The Ambient Dub Techno Tutorial

[@s1gns0fl1fe]

What's your favorite Ambient Dub Techno album? 🤔❓ ⮟⮟⮟ Timecodes: ⮟⮟⮟ 0:00 Intro 1:41 Recommended Ambient Dub Techno Albums 3:21 Tutorial Start 3:51 How to Make the Dub Techno Stab 4:24 Lowpass Filter Envelope Movement 5:05 How to Modulate using Ableton Wavetable 6:02 How to Use Ableton Chord 7:35 Adding Chorus for Width 8:01 Dub Techno Delay Settings 8:43 Audio Effect Racks in Ableton Explained 10:31 The Ambient Dub Techno Kick Drum 12:25 How to Make Pads in Hive 2 16:35 Creative Sidechain Compression Explained 19:08 Adding a Dub Techno Shaker 23:02 Dub Techno Sub Bass 25:09 NOVUM Granular Synthesis in Dub Techno 27:55 Adding a Final Sequence 29:45 Ambient Dub Techno Snare Drum 31:27 Tone Chasing Explained 32:43 End Result 33:37 Final Thoughts 34:00 Outro

[@HpBeck_Fieldrecordings]

cv313 - Subtraktive and the Cio D'or - Ur EP 🧡

[@postmur625]

yagya every album nice)) and by the way thank for your project ascendant and other it was surprise to see in info about it)

[@drottningu]

Probably has to be Auratones by Deepchord, but the two you recommended in this video are great too. I found both you and Martin on Spotify, so I have a lot of listening to do :p

[@christopheleray7913]

Dublicator - Deep routes

[@wildhorsemusic1111]

I am really digging the channel 4am Breaks

[@roberthaverly]

By far one of the best dub walkthru’s I’ve watched. I think one nice addition to round it all out, would be the assembly of the final track.

[@IPlayWhatiLike]

Your commentary accompanying this creation is wonderful. Your energy is infectious and beautiful.

[@s1gns0fl1fe]

Thank you so much!

[@DriftDeeper]

great to see such a comprehensive dub tech tutorial. More please!

[@Leopoldo-III]

we do love dubTechno!

[@audiomorphism2723]

I watch a lot of tutorials and this is one of the nicest dub techno ones I've seen in a while! 👍

[@Keroser1983]

As a Trance / EDM producer who is also in love with Ambient ( hence I've subbed to your channel ) this was amazing!!! This is kind of common ground for me. I am amazed how far everything went in almost half an hour. True talent!!! Thank you very much.

[@deepitkujur5486]

underrated channel. brilliant guy right here, ladies and gentleman

[@lrkx_]

For sure! Martin Sturtzer’s Branches is an awesome album. Between this channel and his, all my ambient dub techno needs are met! :-)

[@s1gns0fl1fe]

Thank you so much. That means a lot!

[@PaulRobinson1663]

Excellent, Chris! This beginner-ish tutorial of how to assemble an ambient dub techno tune has been an absolute game changer for the way I work. I used to rely on pre-made loops but always felt a bit of a fraud by doing so. In just half an hour of video you have totally demystified, and fluently demonstrated, a raft of useful and useable techniques (glitchy drums and midi, wavetables and modulation, sidechains, clip manipulation...the list goes on!). This content is exactly the reason I joined your Patreon group. Thanks for all your hard work.

[@s1gns0fl1fe]

Cheers and thank you Paul! I’ll create a follow up to this tutorial soon. Stay tuned!

[@StarMaze]

Branches is indeed a really great Album. Thanks for the tutorial Chris

[@tomaszborys4352]

I absolutely adore your accent, your voice has so much energy it's better than an energy drink

[@AKAtAGG]

returning to essence is one of the best albums there is, regardless of genre. love that you plugged it here, made me want to watch the rest of the video knowing that that's one of your influences.

[@uweschnitzler9551]

Wow , regularly coming back to this ! This is still one of the best Dub techno Tutorials around ..

[@meathead919]

Congratulations on 5k followers (soon). You really deserve it, the amount of energy and time you put into each video is outstanding. Keep on going I think the next 5k will be much easier!

[@sndrcve]

17k as of Aug 23

[@SteveTeo99]

So stoked for this!!!!

[@stevewhite1471]

I've just worked my way through this - brilliant, thank you. I learned so much and it sounds fantastic. Will definitely be back for more.

[@christianleukel8163]

This looks so incredibly simple... thank you for the inspiration... Goosebumps

[@peterthepiper]

For a beginner always wanting to get into some form of production, this was super well done. Thanks a ton, Chris.

[@benweir2561]

Absolutely incredible tutorial with a phenomenal sound, thank you so much.

[@JayX974]

Just spent the night watching and training with your video man its awesome i love how passionate you are and how easy you make them explanations

[@undogmatic]

Great tutorial and inspiration. The last pad reminds me of an oboe. :) cheers.

[@kristianhoiland1147]

This is so coooool, beautiful. More like this stuff please!

[@sidstricks]

Chris...you deserve a Grammy for your creativity and teaching..... Love and lights from India❤❤

[@diegolowpass]

Great tutorial! Thanks for sharing 😊 I thought it would be helpful to group the tracks from the pad and the offset, so with one button you can trigger them always together.

[@kidtaco]

I'm just getting into dub techno and this video is a gem! Thanks a lot :) Subscribed!

[@modularoutput]

Great tutorial. Direct. Concise. Well paced. Great energy. Well done. 👌

[@Magpie51]

lovely video mate! Thank you for sharing

[@DarksowlMusic]

perfect...

[@jamesr2934]

Amazing video Chris!! Keep up the good work! I want to go create some ambient dubstep.

[@she3po945]

This was so much fun to learn!! Love your energy and epic coaching. Thank you!!

[@saren6538]

I’ve watched this 5 times just fantastic

[@BryanKoen]

Great work, Chris!!! I'd love to see how you might approach arranging that into a full track.

[@s1gns0fl1fe]

Great idea! I’ll put that on the tutorial list… Cheers!

[@Gdad-20]

Cant believe Ive only just been recomended to your chan. Wow! Love this stuff man. I generally enjoy making melodic house, which obviously uses lots of ambient textures/layers. Thanks man for this and all your vids. Liked and subbed brother 👍❤️

[@ti3mpo618]

Been searching forever for this style of tutorial. Thank you so much 🙏🏼

[@eliasfede4249]

Such a good video, lots of cool tricks here, epic! Thank u!

[@nate4732]

Liumin by Deepchord/Echospace is my fave. This was great mate!!!

[@Erkkiboi]

MORE DUB TECHNO!!!!!!

[@Yeastextract]

Lush! You should release more dub techno this sounds awesome.

[@jimbojones3880]

That was very enjoyable. Great chugg. Surely another dub techno journey video is on the cards sometime soon? Thanks again for the upload.

[@GeorgeFlix]

Such an entertaining tutorial. You make it so much fun my friend! Thanks :)

[@bigupz6818]

Wow! This is pure dub techno gold. Thanks for sharing the knowledge! Subbed!!

[@douglasfugazi]

This video is super awesome, I've learned a lot about Dub Techno, and you did a fantastic job explaining each concept. Please keep up the excellent work doing more Dub Techno Tutorials!!

[@bloopbleepnothinghere]

That is not how my wavetable sounds with the same settings, lol. I get a hard sawtooth sound, you seem to have much softer with more harmonics. No idea what effect your production strip rack has, but not really starting from a blank canvas if you've inserted that and not explained what it does so we can re-create the same. All the FX chaining advice was great though, so thank you!

[@ferencav]

Wow, great track and great energy you have. I feel inspired to make my own music again! Thanks for showing your creative process.

[@daveraddy3119]

i have no clue how to produce music, but i love dub techno, and you damn nailed it.

[@Strafuzz]

Brilliant, I love your enthusiasm!

[@jimmydiamond-im5xs]

I love your vibe and energy!=)

[@rg533able]

Just discovered your channel. So much amazing content!!!! Thank you!

[@adrian280861]

Just amazing thx bro, that's inspire me more than enough,greeting far away from Indonesia.....salute!!!!

[@paulonuneesx]

Definitely you can do whatever you want in music sfere!

[@ÁgostonKárpáthegyi]

I learned something new. Thanks!

[@fenexj]

Now that was a sick watch. Good job mate!

[@frnnkie7797]

It was about time (and a great decision…imo) for Howie Mandel to change paths into something more introspective. Glad to see him doing this well nowadays ❤

[@CFKLive]

Absolutely good your explanation, it made me want to use Ableton again, what a teacher you are man! 💯 👍

[@HpBeck_Fieldrecordings]

Nice to see you Chris diving deep into ambient dub. One of my favorite genres. Your tips are very helpful to understand this type of music better!!Love the ''offset''trick!!!!Thanks for sharing🎧✌.....and Congratulations on 5k followers!!!!!!

[@Luxfer999]

you ARE - the - Man!

[@distantidentitymusic]

Hey nice tutorial 😊

[@frankenmizer828]

Nice discussion of ttone chasing - thanks!

[@travislrogers]

Wow, what a great tutorial! Thank you for this, so inspiring!

[@rpcheesman]

Heck I wanted to write a track from start to finish that wasn’t another experimental drone track… I didn’t even think of doing some dub techno but now - gonna fire up Reason and get cracking! Very inspirational 🙏

[@s1gns0fl1fe]

Thank you so much!

[@feelthecosmos1266]

You have my respect Chris!

[@blackwavenoise]

Excellent tutorial

[@christopheleray7913]

Thanks for this full tuorial. A must have ! :)

[@ElectronisoundsAudio]

💙 Love The Dub - Love Your Energy - SUBBED!

[@pcbricker2713]

Wow, amazing tutorial

[@dr.feather4860]

Fantastic teacher!

[@pjdahmen]

Thank you for the Great Tutorial!

[@gylp2]

will definitely go try to make ambient dub techno my self love it

[@arturdecampos]

super nice ending hehe thank you!

[@albshore8]

👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾 Chris you are my ambient hero...🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🎹🎛🎚.

[@s1gns0fl1fe]

Made my day! Thank you. 🙏

[@Nero_AD]

This has been interesting, informative and inspirational. Thank you so much! 😊👍

[@sevarandeep]

Let's try to make something in this genre for the next AO Compilation album 🙂

[@equinoxambient]

Love these videos.

[@RealmsOfThePossible]

Have ever used Reason software for it's modular aspects, you can use their rack in Ableton too.

[@mikhailrausch2467]

Fantastic!

[@stephanscharf5524]

Fantastic tutorial. I learned so many amathing things in such a short time. Some of the plugins are also helping me jumping forward productionwise. Do you know the album "Soup" from Bola? Bola is one of my favorite ambient dub techno acts for a long time.

[@fiercelaststand]

Cracking video - loved it!

[@jairmorales3662]

Great Job!

[@aounms]

yes we see and we listen above all 😄 Good work ✌️😉

[@Chris887666]

Thanks

[@lawrencemichell6062]

Good work brother

[@GerenM63]

Great video, as always, Chris! I have, though, a question that's not directly related to the music itself, but rather, your computer. I, too, have Novum, and I really like it. But it really hits my CPU hard -- to the point that projects that I create on my laptop sometimes can't be reopened on the same laptop. Now, I know the laptop is probably under-powered -- it's a Ryzen 3-based machine. But, it's also pretty heavy on CPU on my "studio" desktop, which is a bit beefier. I noticed when you added Novum to this track, that your CPU barely registered a change. So, the question is --- what computer are you running? (I know you're on a Mac, and I'm on PC, but that shouldn't make /that/ much of a difference, so the question is more CPU than anything else. Thanks!

[@s1gns0fl1fe]

I'm on Windows as well! Ryzen 5900x, 32gb of RAM, SSD. Some NOVUM patches are far more CPU intensive than others. I've nearly choked my system adding more grains and modulating them. It could just be the patch you're playing with. Try lowing the grain count and see if that helps! Also, SYNtify takes a ton of CPU but he's working on a fix. Hope that helps! Cheers my friend.

[@GerenM63]

@@s1gns0fl1fe Thanks! Yes, helps a lot, actually. Your machine is a little beefier than my studio machine (Ryzen 5 2600X). Being a little more conservative in my sound design makes a lot of sense. The plan with my studio machine was always to jump up to a Ryzen 7 at some point, but being a B450 motherboard, going with a current generation processor gets a little squirrelly because of the BIOS updates involved. Still probably worth the heartache. The laptop will probably have to be just a sketchpad for now... and I'm good with that. Thanks! and cheers to you, too!

[@ginkgolanugo5451]

Thanx thats Is my style Ambient dub techno

[@deephouseway790]

great video, amazing vibe. thanks

[@andrewcharles1734]

Nice. Thank you 👍

[@LORDSofCHAOS333]

nice , nice techno made easy

[@lindviper8693]

Cool! Will you do more tutorials/sessions like this? Really nice concept

[@philippdoublep5041]

Thank you sir very much, it is osom!

[@magicishappening586]

legend

[@macronencer]

I think this is my favourite of your tutorials so far. Really inspiring! Would you mind speaking a little about the differences between ambient and psybient in this context? I'm a fan of artists like Ott, and I'm interested in where the approaches differ for that sort of genre. Is it just a case of using a more chilled, less techno beat and adding a lot more exotic sonic textures, or do you think there's some sort of core to it that has a formula of some sort? Many thanks!

[@gbln_38]

How are you lowering the octaves? Im already lost :(

[@gylp2]

dub techno is 🔥

[@wildhorsemusic1111]

All time favorite is Suba Tributo

[@antoineguilbeault8025]

I love dub Techno. I don't really need this tutorial because I already have experience with the genre but idk just felt entertaining and fun to watch anyways 🥰

[@alm5966]

Oh yeah, this is the video I've been waiting for...Dub! Checkout OTT, Globular and Geoglyph for the best in Psydub.

[@arnar_gretars]

If you are into psydub then check out Omnipus, the only psydub band from Iceland 😊

[@Mark-vs5xx]

wow che entusiasmo!

[@swalectrix]

Wow!! Awesome tutorial I can’t wait to get into my ableton which I just bought. Amazing tutorial amazing sound 🙌💚🪩

[@christophherold2886]

Nice theme…. Where can i get ? Greetz cris

[@danielcruzahmed2566]

nice video!! thank you!!

[@s1gns0fl1fe]

You're welcome! Glad you enjoyed it.

[@jakejeffery8097]

broskii this fire release a sample pack i need them drumsss