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Musician and producer Liina ‘LNA’ Turtonen guides you through the first steps to making your own track with Ableton Live, the industry-standard software used by thousands of producers worldwide.

Producer and singer Rivita demonstrates music creation in Logic Pro, from starting a track and using MIDI, to adding effects, EQ, compression and mixing.

Musician and producer Liina ‘LNA’ Turtonen shows you how to make your own virtual drum kit using Ableton’s preset samples – all in 10 minutes.

Got five minutes? Time to make a beat! Musician and producer Liina ‘LNA’ Turtonen reveals how easy it can be to create your own drum patterns using the preset samples in Ableton Live.

Step up from linear drum patterns as musician and producer Liina ‘LNA’ Turtonen explains how to layer sounds and create your own polyphonic beat in Ableton Live.

Musician and producer Liina ‘LNA’ Turtonen shows how quick and easy it can be to save your beats as MIDI files, ready to use again with a fresh set of sounds.

Get straight to the beat with this collection of 30 free MIDI drum patterns for you to use in your own tracks.

Musician and producer Liina ‘LNA’ Turtonen shows you how to take the next step in building your track by adding chords using Ableton Live’s handy collection of virtual instruments.

Once you have a rhythm, now add a funky bassline to your track! Learn how to do it in less than 10 minutes in this Ableton Live tutorial from musician and producer Liina ‘LNA’ Turtonen.

A beginner’s guide to mixing your track or song. You'll learn what mixing is, what limitations there are and a simple four step practical process when mixing.

Improve your mixing in less time than the length of a song as music producer and tutor Phoebe Pope gives us her top three tips.

Musician and producer Liina ‘LNA’ Turtonen demonstrates how to use Ableton Live’s Simpler function to slice up and have fun with vocal samples, creating unique new chops for your track.

So you’ve created your first Ableton Live track – now it’s time to save and share it with the world! Musician and producer Liina ‘LNA’ Turtonen shows you how.

Music producer Sophie Russell aka Cherry Seraph introduces the popular music software Ableton and explains how to start building a track.

In this quick-fire video, Sophie Russell shows you how to make your own vocal into a pad instrument using Ableton.

Ever wondered how a radio show is put together? Freelance producer Tej Adeleye talks us through creating an episode of Freeness for BBC Radio 3, from deciding a theme to polishing the final edit.

Radio producer Tej Adeleye gives a quick recap of how she built upon her writing skills and a love of music to get her first break in radio.

Learn how to use Ableton Live to create a beat from start to finish, including setting up a session, recording instruments, clips and loops and adding effects.

Producer Gnarly takes us through her live looping set-up and gives us a live looping performance.

Musician and artist Kelly Jayne Jones introduces field recording, the recording of any sounds in any natural or urban environment: the what, how and why.

Learn just what goes into a hit track by making your own version! Producer Xylo Aria breaks down and rebuilds Miley Cyrus’s ‘Flowers’ step by step.

Learn how to create movement, expression and bring life to your productions by using automation and effects. Musician and producer Sophie Russell shows you how.

Get on the bus to FX city as music producer and engineer Carmel Comiskey explains how to route your tracks and shape them to your taste in Logic Pro.

Discover music producers' magic tricks, as musician Lillian Frances shows what Ableton Live can do. Unleash your creativity as you reverse a clip, change its length and pitch and go crazy with warp mode.

Musician and producer Lillian Frances shares a neat creative shortcut: using Ableton Live's Slice to New MIDI function to instantly create a new rack of drum sounds from your sample.

Vocal producer and sound engineer Ramera Abraham shares the secrets of getting a great pop vocal on your song.

Musician and producer Shasheproduces shows you how to make raw vocal recordings sound professional in Logic Pro by tweaking things such as EQ, compression and reverb – a sequence of adjustments that builds your vocal chain.

Musician and producer Lillian Frances shows how to create transitions: helping listeners through a song by changing the energy, building up and breaking down.

Musician and producer Lillian Frances shows how to take one sound and turn it into a million different sample ideas.