How to Make Music Like Boards of Canada

In this video, we will spend a bit more time than usual digging into how to reproduce music in the style of Boards of Canada
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[@hollowgroundproductions]

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[@balloonhead61]

Where you based? I'm in Kildare meself I only use hardware, could be interesting

[@lucag.lisickza425]

how much bro ? I have a mac book air and thinking buy ableton

[@adrianconsta1139]

Orange! Yeah, that's right!

[@casperchristiansen2458]

Aquarius+The Colour of Fire+An Eagle in Your Mind= Pretty damn nice.

[@hollowgroundproductions]

You sound like a proper fan, spotting all the inspirations!!! High praise!

[@IEatDogShit]

The production quality on this video (Both audio and visual) is insane

[@zakaroonetwork777]

So awesome. Thank you. Boards of Canada literally saved my life in 1998.

[@hollowgroundproductions]

Really good music will do that!! 🙏

[@KacyKnight]

It's doing that for me in 2024. Everything else just sounds like noise now.

[@auriscalidem6592]

The most insane thing is that the duo never had any of this digital stuff when they made MHTRTC

[@billypilgrim1]

Just their trusty Akai sampler

[@MasDouc]

Back then you had to be innovative

[@disectormusic]

Its actually easier without the "digital" software. hardware instruments are much more tangible

[@d-rex7043]

@@MasDouc 🙄

[@d-rex7043]

@@disectormusic 🙄

[@evanmscala]

This is so insanely detailed and spot on it legitimately feels like a masterclass Michael or Marcus themselves

[@earlsfield]

one extra note about the bells. BOC bells are usually so distorted, that you can cleary hear them "crackle" if the filter is opened enough. Now, you can achieve this effect by adding minor amount of frequency modulation. I know their bells are just sines that are demolished by tape overdubs, but I think fm or just a little noise is the closest way to get there. As for the drums, the staple sound of their samples comes from Akai samplers. You can hear that digital flattening on kicks and snares in Kid for Today and Olson, specifically. And ultimatelly what makes BOC so unique is the way they glued those VHS and tape degradations in rytmical manner. So, take your LFO's guys, and add some actual movement to your lo-fi plugins, be that rc 20 or Satin, or what have you.

[@davidthegood]

I have never seen anyone with this level of studio talent. My hat is off. Nice work, man.

[@user-us4lo8il8i]

Truly best BoC tutorial. Thanks a lot!

[@darpsyxer]

Are you sure you're not the guy from Boards of Canada? this is simply freaking incredible

[@frankv.9525]

One of the most deconstructed and analyzed musical acts in known history. Beautiful tutorial, bravo.

[@apostrophicom]

damn not only did you really nail the aesthetics (not an easy task, I've tried lol) but your workflow is really fucking cool. New sub, new fan, good shit. thanks!

[@diglerfreaky5559]

I love that you just inserted an orange picture among the random BOC album photos.

[@ce.d8333]

Absolutely nailed it! Every single element. It could literally be one of their own! Well played man. You’ve done this before!

[@brandonwiebe8132]

Absolutely amazing. It's as if I'm listening to a leaked BOC studio track. Excellent work.

[@gedgar]

i have a feeling im going to be coming back to this video for years. very new to ableton (4 days)

[@adriansullivan4433]

Lol imagine doing this in the 90's tho, amazing

[@lukejones6293]

This is incredible. Gave me so many new ideas to try out

[@XIIIWinters]

You are a madman when it comes to producing! Love this content.

[@adrianconsta1139]

Amazing result and tutorial! And you actually reminded me to check again your album, which is sounding dope. Thank you.

[@ProjetHomeStudio]

One of the best tutorials out there on this topic, if not the best. I'm a sucker for BOC sounds, and like everyone I'm trying to reproduce some of them to no avail. This tutorial is very helpful.

[@eelponna3145]

The main question here is - why isn’t this guy giving us BoC records (seeing as the duo themselves aren’t producing any)? I’d buy his stuff!

[@morganlak4337]

Whoa this is by far the best tutorial on BoC I've seen. Nailed the sound design

[@dj_Davepz]

This is mind-blowing mate, thank you!

[@jakubbenda532]

Incredible. Instructive. Entertaining. Bravo!

[@joepow8717]

Jeez this is seriously impressive! If you told me this was a BoC song I would absolutely believe it.

[@zeejustin6]

Yeah even the basic stuff he did was just like BoC to my brain.

[@moodswings353]

this is the best BOC trailer i've seen. thank you!!!!!

[@Moork.podcast]

Cada segundo me da mas emoción que vaya sonando como el tema. Que bueno eres, que gusto ver a alguien tan fluido produciendo.

[@ottolaakso1944]

This video is pure quality in every single way

[@kitschkub1379]

Deserves way more views. Loving your vids!

[@Digiphex]

I liked your video production on this and you got quite a bit of the sun baked LP on the back seat of the car.

[@RichardWakefield]

Really insightful and full of golden nuggets. Very inspiring so thanks!!

[@ibuprofen-noodles]

this is mad inspiring dude. thanks a lot

[@jonhewson7303]

Only know a few BoC tunes but I feel like I know them all now. Great vid, great vibe, great editing and explanations. Big up my man

[@Rutanen]

Absolute gold!

[@WENDEL852]

dude what a great tutorial, quality stuff.

[@MattRanks]

this guy likes geogaddi lol great album by an amazing band

[@robotussin_synths]

This taught me so many things about Ableton that I never knew. Thank you!

[@garycrocker186]

Incredible talent

[@nannue]

Very fun walkthrough. Thank u for the orange hexagon sun ☀️

[@electrypnose2494]

Highly educative and inspiring, just watched 2 videos of yours and it feels like accessing a big secret list of cheat codes.

[@jasonkh4]

This is amazing, great work 👍

[@prodthayerperiod]

this is absolutely fantastic

[@LucasDegen]

Woow. Great tutorial. Well done. I study there music for years and this is one of the best BOC tuts I’ve seen. Added to my playlist: How to make IDM.

[@ConahyRocks]

Your an inspiring storyteller! astute observations and wizardry around ableton - looking forward to watching and learning more, thank you 🙏

[@urbsketch]

The pieces at the intro: All from Geogaddi 00:20 Track 002 Music is Math 00:23 Track 006 Sunshine Recorder 00:24 Track 012 The Beach at Redpoint 00:26 Track 010 1969 00:28 Track 016 The Devil Is In The Details

[@DesertPunks]

This sounds really faithful, color me impressed!

[@Ancaja123]

for being a really good recreation of their synth sounds and drum sounds, you missed one of the most important elements of their tracks: the structure. They typically have an unusual amount of bars before it repeats. It's typically 5 or 6, and the last bar or two bars act as that breakdown/dropout/transitional bar. I truly believe that its intrinsically important to their music

[@AutPen38]

To be fair, he told us to loop the pads after 6 bars at about 1:45.

[@atetraxx]

No he didn't . He literally said loop it 6 bars

[@lungind]

Awesome, man! You really got it!

[@LUCKYKATmeowsic]

really excellent tutorial mate. i have just started using similar sounds for my breakdowns so super useful

[@uisato_]

Amazing video, my friend. Super-well crafted. Congratulations!

[@michael.pulling]

This is genius

[@ChrisLebaume]

Bro you're a monster and this video is a jem ❤

[@monocore]

love the trippy edit. On charater. Subscribed.

[@callum1183]

Awesome tutorial

[@gesslr]

This is brilliant. Thank you.

[@fredwilkins4195]

easily the best tutorial on youtube

[@osmark86]

great ear for different styles mate. subbed!

[@DeroriMusic]

Severely underrated work being done here

[@INADRM]

You gotta have fun with the numbers as well. In Aquarius the sequence can be seen as 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 + 6 + 7 + 8 + 9 + 10 + 11 + 12 + 13 + 14 + 15 + 16 + 17 + 18 + 19 + 20 + 21 + 22 + 23 + 24 + 25 + 26 + 27 + 28 + 29 + 30 + 31 + 32 + 33 + 34 + 35 + 36 = 666

[@secretstates]

Totally inspiring! Thanks for this

[@evaSerafea01]

love this

[@maynk7096]

It's spot on! and it's awesome

[@anzipex]

"Boqurant" from cassette "A Few Old Tunes" reference as I see 👀

[@DavesMusicTube]

Amazing video dude! Thanks!

[@orbitalforest]

Superb !

[@deniz90899]

that intro is superb

[@alexisroppert2747]

Incredible. Genius.

[@zeejustin6]

I have no idea wtf you were doing, but enjoyed the boards of canada sounds, I think you're probably quite talented.

[@juanignacioruiz1775]

Insane techniques, thank you

[@Blueblackngold]

That’s a perfect tutorial

[@chaosevolution]

Awesome tutorial. And great video production.

[@shintawe5144]

amazing detail!

[@TheCinnyBun]

manipulator is such an underrated and underutilized vst

[@hobodivine5776]

This was great! Thank you.

[@youngchopsnare234]

nice. really nailed the drums

[@fabienmolina]

Merci beaucoup !

[@tonio9973]

really awesome. you have tons of skill :)

[@cjbcarr1]

wow man, this is great. thanks so much for sharing! i'm not an ableton user, but mostly all of these techniques can be used however you choose to make music. super cool.

[@bewdwyre9211]

brilliant tutorial very inspiring

[@eldenhor737]

thank you ❤

[@ojedalistellobrunoramiro5014]

AWESOME! Saludos desde Argentina!

[@panta_rhei.26]

Fantastic

[@WavesOfRed92]

underrated af

[@WoozieFace]

loving ur album!

[@hollowgroundproductions]

Great, thanks!

[@ProdAbn]

you're one of the best producers I know

[@balloonhead61]

Well done, no fuss Great result

[@RomanWaves]

Wow.man. this is great Sounddesign. Been always into BoC - thanks for bringing this inspiration back ! Do you do more in depth ableton tuts in this way ? Would love to learn more from you !

[@eugeniomartinez4666]

this is a gem

[@BrendanPark07]

Killed it dude!

[@michaelarthurholloway9539]

Fucking Masterclass right here. Amazing work. Thank you for this!

[@ChristopherGun]

incredibly inspiring! thank you

[@originalsynth]

Crystal clear and concise tutorials. Glad you mention 'FIND YOUR OWN STYLE" as that's exactly what it's all about in the end, and this is inspiring stuff :-) Plastikman?

[@nayi999]

do falling through a field by black moth super rainbow

[@seanmuldoon38]

A fellow Irish boards of Canada fan!

[@hollowgroundproductions]

🇮🇪 🇮🇪 🇮🇪 🇮🇪

[@nunasentus]

This guy could take anything and create the sounds he wants

[@nicolaneeco]

EPIC. great work! thanks

[@windowdresser1643]

this guy is fucking insane for making this free. this is a treasure trove

[@janchristiansen6353]

Wow, you’re really good!