Book a one-on-one online session with Will: https://bit.ly/2goMRjw Pyramind instructor Will Marshall goes over sample morphing in Ableton Live. Sample morphing is a technique used to make an individual sample evolve over time. Will uses a simple clap sample to demonstrate this production technique. First, he selects a clap sample…
EDM producer and Bay Area native Ken Loi walks us through his mastering chain in Ableton Live. He uses Ableton stock devices, making it easy for you to follow along at home.
Book a one-on-one online session with Will: https://bit.ly/2goMRjw Back with another sound design tutorial, Pyramind instructor Will Marshall shows us how to create custom delay chains in Ableton Live. Some delay plugins include built-in effects, such as Ableton’s Filter Delay. While these can be useful, creating your own custom delay…
Learn how to start selling and licensing your music in new and emerging marketplaces as well as more traditional digital service providers. CEO and founder of Beatstars Abe Batshon led a three hour workshop at our facilities covering digital marketing techniques, social media principles, email marketing, and more.
Matt Donner is back with another one of his signature theory and arrangement breakdowns. This time, he analyses Martin Garrix & Bebe Rexha’s summer hit, “In The Name Of Love”. In addition to pointing out the song’s key and chord progression, Matt touches on a topic a lot of you…
In this short clip from our Elite Session with Mr. Bill, Bill goes over a unique production technique he applied in one of his currently unreleased tracks. He wrote two MIDI parts - a chord line and a lead line. He then placed the MIDI on multiple tracks with various…
The Artist Music Producer online group program is starting again soon but space is extremely limited! Sign up for the early bird waitlist and get our 4-Part Mixing & Mastering Guide completely free: artistmusicproducer.com In this in-depth music theory tutorial, Pyramind instructor Ryan Rey goes over multiple ways you can…
VR Headsets do a pretty good job of tricking our eyes, but they mostly ignore our ears. We've partnered with FIMVR, a leading Virtual Reality meetup group here in SF, to workshop how to tell incredible stories and create immersive visuals through sound. http://dysonics.com/ http://subpac.com/ http://www.skysound.com/
The Pyramind Mentorship Network connects you to experienced professionals for truly customized private training in music production, sound design, music business, and more. To get started, visit: https://bit.ly/2goMRjw (Music by WolfsOnbience: https://soundcloud.com/wolfsonbience ) Use our scheduling tool to select the type of training you want, pick your mentor, find a…
In this short clip from our Elite Session with Mr. Bill, Bill goes over how he builds his instrument racks for his live performances. He starts with a Drum Rack, and loads the samples he needs. He inserts a pitch plugin before the Drum Rack, so he can automate the…
Book a session with Brandon: https://bit.ly/2goMRjw In this tutorial, Pyramind sound designer Brandon Roos walks us through three ways to build reverse snare drum sounds in Ableton Live. He uses Ableton stock devices to process and create the sounds. First, he takes the snare he used in his song and…
Back for another breakdown, Matt Donner dissects the music theory behind “Closer” by The Chainsmokers. He builds the chord progression as well as his own rendition of the song in Logic Pro X. Matt uses his favorite concept - “complexity equals simplicity” - to teach students that complex music theory…
In this short clip from our Elite Session with Mr. Bill, Bill goes over one of his common sound design workflows in Ableton Live. A member of the audience asked how he makes his glitch sound effects, so Bill created some on the spot. He used the sounds to create…
Book a session with Brennan: https://bit.ly/2goMRjw In part 3 of our multi-part game audio programming series, Brennan shows us how to create coroutines for more advanced sound programming within a game.
Book a session with Caiti: https://bit.ly/2goMRjw In this sound design tutorial, our Reason instructor Caiti VerBrugge goes over how to achieve big-sounding future bass chords in a drop. First, she shows you how to make the sound in Reason’s iconic Thor Polysonic Synthesizer. The basis of the sound is fairly…
In this Ableton tutorial, Pyramind instructor Liam Shy shows us a live song arranging technique utilizing his APC40 MKII, as well as nativeKONTROL’s ClyphX MIDI script. ClyphX makes it possible to use macros on one track to control multiple macros on other tracks. This is especially useful for overcoming physical…
Book a session with Brennan: https://bit.ly/2goMRjw In part 2 of our multi-part game audio programming series, Brennan shows us how to add pitch and volume changes to a sound within a game.
Book a session with Brandon: https://bit.ly/2goMRjw October 2016 is Ableton Month at Pyramind! Head to pyramind.com/ableton-month for free downloads all month long. In this tutorial, Pyramind sound designer Brandon Roos walks us through one of his go-to sound design workflow techniques in Ableton Live. He shows us how to make…
It's Ableton Month at Pyramind! All month long, we will be giving out free downloadable content - including Ableton session templates, sampler instruments, and more. All content was made by current students, graduates, and staff. Music by WolfsOnbience: https://soundcloud.com/wolfsonbience
Book a session with Brennan: http://hubs.ly/H06BcGS0 In this first part of our multi part series to basic programming for audio, we are diving into simply playing a sound in the game. There are a lot of terms and ideas thrown out that aren’t explained fully in the video, so head…
Back for another Breakdown, Pyramind’s Matt Donner uses Ableton Live to walk through the music theory behind Runaway (U & I) by Galantis. He builds the chord progression and uses FloatKeys, a Max for Live plugin, to display the notes he plays. Matt uses his favorite concept - “complexity equals…
Book a session with Chris: https://bit.ly/2goMRjw In this sound design tutorial, Pyramind instructor Chris Gear shows us three ways we can emulate analog synthesizers in Native Instrument’s Massive. First, Chris points out that Massive actually comes with two virtual analog oscillators: Pulse - Saw PWM and Pulse - Saw Sync.…
Mastering engineer Mac Vaughn walks us through his personal mastering chain in Ableton Live. This chain of effects is applied to all of the music he masters, and is a mixture of his favorite Ableton stock Devices - as well as third-party plugins. He covers his EQ and compression techniques,…
Watch the live performance of RZN8R - Sterling & Castille feat. Cozmost - shot here at Pyramind in Studio A. RZN8R is an Oakland-raised producer/singer who draws from a wide array of influences - fusing his passions for singing, new thought spirituality, and beats - to craft deep, lush, hypnotic…