Mr. Bill Masterclass @ BPM College

[@C1c4da]

"The sub should be a different instrument doing a sub and the shit on top should be doin' top shit" -Mr.Bill 2019

[@naught101]

Probably one of the best tips in the video. Good insight. And clear language :D

[@sineout1342]

40:08 "The way that a multiband compressor works is it needs to have split points... The way that a splitter works is by using EQs, and the way that an EQ works is via delays and phase." The sign of a great teacher is one who can break things down to it's essential properties and use these basic ideas to explain the most complex uses. Thank you for this lil nugget Mr. Bill. (Also Woulg is awesome)

[@8BitAvenger]

Audience member: "Hey, Mr. Bill. You're amazing, love your music. How do you approach X thing that most people have a specific answer on and say there's a right and wrong way to do?" Mr. Bill: "Yeah I just fuck around and do everything wrong on purpose and then I find cool shit and then when it sounds bad later I do more super wrong shit until it sounds cool again. Also I don't really have any structure in general. That would be weird, it sounds like a nightmare. I would fucking hate that *chuckles*. But that might be good for some people." Audience member: "Uhhhhh.....ok, thanks?"

[@sparkwoodand21_com]

Words to live by.

[@ajahncodar]

Amazing

[@andershattne]

"that would be three hundred dollars, thank you very much"

[@leoislo]

The GOAT Ableton instructor. Some absolute gems in here MB.

[@Anon-tr2lq]

31:52 "I just kind of eye-balled it and ear-balled it" this is what makes Mr. Bill's tutorials most entertaining to watch

[@sacredgeometry]

@@caro_lam The key to pleasing you is having another mans balls near different parts of your face?

[@lildew32tanner]

One of the best free videos on his KZbin definitely worth watching all the way through.

[@jerzylasota7016]

Mr. Bill, you are a genius and a saint - respectively, for fucking around to this extent and then sharing it.

[@LaymensLament]

im like 35 minutes in and already impressed. (1) the man came prepared but even better (2) he has actually no qualms sharing his process / knowledge (because hes confident in his music meaning: not everyone who has the 'secret knowledge', will get the same sound / quality of tracks).

[@PspkCz]

33:08 Dry erosion 38:00 all pas filter 44:40 external instrument 46:00 RT60 56:28 Gate sidechain 1:35:00

[@jackhammer8061]

🙏

[@petrifiedpk672]

20 minutes in and he already has 15 audio effects grouped into one Operator, and still dinking around with it. This is what I came here to see, now it's time to get the popcorn!

[@ZenWorld]

Breaking all the rules with some of these techniques. I LOVE IT! Ableton POPE Right HERE! P.S Nice Laptop

[@LEVRAN]

Hahahaha its funny to see u here......

[@Basementkid-music]

beep beep☺️☺️☺️☺️

[@GarviHere]

😏

[@tylerwebb3097]

You are the most professional producer in the world.

[@jamaicanshorts]

1:22:00 Makes me think of something Amon Tobin said in an AMA which I remember as 'the more I work as an artist, the more convinced I am my role is simply to say yes or no'...

[@MonsterDubClub]

Big up to Mr Bill and his insane level of knowledge on music production skills and techniques. Thanks for sharing 🙏

[@DaKingof]

"The rt-60 is like 1 second in here..." and you'll be like "awe shit, how do I fix that?" I just lost it lol

[@johnyepthomi892]

I just rewatched after three years. Watched all the way through.

[@adammercysystem6450]

that was incredibly helpful. Great to see someone developing techniques around the fact they sound good, not because people have told you not to do something. Super un-traditional production, which is fucking amazing.

[@acecatman]

48:45 basically, fast-fourier transform (FFT) is one of the core algorithms of digital signal processing, and is based on the law that states any signal of any complexity can be reproduced through a sum of individual sine waves.

[@Temporalmixproductions]

Mr. Bill is the man for sharing such crazy tips and tricks all the time. Everyone else's tutorials are boring in comparison.

[@parasight5368]

"If you just mess with this for an hour you'd have all the sounds" -Noted

[@nfaaudio8412]

Thankyou so much! Kickstarted me back into music production and i'm loving it again!

[@CounternoiseMusic]

This was incredibly insightful and extremely to the point, especially when reacting to questions from the audience. Thanks for sharing!

[@SomethingImpromptu]

This is so insanely dense with info. I’m going to have to relisten like 2-3 times. Great stuff.

[@xrobmctx]

How have I never heard of this guy until now? He's amazing and a genius

[@LazyCloud9]

Amazing crowd asking all the right questions 😀

[@sethtaylor7519]

;) Yeah, sure they do...

[@temoflores]

38:19 Idea Jams The concept is to take the tools at your disposal, use them in ways they're not supposed to be used or just really creative ways, record the output and figure out how to contextualize it for music later.

[@soundcore183]

27:53 It seems like adding some clicking sound on top makes it all coherent, so that crazy note jumps in midi are any notes of a chord progression but just velocity information which by the way sounding very funky / progressive. 39:15 Serum FX has more than just one all pass filter. It has that ott compression too.Turning the compression ratio to max to use it as a limiter. Or you can turn the rate of a phaser to zero to use it kind of a single allpass filter. A phaser is anything else but just a regularly moving allpass filter.

[@nano7586]

Its so epic to see a poster with "Culprate" in the background

[@gurs6714]

Bill's so right about boosting frequencies and bumping db on effects like crazy cause they literally birth results - they wouldn't be included in daws/tools for no reason its, cool to see someone actually demonstrating it.

[@jaymcd84]

man i love recognizing the level you guys are at, i just been dabbling for 2 years, went to Pyramind (love you guys) in SF for music production. I enjoy these tutorials

[@illoh]

the part where he explained how EQs use phase absolutely blew my mind.

[@ukura]

got a timestamp?

[@onewerdy4876]

"'How did you come up with that?' 'I'd run out of ideas one day.'"

[@SwedishSurfer]

My Tuesday all of a sudden feels like a Saturday!

[@sramirez1906]

Super interesting and inspiring! Became a Hardcore Abletoneer before I even finished this video.

[@sesshin]

I've watched this video so many times

[@mischiefner]

super cool, very entertaining, lot of inspiration, thanks Bill! :) props to BPM College & Fusion Culture for making this happen

[@andrewweitz4330]

Really love the concept he starts on with approaching sound design from effects as a starting point. Gets a little harder to pay attention once he starts on the knob tweaking but great stuff conceptually

[@chad2687]

you're a legend bill

[@KrisL1497]

I added 15 OTT's on kick drum and it blowed my mind haha

[@ostrol1590]

what's an OTT?

[@alfredhitchcok]

@@ostrol1590 Kind of multiband compression.

[@ostrol1590]

@@alfredhitchcok aaa cheers ye

[@Vegan_Kebab_In_My_Hand]

Tomás Frazer it’s something you need in yer life

[@jonathanfoe5125]

I added 15 OTT's to my master and it blew my ear drums

[@Rhekluse]

"Alright 20 minutes of idea-jams, 40 minutes of writing music, then I'm going to go eat some yogurt.." dude lol

[@_samtaylorrr]

So many gems in here. Mr Bill is the 🐐

[@evolgenius1150]

hehhee, right now i'm appreciating all the little bitwig things that let me slide clips around from my audio noodles jams

[@endlesssky8771]

I got a lot of inspiration right now. Thanks a lot for your great tips.

[@eaAngelmusic]

Idea jamming to this video as I’m watching it is a very relaxing evening experience

[@BenRunyan]

54:15 WHAT!? I did not know that and I have been teaching and using Ableton for over 10 years.

[@ransmomebloke1949]

You can also import all your sessions into the "Places" browser and open from there.

[@bluebebleu]

I add ott to my soft sounds, really makes everything super emotional

[@john_atco]

Great stuff. .. Tear up the book and start again.

[@devincory9695]

Wow, it's nice to feel like I'm doing things right for once. My most used synth is 3xOsc and this is why! Start with something minuscule and just pile on fx.

[@omniburn]

Thank you Mr. Bill!

[@bardlinga7640]

58:25 In Ableton 10 you can alt-drag from the playhead in the clip window, and it won't shorten or lengthen in the arrangement. Saves some time not having to do the whole duplicate thing! I'm thoroughly enjoying your content though, awesome stuff

[@silversulu]

Wow...seriously pro production!

[@ElliottJohnsonXX]

i relate to your thinking so much.

[@DataBroth]

Awesome vid, it's amazing how much of this translates over to logic. I appreciate some of the insight into using "idea jams" to grab snapshots of different sounds. The playhead trick is a huge reason I'm interested in ableton as logic can't do that. Have you ever looked into Bitwig?

[@Taylor-op8tv]

This shit convinced me to give you money. Apophenia is killer too, been listening to it nonstop. Gonna try and catch you at Meow Wolf. Thanks for everything man.

[@oddz2596]

omg, 1 h and 40 min??? i love u

[@nilb355]

@58:20 ...I had no idea this was possible. genius, huge time saver.

[@shakeywithlife]

I studied at SAE too. One of my lecturers, he hated rules too taught us that you need to learn the rules so you know how to break them. without knowledge of your subject, ie. audio. your just throwing shit into shadows but if all you do is follow the 'rules' or do things the 'right way' your not really creating. Learn the rules so you know how to break them, I feel like Mr Bill is a perfect example of this.

[@specialjbeats]

Ahaaaa, the RT60 artifact section at 49 mins had my cat wiggin out!

[@dflsferreira]

thank you! excellent work very inspiring

[@C1c4da]

I don't know if youll see this but how do you feel about glitchmachines plug ins?

[@GlennEpic]

I ate two avocados while watching this.

[@artificium_]

🙏dude thank you for all that you do

[@shawngrove8543]

right on! thank you dude!

[@nitrobunny2]

some incredibly useful tips and tricks throughout this whole video. thanks for the upload.

[@vacuumhack]

Many thanks for making this available for everyone. Why quality is only 360?

[@MrBillsTunes]

It was just processing, it's 1080p now :) Enjoy.

[@SixPalms]

So so helpful, any ideas how you'd keep the idea jams in key or would that come later when incorporating it into the project/song?

[@MrBillsTunes]

Yeah, that always comes later. The main idea is just trying to come up with things that are sonically interesting. Justifying those sonically interesting things as music is a whole other challenge.

[@SixPalms]

@@MrBillsTunes Thank you very much for the reply! Makes sense 👌🏻 I'll give it a shot. And thank for all of the content you put out, I appreciate you taking the time to educate, I'll bake you a mud pie some time.

[@reverse804]

Thank you for sharing your experience and knowledge

[@TeddehSpaghetti]

I'll be seeing you at Camp Bisco

[@goodpal7444]

I like this approach. It's so odd how he's advocating for printing your sounds as quickly as possible, but also playing for hours. So much better than ages spent tinkering.

[@amazonbeat]

Não há ninguém melhor que você, sou seu fã!!!!

[@plodaerte]

tbm sou

[@noahnorbs818]

bill the world needs to hear "peekaboner"

[@ambedo_bass]

This video is so insanely helpful, like holy crap thanks so much mr bill. Seriously, this video is so dense with useful info it makes my brain hurt. Time to go "idea jam" with all the new cool techniques I just learnt!

[@airbornmartin3238]

Congrata. You are one od the best out there

[@AxLiMusic]

Love the song @28:00

[@xrobmctx]

Does he have any videos on how to make these crazy sounds musical like he said?

[@Zer0Spinn]

Avocato man is back at it again dropping knowledge.

[@o3rMeNs]

Learned a lot from Mr Bill tutorials years ago. Although I’m orthodox when it comes to music production. It’s nice to learn different approaches and techniques to reevaluate workflow. Personally I always end up back to classic approaches which mainly has to do with music style. I just never liked glitch and dubstep. Still, much respect for creative pioneers like this dude.

[@marscrasher]

the tune at 55:00 is now the podcast intro

[@sacredgeometry]

Also FFT or Fourier transforms in general are just a way to take a signal form the time domain to the frequency domain. You don't really have to know the details of the algorithm just that that is what its used for. A simple way to visualise it may be the difference between looking at a wave form or a spectrum analyser. One gives you the full signals amplitude changes over time the other gives you the amplitude of each frequency over time. So imagine a saw wave: They are just constructed by stacking a series of sinewaves along its harmonic series right? In the time domain it looks like what you are probably familiar with a saw wave, it's namesake, a saw. In the frequency domain you will be able to see the various peaks of its harmonic series. In all saw waves this pattern will be true but the difference between different types of saw waves will be the amplitude differences across its harmonic series. Or more simply imagine it then morphing into a sine wave, you would see a sine shape in the time domain but you would see one peak in the frequency domain (excusing for noise) which would be the fundamental. Or a square would be almost the same as a saw except you would skip every odd harmonic. Either way. If you see FFT/ FT/ DFT etc. All you are doing is that transformation (unless its inverted, in which case you are doing the opposite)

[@C1c4da]

thank you so much for the serum trick

[@billiamsharpe2967]

Thank you

[@ronin6643]

'Let's just keep the OTTs on there so with the disperser we can compare dick sizes" 😂 love Bills approach to production

[@psyparadox]

WTF !!! holy shit MR BIll U r soo fucking awesome !!! mad inspiration ! tree of knowledge ! such respect !

[@Artisan316]

Not only really cool info shared but friggin hilarious tid bits lol, awesome stuff man! Thanks!

[@jaymcd84]

AFTER THE 3 glue compressors i get a popping sound, how come?

[@jaymcd84]

nvm found it, freq. on operator was too high :P

[@GeorgeCopperfield]

"Serum has had a 'Massive' influence on Synthesis" 🧐

[@MyVash12349]

>:|

[@Rqmod]

are you still planning on doing bitwig videos or did you switch back?

[@dankesthours182]

"anything that like splits the signal into two, and does different shit in both speakers, you should stay away from that on your drums, and you're bass. it's great for FX thought. you could put it on a bass, if it's not on your sub, I guess." -Our Loving Master

[@dankesthours182]

lmao at my comment ye. ye Go Bill. that eussup you killing it excuse typos please am mobile

[@cn2734]

"& i wanna crush all of the dynamics..fuck em" hahaha legend

[@christophervalerio3919]

Did he release that track already? 27:44

[@alixvandurand]

Dude wtf was that track at 54:53. Has he released that yet? That shit was niiiiiiiice.

[@EXKORTEX]

This is very precious

[@roneivilasboas]

Ableton is sick...but I can see BitWig in da House...

[@awesomeup3306]

1:37:29 Holy F-ing Bannanas pleeeeaaase release that Griz/Boogie T remix!!!

[@HearseVerse]

he's got mad amounts of unreleased tunes/remixes/collabos that im so excited to hear at some point its nuts

[@razzerraw1108]

Is it out yet ): Keep me updated

[@vadhub]

Idea jams are so cool! I have an irrational fear of resampling because I start worrying about my hard drive space :/

[@dirtysprite3]

3:07 lmao I use the term "clipstep" all the time, I'm glad I'm not the only one

[@robertjones9598]

Hi Mr Bill I'm trying to find a video that I saw demonstrating how to play with tempo and construct a build up like Infected Mushrooms 'Bliss on Mushrooms'. If I remember correctly, it was possible to drastically manipulate the tempo of one track whilst keeping the global tempo stagnant. Can anyone point me in the right direction?? I've searched for hours now for this illusive video....

[@LarcTald]

thanks!!

[@rafestube]

Random Velocity > Sample Offset = awesome granular biz

[@gabo182b]

That "oh man" at 1:12:35