How To Make Techno 2019 with Harvey McKay

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Tutorial 01 - Playthrough and Intro.mp4

06:28

Tutorial 02 - Kick.mp4

05:36

Tutorial 03 - Foundation.mp4

04:10

Tutorial 04 - Adding Tension and Snare.mp4

03:46

Tutorial 05 - Main Synth.mp4

08:03

Tutorial 06 - Vocals.mp4

02:15

Tutorial 07 - Basic Clip Arrangement.mp4

17:31

Tutorial 08 - Fine Tune Clip Arrangement.mp4

07:25

Tutorial 09 - Clip Recording.mp4

07:01

Tutorial 10 - Arrangement Smoothing.mp4

18:10

Tutorial 11 - Further Tweaks.mp4

12:09

Tutorial 12 - Final Changes.mp4

04:44

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Sonic Academy is proud to welcome a brand new tutor this week, Glasgow based driving, soulful Techno producer Harvey McKay.

In How To Make Techno 2019 Harvey shows us his creative process in making a dark, brooding, and downright sinister techno track from start to finish in Ableton.

Starting with a sub layered overdriven and saturated kick we build tension with a rumbling bassline, pitched and crunched down hi-hats and a snare before adding the sinister main synth line created in u-he's Repro. Once the elements are in place we build up the scenes in Ableton's session view before recording as if playing live to lay down the basic arrangement. It's then a case of tweaking automation and editing the playthrough to get to the final mixdown so it can be sent off for mastering.

This is a course that proves you don't need a whole ton of plugins and gimmicks to create a banging floor filler, just careful selection of the right sounds with minimal processing can get you there!

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Described by Mixmag as ‘probably the techno pages most regular contributor’, Harvey McKay has created a distinctive style with a name that is synonymous with driving, soulful techno. As a DJ, Harvey McKay has an exceptional skill to read the crowd and has played at some of the biggest clubs around the world: Space Ibiza, Awakenings, Ultra Music Festival, Fabric, Space Miami and many more. He also played at the very first Drumcode Festival in Amsterdam, followed by playing the Steelyard Stage at the UK’s Creamfields. With 3 Beatport Techno No.1’s to date, 9 top 10 releases Harvey was also Beatport techno’s 4th best selling artist of 2014. He has released on all the techno stalwarts: Drumcode, Cocoon, Bedrock, Intec, Soma and most recently We Are The Brave.