"The sub should be a different instrument doing a sub and the shit on top should be doin' top shit" -Mr.Bill 2019

31:52 "I just kind of eye-balled it and ear-balled it" this is what makes Mr. Bill's tutorials most entertaining to watch

40:08 "The way that a multiband compressor works is it needs to have split points... The way that a splitter works is by using EQs, and the way that an EQ works is via delays and phase." The sign of a great teacher is one who can break things down to it's essential properties and use these basic ideas to explain the most complex uses. Thank you for this lil nugget Mr. Bill. (Also Woulg is awesome)

Breaking all the rules with some of these techniques. I LOVE IT! Ableton POPE Right HERE! P.S Nice Laptop

The GOAT Ableton instructor. Some absolute gems in here MB.

Audience member: "Hey, Mr. Bill. You're amazing, love your music. How do you approach X thing that most people have a specific answer on and say there's a right and wrong way to do?" Mr. Bill: "Yeah I just fuck around and do everything wrong on purpose and then I find cool shit and then when it sounds bad later I do more super wrong shit until it sounds cool again. Also I don't really have any structure in general. That would be weird, it sounds like a nightmare. I would fucking hate that *chuckles*. But that might be good for some people." Audience member: "Uhhhhh.....ok, thanks?"

1:22:00 Makes me think of something Amon Tobin said in an AMA which I remember as 'the more I work as an artist, the more convinced I am my role is simply to say yes or no'...

"If you just mess with this for an hour you'd have all the sounds" -Noted

One of the best free videos on his KZfaq definitely worth watching all the way through.

you're a legend bill

How have I never heard of this guy until now? He's amazing and a genius

Mr. Bill, you are a genius and a saint - respectively, for fucking around to this extent and then sharing it.

I just rewatched after three years. Watched all the way through.

man i love recognizing the level you guys are at, i just been dabbling for 2 years, went to Pyramind (love you guys) in SF for music production. I enjoy these tutorials

super cool, very entertaining, lot of inspiration, thanks Bill! :) props to BPM College & Fusion Culture for making this happen

20 minutes in and he already has 15 audio effects grouped into one Operator, and still dinking around with it. This is what I came here to see, now it's time to get the popcorn!

Big up to Mr Bill and his insane level of knowledge on music production skills and techniques. Thanks for sharing 🙏

So many gems in here. Mr Bill is the 🐐

This was incredibly insightful and extremely to the point, especially when reacting to questions from the audience. Thanks for sharing!

33:08 Dry erosion 38:00 all pas filter 44:40 external instrument 46:00 RT60 56:28 Gate sidechain 1:35:00

that was incredibly helpful. Great to see someone developing techniques around the fact they sound good, not because people have told you not to do something. Super un-traditional production, which is fucking amazing.

the part where he explained how EQs use phase absolutely blew my mind.

"'How did you come up with that?' 'I'd run out of ideas one day.'"

48:45 basically, fast-fourier transform (FFT) is one of the core algorithms of digital signal processing, and is based on the law that states any signal of any complexity can be reproduced through a sum of individual sine waves.

Thankyou so much! Kickstarted me back into music production and i'm loving it again!

Mr. Bill is the man for sharing such crazy tips and tricks all the time. Everyone else's tutorials are boring in comparison.

thank you! excellent work very inspiring

27:53 It seems like adding some clicking sound on top makes it all coherent, so that crazy note jumps in midi are any notes of a chord progression but just velocity information which by the way sounding very funky / progressive. 39:15 Serum FX has more than just one all pass filter. It has that ott compression too.Turning the compression ratio to max to use it as a limiter. Or you can turn the rate of a phaser to zero to use it kind of a single allpass filter. A phaser is anything else but just a regularly moving allpass filter.

"The rt-60 is like 1 second in here..." and you'll be like "awe shit, how do I fix that?" I just lost it lol

right on! thank you dude!

Great stuff. .. Tear up the book and start again.

38:19 Idea Jams The concept is to take the tools at your disposal, use them in ways they're not supposed to be used or just really creative ways, record the output and figure out how to contextualize it for music later.

This is so insanely dense with info. I’m going to have to relisten like 2-3 times. Great stuff.

I've watched this video so many times

Its so epic to see a poster with "Culprate" in the background

Não há ninguém melhor que você, sou seu fã!!!!

Thank you for sharing your experience and knowledge

im like 35 minutes in and already impressed. (1) the man came prepared but even better (2) he has actually no qualms sharing his process / knowledge (because hes confident in his music meaning: not everyone who has the 'secret knowledge', will get the same sound / quality of tracks).

Super interesting and inspiring! Became a Hardcore Abletoneer before I even finished this video.

I got a lot of inspiration right now. Thanks a lot for your great tips.

I add ott to my soft sounds, really makes everything super emotional

Wow...seriously pro production!

This is very precious

Amazing crowd asking all the right questions 😀

You are the most professional producer in the world.

Really love the concept he starts on with approaching sound design from effects as a starting point. Gets a little harder to pay attention once he starts on the knob tweaking but great stuff conceptually

some incredibly useful tips and tricks throughout this whole video. thanks for the upload.

i relate to your thinking so much.

Congrata. You are one od the best out there

🙏dude thank you for all that you do

Thank you Mr. Bill!

Bill's so right about boosting frequencies and bumping db on effects like crazy cause they literally birth results - they wouldn't be included in daws/tools for no reason its, cool to see someone actually demonstrating it.

omg, 1 h and 40 min??? i love u

Insane and incredible

This is effing awesome 💖

Thank you

This video is so insanely helpful, like holy crap thanks so much mr bill. Seriously, this video is so dense with useful info it makes my brain hurt. Time to go "idea jam" with all the new cool techniques I just learnt!

thanks!!

I ate two avocados while watching this.

Wow, it's nice to feel like I'm doing things right for once. My most used synth is 3xOsc and this is why! Start with something minuscule and just pile on fx.

Idea jamming to this video as I’m watching it is a very relaxing evening experience

So damn good!

Avocato man is back at it again dropping knowledge.

I added 15 OTT's on kick drum and it blowed my mind haha

Love the song @28:00

ay thank u so much

love you bill

58:25 In Ableton 10 you can alt-drag from the playhead in the clip window, and it won't shorten or lengthen in the arrangement. Saves some time not having to do the whole duplicate thing! I'm thoroughly enjoying your content though, awesome stuff

I'll be seeing you at Camp Bisco

Awesome vid, it's amazing how much of this translates over to logic. I appreciate some of the insight into using "idea jams" to grab snapshots of different sounds. The playhead trick is a huge reason I'm interested in ableton as logic can't do that. Have you ever looked into Bitwig?

@58:20 ...I had no idea this was possible. genius, huge time saver.

thank you so much for the serum trick

My Tuesday all of a sudden feels like a Saturday!

This shit convinced me to give you money. Apophenia is killer too, been listening to it nonstop. Gonna try and catch you at Meow Wolf. Thanks for everything man.

Inspiring!

i love you thanks

I like this approach. It's so odd how he's advocating for printing your sounds as quickly as possible, but also playing for hours. So much better than ages spent tinkering.

"Alright 20 minutes of idea-jams, 40 minutes of writing music, then I'm going to go eat some yogurt.." dude lol

bill the world needs to hear "peekaboner"

Many thanks for making this available for everyone. Why quality is only 360?

hehhee, right now i'm appreciating all the little bitwig things that let me slide clips around from my audio noodles jams

54:15 WHAT!? I did not know that and I have been teaching and using Ableton for over 10 years.

Legend

Dope!

the tune at 55:00 is now the podcast intro

Not only really cool info shared but friggin hilarious tid bits lol, awesome stuff man! Thanks!

Ahaaaa, the RT60 artifact section at 49 mins had my cat wiggin out!

Youre a fucking genius mate. Love your stuff

Also FFT or Fourier transforms in general are just a way to take a signal form the time domain to the frequency domain. You don't really have to know the details of the algorithm just that that is what its used for. A simple way to visualise it may be the difference between looking at a wave form or a spectrum analyser. One gives you the full signals amplitude changes over time the other gives you the amplitude of each frequency over time. So imagine a saw wave: They are just constructed by stacking a series of sinewaves along its harmonic series right? In the time domain it looks like what you are probably familiar with a saw wave, it's namesake, a saw. In the frequency domain you will be able to see the various peaks of its harmonic series. In all saw waves this pattern will be true but the difference between different types of saw waves will be the amplitude differences across its harmonic series. Or more simply imagine it then morphing into a sine wave, you would see a sine shape in the time domain but you would see one peak in the frequency domain (excusing for noise) which would be the fundamental. Or a square would be almost the same as a saw except you would skip every odd harmonic. Either way. If you see FFT/ FT/ DFT etc. All you are doing is that transformation (unless its inverted, in which case you are doing the opposite)

I don't know if youll see this but how do you feel about glitchmachines plug ins?

Amazing

❤️

Does he have any videos on how to make these crazy sounds musical like he said?

3:07 lmao I use the term "clipstep" all the time, I'm glad I'm not the only one

Great session he’s always teaching me things! The audience had some really Stupid open ended questions tho lol

I studied at SAE too. One of my lecturers, he hated rules too taught us that you need to learn the rules so you know how to break them. without knowledge of your subject, ie. audio. your just throwing shit into shadows but if all you do is follow the 'rules' or do things the 'right way' your not really creating. Learn the rules so you know how to break them, I feel like Mr Bill is a perfect example of this.

fuck yeah. thanks!

Gold

starts @ 2:36

43:57 - How to properly trigger serum FX!