Mr. Bill – Ableton Tutorial 1: Delay Time Tricks
In this tutorial I show you how to calculate delay times and implement it into your music using simple maths and some simple tools in Ableton Live 8.

Mr. Bill – Ableton Tutorial 2: Making Complex Drum Beats With Arpeggiators
In this tutorial I have used Ableton’s Simpler, Arpeggiator and Utility to create some complex beats out of simple ones. The idea here is one does not have to program everything by hand if one is more into the idea of chance music or one is just lazy and wants to control things in a different manner!

Mr. Bill – Ableton Tutorial 3: Separating Bass Frequencies
Here is a way to make your bass sound wider and more interesting by using an Instrument Rack, EQ’s, Stereo Delays, Chorus’, Phasers’ and Lives native synthesiser, Analog.

Download the live pack here – Mr. Bill – Separating Bass Frequencies.alp

Mr. Bill – Ableton Tutorial 4: Bouncing Your Master Channel
In this tutorial I show you how you can bounce your master channel using the channel routing function in Live to create small sections of your track that sound whacky and/or glitchy.

Mr. Bill – Ableton Tutorial 5: Glitch Manifesting Device
In this tutorial I have set Ableton up to behave in a way that enables it to manifest glitch effects in different ways over 8 clips. Meaning it can randomly come up with X different combinations of effects sequences. I also touch on the the side-chain function of the compressor and of course some basic functions of Live.

Mr. Bill – Ableton Tutorial 6: Cutting vs Boosting
So In this tutorial I run through the two methods of equalisation I use to accentuate frequencies. One is less destructive than the other, however there is a use for boosting. It has a particular sound and sometimes that can be desirable.

Mr. Bill – Ableton Tutorial 7: Gating vs Manual Slicing vs Sampling
In this tutorial I basically go through the three main techniques I use to create glitch beats using Live’s Gate and Sampler as well as just slicing audio straight on the arrangement grid.

Mr. Bill – Ableton Tutorial 8: Making Psy-Trance
In this video I show you some basic ways to get Psy-Trance happening using samples and Live 8′s native devices.

Download the live pack here – Mr. Bill – Psy-Trance Tutorial

Mr. Bill – Ableton Tutorial 9: Natural Comb Filtering
In this tutorial I show you how playing the same sample twice at two separate but close times can create a nice phasing sound by creating comb filtering.

Download the live pack here – Mr. Bill – Natural Comb Filtering.alp

Mr. Bill – Ableton Tutorial 10: The Doppler Effect
In this tutorial I talk about a natural phenomenon called The Doppler Effect and how you can create a simulation of it using the tools of Ableton Live.

Mr. Bill – Ableton Tutorial 11: Vinyl Effects Using Sampler
In this tutorial I show you how you can use Live 8′s Sampler to create vinyl effects as well as go through a few other options that Sampler has to offer.

Mr. Bill – Ableton Tutorial 12: Dummy Clip Tempo Operations
This is my response to Tom Cosm’s video about automating absolute values in quick and simple ways. This is yet another way to go about it however, I prefer it because, you can quickly mash clips together which yields many unpredictable and interesting results.

Mr. Bill – Ableton Tutorial 13: Warping Multitrack Drums
In this tutorial I show you how you can get a multi-tracked drum recording in time with a click track without having your spill in the overhead mic’s fall out of time. I also cover how one can apply the same warp markers to other samples using the hotswap feature in Live.

Mr. Bill – Ableton Tutorial 14: 2 Quick Live Tips
In this tutorial I show you how you can quickly get tracks warped to a BPM for your live set without having to use lots of warp markers and also how to automate absolute tempos in the master channel if your doing a tempo change in a track or set.

Mr. Bill – Ableton Tutorial 15: Calculating Hz for LFO Rates
In this tutorial I cover how one can use another simple formula to work out musical values in Hz allowing one to seamlessly mix through note values without having to submit entirely to any of them.

Mr. Bill – Ableton Tutorial 16: Editing
This isn’t so much a tutorial as much as it is a demonstration to show you how I cut up breaks in fun ways. Essentially all I’m doing here is pressing Cmd+E for slice. Cmd+J to group chunks of sliced audio as well as using other simple functions such as transpose, reverse and fades. One thing to note however is that a lot of my transpositions are done with warping turned off so they retain a cleaner timbre. I turn warping on when I desire dirtier and more granular sounds.

Mr. Bill – Ableton Tutorial 17: Creating Your Own Flanger
In this tutorial I cover how one can make their own flanger exclusively using Ableton Live’s native devices. You will need EQ8 an Audio Effect Rack and some Macro control goodness.

Download the live pack here – Mr. Bill – Flanger.adg

Mr. Bill – Ableton Tutorial 18: How To Play Live (Part 1)
In this tutorial I show you how I go about playing a live set. This is the first part of a two part series on how I run my live setup.

Mr. Bill – Ableton Tutorial 19: How To Play Live (Part 2)
This tutorial is a follow up on playing live from How To Play Live (Part 1).

Download the live pack here – Mr. Bill – Live Set Template.alp

Mr. Bill – Ableton Tutorial 20: Create a melody from 1 MIDI note
In this tutorial I show you how you can build a melody from one MIDI note using Ableton Live’s native MIDI devices.

Download the live pack here – Mr. Bill – 1 MIDI Note Melody.alp

Mr. Bill – Ableton Tutorial 21: Creating a Dry/Wet Control
In this tutorial I show you how you can create a Dry/Wet control for absolutely any device in live (that doesn’t already have a dry/wet control), making use of audio effect racks and macro mappings.

Download the live pack here – Mr. Bill – Dry/Wet Control.adg

Mr. Bill – Ableton Tutorial 22: Freezing and Flattening
In this tutorial I show you a really quick option to bouncing MIDI files in to audio

Mr. Bill – Ableton Tutorial 23: Converting Simplers in to Samplers
In this tutorial I show you how simple it is to trade a Simpler for a Sampler with a quick little trick that people overlook.

Mr. Bill – Ableton Tutorial 24: Missing Sample Files
In this tutorial I show you how to fix broken links to samples from within Live’s sample browser. I also go in to essentially turning Live in to a Sampler using this function.

Mr. Bill – Ableton Tutorial 25: Compression
In this tutorial I cover some some basic uses of compression and explain what a compressor is and what it does.

Mr. Bill – Ableton Tutorial 26: How to subtractively add more frequencies to your mix
In this tutorial I explain how one can use return channels and subtractive equalisation to add more frequencies to a mix. This trick is best used in an entire mix-down as it is less destructive on your sound and uses far less CPU then placing equalisers on every channel.

Mr. Bill – Ableton Tutorial 27: Splitting Up Frequencies With Phase
In this tutorial I show you a different way to split up frequencies in audio effect racks using the nested rack method and putting frequencies out of phase with themselves.

Download the live pack here – Mr. Bill – Phase EQ Splitter.adg

Mr. Bill – Ableton Tutorial 28: Vocal Stutter Effect
In this tutorial I show you how to create a vocal stutter effect using Live’s Auto-pan device.

Mr. Bill – Ableton Tutorial 29: Mp3 Converter Comparison
In this tutorial I do a simple comparison between the LAME and iTunes mp3 converters.

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.

Mr. Bill – Ableton Tutorial 35: 2 Stereo Widening Techniques
In this tutorial I show you the difference between using a true Mid/Side chain versus using inter-aural time difference with a filter delay to widen your signals.

Download the live pack here – Mr. Bill – Mid/Side Splitter.adg

Mr. Bill – Ableton Tutorial 36: Parallel Compression
In this tutorial I show you how you can use a compressed split of your signal using return channels, EQ’s and compressors to phatten up your mix a little bit.

Mr. Bill – Ableton Tutorial 37: Reverse Effects
In this tutorial I show you how you can reverse effected signals to add a new type of depth to your synth sounds. I also touch on applying effects to reversed signals and then re-reversing the source sound to make the source play naturally and the effect play backwards.

Mr. Bill – Ableton Tutorial 38: Fractal Effects
In this tutorial I show you how you can keep effecting effected sounds from an initial impulse to create a soundscape.

Download the live pack here – Mr. Bill – Fractal Effects (.zip)

Mr. Bill – Ableton Tutorial 39: How To Reverse MIDI In Live
In this tutorial I show you a quick way to reverse MIDI sequences in Ableton Live using the ‘Stretch Notes’ function.