Psytrance Kick & Bassline for Beginners - Ableton Live Tutorial

Entry level Psytrance production. This lesson will show you how to create beginner level kicks and basslines for any style of Psytrance. The purpose was to offer a tutorial that teaches you the basics that you can then manipulate in order to create your own sounds/style.
In the future I will do an intermediate lesson, then also an advanced lesson.
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[@6ixss]

My Ableton sad story, You open Ableton, start making a beat, listening same beat for 2hrs. your brain is melt, alt f4. fuckthis. happy new year

[@hannespi2886]

High end commentary, full-on perfect education-wise - High tempo speeds up the viewer's mind - Clear description of each parameter being used - Recapitulation

[@lollern1234567]

That tip at minute 8 was incredibly useful for a complete newbie like me. I really like that you describe everything you do, like "control shift m" and stuff like that, it really helps us newbies. A bit more of that and then I'd love to see a tutorial for how to make like other basslines for darkpsy? You know like how Farebi Jalebi or Vertical sounds.. Or P Tales. Stuff like that. Again thanks, you're really helping out.

[@lollern1234567]

One thing tho at 10:24 - how do you select both operators and get equalizers on both of them at the same time?

[@Delayeed9]

thanks for introducing me to BazzISM. Been looking for something like this forever... Very fast easy and simple to use

[@CollectiveIntelligenceMusic]

My pleasure man, it's a great VST. Kick 2 is interesting too, bit more advanced. Many more options for sound design.

[@keissetje]

thanks for a great introductory piece to psytrance mate :), things i already know "on paper" like subtle EQ adjustments and compressor adding were explained in detail, and i could see how different manipulations got me different results, this is good learning material :)

[@CollectiveIntelligenceMusic]

Hey dude! I'm very excited to do an updated version of this tutorial in the next couple of months. I've learnt some great techniques I'm ready to share with everyone so keep your eyes peeled in the future. Thanks for your kind words, much respect :)

[@cucumberlollys1856]

this is a great tutorial thank you

[@Eselschulze100]

rick tick cooles video und super verständlich erklärt find ich danke

[@芋圓柚子-s5k]

Thx for tutorial 🎉

[@trox6512]

genius man, love the way u explain things, keep it up!

[@PoulLarsenmusic]

I followed this tutorial to the point and expanded it with macro midi controller knobs for hands-on fine tuning. I limited the macro.. - Take the Hi Bass Operator and group it to use macro knob.. map the setting he's using Fe Decay: 200ms - 600ms Fe Amount: 30% - 90% Filter Freq: 30 Hz - 500 Hz Filter Res: 0% - 100% You can use it as Quick Bass Designer instrument. It works perfect with a midi controller

[@thedoomerchannel8462]

A huge help... Greetings from Brazil...

[@santoshmirashi7852]

Thank you it's really helpful 🙏

[@damosvas8195]

awzsome walk though - thanks so much for your time and skill set

[@hectorlacerdadj]

It was one of the best videos that I found on the internet about psytrance/full on! It clarified a lot of things and make other more simple to me. Please tell me, what playlist of your channell would you indicate to me start, or learn something like a next pass of this video? I Would like to learn things about others components of the battery, to this kind of music, hihat, cymbal, snare... AND of course after this videos, another indication to learn how to do others type of bassline with more musical note... (Would be interesting things without plu-gins, because I have none yet kkkkkkkkkkk) Thank you a lot and I desire all of good to you bro!!!

[@vincentchiarelli2424]

bro awesome vids, very clear and quick and to the point keep them coming.

[@kishangya]

If you set the oscillator phases , around 90% it sound frenetic :)

[@DarksockMedia]

Well done man, is useful, hits out the core blocks.

[@CollectiveIntelligenceMusic]

+Mark Baker Thanks brother, I'm pleased you found it handy :)

[@ThePeijun5921]

hey hey bro:))I m happy to learn Ableton from you, but it"s from youtube lol this tutorial is absolutely awesome!! and keep it up♪

[@CollectiveIntelligenceMusic]

[@Vegan_Kebab_In_My_Hand]

Very nice, subbed! Hoping for more psytrance tuts from you =)

[@patroller]

Thanks for your help, excellent videos

[@lordha-ha4242]

Awesome tut man! Awesome

[@mattkill38]

nice video man, it really helped me out, to figure out how to use this DAW !

[@CollectiveIntelligenceMusic]

Pleased it helped you out!

[@matthewtoomer2181]

humm ive always used the same wave shape (saw) for bass and sub. Didnt think to try the sub with a sine. sounds much neater

[@xsvecm09]

Bazzism has own note selection you dont need to find notes frequency just click on the little note symbol next to fEnd and pick up note :)

[@ouroboros_johannespt]

Great tutorial buddy, thumbs up

[@gugutobeats2018]

Awesome video! it helps a lot man, thx

[@AdamBryja92]

For me, magic! I have ableton two days ;p

[@ioav]

great video, thanks!

[@LikuidvibeMusic]

Hey bro very nice ! Do you still layer the bass like this on Serum ? I see you use Serum now for the Bass on the new videos. Thanx

[@ReplacedTea]

Amazing tutorial man. Cheers :)

[@bionikpulse]

Love your videos mate! I personally use FL studio would be cool to see you make something for us on FL

[@Skanoh]

Nicely done!

[@deebizzle1919]

thank you kind sir sounds great

[@Permadosed]

Awesome video man, please make more!

[@abhishekjadhav2524]

thank you

[@MrNishan1991]

thanks a lot bud !!! you need show us more :)

[@lukasforstenhaeusler6880]

Please make more tutorials bro!

[@עוזאביטן-ת2צ]

LOOOK AT U

[@skiferien2010galtuer]

Cool 😎👍🏻

[@johndouthit5873]

Very helpful

[@lelsqueks]

Thank you so much

[@MrHollabk]

Fuckin nice!! Subbed.

[@aeonevents7753]

if you click the note icon on bazism next to fEnd then it shows you the notes/frequencies!!!!

[@robertschulz7086]

beginners, y. good guid.

[@deepemotion8407]

did u just turn the midi into a wave??dam bro this is some good shit!

[@fuzexi]

how did you learn so much stuff like knowing about frequencies for a kick, or the purpose of sidechaining? Did you study audio theory? Could you recommend any books?

[@CollectiveIntelligenceMusic]

Watching lots and lots of youtube videos Peter! No books. No formal education.

[@fuzexi]

@@CollectiveIntelligenceMusic that's probably better than university! Any channel in particular you found really useful that you might recommend?

[@fotfoti]

I have a little issue with the side chain , when I kill the kick and leave the baseline to make a transition, the side chain doesn't work on the baseline so it sounds very bad. I found an other way around to simply cut the volume of the kick and set the side chain to pre master so the compressor continues to use the kick to side chain the baseline. The other method I use is to simply play with the velocity and a fast envelope only to the first note of the triplet baseline. I might lower a little the velocity of the second note. The results are pretty decent. Any thoughts on that ?

[@joaocarlosdossantosjunior4653]

Cool.

[@NoNameLeft1500]

I give you a hint.. don't throw everywhere a lowcut just for beeing there... you get phase issues with that method... you are lowcutting your bass sum/group which should be enough.. if you doubel and triple low cut it everywhere.. you always shift the phase a little bit more.. so you can get a muddy tail after the notes / steps .. also I think you don't need to cut synth basses... since they have a fundamental and there is nothing playing under it... if the lowend is too strong you can EQ it slighty with a low shelf .. but I don't think there is realy a need for total cuts.. ofcourse there are always exceptions... but I reccomend not to throw everywhere a lowcut on it.. just because "people do so" .. that came more from the recording of accoustic stuff.. (recordings bands and so on) .. yes in some cases you sometimes want a cut... but those cuts usually need to be carefully done.. not just thrown a lowcut at 20hz in it... also why ... think about it... what is playing at 20hz there? these are synthetic waveforms... there is nothing rumbling under the fundamental .. (except maybe clicks and such things by bad envelopes.. but then you should take a look into the envelopes..) .. it can make sense if you don't want a sub in the bass... or to get the base a bit more out of the sub content.. so cutting the fundamentals then... but that would be alot higher then those 20hz cuts... and also is usually not what we want in our music.. more common in band music again.. where you might not want the bass in a sub region.. (depends on the style/genre ofcourse) that's just one thing... maybe I should do some videos about production too since I do this for 20 years now.. already thought about that for a while.... but I have a bad speaking voice and not good at speaking...

[@CollectiveIntelligenceMusic]

NoNameLeft1500 Thanks for your comment. Since making this video my technical knowledge has increased a lot and I no longer make my basslines in this manner. I'm in the process of updating this video with the new process I go through. Cheers :)

[@christopherthiesen1158]

please do ;)

[@TheMjphoto45]

I always wonder why midi track on each clip

[@omarmarmolejo345]

Hi. Once again, do you have this tutorial written, I Would like to learn to use your tecnique in this Tutorial, So Hope you can help.

[@CollectiveIntelligenceMusic]

I don't have the tutorial written, it's only available in video format.

[@omarmarmolejo345]

thank you. can you please make more Tutorials about psytrance efects etc. like raisers-reisers, pads, compression, including swip-droping the track. Momento etc.

[@quinxx12]

I don't get why you EQ out the sub-30hz of the kick and also the higher frequencies of the subbass if we don't hear those frequencies or the sound doesn't really reach those frequencies anyways. Why don't you just leave it then? Edit: I just noticed that by EQing out the super low end, many high frequency harmonics disappear in the EQ Eight spectrum, which probably would interfere with other sounds.

[@esenbi]

cool

[@bestof467]

I always wondered why producers never soundcheck their own videos :)

[@ur2168]

Why don't you Freeze then Flatten the EQed and compressed kick? That would save processing, but is there a good reason for leaving the active plugins?

[@CollectiveIntelligenceMusic]

I don't need to save on processing as my laptop can handle a lot of cpu load. The only reason to leave the plug ins active is so you can obsess over tiny small details later on down the track ;)

[@matthewtoomer2181]

i too dont use much sidechaining. How much is that kick maker? i still need a decent kick maker

[@AqierDesigns]

Matthew Toomer crack it

[@matthewtoomer2181]

I dont steal the tools to make my music.

[@CollectiveIntelligenceMusic]

www.ismism.de/BazzISM.htm

[@DJ0ScHiMMeL]

a kick is nothing else than a pitch that goes through all the frequencies. you can make a kick out of a sinewave, but in all honesty, why reinvent the wheel and not just use samples for that?

[@EMantraOfficial1]

it kinda lacks the power ..i use different technique ..but doesnt matter..still nice video..cheers mate

[@CollectiveIntelligenceMusic]

Hey E-Mantra, thanks for the comment. I've played a few of your downtempo broken beat tracks in my downtempo sets! This is quite an old video, aimed at a beginner to get the principles. I've got a more updated version that is a bit beefier here - kzbin.info/www/bejne/o2WTqZ57oNd4gdE

[@kishangya]

Upload some tutorials please :) Always searched for some E-mantra, Artifact303 , Goalien, Agneton styled basslines :)

[@TheSvs1]

THX for the lesson, but it doesnt sound like the pros if you listen to vini vici stuff he has a very tight low end, that goes very deep, but still feel light and no dragging.. How the hell they do that??

[@CollectiveIntelligenceMusic]

Hey mate, I've learned quite a lot over the last year since making this tutorial myself so I can revisit this when I've got a good monitoring environment. To be honest, this video is to start people off on their journey to understand how to make a very basic bass line, so they can at least begin. As you learn and grow, you'll understand further how to achieve the kind of sound you'd like. This bassline was never supposed to sound like a progressive psy bassline anyway, it's at 144bpm. Even though it's only a few bpm of change it does make a significant difference to how your bass patch would be designed.

[@TheSvs1]

Collective Intelligence thank you for commenting if you could show how the pro do it- that will be amazing i have a decent sound, but i still can produce that magic of the pros with the kick bass

[@CollectiveIntelligenceMusic]

Hey mate, I don't claim to be a pro. I'm at intermediate level I'd say, enough to help beginners but not enough to push you to a professional level. As I evolve and learn more I will share.

[@jirimajer8650]

Does this guy have more videos?? Whats his name please? :)

[@CollectiveIntelligenceMusic]

This channel - Collective Intelligence is where I host all my videos dude, take a look.

[@estebanbl5460]

great tutorial thanks what skin is?

[@InfiniteEditsHD]

its one of the default skins

[@molloyzer1]

Going a liittle fast for beginners.

[@kaiquemktart672]

can i have bazzism without pay ? i have tried a crack but not susceffully

[@kaiquemktart672]

@@TylerTheDestroyer why ? dont understand

[@kaiquemktart672]

i download the bazzism and thats a noise that dont stop, i cant learn the next part of the vídeo because i cant use bazzism ://///////// im trying to use for a week

[@nicolasdidonato6406]

would you recomend me any psytrance producer?

[@SkylineCoNe]

Astrix, Ace Gaudium, E-Clip, E-Mov, Neelix, Kodra, Electric Universe, Ace Ventura, and much much more.... LunarDawn is good goa psytrance :)

[@JazzyFunkaHolic]

How do you rename the Hz? The 41.2 Hz are called E1 in Bazzizm2 in a list that shows when I doubleclick on it ... I use Mac, but it should be possible to manually write it ... :/

[@JazzyFunkaHolic]

***** Ahhh but good to know .. Thx for your answer and keep music going :)

[@prankurpandey2880]

i also want this plugin can you please send me

[@CollectiveIntelligenceMusic]

www.ismism.de/BazzISM.htm

[@asconblake]

there is a video with new hair released by now!

[@jason3623]

Really struggling to get Bazzism to work on Win10. Any suggestions? Thanks

[@flux9433]

Punch the pc right in the back of the box but before you do that make sure its powerless right after tou puch it drop it from a higher ground and start shooting it with a bazooka in case you dont have bazoooka do it with your leg but make sure you have kondura on your legs after that buy new pc with windows 10 on it do the same thing if it doesnt work!Works for me every time!

[@r3kz]

Bazzism gives me a fuzzy sound didn't pay for the full version so not really sure if they give you crap sound in demo one...

[@CollectiveIntelligenceMusic]

Hi R3KZ, the demo version will insert white noise periodically I recall. You will need to pay for the full version, which is only around 30 euro. I would suggest looking at KICK2, I will have a new tutorial out shortly for kick and bass, it will use Kick 2. Thanks for watching!

[@TehObLiVioUs]

I got your headphones, the red ones though...

[@kevinuribe895]

¿como se llama ese programa ? :c

[@elmadamada8244]

Ableton Live

[@phosphore7991]

Press f11 on live...

[@CollectiveIntelligenceMusic]

+phosphore That's great advice :D

[@phosphore7991]

yup many tutorials don't do this, happy full screen ^^

[@TheStarRoom1]

"cool?"

[@Supergeckos1000]

Come back!

[@CollectiveIntelligenceMusic]

I'm still here! I'm currently traveling around Europe at the moment hitting up a bunch of trance festivals. Once I'm back in Australia or New Zealand I will crack on with my production videos!

[@livelifeimprovisationallim8314]

If your making psytrance, well then use 432hz please.... Fibonnaci all the way mate.

[@CollectiveIntelligenceMusic]

+Djoonzie Thank you, I understand, that's definitely the next step.

[@livelifeimprovisationallim8314]

It's just a minor adjustment... Major difference.

[@aaronnathanael5079]

+Djoonzie most of the time it doesnt matters because djs speed or slow the track down anyway :D but just for listening at home its very nice ;) its really easy to do just pitch it down.

[@CollectiveIntelligenceMusic]

If you use abletons warping features you can speed up and slow things down without screwing with the pitch, which is pretty awesome :))

[@aaronnathanael5079]

yeah i know but most of the djs use cdj´s :/

[@stffak3394]

Sounds is not bad (like the tone) but this is the most boring bass one could ever make in psy trance, monotonic, zero variation. This is for people who love "canned trans" not actual trans music...

[@sonusbeat]

sounds terrible

[@CollectiveIntelligenceMusic]

Hey dude, thanks for your feedback. If you'd like give me some detailed information on how to generate better sounds please let me know ASAP, I'm planning on recording a new video soon and your knowledge could help me make that video even better!

[@hypnauticamusic]

What a helpful comment... but you're on the spot now, let's hear some tips for a better sound.

[@CollectiveIntelligenceMusic]

I'll be recording a new video soon on my technique which is far superior to what I was doing this time a year ago. Keep your eye out it. :D

[@hypnauticamusic]

I meant that this Sonusbeat guy was on the spot now ... I wanna hear all of his deep knowledge considering the unreal wisdom contained in the infinitely useful comment that was "sounds terrible". Like honestly, why comment at all, probably just a little boy who needs attention. I really didn't think it was that bad, I'll check out your next tutorial.

[@CollectiveIntelligenceMusic]

Haha, there's no telling where some of these mentalities come from. I imagine this tutorial has helped many people understand the basic concepts of the psy kick/bass and hopefully have evolved the sound to fit their own taste. Don't know how many times I have to put in a disclaimer that it was for beginners! Thanks for your support bro.

[@paride244]

Amazing tutorial, i like how you work on Ableton dude!!!