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Mastering Ableton Live 12 Instruments
Most sound design courses stop at the moment the patch sounds good. You build a pad in Wavetable. It sounds enormous soloed. You drop it into the project and it swallows the vocal, fights the bass, and makes the whole mix feel smaller than it did before you added it. That gap — between a patch that sounds good and a patch that works — is where most producers get stuck. It isn't a sound design problem and it isn't a mixing problem. It's the space between them, and almost nobody teaches it. This course does. What it covers Every instrument in Ableton Live 12. Not the popular four — all of them. Synthesis Drift and Analog for subtractive. Wavetable for wavetable synthesis and custom tables. Meld for bi-timbral macro oscillator design and MPE. Operator for FM, additive and hybrid approaches. Physical modeling Collision, Tension and Electric — the mallet, string and electric piano models, including what they do well and where sampling still wins. Sampling Simpler for fast work, Sampler for multi-sampled instruments you build yourself, and the workflow for getting from a raw recording to a playable, expressive instrument. Drums Drum Rack, Impulse and Drum Sampler, compared directly by building the same kit three ways. Granular and Max for Live Granulator III, the eight DS drum synths, and the CV instruments for driving modular hardware. Systems Instrument Racks for layering, splitting, and building hybrid instruments that don't exist in Live until you make them. The course is organised by synthesis method, not alphabetically. You learn what an envelope, a filter and a modulation matrix actually do once — then meet them again in eight different instruments. That transfers. Device-by-device courses don't. The part that's different Every instrument module ends with a Mixing Context chapter. Not general mixing theory. Specific, per-instrument answers: why FM patches read as harsh and what to do about it. Why Wavetable's position modulation causes problems in a busy mix that Analog's doesn't. How to decide whether Wavetable's sub or your bass track owns the low end. Where Electric's pickup control replaces an EQ move. How Drift's Unison width eats a stereo field. This comes out of the mixing frameworks taught across the rest of the [PausePlayRepeat] catalogue — the three-zone approach, the 3 dB rule, subtractive-first thinking — applied at the instrument rather than after it. Design the sound so it fits. Then you barely have to fix it. You'll finish able to Choose the right instrument for a sound in seconds instead of auditioning five Build a patch from silence without reaching for a preset Read any synthesizer's interface — in Live or outside it — because you understand the architecture underneath Design a sound that already sits in the mix, rather than fighting it afterwards Build custom hybrid instruments in Instrument Racks and map them for performance Know which of Live's instruments to stop trying to force into jobs they're bad at Who it's for Producers who own Live and use maybe four of its instruments. Anyone who has watched a synth tutorial, followed along, got the sound, and still couldn't build a different one afterwards. Sound designers coming from other DAWs who need Live's specific implementations. Anyone whose patches sound great alone and disappear in a mix. Who it isn't for If you're looking for preset packs, genre templates, or a "make a track in 20 minutes" course, this isn't that. This is architecture. It's slower up front and considerably faster forever after. What you need Ableton Live 12 — see the edition note below. No prior synthesis knowledge. If you know what a filter does, you'll be comfortable; if you don't, Module 1 covers it before anything else starts.
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daw
14 enrolled
Free
Free
Mixing Trap Vocals Beginner
In this Course, you will learn the basics about Gain Staging and Cleaning, Eqing, Compressing and Shaping the dynamics of your audio tracks. Hello, my Name is Nils aka 66 Up. I'm a 21 year old mixing engineer and artist since 2018. We are going to work on every detail of your skill set to improve your Mix to give your songs the special touch that they're missing.
66 Up
genre
20 enrolled
Free
The Complete Guide to Automation
A complete, systems-based course on automation as a mixing, sound-design, arrangement, and performance tool. Master the fourth dimension of your mix: rides, fades, pans, mutes, send throws, filter sweeps, builds, drops, transitions, modulation, and a fast professional workflow, across any DAW.
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skills
$9
The Complete Guide to Gates
A complete, systems-based course on the noise gate and downward expander as both cleanup and creative tools. Master threshold, range, attack, hold, release, hysteresis, and the key input so you can tighten drums, clean vocals, build trance gates, recreate the 80s gated-reverb snare, and design with gates on any plugin.
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The Complete Guide to Delay
A complete, systems-based course on delay as a creative and mixing tool. Master time, feedback, filtering, modulation, stereo, and routing so you can dial in any delay sound on any device, for groove, depth, width, texture, and full sound design.
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skills
$27
The Complete Guide to Ableton Live 12 Audio Effects
Every stock audio effect in Ableton Live 12.Every stock audio effect in Ableton Live 12.4, taught with the depth professionals actually need. 58 chapters across 11 modules cover EQ, dynamics, saturation, delay, reverb, modulation, pitch, lo-fi destruction, utility, and mastering — with parameter ranges, decision frameworks, and hands-on exercises for every device. Updated for Live 12.4 (new Erosion, Auto Pan-Tremolo, Auto Shift, Delay).
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daw
$27
The Complete Guide to EQ
This is a comprehensive EQ course for DAW-based producers, covering every EQ type, every frequency region, and every scenario you'll actually face in a mix. It's focused specifically on producers working in-the-box on electronic, hip-hop, pop, and rock productions, and it assumes you already know your DAW basics, can put a plugin on a channel, and want to stop guessing at frequencies and start making confident, deliberate EQ decisions. This isn't a beginner "what is EQ" course. It's also not a mastering EQ course. That's covered in PPR's dedicated mastering course, and a different philosophy applies at the 2-bus. This isn't a history lesson on hardware EQs, it isn't a preset-dependent tutorial telling you to "boost 3kHz for presence," and it isn't live sound or broadcast EQ. This is strictly production and mixing. The course is built around six core pillars. The first module covers every EQ type and when to reach for which. The second trains your ears to actually hear what EQ is for in the first place. The third and fourth split the two fundamental uses of EQ: corrective, where you remove what's wrong, and creative, where you shape what you want. The fifth module is a per-instrument playbook, giving you starting points and problem maps for vocals, drums, bass, synths, keys, and guitars. The sixth module covers advanced moves (dynamic EQ, mid/side, match EQ) and how EQ fits into the broader mix context. By the end, you'll stop opening EQs hoping something works and start making deliberate decisions that serve the mix.
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skills
17 enrolled
$27
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The Producer Income Stack: 5 Ways to Actually Get Paid
Most producers are broke because they're trying to make money one way: selling beats. This course shows you the five income streams that actually work for producers in 2026, how to set them up on PausePlayRepeat, and how to price them without underselling yourself into the ground. You'll finish with a real storefront, real products, and a real plan to make this your income instead of your expensive hobby.
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business
24 enrolled
Free
Synthesis and Sound Design
This course takes you from understanding the fundamental building blocks of sound to designing professional-quality patches across every major synthesis method. Each module delivers practical, usable sounds, not just theory. By the end, you'll have a personal library of original sounds and the skills to create any tone you can imagine.
PausePlayRepeat
skills
12 enrolled
$27
The Complete Course on Mastering
Learn how to master your own music with confidence. From monitoring setup to final delivery, this course covers everything you need to produce professional-sounding masters without a $200/hour mastering engineer.
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skills
36 enrolled
$27
Recreating Teen Daze's Ambient Sound in Ableton Live 12
Teen Daze—the project of Canadian producer Jamison Isaak—occupies a unique space in electronic music, blending lo-fi textures, shimmering synths, and expansive reverbs into what he describes as "ambient music you can dance to" [Web 1]. His work draws from French house, glitch, indie pop, and classic ambient traditions, creating dreamy soundscapes that balance introspection with subtle rhythmic pulse [Web 2]. This course will teach you to recreate that aesthetic from the ground up, using Ableton Live as your foundation and carefully selected third-party plugins to achieve the warmth, depth, and emotional resonance that defines Teen Daze's sound.
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genre
$27
Vocals That Sit
This course teaches a repeatable, diagnostic system for making vocals integrate seamlessly into any mix—regardless of genre or DAW. Rather than offering generic tips, we'll build a framework for identifying why a vocal isn't sitting (level, masking, or depth/space problems) and applying targeted solutions. You'll learn to create space for vocals in the instrumental itself, use dynamic frequency control that responds to the performance, build a vocal bus architecture with parallel processing, and automate with emotional intent so the vocal locks into the track across every section.
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skills
$27
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