down for fire and mushrooms ❤️

[@rxchurch]

Right there with you! Bought “music has a” when it came out. And I was an adult. I can still hear it if I turn up my hearing aid.

[@maggowitschwittbronsky8222]

thx for sharing. so much high value output.

[@Sjmashlum]

Great interpretation of their work, it has the Geogaddi era feel

[@gameplane80th81]

incredibly good tutorial as always hail to canada

[@Jtrent1299]

bro please more warp tutorials

[@JoshuaDb_The_Witness]

I'm 49....I own the entire series of Leonard Nimoy's In Search Of.... killers modular score.... big influence . BOC, always reminded me of that ....and every public broadcasting show in the 1970s in the states...

[@NedRush]

Never heard of Leonard Nimoy’s In Search Of. Gonna look that up.

[@0e0]

@@NedRush so good.used to watch it everyday when it was in reruns

[@JoshuaDb_The_Witness]

Ned Rush it's farking Classic

[@TokyoXtreme]

Leonard Nimoy’s video introduction to the Magnavox Laserdisc player (available on KZbin) led me to discover “High Combustion” by Craig Palmer (licensed to Network Music Ensemble somehow). It was a theme popular on early Nickelodeon commercials and random furniture commercials across the USA. Such a great track.

[@Andre-gy5ml]

"Let's cancel culture those clips" cracked me up

[@raavenstark5905]

So much

[@paullemenach5429]

Wow, that's really good

[@horrisnorris6478]

This tutorial could've just been those samples of children and babies, and nothing else! Instant Boards Of Canada. This was such a good video, if I heard the finished song with no context I could definitely have believed that it was early BOC!

[@jonescrusher1]

Could you use one of those mouse cursor identifier things, wouls help to follow how you're adjusting plugins etc. Really enjoyed these emulation vids.

[@Tom-vb1gh]

When you brought in the baby sample I literally laughed out loud (I LLOLed, as they say). I'll never be able to listen to BOC the same way again.

[@flyingsteaks]

dude this was insane

[@streamsfromelectronicmusic5059]

8:23 sound of heaven

[@estebanoenelmar]

cheers ned great video

[@Artersa]

Super educational and a fun listen. You help bring some focus on how to really make the use of session view. Are those BBC recordings public and still available? I need some sounds like that.

[@js-wv6fj]

Yeah. Tons of videos on The National Film Board of Canada website.

[@blokmotion]

this is so BOC, good job

[@tensenpark]

Really cool and useful! The result sounds more portishead-like to me than Boards of Canada, but whaevvah also cooool asf

[@smallbrainrecords5736]

Overall 10/10! Amazing final product and an amazing creative process. I think that the secret for BoC is that less is more. The song you made is much more cluttered than a BoC song, yet still has the sonic aesthetic. Try making a real simple melody, then a simple beat and progressing that in a minimalist way.

[@NedRush]

Thanks but I don’t have plans to make music like this anymore.

[@samirboussoufa185]

@@NedRush MORE AMENS YOU SHLAAAAAG ;D love you ned

[@grungepants]

@@NedRush Everything was ace except the arpeggiator thing.

[@diglerfreaky5559]

this is exactly what i looking for omg

[@kreamjean2712]

caught off guard by how good your connery was

[@ricardodsavant2965]

I'm nostalgic for a time I never knew. 🙂

[@jhonnyfloresalquez279]

Ohhhh!!! saludos desde argentina!

[@sillyworm]

Finally..it took me 2 years to get a laptop to run abelton....and THIS was why I bought it...for drums and mixing.

[@tebbisimoX]

@31:45 holy sheet dude this isnt a lesson, this is a banger

[@jdre1976]

You make me feel so old.

[@Chuvakam]

Brilliant!

[@TheOutliersOfficial]

Hey Ned, been watching a ton of your videos recently and love them. I would love to hear some more aphex twin stuff (he is my favourite artist). I would prefer stuff of drukqs or come to daddy ep. Cheers mate!!

[@tomnelson6803]

Wicked video, cool way to chop the breaks like that. The follow action didn't work at the end because you chose the "other" mode so with 2 it would always switch to the other empty one. If you had put it is "any" the randomness would have worked with just the 2 clips on each track as it wouldn't always switch.

[@Nomo_Popo]

The brilliant thing about the BBC Girls Changing Room sample is that since no one is comfortable listening to it noone has heard them talking about how to overthrow the imperialist patriarchy in 7 simple steps (their words)

[@Eightball69]

😂😂😂👌

[@DS-wi3bk]

thanks man

[@mistymorning7816]

great i love mushrooms

[@grishayampolsky]

thanks Ned

[@josephwright5140]

Wow! It's very boc indeed

[@scrums4748]

im definitely doing something with that pluck 😤

[@hollunderboy]

Best vids on the interned

[@disxiple_113]

hey NED! would you like a challenge for your next ableton vid?? steve reich’s piano phase, or music for clapping, etc. polyrhythms with phasing sequences! i bet you can’t!!! (trying to egg you on!) love your videos, i’ve used ableton 15 years and you still show me new things!!!

[@NedRush]

Nice idea. Noted.

[@sawtoothwave]

Cool video, and SRSLY uncanny Sean Connery impression

[@guitarmogul762]

Actually this is a really beautiful Boards of Canada tune. Cheers guys X

[@guitarmogul762]

Hang on a minute!

[@Boxy_Music_]

After lurking for a while - just Patreoned (patreoNED... verb?). Can you do a crazy Squarepusher acid line tutorial? Y’know - all the bow-be-de-be-de-bow-doo-da-be-da-be-da-bow-doo-wip-daka-di-ba-Dow stuff

[@NedRush]

I’ll have a think.

[@davidmulqueen8322]

comments you can hear.

[@kristofwynants]

@@NedRush Better start practicing that 6-string bass!! ;-)

[@Ferrichrome]

You really push my buttons with these video titles, this is why I never get anything done

[@somemothersson4184]

ned your videos are great, as is delivery, I have become a patron, before the fact i realised, are these all Live 10 sets? Can I use anything in live 9? cheers

[@NedRush]

Not all sets are Live 10. Older ones are live 9 and some of the Live 10 sets may still work in Live 9.

[@Gome.o]

I'm coming late to the party, but I would love it if you could do Carbon Based Lifeforms tutorial. "Path of least Dunka Dunka" in particular is what comes to mind.

[@TerekkiTerekki]

TY

[@Eightball69]

Not a huge fan of the sawtooth arp lead, but other than that it's boss 👌

[@somnambulantable]

So good! I think the baby/children stuff lost a little vibe when you went with the FX send though since then you get way more dry signal coming through instead of mostly echo. A little too forward in the mix/space. Thoroughly enjoyed overall!

[@AaronMcKeough]

39:32 Love the drop on "No one cares."

[@kristofwynants]

Since you mentioned you don't really know how to interpret the "Bb Db Eb"-cluster, instead of looking at it as a Bbm sus4, you could also look at it as a Eb7 (or Ebm7) chord. In this case the Bb would be your 5th, the Db the flat7th and Eb your root. Wheather you make that chord minor or major (or more exactly dominant7 because you have the flat7th - Db in this case - in there already) is completely up to your taste. Actually this makes more sense than a Bbmsus4, because the sus in sus4 really refers to the THIRD being replaced by the 4th, not the FIFTH. The third is a much more poignant factor in setting the colour of a chord, while the fifth is usually there to reinforce the root. Hope this helps, I've been really enjoying these series. On a sidenote: I'm not some music theory buff graduated on Berklee (unfortunately), just a selftaught bass player/producer who's just really into music and spreading knowledge while enjoying a nice cold Belgian Beer. And oh yeah, more belches please!

[@ZacharyReese]

You should make the videos instead of this guy

[@karisdarkness]

@@ZacharyReese y not both. KZbin fits many videos

[@progbassftw]

It's true that 7/m7 makes more sense than sus4 from a functional harmony perspective. There's only one catch in using this chord as a dominant. Traditionally, dominants have a reliance on the third as the third and the seventh form a tritone. Resolving this tritone is one of the things creating the pull to the tonic and makes for cool voice leading. Of course harmony hasn't been so strict for more than a hundred years. You should still use some other resolution if you're going for functional harmony (I personally don't anymore) but you could use the flat 7th for that. I'm just really biased as minor 7ths (or major seconds) do not sound dissonant to me at all :)

[@kristofwynants]

@@ZacharyReese too much credit mate =)

[@kristofwynants]

@@karisdarkness I would but I'm too camera shy

[@user-fg9vr7mk5z]

You are absolutely hilarious.

That melody sounds like something from oxenfree :)

[@nathanempty]

the kick drum fucking rules

[@latejuly432]

Love it, Where did you get the BBC library download

[@NedRush]

The BBC. sound-effects.bbcrewind.co.uk/

[@markusshoggu]

the whole midi recording part around 3:20 lmao :D:D:D:D

[@samwc]

If I subscribe to Patreon can I use 39:33 as a sample?

[@MadCandor]

I love your adjectives that you use like plinky plonky winky wonky 😂👌🏼

[@Sevetamryn]

i'm 55 .. you know .. i remember :)

[@MemoryVague]

what's the advantage of building the drum loop w follow actions instead of chopping in arrangement?

[@iwanwesterduin]

The option to use probability is a big one imo.

[@screensaves]

Hell yea

[@manfrombkk]

Where does one get the BBC library?

[@NedRush]

I think if you google there’s a free download somewhere. Try nasa as well.

[@manfrombkk]

@@NedRush Thanks Ned. btw, this last one you did, BOC shows you know how to do what you do. The humor, adds another 125 percent as toppings

[@matthoskins4871]

Hi guys, I'm struggling to get the pitch bend overdub to work. I can use the pitch bend when playing the track back, but only get silence and nothing recording when I use the overdub. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks

[@headfullofsnow2001]

Are you arming the track and selecting over dub before recording?

[@FishCow]

This was great, thanks man. boc indeedy. Also, ewww limiter himeee himeeee heeerrrrr

[@schrodingerschrodinger]

Fxxk is it already 20 years!!!

[@TheFate23]

6:25 how do you do that on ableton? surprised no one asked

[@Blueblackngold]

“Now I’m going to overdrive that..like an idiot”

[@bodonnell9336]

How do you make pitch nipples without midi synth, Can u do it in ableton? I just put spread to 1 sort of worked??

[@NedRush]

What are pitch nipples?

[@OBudful]

I need ur sample library good sir Rush

[@Ldj8395jebr4]

Anyone know how to slice/arrange beat segments like this in FL Studio?

[@johnmckenzie6941]

Hi ☺️ love this. What was the BPM?

[@ailens.c]

oh my gosh

[@vinylarchaeologist]

By the end of this I was totally Board.

[@tomiekk6255]

@Ned Rush, how about episode on Clams Casino? I personally would watch like crazy

[@NedRush]

I have no idea what that is. Is it good?

[@tomiekk6255]

@@NedRush I personally like them. kzbin.info/www/bejne/raDOk6B-Zs56qrc

[@tomiekk6255]

@@NedRush this and The Bug, or beats from Death Grips. The latter two are more of an experimental hip-hop (don't know if you are into that) but the beats are IMO killing, especially that lows on the Bug. Used to have crush on each of this projects. If you haven't heard them I strongly recommend at least checking them out -) kzbin.info/www/bejne/Y5K6aIF8iKyeoq8 kzbin.info/www/bejne/fnrVfIanl5l7aqM

[@NedRush]

I know the bug. I have some on vinyl. I saw death grips once but fell asleep.

[@tomiekk6255]

what do you mean by 'fell asleep'?

[@xisotopex]

not all of us are too young to have experienced these things...

[@aayeron2675]

Holy shite on this beat mate!

[@johnmckenzie6941]

I see its 90 can you explain why there's is like 167 or something? Or do a tutorial? Cheers

[@adomukadomuk8023]

awesome as always, please make more ot glitchy bitchy stuff...

[@vailace2728]

Holy shit

[@sheepgangordie]

I’m not on your patreon but it’d be cool if you fully flushed out a track in a similar fashion with the randomized arrangement but all the way through “mixdown” and export

[@sheepgangordie]

Transitions would be a bonus as well :)

[@masonbhunter2]

I see nothing wrong with the Limiter on the master at this stage. It's hardly doing anything. You just want to be able to produce/mix without having to hear clipping on the master, we gotchu.

[@GuyFromNet]

Waiting for squares

[@diegohenriquej.434]

Very nice but not the same. The feeling is the key, not the technique. The final sounds like Chris Clark's early works to me, but it's a good job. Thank you.

[@polynochnick]

👋 Hi

[@yourunemployedfriendat2pm]

make more boc beats

[@tebbisimoX]

i smell and have smoke in my eyes already

[@pedrito6581]

39:33 I have to sample this.

[@Nomo_Popo]

Sir Nedly said 'pitch nipples'

[@OwainOwine]

isn't this just turquoise hexagon sun?

[@nicesmile3125]

Instructions unclear, pissed on laptop.