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Exploring the Essential Features of “Roger Sanchez – How To Use Ableton & Logic To Make a Track”
Course Contents
- Course Preview
- Working with samples in Ableton Live
- Moving from Ableton Live to Logic Pro
- Refining sounds in LogicÂ
- Rewiring Ableton Live to Logic Pro
Live Q & A
- Q & A
Meet Your Teacher
Roger Sanchez
Roger Sanchez, a Grammy winning producer and four-time DJ Awards winner for ‘Best House DJ’ has proven himself to be one of dance music’s most prolific and successful artists. Whether it is performing under his underground dark house persona ‘S-man’ or the more pop-orientated Roger Sanchez, his performances and productions have always been met with acclaim.
Recognised as one of the industry’s hardest working figures, records such as ‘Another Chance’ have rewarded him with commercial success and elevated his status to a global level. In addition to DJing and producing, Roger runs Stealth Records and UNDR the RADR.
About This Course
In this lesson Roger shows you how he uses Ableton Live during the creative stage of music production: laying down his initial ideas, chopping up samples and layering them to create new grooves. Then, he shows us how to export the project files in Ableton Live as STEMS to Logic Pro for the next stage of production, however, these concepts can be applied to any DAWs.
He also discusses some of his favourite plugins when working with vocals and basslines, how to creatively use samples and offers advice on clearing samples.
You will learn:
- How to creatively chop samples in Ableton Live
- Roger’s advice on how to legally clear samples
- How to render STEMS in Ableton Live
- How to export and load STEMS into Logic Pro
- How to rewire Ableton Live to Logic Pro
- What are Roger’s favourite third party plugins
Lessons:
1. Working with samples in Ableton Live
Roger begins by explaining how he uses loops and sample packs in Ableton Live, chopping them up to create new rhythmic patterns and grooves. He uses Ableton Live for the creative stage of production, preparing the sounds for enhancement in Logic Pro at a later stage.
- Chopping up samples in Ableton Live
- Making a bassline
2. Moving from Ableton Live to Logic Pro:
How to render Ableton Live project files into STEMS ready for exporting to Logic. These STEMS can then be opened up and processed within Logic. We see how Roger uses Logic for the sound design and mixing stages of production. He uses a blend of Logic stock FX and third party plugins such as Wave’s CLA vocal delay.
- Loading the project files into Logic
- Adding FXÂ
3. Refining sounds in Logic :
How to refine sounds and best practices when using plugins. Roger shows us how he uses Logic to program bass and synths using plugins such as the Ultra Analog, and advises how to prevent CPU intensive plugins overloading your laptop/desktop.
- Programming synths – Ultra Analog
- Working with third party plugins
4. Rewiring Ableton Live to Logic Pro:
- How to rewire Ableton Live in slave mode to Logic Pro.
5. Live Q&A
Roger answers questions on how to use Ableton Live and Logic Pro together for music production. Questions include: when to mixdown, what plugins to use on vocals, what hardware does Roger use, how to add groove and advice on using samples and clearing them.
- How much of a mixdown do you do before exporting STEMS?
- Vocal FX: Wave’s  CLA vocal delay , RP-verb , Dubstation, Fusion Field
- How to arrange a track?
- Techniques to add groove
- How much time do you allocate to production?
- What is Roger’s go to plugin for creating basslines? Rob Papen: Sub Boom Bass
SAMPLING
- How much sampling do you use?
- Licensing and using samples
- How to clear samples
- Slicing a sample to MIDI and changing the sound to comply with licensing
- Do you use drum plugins to create beats in MIDI or use samples? Ultra Analog VST
HARDWARE
- Do you ever use DJ hardware for production purposes? RMX-1000 ; DJS-1000
- What other hardware do you use? JUNO 106; SP1200; AKAI LPK-25 ; Apollo Twin
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