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DJ Edits & Mashups in Ableton Overview

This session is focused on mastering DJ edits and mashups techniques in Ableton Live. Whether you're a beginner or an experienced DJ looking to refine your skills and play out more unique music, this workshop will equip you with the tools and knowledge to create seamless, professional-sounding DJ Edits & Mashups.

• How to DJ Edit & Mashup in Ableton: Get hands-on experience with the fundamental processes of creating DJ edits and mashups. Learn how to effectively utilize Ableton Live’s tools and features to customize the tracks in your playlists to your dancefloor/radio/podcast/remixing needs.
• Creating and Warping Acapellas: Discover the techniques for extracting, creating, and warping acapellas. Learn how to align vocals perfectly with your instrumental tracks, ensuring a smooth and cohesive mix.
• Style Mashing: Explore the art of combining different genres and styles to create innovative mashups.
• Key & BPM Detection: We'll check out the tools for detecting the key and BPM of your tracks.
• Harmonic Mixing & The Circle of Fifths (Camelot Wheel): What is harmonic mixing and how we can create harmonic edits and mashups.
• Re-Drumming: Enhance your tracks by adding new drum patterns. Learn the techniques for re-drumming to give your edits and mashups a fresh and dynamic feel.
• BPM Transitions: Master the art of BPM transitions to shift tempos smoothly between tracks. Learn how to create energy-building transition track to transition between different BPM ranges.
• Disco Edits: We'll see how to stem out old tunes to Re-Mix and Re-Master them as well as create a complete new arrangement for the dancefloor.

This workshop is suitable both for beginner and advacned DJ/Producers.

 

Disco Deep Cut Ableton Project 

Included in this session, a deep cut disco edit from class. We explore how to use stem out versions of old disco hits to enhance, re-mix, re-master, re-drum and finally re-edit to make our own arrangement.

 

Break Bus Driver Rack

An exclusive Audio Effect Rack you can use on all your breakbeats tracks and/or Drum groups.

This rack combines saturations, compression, short reverbs, rhythmic delays and transient shaping.

This rack will make your drums sounds fatter and fuller.

Macros:

Drive – Waveshaping distortion from the Drum Buss

Crunch – Mid/High Distortion

GAINNN – Controls the makeup gain of the Glue Compressor before the last stage of Soft and Hard Clipping

Saturate – Analog Drive before final clipping

Room Space – Drums Plate reverb

Groove Echo – Syncopated 1/4 notes for added groove

Tilt Filter – Tilt EQ to adjust the balance of the highs and lows

Comp – Last compressor stage

 

What's Included with this session

• 2+ hours of Ableton Certified Training Video
• Disco Deep Cut Ableton Project
• Break Bus Driver Audio Effect Rack

 

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ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR

Yeuda Ben-Atar, a world renowned Ableton Certified Trainer, hails from Los Angeles, California. Originally from Israel, Yeuda’s passion for music led him to the United States, where he discovered his true calling with Ableton Live in 2007, embarking on a journey of mastery.

He approaches Ableton in a unique way; producing and performing with video game controllers under the moniker Side Brain.

One of Yeuda’s most remarkable qualities is his exceptional knowledge and speed, combined with his unparalleled ability to explain complex concepts in a simple and engaging manner.

With years of experience as a music production instructor and educator, Yeuda has contributed his expertise to prestigious institutions throughout the United States, including USC, UCLA, UCSD, Colburn Music School, Berkley School of Music, Cal Arts, NAMM, Skywalker Sounds, Bedrock LA, Sonos Studios, Sweetwater Headquarters, 1500 or Nothing studios, Grammy U, Pensado’s Place, Vintage King, Museum of Making Music, Lynda.com (now known as Linkedin Learning), and Perfect Circuit Audio, among many others.

His projects have included working with and teaching artists such as Timbaland, Ludacris, Lavel Kali(Beyonce, Drake) DJ Numark and Jurassic 5, Beck, Skrillex, Flying Lotus, Ed Sheeran, Rick Rubin, Giorgio Moroder, Simi, Bootie Brown (Pharcyde), Dave Pensado, Madison Mcferrin and countless others.