Making Dark Cinematic Drone in Ableton Wavetable - Ableton Sound Design

[@antizh]

i usually dont watch video tutorials, my adhd is fighting against everything in tutorials, but this one got me hooked. no bullshit, smooth voice, no attention grabbing intros or parts without usefull information. really like it. my adhd brain is satisfied ;) thank you

[@Busiless]

Hi. Super happy to hear it 😊 didn’t expect that could be the case but I’ll keep on making similar style tutorials 🤘😎 all the best 😊

[@brhodes0]

Yeah no flashing cr4p or ‘comedy’ inserts. Top notch.

[@Busiless]

@brhodes0 love it. Thanks 😊

[@cas9llimitlesstechno579]

Best Wavetable drone setup, now I understand how you can make the sound keep evolving, thanks for the help.

[@Busiless]

Thanks for watching. Very happy to help 😎👍

[@benbold]

thank you for that. it has totally inspired me this afternoon. it's so ominous sounding.

[@Busiless]

Thanks I’m super happy to hear that ( or read 😉) another super dark drone tutorial dropping this Sunday 🤘😎 this time Meld synth 😁. All the best 😊

[@benbold]

Excellent. Thanks you again. I’ll be listening. Best. B

[@genaugenaugenau]

Great tutorial, really easy to follow and inspirational

[@Busiless]

Thanks again 😉 all the best 🤘😎

[@bersabehdereje8005]

A very useful lesson for all aspiring softians

[@Busiless]

Hi Bersabeh, thanks for watching. I appreciate the nice words. 😍🤘

[@remyvegamedia]

Woooow. This is great. I'm starting to really enjoy Wavetable. I didn't get a chance to try this yet, but I'm gonna spend time messing with it tomorrow. Very hyped. Thank you.

[@Busiless]

Sure, it's one of the "nicest" to use Ableton's synthesizers in my opinion :) Really powerful. Have fun! :)

[@NickiTusp]

Thanks!

[@XANF2]

Great tutorial. Thank you

[@1m_sophie]

Really cool!

[@Busiless]

Thank you. Think I should do more drone design videos?

[@ToadstoolLive]

ty for teach bro! nice i will u se more wavetable now!

[@Busiless]

That's great to hear. Thanks 🤘😎 any new projects, singles, albums? 😊

[@ToadstoolLive]

@@Busiless yes my bro coming soon and will add this new drones , i upload yt when its done , have a nice weekend brother!

[@Busiless]

@ToadstoolLive thanks you too. Send a link when ready 🤘😎

[@mundolipdub]

that sounds great!

[@Busiless]

Thanks. I'm thinking of making something even cooler 😏 but what could that be? 😁 Any suggestions?

[@aloc23]

thanks a lot! that was exactly what i was looking for :) straight to the point, nice work

[@Busiless]

Thank you. Happy that you liked it 🤘😎. Wavetable is super powerful, I’ll sure come back to making more cool sounds with it 😁

[@rafsandomierz5313]

Thanks for the tut helped to understand drones a little better.

[@Busiless]

Thanks Raf. Glad to hear 😊 What kind of music do you create?

[@mindsuntethered8537]

This was really helpful and going to have a lot of fun with this pad, thanks for the guide!

[@Busiless]

Thanks for watching! Glad to hear it! Yes as I've mentioned, one of my favourite synths :) Keep creating!

[@jimlanpheer5281]

Nice tutorial, thank you! A suggestion: Can you do anything about your screen resolution? I have a great monitor and tried to follow along but it was very hard to read what you were doing. I ended up sort of emulating what you did, but for the purposes of learning, it's nice to be able to trace 'exactly' what a person is doing in a tutorial such as this.

[@Busiless]

Hi Jim, thanks for watching. Thanks for letting me know. As i learned editing more In the latest videos I'm trying to zoom in to things that need more attention, but I'll sure have a look again on different devices to make sure everything is clearly visible. Thanks again! All the best 🤘😎

[@natevankirk]

So sick!!!

[@Busiless]

Thanks. Wavetable is sick in general 🤘😎

[@fahadseriki]

SUPER HELPFULL!!!

[@Busiless]

Glad you liked it 🤘😎 there’s more dark stuff recently on my channel too 😁 what kind of music are you making?

[@momanace]

I’m using a different wave table synth. However this video gave me some great ideas to try on mine (Pigments) and I like what I wound up creating. Thanks for posting this.

[@Busiless]

Thanks you Morris, happy to help with idea 🤘

[@taohj.457]

Awesome bro!

[@Busiless]

Thank you Bro! 🤘😎

[@0xAlyx]

Hey, thank you it was clear and not boring. I would love to see more experimental things, best

[@Busiless]

Thank you very much. More to come. I will be releasing some soon 😎 and for this year I'm focusing more on these sound design tutorials so keep an eye 🤘😎

[@0xAlyx]

@@Busiless I was using FL but needed to change. That's why I'm watching tutorials but it's hard to find not boring ones. Good job🤘

[@itinerantghost]

Excellent! I've been playing around with Wavetable a lot more lately, due to how nicely it integrates with Push, and this was super helpful!

[@Busiless]

Hi. Thanks. It is super powerful, especially now as you say with the push integration. 🤘😎

[@nbatv1086]

qartveli xar dzma

[@airfixx_8952]

Cool vid, mate.... Thanks for posting! (Subbed)

[@Busiless]

Thank you! Happy you liked it. What kind of music are you making? All the best! 🤘😎

[@airfixx_8952]

@@Busiless - Techno/Experimental/Glitch/Noise..... Love me some dark cinematic vibes though....... John Carpenter is GOD!!!

[@Busiless]

@@airfixx_8952 yes sorry for asking the same question on both comments 😊

[@Busiless]

I'll check John's music as I don't think I'm familiar yet but I'm not the best in names so I might have heard already 😉

[@airfixx_8952]

@@Busiless - JC is a film director, producer & soundtrack composer........ So many classics.... Halloween, Assault on Precinct 13, Escape From New York, The Thing (not his score though), The Fog, They Live, Prince of Darkness.... I can tell from some of the music in your videos that you'll like his stuff.

[@thephoebuscartel]

very nice thx!

[@jazRock13]

Subscribed!!! This tutorial was amazing! hope to see more wavetable stuff from you..

[@Busiless]

Hi jazRock13, thanks for watching. Sorry happy to read that. I will for sure make more interesting tutorials. Any suggestions on what the next sound could be? 🤘😎

[@Whoisakp]

Hey, tnx. Working on my adobe premiere pro.

[@Busiless]

👍😎

[@ashishprovideo1]

Best wavetable theory and practical amazing well done I got a request it’s a Indian string instrument called Sarod the player glides the string please refer on KZbin for example

[@Busiless]

Hi DNKNZ Film's, thanks for watching and for the super nice comment 😊. I will have a look and figure out how to create that for sure. Although it might be in a month or two but I'll let you know if I'll do the video 🤘

[@ashishprovideo1]

@@BusilessThanks brother take your time no worries be Happy

[@Busiless]

You too. All the best 👍

[@meathead919]

Subscribed! Thank you, loved the patch.

[@Busiless]

Thanks for watching Meathead919. My pleasure 😊🤘

[@dhst76]

Nice! Very good tutorial. This helps me to better understand how to setup Wavetable. Thanks!

[@Busiless]

Hi dhst76 thanks for watching. I'm happy to hear that and happy to help 😊😎🤘

[@permanent__mutations]

im new to ableton, how do you get the synth audio preview from the start of the beginning? hope this makes sense. thanks :)

[@Busiless]

Hmm. Do you mean the sound at the beginning is the same that I create?

[@Pilgrim.musica]

Very good

[@Busiless]

Thank you? Any projects you could use that one in?

[@paulonuneesx]

Great job, thanks!

[@Busiless]

Hi, Glad you like it. What kind of music are you creating?

[@paulonuneesx]

@@Busiless Progressive/Organic House.

[@ChampionBreaks]

Thanks :)

[@MrRexBaron]

great tutorial - thank you!

[@Busiless]

Thanks for watching 🤘😎

[@aaronkrucher2306]

Thank you very much. Appreciate it!!!

[@Busiless]

Thanks a lot Aaron!

[@LanguageWithYousef]

Thank you for the video! Where are you from, btw?

[@Busiless]

Hi. I live in Dublin, Ireland but I come from a different part of Europe 😉

[@alekseyekimovmusic]

Thank you very much for your tutorial!

[@Busiless]

Hi Aleksey. Glad it was helpful! 🤘😎 All the best

[@carlosbolin596]

Yup

[@Busiless]

😎🤘

[@constantliminal2]

Very usefull thanks

[@Busiless]

Thanks! Appreciate it!

[@fabriciomosoni]

amazing, thx you so much!!

[@Busiless]

Hi Fabricio, thanks for watching. My pleasure 🤘😎

[@holvoltal2766]

Subbed, amazing

[@Busiless]

Awesome, thanks for the sub and welcome onboard 🤘😎

[@user-if1ig3fy5e]

Is the animated wavetable a live 11 perc only? My graphs don't animate like yours

[@Busiless]

Hi. Thanks for watching. I think it is simply that the waveform is moving up and down in position with a (Wavetable Position) slider, but I have automated the slider to be moved by envelope (or LFO). So whenever I press a key it will move (or animate) because an envelope is moving it all the time. To be honest I don't remember how it was in Ableton 10. You could see the same when you're moving the slider with mouse. I just found this video for Ableton 10 and it looks the same: www.ableton.com/en/blog/new-wave-depth-look-wavetable/. Let me know if you have any more questions. I'm always happy to help 🤘😎

[@user-if1ig3fy5e]

@@Busiless Thanks for the reply. I've done the same thing as you but it's not animating/moving the displays, oh well. Would be nice to know how it's actually affecting the sound so that's why I asked. Thanks for your help

[@Busiless]

​@@user-if1ig3fy5e No problem. It is actually easy to hear and test Regardless if it's animating or not. Try to open a fresh wavetable, set the Oscillator 1 Position slider in around 50% (the first on the right by the waveform graph), Hit any note and it shouldn't move or change the tone. Then go to Matrix section, and apply LFO1 to Osc1Pos (also around 50%). Then when you hit a note it should animate but more important it should pulsate from sine wave to square wave. You'll definitely hear that. If it changes sounds but doesn't animate then it is working fine. This could even be something silly like a graphics card driver or something. Let me know, if not here then on Insta with a short vid clip. @busiless.music. Cheers!

[@user-if1ig3fy5e]

@@Busiless It works as I followed your instructions. Thank you. The filter/frequency/resolution knobs are the only thing which are not automatically animated even after adjusting the the lfo parameters. Thanks again for your tips

[@6ixjeff]

What is the name of your ableton theme?

[@Busiless]

Hi. It did change but it’s the stock medium dark with a bit of around 220 hue and some intensity 🤘😎

[@6ixjeff]

@@Busiless thank you bro🙏🏽 After 2 years, I got my answer🤣

[@kollegevomkollegen]

Good!

[@Busiless]

Thanks Andreas! 😎

[@sudhanva-bhat]

Amazing ❤️

[@Busiless]

Thanks for watching and for a super nice comment :) All the best!!

[@WforWrath]

nicee

[@Busiless]

Thanks Wrath. Appreciate it! 🤘😎

[@nicolasibarra9381]

For once, the software is actually really useful

[@Busiless]

Hi Nicolas, thanks for watching. Yes, plenty of things you can do with wavetable. One of my favourites for sure! 😎🤘

[@aristotlemills7633]

So we still out here struggling with ourselves or has anyone conquered? Lol

[@Busiless]

😎🤘

[@hypoxiatrix9347]

no matter how many times i try and watch this....looking up at a short guys nostrils... or the accidental disapproval look or just the WAY to close to your face... if this is NOT meant for something ELSE im not getting. Its not humorous.. but Hella creepy.

[@Busiless]

Hahaha fucus on the wavetable Bro 😂

[@vvcv__00]

horrid! THumbs down!

[@mushroom197]

Thanks!

[@Busiless]

My pleasure