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So, a few people have mentioned to me here and there over the years that it would be great to be able to change the sound of the metronome in Live to something else of their choice. Until recently I thought that the in-built click sound was the only option that we would ever have, however after reading around a little bit I discovered that this can be changed, and here is how you can do it.

For this tutorial I’m going to be using a Mac, however you can still apply the same idea on Windows operating systems, although it’s up to you to find where the metronome samples are (by the way if you do, could you comment that location on this post so other Windows users can benefit from that).

So personally I like to use the Klopfgeist clicks from Logic, so I’ve uploaded them here. If anyone else has some really nice click sounds, post them in the comments below. I’m definitely interested to have a few click sounds to choose from.

Cheers,
Bill.

So I recently recorded myself eating dinner, then sped the video up by about 900% and wrote some glitch to it.. Why?.. Well, why not?

I was unable to edit the video as I wanted to due to my MacBook Pro not being fast enough to edit video in Live, also, I apologise for the low res video, this was just recorded with my MacBook Pro’s in-built camera.


Anyway, I thought I’d upload it, it may amuse you to some degree.


Cheers,
Bill.

I recently created a little bit of a tune using nothing by one instance of Operator. It required quite a lot of automation and this is what it ended up looking like:

If you’re interested in downloading the live pack and having a closer look (or even getting some ideas to re-create a similar thing). Click here to download Mr. Bill – Osc 1

Cheers,
Bill.

After many emails regarding this, I finally decided to have a go at recreating some of the bass lines from Skrillex’s remix of Benny Benassi’s track ‘Cinema’. Proceeding this I posted a video comparison of our versions and people seemed keen on a tutorial. So here it is! The 5 part mini-series of how I created Skrillex’s bass sound.

Please note that the version I showed in the comparison had been worked on for almost 6 hours, being slightly tweaked over that time to sound as close as possible and the version in the tutorial is simple just the essence of what I did. Tweaking the parameters shown in my tutorials slightly will yield the same result I did.

I have uploaded the project file for hardcore members of mrbillstunes.com. Download the “Skrillex Bass Sound Reproduction Project File” here

Here’s the comparison between the Skrillex version and my version. The project file in this video is the one that is downloadable in the hardcore section, not the one produced in the tutorial!

Click on the thumbnail images to watch the tutorials in a lightbox.

	The Skrillex Bass Sound Reproduction Tutorial – Part 1/5 This is the first tutorial of a five part series covering how I went about re-creating Skrillex’s remix of Benny Benassi – Cinema.
	The Skrillex Bass Sound Reproduction Tutorial – Part 2/5 This is the second tutorial of a five part series covering how I went about re-creating Skrillex’s remix of Benny Benassi – Cinema.
	The Skrillex Bass Sound Reproduction Tutorial – Part 3/5 This is the third tutorial of a five part series covering how I went about re-creating Skrillex’s remix of Benny Benassi – Cinema.
	The Skrillex Bass Sound Reproduction Tutorial – Part 4/5 This is the fourth tutorial of a five part series covering how I went about re-creating Skrillex’s remix of Benny Benassi – Cinema.
	The Skrillex Bass Sound Reproduction Tutorial – Part 5/5 This is the fifth and final tutorial of a five part series covering how I went about re-creating Skrillex’s remix of Benny Benassi – Cinema.

Cheers,
Bill.

Mr. Bill – Minimal Tech Sequencer


This project was created for a challenge posted on Tom Cosm’s website


The challenge states:
“The goal here is to create something in Session view that looks nice (could be a picture or just something tech looking) and use follow actions to automate the clips moving around, triggering things.”


This is what I came up with. I have uploaded the pack for hardcore abletoneers to play around with.


Cheers,
Bill.