Ableton vs FL Studio: How to Pick the Right DAW for You in 2024 🙏

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Ableton vs FL Studio: wondering which one is right for you? If you’re new to electronic music production, these are two of the most popular DAWs – the beating heart of the producer’s studio. These two are great options (we use both in EDM Foundations), and as someone who has used them extensively over the […]

100 Ableton Tips: Write Music Faster and Better (2024)

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Ableton tips can truly boost your workflow and creativity. But how do you know where to find all the little shortcuts and hacks? Us producers often don’t know what we don’t know. In these cases, sometimes you just need a big bunch of Ableton tips, and that’s why we wrote 100 of them, from beginner, […]

Composition Chops: How to Make a Piano-Driven Chord Melody

Im excited to announce a new series here on EDMProd called Composition Chops.  By “chops”, I mean technical skill. It’s typically used in the context of jazz or rock, but let’s not worry about that. In this series, we’ll be looking at various genres of electronic dance music and the unique musical elements they feature. For example, […]

50 Rut-Busting Workflow Tips (For Improved Productivity)

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Us music producers tend to argue about a lot of things. Whether it be the topic of sound design versus presets, which DAW is the best, or that everyone should produce drum and bass because it’s the most difficult genre. We’ve heard it all. But there’s one thing most music producers will agree on, and that’s the […]

Using Saturation as a Compressor in Ableton Live

Compression seems to be a bit of a frightening beast to many people when they first learn about it, and when they first start producing music; it certainly was for me! There are a million guides out there to tell you all about it, but at the end of the day it does one thing […]