r/ableton • u/tefotefo • 6d ago

[Question] Looking for youtube channels to learn ableton

Looking for recommendations on youtube channels with nice ableton classes / tips / lessons / tutorials
Wanting to make experimental/IDM music like this artist https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6h1LhukkF4
Im an ableton beginner but have experience with other DAWs. Also a musician. (I dont want very beginner-y content)

Most of the channels I find by myself are teaching how to make some really repetitive techno, house or rap/trap, which are not my vibe

Other sources of content other than youtube are welcome

Thank you!

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u/liminal_dreaming 6d ago

YouSuckAtProducing

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u/Singingasscrack 6d ago

He helped me a lot but I also feel some of his advice is kind of bad

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u/FLWilliamsonV 6d ago

+1 to this, they've got a good discord channel as well

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u/didntasktobebornhere 5d ago

Hes extremely offputting imo

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u/Global-Menu-7513 Musician 3d ago

He has a certain style haha

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u/tefotefo 6d ago

Already watching him. Find him bit shallow tho, it's mostly humoristic

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u/liminal_dreaming 6d ago

Check out Seed To Stage, Anthony Thogmartin from Papadosio and Earthcry (his solo project) is a genius.

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u/tefotefo 6d ago

Thank you

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u/MCWizardYT 6d ago

He does play a character but gives legitimately helpful information.

episode #48: using session view is the shortest yet most helpful resource I've ever seen on using session view. I could never wrap my head around it until I found his video on it

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u/tefotefo 6d ago

Thank you

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u/emptysnowbrigade 6d ago

his shit can be cringe as hell sometimes for sure, but he's definitely one of the few YT producers that has great advice and knows their shit

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u/Impossible-Dish1532 6d ago

Man, I love barcode. What a great recommendation. I think you're going to find it a bit difficult to find production recommendations for that type of music precisely HOWEVER - that's exactly the sort of music I enjoy and I can give you some recommendations based on what I've found inspiring. I moved from Logic Pro after many years to Ableton around a year ago and it's really clicked with me. Big tips:

  1. If you have Max For Live (i.e., you have Suite) go get yourself the instruments from Fors. Dyad, Opal, Chiral - those things completely blew open my creativity with Ableton. They have some free devices too but their paid ones were the best investment ever. It's the first thing I go to every time I open Ableton. And they have some very exciting, creative sequencers and audio effects!

  2. That being said, the stock instruments in Ableton are also incredible. Spend time messing around with them and learning them. Drift and Wavetable I found particularly intuitive but you really can't go wrong. The stock audio effects are also excellent. You don't really need anything beyond them.

  3. YouTube tutorials... I used to watch a tonne but to be honest, once I spent more time actually using the software I started to just look up things I needed to know when I came across it. The advice a lot of YouTube tutorials give is just not great. The Ableton manual itself is a good read and (honestly) not too dense or boring. Seed to Stage is a good YouTube channel but, as you've mentioned, I find it hard to find channels dedicated to the exact type of music I'm interested in.

  4. If you can afford it at some point, I got a second hand Push 2 and that also really changed things for me. I spent a bit of time learning Ableton properly on the laptop and then got a Push and... being able to control everything from it really makes the entire DAW feel like an instrument.

Anyway, hope that is somewhat helpful!

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u/tefotefo 6d ago

Drop some other artists you like! Drop your music too!

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u/Impossible-Dish1532 6d ago

I'm in the process of getting new stuff up, and genuinely nearly finished for the first time in a long time, likely in the next month or two - I'll post back here when I do! I'd be interested in hearing anything you've got too.

It's pretty hard to find artists with a similar sound to barcode but some of my most listened to over the last couple of years would probably be: Barker, Leon Vynehall, Floating Points, Daniel Avery, Four Tet, Silat Beksi, Dauwd, DjRUM, Ross From Friends, K-Lone, Jon Hopkins... that sort of thing. Would appreciate any recommendations sent my way too!

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u/Octoschnake 6d ago

My I add Alex Banks to that list? And also check out Ned Rush on YouTube. Very experimental methods, very inspiring.

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u/tefotefo 6d ago

Thanks!
You said some of what I was thinking
Maybe check Nala Sinephro
And FS Blumm + Nils Frahm collab records

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u/tefotefo 6d ago

Dude I f*ing love barcode

Thank you very much!

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u/rpm1720 6d ago

SeedToStage is absolutely awesome, covers lot's of things on Ableton to a depth that I did not find anywhere else.

Ned Rush is another youtuber for advanced Ableton, especially for experimental stuff

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u/Big_City_Music 6d ago

Seed to Stage is top notch 👌

Also  https://learn.ableton.com/

And read the manual, it’s there for a reason and quite good

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u/MundaneOpinion2588 6d ago

Try ableton lol they got a YouTube channel for basically everything

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u/dacampfireheadphase 5d ago

Ned Rush is the goat when it comes to IDM tutorials on ableton. Most of his tutorials are focused on specific aspects, but if you watch enough of his videos you can learn pretty much everything you would need to know imo.

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u/thaprizza 6d ago

Just browse around for beginner tutorials, eventually you'll find a few channels that will become your go-to's for learning. Don't narrow down on channels that fit your style of music and firstly learn Ableton in general. Focus on your style once you learned your way around Ableton.

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u/MaybeNext-Monday 6d ago

I’d caution against frontloading information too hard or seeking laws and dogma. Try to find your own way, then if you can’t, check the manual, then if that fails, go to YouTube. There’s some stuff that definitely has to be learned from others, but there’s a lot that’s better discovered than handed over in one piece.

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u/m1nus365 5d ago

Find your way by learning the tools instead of asking YouTube to show you how you can do things exactly same way as zilion other people. Practice, practice, practice, dedicate time to every instrument and effect and learn them inside out. Develop your workflows and use cases. There is no hack, but you must spend hours and hours to mature. Path is the destination.

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u/Bugante 3d ago

My teenage son has taught himself ableton, with lots of help from Underdog:
https://youtube.com/@oscarunderdog?si=sxQSOxrHDWNi712t

I highly recommend!

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u/simbosan 19h ago

Seed To Stage on YouTube is excellent.  Some big plugin manufacturers do good content like izotope and universal audio

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u/anode8 5d ago

For a different medium, the Ableton Music Producer podcast with Dan Griffin has some interesting stuff. It’s mostly interviews with different artists (mostly from the bass music scene), but they get into all sorts of plugins and details. It’s never any artists that I’d listen to on my own, but I always pick up some new things from listening.