(Intermediate) Write 2 Melodic House & Techno Tracks with Bound to Divide
Join Bound to Divide for this follow-along style course where you will be writing 2 tracks completely from scratch!
About The Tutor
Bound to Divide is an established producer, sound designer, and educator with records signed to multiple reputable labels like Enhanced, Colorize, Monstercat Silk, Sekora, UV, Enormous Tunes, Manual, and more. You can also hear his music in the popular video game, Rocket League, and catch him on YouTube for more livestreams and music production content.
A Peek At What We'll Be Making
Here's a little preview of the songs we will be writing together. All samples will be provided in the course downloads so you can follow along!
The Course In A Nutshell
The basis of this course is that we aren't just simply doing a project breakdown of an already-made track. We build the track together, completely from scratch so that you can learn in the most effective and practical way way.
- We provide you with all the samples and presets used throughout the course
- Together we build the initial 16 bar loop idea
- We then take the loop through to full arrangement
- We then add detail and final touches ready to mix and master
- And finally, we mix and master the track together, ready to send out to labels
Course curriculum
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2Track 1 - Melodic House
- 01 - Coming up with the Arp, Drone & Bass Free Preview
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02 - Building the drum loop
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03 - Arranging 1st and 2nd drop, breakdown, adding chord plucks
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04 - Arranging intro and outro, adding FX, climax drums, build up
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05 - Final automations and EQ
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06 - Drum bus processing, mastering & referencing
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3Track 2 - Melodic Techno (With u-he Diva)
- 01 - Kick & Bass Free Preview
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02 - Cool way to make a drone and melody
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03 - Adjusting melody and making machine gun synth
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04 - Making the main lead and sustained lead
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05 - Building out the hihats and percussion
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06 - Arragement and layering machine gun synth
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07 - Automation & FX
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08 - Mixing & Mastering and final touches
Software Requirements
While a lot of concepts can be translated even into other DAWs and synths we'll be using Ableton Live 12 Suite throughout this course.
- In song 1 we use Ableton native synthesizers and effects.
- In song 2 we use u-he Diva as our main synth