Mr. Bill - Ableton Tutorial 49: Layering

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[@thejuicemedia]

did anyone hear the original beat he plays at 00:42 and think, wow that is DOPE as fuck

[@eph_kni]

"very boring. doesn't go anywhere." ...

[@option7]

didn't expect to see y'all here lamo

[@dpounder101]

yup

[@jordanhamana1816]

Finally someone who goes FAST and cuts the bullshit! Props for making the videos!

[@drumjjj777]

You are legitimately the best online teacher. You out this all out for free and I cannot thank you enough

[@inspir.edmusic]

Yeah he's awesome for that.

[@jasongravely7217]

Bill's tutorials from 5 years ago are better than 99% of ones now. What a beast

[@tylertucker7820]

This is still valid today.

[@gijshenk2]

The one and only ableton god is back!

[@thebennettz123]

I love the quick side chain tutorial at the end of it! learn more in 1 min than i can in a day

[@BenCaesar]

This is still gold 5 years later.

[@cianoflynn8120]

This is the most helpful collection of tutorials I have ever come across on youtube period! Thank you so much!

[@9Syren9]

That guitar loop with that drum groove reminds me of the beat on Fill Me In by Craig David.

[@Roses_R_redeR]

🥀🥀🎚🪕🎚🥀🥀 Mr.Bill This with "Bluegrass" So you know like banjo mandolin dobro fiddle the resonator guitar harmonica... Most people hate the idea... But i love it... Im trying to learn how to achieve this... which the guitar in this was giving me ideas.. 🪕🎻🎚🎛🎹 So many blessings bill you're awesome...🔥🤘🔥

[@mekanism1200]

Please make a drum fill tutorial, how to layer the hits as well as sequence them. Thanks for all the tuts over the years, still keepin it fresh!

[@NYESmusic]

Before 0:42 After 14:47

[@ChrisTheEnigma]

This is very helpful. Very informative sound design advice. Thank you

[@andrewrichardsuk]

Dear mister Bill... congratulations on your dedication and skill! X

[@tombpunk]

My best: ...... untz. Mr. Bill's super simple: BZZT SWOOONG CLING CLING WAAAH WAAAH TRDDRRRIiiIIiIIing! BLOOOP! SWIOOoOOoOoOOsh!

[@MegaMixking]

most excellent. Cheers from Las vegas

[@malaikaw6138]

love this tune would love to see a full tutorial on mixing/mastering or if there is one which video is it covered in? and THANKS MR.BILL youve helped me advance my music by a million

[@goldandchrome]

how are you SO fast man its incredible. this loop is beautiful

[@TheBlashMusic]

These are honestly the best tutorials on youtube!

[@ILaxative]

you still process like this? i love this video..always come back to it..

[@samverywell]

You Bill are the best insight on youtube, Cheers monner

[@OdinComposer]

It would also be nice with a tutorial for getting your drums and bass to groove!

[@chaddeibler-hunt3610]

Love this concept for most all sounds :) Lovely tut Bill.

[@UTR90]

Love the tutorial. Can't wait to see another show. Great Stuff

[@cyntelsince.8886]

7:20 in it went from sounding like 90s raaio cassete dub beat, to modern day usher.

[@viktoronopko2090]

Yeaaaah, Mr. Bill is back!

[@DropsmithUSA]

we looove u mr bill!!!

[@xaby996]

great tut & great song.

[@VOX702]

thanks for the side chain tip.

[@staraldrigstill]

Hi Mr.Bill! To begin with, thank you, thank you, thank you for all the amazing tutorials. I couldn't been more grateful! Could you maybe show us how to make like big ethereal pad sounds that for example Jon Hopkins uses in a lot of his music? I've been struggling with it for a while and can't really nail it, it always feels so flat and kind of dead. Not interesting enough. Thanks again man!

[@DropsmithUSA]

he's like "here, lemme show you this beat i made, sounds like shit but here we go *plays amazing sounding loop* yaa lol

[@XyloAria]

You are my Ableton Fav

[@DanielofSparta]

So good bro, exactly what I was looking for 🙏🙏🙏

[@Electrotranqui]

Me encantó Mr.Bill!!! Thank you!

[@estoyconunidiota]

Dude, you inspire me!

[@Tentaclbeard]

Great vid, I've touched on this method before but I don't use it enough. I'd like to see some more practical examples as your vids that are focused on one thing like, sub + mid interactions would be my pick, as you get more mileage out of the ideas that way instead of just the underlying techniques

[@DjPrimeberry]

Cool tutorial dude! Thanks

[@telemeter3700]

Great tutorial!

[@goldandchrome]

"its like super simple" -_- wat?

[@Machivode]

it is tho

[@norochmusic]

At first I wasn't convinced, but then I getcha, by the way have you used Gladiator 2 and Ohmicide, with my kicks I tend to use the bounce preset from Ohmicide and it fattens them well!

[@krystiankosno3915]

my comment is that you are the best!!!

[@AiriPsy]

great tutorial

[@tezal]

Spot on bill

[@ronaldraygunpew]

Thanks brother, youre a boss.

[@nftrobits3135]

Great tutorial thanks man!

[@OdinComposer]

Actually what I've learned most from is actual realtime footage of you making something you're gonna release. Like the collab with Tom Cosm, just with talking like in The Art of Mr. Bill.

[@nivshitrit248]

Fiskepudding127 Is there a video of Bill and Cosm making a track ? can I have a link ?

[@OdinComposer]

+Niv Shitrit KZbin doesn't like links it seems. Check it out of either of their channel. The track is called Estrogin adn Tonic

[@void6909]

the ad before this video literally told me I couldn't learn ableton from youtube….. I call bullshit mr bill has taught me more then my 6 month certified course hahaha

[@tayloreverard9706]

Same

[@baronvonbeandip]

Oh, I miss that ad. That guy was a total loser.

[@tvarasu]

That acoustic guitar is nailing it in the track. Where u got it from?

[@SuperBen421]

*renames four channels immediately deletes them*

[@ZEDROLAND]

excellent content. cheers bra

[@kelly1562]

how did you pull a clean fade from two joined audio clips without triggering the crossfade?

[@gfw2361]

Dear Mr. Bill Real Noob question here. I'm pretty much new to producing on Ableton. I use to be a LPX user. I couldn't get over the fact of how quickly and smoothly you were going through Ableton. Any guides or sites you can recommend to learning useful shortcuts for Ableton?

[@jrloeb9077]

Thanks dude!

[@-__-_-_--__--_-__-_____--_-___]

Could you do a tutorial on room treatment and other stuff like speaker placement and ambiophonics vs traditional 60°?

[@8o8inSquares]

Thank you mastah!

[@knowmagick3054]

saw u at serenity gathering WONKY AF

[@Pinko_Band]

Ok, thumbs up if you have to rewind a lot when watching Bill's videos!! Goddammit MrBill you're just too fucking fast!!! (love your shit tho, keep it up)

[@samuelanthony2383]

I have been working on my side chain compression, I don't know if you have a video on it or not, you do mention it here. Wouldn't you want the side chain compressor working off of the different frequency's from the kick and snare to have it punch through better? If it works just as well thats awesome! I would just assume you want the high end like the transient of the kick to trigger the side chain and the lower end of the snare to trigger it as well and I don't know if you can accomplish that with one same pasted in the same spot.

[@manifatzigula]

this is gold :)

[@nickpelkey]

at intermission at a concert. giving you a thumb. well check out later.

[@honeycooler]

I'd like to know more about how you made those guitars. art they samples? do you have a video for that alredy? couldn't find anything on your channel. cool vid though thnx!

[@coolgamerandhisfriendcrepe2544]

Hi adam

[@AdamHoek]

Cool Gamer and his friend creperslayer hello! :)

[@coolgamerandhisfriendcrepe2544]

How are you?

[@AdamHoek]

Cool Gamer and his friend creperslayer good thanks....what an odd place for us to start this conversation...wouldnt you say?

[@coolgamerandhisfriendcrepe2544]

Yea

[@subs0nikEDM]

Edmonton Hotel Basses? That sample folder intrigues me.

[@danielhodgson5391]

Which mouse and mouse pad do you use? yours is so fast, im on mac btw so will it be the same speed?

[@oleg.ptiitz]

Damn the same questions I wanna get answer to!

[@avokado1386]

@@oleg.ptiitz it's been 3 years, man

[@kai_onlineaaa]

did this track ever get released?

[@Bugera369]

at 9:31, how did he/you do that quick folder retract thing?? That'd be awesome to not have to click so much

[@ILaxative]

Left or right arrow

[@jutre6045]

what's the soundpack you have? 'impact sounds'? where can I get it?

[@cytrussilly4136]

@mr.bill what would the perks be to compressing those before rendering.

[@OdinComposer]

Do more videos with tips that the people who send you tracks could use.

[@gerardpontino]

Ableton GOD

[@ferdinandjuin1463]

Hi Bill, have you finished the song somewhere ? :)

[@matic_horvat]

yeah im interested too, Bill please?

[@pukkss]

8:31 found out where he got the sample for his guitar pluck preset he made for vital

[@MrBillsTunes]

Vital very much did not exist at this time xD

[@ninjahflighttaktiks1467]

what is that guitar sample from Soooo Gooood

[@yoloswegmedia]

Hi! What shortkey do you use at around 8:38 to get the overlapping audio from the recording back to one clip? cheers!

[@chililpox]

So if I use a drum kit, being that all of my drums are midi notes, how would I achieve this since midi tracks don't use faders? is there a way to put the whole thing together on a midi channel and then extract all of the drums to different audio tracks? I feel like this is a feature ableton would have.

[@IDontReadReplies42069]

lol don't use piano roll for drums, man up.

[@blancmull3886]

Do the midi first and then bounce it to audio. Simple.

[@alexraymond2817]

Wow this was a great tutorial, thank you a lot dude! I was wondering where you get your instrumental samples from, like the guitar and bells heard in this example?

[@MrBillsTunes]

***** Somewhere in my 140GB of samples :p

[@antames]

Mr. Bill Can we see a snapshot of your complete sample folders/collections?

[@mandokir]

Mr. Bill Only 140GB? I thought you were supposed to be professional.

[@MikeCostelloTheMagneticPony]

mandokir X3

[@melchisedekj]

u mind doing a tutorial on comression? iuse compression bt i dont really know what it does

[@animemaplestorygirl]

Was this song ever releaseD?

[@PleaseBeDumb]

yo Mr. Bill do you do hip hop production techniques?

[@inspir.edmusic]

His knowledge is pretty deep, I'm sure you could apply everything he says in his videos to hip-hop.

[@serengagne9704]

my only question Mr bill is this. I mean you are good at what you do, but you don't address the possibility of phase issues occuring. How do we deal with phase issues? I am pretty good at dealing with them now, but I do a lot of careful eqing and really have to dial in on the samples. Your so good you can do this very quick with no problems. By the way, I love what you do with the transients. I was doing this yesterday out of lazyness oppose to layering transients, and I was like, am I doing it wrong.... now I am like, shit someone confirmed I am not crazy

[@linussvard6553]

Sidechaining and leaving room for stuff

[@terryhernandez3893]

Nice tutorial man! Where abouts did you get all those claps and glass sounds tho? I'm always looking stuff like that...

[@MrBillsTunes]

Jerome Blazé Just sound design packs and stuff really. The main clap in this particular one though is from this pack - www.wavealchemy.co.uk/claps-&-stacks/pid102/

[@terryhernandez3893]

Great I'll have a look. Thanks man!

[@SoundsBy80K]

Bill, respect. fast like a ninja. xDD And now ive understand the fucking layering shit stuff.. :)

[@nolsoe94]

Dear mr bill May i ask where u get ur drum samples from

[@nnnnico]

He makes them?

[@MikeCostelloTheMagneticPony]

Nicolas Pasqualis but from what samples does he make them?

[@OGRfilms]

Mike Costello He synthesizes them

[@MrBillsTunes]

OGRfilms Mixture of synthesis, samples and mixing/layering the two together.

[@musicbyAnu]

Whats your computer specs?

[@MrBillsTunes]

***** gyazo.com/1327b865682a3a0d012e9588b6e3a440

[@LB-ge6hc]

everything related to edm production here luckybishtmusic.blogspot.in/

[@Pinko_Band]

+Anupam Saroj was gonna ask the same

[@AllenAndersonTaylor]

Can you explain how you are drawing those automation curves? What is the keyboard shortcut?

[@MaziMazi92]

alt on mac , maybe the same for pc?

[@wwooloolaa4604]

yep same on pc

[@entheomusic]

there's also "show fades" in the dropdown menu of the clip or alt+command+F ...such an awesome shortcut.

[@tylascottowen7297]

Are the free sample packs still available?

[@DirectorBah]

where did you get those glass breaks?

[@jamarcus69]

Do you use grooves at all?

[@khrisnakhristian5419]

*super simple, pretty boring, does not go anywhere* the beat is good bro.

[@baronvonbeandip]

Mr Bill doesn't settle for good.

[@djgautz]

@@baronvonbeandip that's right, he settles for mediocrity ;)

[@nin10dorox]

Is there a way to hook up envelopes to samples like that in FL Studio?

[@baronvonbeandip]

Uhhh, well, if you are using Sampler, there's a second tab with env control. If you are using something like Slicex or FPC, there is per-slice env control. That's a really vague question.

[@nin10dorox]

@@baronvonbeandip When you put audio clips directly into the playlist, I don't see any way to put automation or envelopes directly on them, which is disappointing, because it looks so quick and easy in Ableton.

[@JeremyShaver]

Comprehensive

[@thiagopinheiromusic]

"Check the bat-cave"

[@0405Chipstik]

Great video! What is the key command you used to delete the tail of the resampled audio 08:38?

[@-__-_-_--__--_-__-_____--_-___]

Ctrl z

[@-__-_-_--__--_-__-_____--_-___]

Then he's asking something else. Video examples?

[@-__-_-_--__--_-__-_____--_-___]

I need a video example to see what he wants to know how to do because bill does a few things in the time stamp provided

[@-__-_-_--__--_-__-_____--_-___]

No. The command to cut extras after recording a loop is ctrl z

[@-__-_-_--__--_-__-_____--_-___]

I'm telling you, it cuts to the last full loop

[@morymao2703]

what's this song's name? Love it

[@MrBillsTunes]

Just a work in progress. I haven't done anything to it since this tutorial.

[@morymao2703]

I love the acoustic guitar sound.hope it could be a song~Thanks Mr.Bill,true master

[@TheBOneOfficial]

You fucking cool brof

[@DAUBSKI]

Does he use midi?

[@baronvonbeandip]

For sidechaining, yes. He uses MIDI early on to record sounds but then flattens them into audio almost immediately.

[@VinnieBatten]

How come you swapped to Windows?

[@MrBillsTunes]

Vinnie Batten Too many problems on the Hackintosh.

[@VinnieBatten]

Fair call. I've only had problems doing audio production on a Mac, so just lashed out and got a good MacBook Pro for Ableton and Logic. Dual boot to Windows for gamerinos

[@Timodahler]

I guess the only way to make such complex music is to always look at everything as if it is too simple and doesn't go anywhere instead of jacking of on your ego for having created a nice beat.

[@baronvonbeandip]

Until it becomes a tune that you or someone else has played, it's nothing.

[@00point00]

this one was big, even though the delivery is bored as shit,

[@prodwellfed]

i see u using utorrent. hehe

[@IDontReadReplies42069]

the ogre method