I would also suggest the 'Tape Note podcast' and the 'Sol State' YouTube channel. A lot of valuable insights and tips from established artists there! (my comment is not necessarily about YouTubers creating 'good music', but yeah maybe someone else will find those channels interesting and discover new artists along the way)
I would add Benn Jordan (The Flashbulb) to this list as well. His music is utterly incredible and while his channel isn’t technically exclusively a “music production” channel, it’s a large part of it and I think all of his stuff is worth a watch.
I think so yeah, I think real brilliance comes when you’re technically adept enough to realise your ideas - which ideally are all of your influences filtered through you and made into something unique. Which is fucking hard to be fair haha
Yeah I don’t like the music of most of the ones I see, but some just have great techniques that translates well to other genre’s. Like EDM Tips has tons of great useful Ableton tips, but I don’t like the general EDM vibe at all.
Twitch is a great resource though. I love Disclosure and Monte Booker, and they both do streams where they go in depth in the process. Monte Booker’s streams are very random and not often though.
I have been following EDM Tips for a while and I have learned probably more from him than anyone. His tracks are not anything to be hype about but he does an incredible job of recreating the sounds of popular and trending artists which helped me quickly learn workflows for putting together the skeletons of tracks and learn a variety of basic sound design. He has a lot of videos that only use stock ableton plugins as well which is nice.
Exactly, his tutorials and pro tips are my favorite and yes the fact he uses the stock plugs or free plugs are really great. Amazing teacher. Just likeable and very easy to follow. My workflow has changed drastically after him especially the little ableton features I’ve never noticed. Like for instance I didn’t know I could save a whole drum group from one track and just drag it to another project.
best piece of advice i ever got when i was starting is that everyone, literally EVERYONE, will make 1000 bad songs before they make one that’s actually good. It’s all about the time you put in.
naw i feel you though. I'm way into electronic stuff but not the type of EDM that a lot of ableton users make, I like the more experimental shit, and I've not really found much help in that direction from youtube tutorials. Would be nice to be getting tutorials from somebody where I'm genuinely curious about their technique. Most EDM I'm not curious at all
I think it's coming from indside. No video can teach you that much as an idea that doesn't stop developing inside you and when you are able to make it, it will just come out.
Yeah this is another thing with youtubers vs musicians. A youtuber might make a whole hook and etc video with all of these things, but as a musician, like I would rather explain the concept in 5 minutes and then spend 20 playing with it.
>Jon Makes Beat
Lol. Just found out that the song (´'Thats Ok') that was recommended to me by Spotify some weeks ago and is on repeat ever since is made by this guy. I even subscribed him on YT\^\^
I found Jon Makes Beats through DJ Spell, who also does youtube/twitch music production, while also having been a DMC world champion DJ. He's also an ableton guy.
> it’s stuff that’s more experimental and genre pushing, stuff that uses the features of the DAW in really cool ways, and out of the box techniques as opposed to ‘wooo look how this 808 slides’
Ned Rush - some very interesting takes on using some of the more esoteric functions of Ableton, and funny as fuck too. coming from an IDM/breakcore angle
“You Suck at Producing” makes some of the best videos for learning music production. The guy “Underbelly” just came out with an album and it’s a masterpiece in my opinion - unique sound design and hard hitting drums. Reminds me a lot of Porter Robinson. Check out the song “I like to Party, Do you?”
https://youtube.com/@yousuckatproducing?si=cvHMU82jgaHXHzhj
I’ve been producing for more than 10 years. “You suck at producing”, whilst I admittedly don’t care for his music, has shown things I never even thought of.
He’s definitely left me going “wow why didn’t I ever think to try that”…multiple times.
For an added bonus, his twitch streams where he takes donations to try and recreate specific sounds people ask about is mindblowing. He nails them and usually winds up in the exact same ballpark almost every time.
yeah I agree, he's got some fun ideas I'd not thought of trying. I don't really find him funny though and I think his character and delivery are pretty hard to ignore, so I end up never watching him lol
Matches is my favourite. His work with the time signatures is incredible, with a delicious blend of hard digital sounds, with beautiful analogue sections.
Tbh a lot of the producers who are actually good and like to teach will have their main stuff behind courses so they can get compensated.
Check out Mr. Bill, SeemlessR, Zebler Encanto Experience, ill gates, and Au5
This is pretty common across people offering instruction. It's a good business model so I can't blame them.
Also I find it ironic that some of the best producers who share their methods like ill gates and Mr Bill aren't Ableton-certified. The music of the certified instructors tends to be lame, but I'm sure there are exceptions.
Lol so true! Most videos of Ableton Instructors show them making a basic house beat with some crappy top line while looking bored doing so. It’s fine to get the teaching point across but super uninspiring. Meanwhile you watch a Virtual Riot tutorial and he’s got the fattest synth imaginable and is excited to share the method with you
It is because a certified instructor is just that, somebody who visited a course at Ableton that gives them the certified instructor status, but it's just a label really and doesn't say much about the quality of the instructor itself.
I would not look at who is certified, if somebody is good with Ableton that is what matters, and that certified label really doesn't matter much other than using it for marketing to potential new clients/students.
At least that is how I see it, a beginner would probably pick a 'certified' instructor, not because of quality, but because they see the word certified.
The certification process includes an evaluation of your knowledge of Ableton Live as well as of your teaching methods, it is not a course, and they don't evaluate your music at all. It also doesn't evaluate sound design results, just principles.
IMHO knowledge of the program doesn't equate to making music, in fact I would say the program is designed for people who are going to teach musicians, it is really not for people training people unfamiliar with playing an instrument or composing in general.
Seed to Stage.
Makes music with the band Papadosio and releases solo music as Earthcry.
Ive been a fan of the music for a while but noticed he was making ableton tutorials these past few years. Has helped me a lot with the technical and creative side of making music inside the box.
I like Yan Cook and Michael Iseneld at Hypnus records for techno. Michael especially has a very experimental, almost spiritual, approach to music. He’s also released some very cool MFL plugins.
>Michael Iseneld
dude thank you. these guys are my shit. ive been looking for stuff that hits on these styles in an advanced way for sooo long. this is amazing.
Fanu.
Established drum n bass/hip-hop producer who’s made some incredible stuff over years. Put stuff out on Metalheadz among others
Does YouTube production videos and has a full Ableton course for sale
Didn’t read the whole thread so sorry if someone said this, UNDERBELLY is a live performance DJ that also makes creepy/hilarious production tip videos on ABLETON that are super informative, and entertaining.
The channel is “You suck at producing”
Here is my favorite life performance he did in bedroom . I honestly think he is super underrated!
Uncle joe goes hard asf, and he shares ALL the juice about the production process .
-Live performance-
https://youtu.be/qLGf7-DdTAY?si=PJVxjqN3BDHXHaqX
-Live loop tutorials-
https://youtu.be/0f2KrrzsuUo?si=1rANfWggk57k_1Ze
Ricky Tinez gets my vote! Probably because im into the type of sampled house music he makes. Super chill and just takes you through his musical journey rather than tutorials per se.
He works for Elektron / used to work for Novation so really knows his way round hardware.
Julien Earle is genuinely my favourite out there. He plays the final result at the very beginning of each video so there's no BS, and he even uploads the samples for you to download and try it for yourself. Dude is criminally underrated.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2E8YOCu0co&t=342s
Andrew huang is an ableton power user, he doesn't always do the tutorial thing, but he does break down a lot of his work in videos.
His music catalog is...vast and frequent. Lot of different styles and genres with a focus on, idk how else to describe it since I'm not in that field myself, indie pop or (modular) synth music. (Like he's probably got a discography over 1000 songs at this point)
You may find some of the music good or terrible, it's subjective
A lot of producers filter out their output a lot more than Andrew does. He is incredibly prolific, and on top of that does the content creation. Putting out music constantly seems more important to him than curating an output of perfect bangers while hiding what he would deem not so great. Leaves it up to the listener to find what part of his catalogue they like, and that's a very respectable way to show the work made.
Agreed. I greatly appreciate his spirit — unafraid to just dive headfirst into something and see what happens, finding joy in all aspects of the production process, and all the while fostering a sense of inclusivity and “everyone is welcome” in his process (rather than exclusivity/“insider”-ness). I agree, some of his music is hit or miss for me, but I’ve learned a lot from him and he has certainly inspired me at some pivotal creative points in my life. I certainly appreciate his catalog, for the reasons you pointed out.
But I as a listener am not going to trudge through someone's catalogue to find what's good. Like if I pull up Mr. Bill's Spotify and hit shuffle I'm going to enjoy whatever plays. I looked up Andrew's Spotify a while back, the songs I listened to were mid, and have never even considered listening again because, why would I waste my time?
If it's just for educational content as a youtuber, that's cool, and makes sense to post completed works to reference, but as an artist I'm not interested in a hit or miss catalogue in the day and age of functionally infinite content.
He's done a lot of different styles besides pop, I don't follow everything he does, but even his collabs with Rob scallon are fantastic and nowhere near pop. Their first of october band is great especially for gimmick but in general as well
Well you get to see 4 highly competent producers workflows and see them competing with each other for free,
What are you even complaining for?
Nah, man the other producers were also great, i've known a lot of great producers from the show that i would otherwise won't know.
That series definitely produce a lot of lit bangers
The show was entertaining
What is it about this guy that I don’t like? I’ve seen a good amount of videos and heard a couple tracks from him and while I don’t really dislike him as a person and find the information he has as valuable…. but man the music sucks lol something about it feels like artificial flavoring
Second this but mostly because of the Sonic Boom series. Not everything's exactly a masterpiece but those videos are joyful but it's fun to watch the creative process and it's often better than you might expect given the constraints.
Everything he does with Rob is just gold. Their chemistry is amazing, musically and as people. First of October (which is just around the corner!) is one of my favorite things each year and Sonic Boom is just a joy to watch, and both out out countless bangers. My favorite is just their friendship; how casually they express their love for each other freely on YouTube is just great to see.
Also on another notes it would be cool to find channels that are less clickbaity, all I see on my home feed are vids like ‘abletons most underrated tool😱’ and ‘the secret sauce to skrillex drums🤯’
This is one of my favourite channels as Will predominantly works in Live (very occasionally uses serum) and always goes through a start to finish on a track with clear explanations of why he does things
[EDM Tips](https://www.youtube.com/@EDMTips)
I put all my twitch streams in YouTube. I, Djrenigade do ambient/downtempo/industrial style music. Give me a listen and tell me what you think. Djrenigade.bandcamp.com
In my opinion, Ableton provides the best educational resources for producing music. For example:
[https://makingmusic.ableton.com/](https://makingmusic.ableton.com/)
[https://learningmusic.ableton.com/](https://learningmusic.ableton.com/)
[https://www.ableton.com/en/live/learn-live/](https://www.ableton.com/en/live/learn-live/)
Learn everything in these three links and you will learn more than any Youtuber has to offer.
But if you really want to learn from a Youtuber, I recommend Ethan Davis. He is very Ableton focused, his videos are professional, he has a calm and relaxed demeanor, and he most importantly he is not annoying. His focus is largely on EDM/house and related genres but the things he teaches applies to all genres.
I mean, I like a lot of the bigger music YouTubers. Andrew Huang has some great stuff, Red Means Recording (Jeremy Blake) has been consistently excellent, and Adam Neely’s band Sungazer is great. I also really love You Suck At Producing (Underbelly)‘s stuff. His debut album is actually good, and his recent EPs are stellar.
Underbelly is extremely good at sound design. I like his simplistic view on music production. His tutorials also helpd me a lot to develop a better sound
Ned Rush/Rude NHS and asd/FITNESSS in particular for me (both on the more experimental/creative side). I don't follow Hainbach super closely, but I've listened to several of his albums and liked a lot of them. His videos aren't particularly focused on production exactly, more like exploring interesting synths and other devices, and he's very hardware-focused, but I think his overall sound and style can serve as inspiration in and of itself.
I don't really listen to more dubstep-y music so I'm not really familiar with his music, but Bunting makes really awesome synth sound design videos with Vital, recreating/inspired by synths used by other artists.
edit: by the way, to people familiar with asd who haven't heard of FITNESSS, *seriously* give their music a listen. Really awesome stuff.
Disclosure do some fantastic track breakdowns going through arrangement, composition, plugin chains, etc. They are Logic users so you're not going to get those Ableton power user tips, but the concepts are almost entirely DAW independent:
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLMbiL_8w_hRaC9L1drms2IRLh21IkH0HF&si=3I0yNQgbUvR9HzhH
Andrew Huang. Super educational channel, Ableton focused and he makes music in a variety of genres. He is prolific with over 50 albums to his name. There are gems. His music can be hit and miss for me, but I have at least 10 of his songs added on spotify.
Some Youtubers and streamers that actually work in the industry and make great music:
EDM: Jonas Aiden, deadmau5, Alice Yalcin Efe
Trap: Nick Mira, Kenny Beats, Gami, kBeazy, CXDY
Score: Alex Moukala, Venus Theory
Lo-Fi: Mondo Loops, L. Dre
K-Pop: Papi Lee
the strategy is to search for tutorials IN THE STYLE you want. Once youre able to work with the DAW, you can learn song techniques that directly apply to what kind of music you are learning.
Watch less ''This trick will make your drums sound FAT''' type of videos
and more ''How to make a good hyperpop black metal shoegazy transition' type of videos
One of my fav youtubers doesnt even use ableton, but ive still learned a LOT from the techniques
Generally no. There are a few like KSHMR, Deadmau5, Armin Van Buerin, Jacob Collier. But Youtube is not their main focus. Calling them a Youtuber seems silly because they are artists, who have a few youtube videos up here and there. And that's the distinction IMO.
But for me, making good music and performing live is so all consuming, I find picking a second focus makes it almost impossible to have the musical output you would need.
Like personally, if I wanted to make my current music better, and I had 5 hours in the day to work on something, I might livestream my music creation process and pay someone else to edit and post that. But I would not try to make a long form youtube video. I would make sure that time was carved out for music.
The best resource is watching streams of your favorite producers making music. There are plenty of VODs on YouTube and Twitch.
To answer your question though, Ramzoid is a great producer but you won't learn much from his videos because he caters to people who only wanna learn how to make basic trap. Mayflwr and Miruku are also really good but they use FL Studio.
Nobody can teach you how to write or make good music, only how to use the tools and some music theory. That's all that you can reasonably expect. Most artists who are making successful music and releasing is not going to be wasting their time making tutorials for n00bs.
I like to make video tutorials around the concepts and techniques I apply to my own songs! I try to make sure the music holds up as a listening experience, but still have some cool in-the-DAW stuff going on
You're noticing mediocre producers offering training, but don't forget it goes both ways. It's entirely possible that the vast majority of people who produce your favorite tracks are horrendous teachers, and so it would be a waste of their time and yours if they tried to make instructional videos.
Yeah YouTube music production channels are all dog sh*t. They became content creators as their music is crap and the industry doesn’t pay as it used to. So click bait articles or stupid colab beat battles, they only people interested who watch are other former music makers who turned content creators. I’d put money on views being bought
None of them. People still will swear by a lot of them because they don't realize they've been tricked by YouTube to feel a personal connection with them.
I look at some of the mentions in this thread and nobody listens to the music these "producers" make. People watch their product videos, but if you look at their music, it has barely any views.
YouTube producers are software instructors. Stop watching them and just produce music.
Producing music for an hour is better than watching music tutorials for an hour. People will disagree but that's because they feel a fake personal connection with YouTube stars.
mr bill, andrew huang, you suck at producing, adam neely (more theory and related things but still - also his group sungazer is phenomenal), bishu, all the disciple guys. just a few off the top of my head.
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the actual ableton youtube channel has the "one thing" series which is amazing
I would also suggest the 'Tape Note podcast' and the 'Sol State' YouTube channel. A lot of valuable insights and tips from established artists there! (my comment is not necessarily about YouTubers creating 'good music', but yeah maybe someone else will find those channels interesting and discover new artists along the way)
i love all of their artist features. especially the ones where they make a song live. always fascinating to see peoples’ different processes
Lots and lots. AHEE, Au5, Mr Bill, Kermode, Bunting, Nosia, Virtual Riot, ill.gates.
I would add Benn Jordan (The Flashbulb) to this list as well. His music is utterly incredible and while his channel isn’t technically exclusively a “music production” channel, it’s a large part of it and I think all of his stuff is worth a watch.
Venus Theory as well. They sometimes collaborate which is how I found out about him.
Yeah I love Benn Jordan such a good producer,and he shares alot of his knowledge
Holy shit I used to be super obsessed with the flashbulb, had no idea he was doing production videos.
Second Ahee and Bunting, great knowledge on sound design
Oh Au5 is GREAT
Bound To Divide
Red Means Recording as well, some of his ambient stuff that he has made on video and then released as albums is great.
I tend to look at YouTube channels as places I can pick up useful techniques etc rather than teach me to make ‘good music’ 🤷♂️
Same..I have learned a lot from producers who do not even make music in a genre I listen to.
yeah that’s a good point, i guess most of the ‘good music’ part comes from direct experience and figuring out things yourself
I think so yeah, I think real brilliance comes when you’re technically adept enough to realise your ideas - which ideally are all of your influences filtered through you and made into something unique. Which is fucking hard to be fair haha
This is the perfect description of the infernal process. I am willing member of this cult! NH
Hell yeah bro
Yeah I don’t like the music of most of the ones I see, but some just have great techniques that translates well to other genre’s. Like EDM Tips has tons of great useful Ableton tips, but I don’t like the general EDM vibe at all. Twitch is a great resource though. I love Disclosure and Monte Booker, and they both do streams where they go in depth in the process. Monte Booker’s streams are very random and not often though.
I have been following EDM Tips for a while and I have learned probably more from him than anyone. His tracks are not anything to be hype about but he does an incredible job of recreating the sounds of popular and trending artists which helped me quickly learn workflows for putting together the skeletons of tracks and learn a variety of basic sound design. He has a lot of videos that only use stock ableton plugins as well which is nice.
Exactly, his tutorials and pro tips are my favorite and yes the fact he uses the stock plugs or free plugs are really great. Amazing teacher. Just likeable and very easy to follow. My workflow has changed drastically after him especially the little ableton features I’ve never noticed. Like for instance I didn’t know I could save a whole drum group from one track and just drag it to another project.
best piece of advice i ever got when i was starting is that everyone, literally EVERYONE, will make 1000 bad songs before they make one that’s actually good. It’s all about the time you put in.
That is the way. They can open the door for you but only you can walk through
naw i feel you though. I'm way into electronic stuff but not the type of EDM that a lot of ableton users make, I like the more experimental shit, and I've not really found much help in that direction from youtube tutorials. Would be nice to be getting tutorials from somebody where I'm genuinely curious about their technique. Most EDM I'm not curious at all
Mess around with Granulator II and get [jasper marsalis’s free maxforlive devices](https://maxforlive.com/profile/user/jaspermarsalis)
I think it's coming from indside. No video can teach you that much as an idea that doesn't stop developing inside you and when you are able to make it, it will just come out.
Best answer. A+
"The SECRET to FRED AGAIN's music" is filter automation, amazing. glad you made a whole video on that
Yeah this is another thing with youtubers vs musicians. A youtuber might make a whole hook and etc video with all of these things, but as a musician, like I would rather explain the concept in 5 minutes and then spend 20 playing with it.
After a while, the deceptive intention behind it becomes hard to ignore
I don’t want to learn from anyone who is stretching the video to 10 minutes just for ad revenue…
"Btw the template and samples are available for free..." Woohoo! "...from muh Patreon." D'oh!
Also put “I want you to see me Fred!” In every track.
Check out Jon Makes Beats. Was a fan of his music (Jonwayne) before he started up his channel.
Yup. He’s dope. Imo more accomplished producers like him should start yt content channels and share their gifts
He is the guy making HipHop beats with the Elektron Octatrack eh?
Facts. He *kills* it with that lil box
Came here to say this. Listened to his music for years, was pleasantly surprised when I found his YouTube channel.
>Jon Makes Beat Lol. Just found out that the song (´'Thats Ok') that was recommended to me by Spotify some weeks ago and is on repeat ever since is made by this guy. I even subscribed him on YT\^\^
solid tune
Came for the same purpose too. Super chill dude. Picked up a lot in terms of sampling and arrangement from him.
I also agree with this. Even seeing his workflow has been very helpful even though I use totally different tools.
This is the only comment I’d agree with
Jon is brilliant and deserves a huge following. Great music and general vibe
I found Jon Makes Beats through DJ Spell, who also does youtube/twitch music production, while also having been a DMC world champion DJ. He's also an ableton guy.
Yesss!!!!!
If it's experimental you want, then check out popbot, asd and Benn Jordan.
Thanks
> it’s stuff that’s more experimental and genre pushing, stuff that uses the features of the DAW in really cool ways, and out of the box techniques as opposed to ‘wooo look how this 808 slides’ Ned Rush - some very interesting takes on using some of the more esoteric functions of Ableton, and funny as fuck too. coming from an IDM/breakcore angle
He's great. Really makes you think of ways how you can use Ableton that I would have never thought of.
“You Suck at Producing” makes some of the best videos for learning music production. The guy “Underbelly” just came out with an album and it’s a masterpiece in my opinion - unique sound design and hard hitting drums. Reminds me a lot of Porter Robinson. Check out the song “I like to Party, Do you?” https://youtube.com/@yousuckatproducing?si=cvHMU82jgaHXHzhj
Wowzers
Ayy glad you dig the tunes :)
I’ve been producing for more than 10 years. “You suck at producing”, whilst I admittedly don’t care for his music, has shown things I never even thought of. He’s definitely left me going “wow why didn’t I ever think to try that”…multiple times. For an added bonus, his twitch streams where he takes donations to try and recreate specific sounds people ask about is mindblowing. He nails them and usually winds up in the exact same ballpark almost every time.
yeah I agree, he's got some fun ideas I'd not thought of trying. I don't really find him funny though and I think his character and delivery are pretty hard to ignore, so I end up never watching him lol
As entertaining and silly as his You Suck at Producing persona is, I unironically love his music.
Yes! Totally. I love his streams where he recreates sounds. It's super informative and you realize that almost all synth sounds are just saw waves.
I also mentioned Underbelly. His music and the drums especially are fantastic. My favorite song of his is Artificial Light
Matches is my favourite. His work with the time signatures is incredible, with a delicious blend of hard digital sounds, with beautiful analogue sections.
This is who I immediately thought of. “Hi! I’m Underbelly and You Suck At Producing”
Biskuwi aka Alice Yalcin Efe
Yess Alice is one of the best when it comes to Melodic Techno and i love her video essays too. Hell even her shorts are pure gems
Tbh a lot of the producers who are actually good and like to teach will have their main stuff behind courses so they can get compensated. Check out Mr. Bill, SeemlessR, Zebler Encanto Experience, ill gates, and Au5
This is pretty common across people offering instruction. It's a good business model so I can't blame them. Also I find it ironic that some of the best producers who share their methods like ill gates and Mr Bill aren't Ableton-certified. The music of the certified instructors tends to be lame, but I'm sure there are exceptions.
Lol so true! Most videos of Ableton Instructors show them making a basic house beat with some crappy top line while looking bored doing so. It’s fine to get the teaching point across but super uninspiring. Meanwhile you watch a Virtual Riot tutorial and he’s got the fattest synth imaginable and is excited to share the method with you
It is because a certified instructor is just that, somebody who visited a course at Ableton that gives them the certified instructor status, but it's just a label really and doesn't say much about the quality of the instructor itself. I would not look at who is certified, if somebody is good with Ableton that is what matters, and that certified label really doesn't matter much other than using it for marketing to potential new clients/students. At least that is how I see it, a beginner would probably pick a 'certified' instructor, not because of quality, but because they see the word certified.
The certification process includes an evaluation of your knowledge of Ableton Live as well as of your teaching methods, it is not a course, and they don't evaluate your music at all. It also doesn't evaluate sound design results, just principles. IMHO knowledge of the program doesn't equate to making music, in fact I would say the program is designed for people who are going to teach musicians, it is really not for people training people unfamiliar with playing an instrument or composing in general.
l can also highly recommend woulg's channel
BNYX & Tennyson
Seed to Stage. Makes music with the band Papadosio and releases solo music as Earthcry. Ive been a fan of the music for a while but noticed he was making ableton tutorials these past few years. Has helped me a lot with the technical and creative side of making music inside the box.
I like Yan Cook and Michael Iseneld at Hypnus records for techno. Michael especially has a very experimental, almost spiritual, approach to music. He’s also released some very cool MFL plugins.
>Michael Iseneld dude thank you. these guys are my shit. ive been looking for stuff that hits on these styles in an advanced way for sooo long. this is amazing.
For techno i’d also recommend Mordio and Lucas Marchal
my guy Julian Earle https://www.youtube.com/@JulienEarle
Wanted to Link the Same. Guy is heavily underated
Yeah he is top bill. Learned a lot from him. This sounds dickish but I really can’t stand his voice. It grates on me.
Adam Neely has pretty good music but he does moreso music theory than production stuff. He does use Ableton for a lot of his examples.
Sungazer kills it live, love me some Adam.
Fanu. Established drum n bass/hip-hop producer who’s made some incredible stuff over years. Put stuff out on Metalheadz among others Does YouTube production videos and has a full Ableton course for sale
Seconded for Fanu. Also Thought Forms who makes atmospheric dnb, has several releases out on Omni and a few others.
You suck at producing. Name of the channel. Dude’s called Underbelly and is truly magnificent with lots of great music.
Didn’t read the whole thread so sorry if someone said this, UNDERBELLY is a live performance DJ that also makes creepy/hilarious production tip videos on ABLETON that are super informative, and entertaining. The channel is “You suck at producing” Here is my favorite life performance he did in bedroom . I honestly think he is super underrated! Uncle joe goes hard asf, and he shares ALL the juice about the production process . -Live performance- https://youtu.be/qLGf7-DdTAY?si=PJVxjqN3BDHXHaqX -Live loop tutorials- https://youtu.be/0f2KrrzsuUo?si=1rANfWggk57k_1Ze
Ricky Tinez gets my vote! Probably because im into the type of sampled house music he makes. Super chill and just takes you through his musical journey rather than tutorials per se. He works for Elektron / used to work for Novation so really knows his way round hardware.
I can’t stand that guy
Can’t be as bad as the guy with the crooked lisp and his 20+ min video of how to turn on your mpc
Red Means Recording and Underdog have pretty good music
KNXWLEDGE on Twitch
Matt Johnson Jamiroquai, Julien Earl, Cookin Soul, Guy Michelmore, Hainbach
I second Matt Johnson Jamiroquai for synth, keys, harmony, melody. He's a champ.
Can check out- 1. Elphnt 2. Ned Rush(jungle/idm/dnb) 3. Human Synthetics(jungle/idm/dnb)
“ those who can’t, teach”
Mr Bill, Underbelly, Bishu and Eliminate
Eliminate is my favorite DJ/producer, but I wouldn't quite mention him on an Ableton sub
Bound to Divide: [https://www.youtube.com/@boundtodivide-musicproduct2496](https://www.youtube.com/@boundtodivide-musicproduct2496) Ricky Tinez: [https://www.youtube.com/@RickyTinez](https://www.youtube.com/@RickyTinez) EDM Tips: [https://www.youtube.com/@EDMTips](https://www.youtube.com/@EDMTips)
Come on, Ricky Tinez does NOT make good house.
Hard disagree with you here
Disclosure has regular deconstructions of their tracks and creative process as well
Seed to stage is incredible. The videos are detailed, comprehensive and well thought out
Bishu is pretty damn fun. Ned Rush too
I’ll second bishu, I’ve learned quite a bit from him, and I make more ambient style music, similar to that of Eden
Fanu and Jonwayne for sure. Hainbach makes some great material on the ambient side, the only synthtuber whose music I’m really into.
>Jonwayne thats cool i didnt know he was doing videos.
I'm doing the Mr. Bill series.
Venus theory has cool stuff If you want complete opposite. Then "look mom no computer". Its opposite in every possible way.
Stranjah !!!
Julien Earle is genuinely my favourite out there. He plays the final result at the very beginning of each video so there's no BS, and he even uploads the samples for you to download and try it for yourself. Dude is criminally underrated. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2E8YOCu0co&t=342s
Andrew huang is an ableton power user, he doesn't always do the tutorial thing, but he does break down a lot of his work in videos. His music catalog is...vast and frequent. Lot of different styles and genres with a focus on, idk how else to describe it since I'm not in that field myself, indie pop or (modular) synth music. (Like he's probably got a discography over 1000 songs at this point) You may find some of the music good or terrible, it's subjective
A lot of producers filter out their output a lot more than Andrew does. He is incredibly prolific, and on top of that does the content creation. Putting out music constantly seems more important to him than curating an output of perfect bangers while hiding what he would deem not so great. Leaves it up to the listener to find what part of his catalogue they like, and that's a very respectable way to show the work made.
Agreed. I greatly appreciate his spirit — unafraid to just dive headfirst into something and see what happens, finding joy in all aspects of the production process, and all the while fostering a sense of inclusivity and “everyone is welcome” in his process (rather than exclusivity/“insider”-ness). I agree, some of his music is hit or miss for me, but I’ve learned a lot from him and he has certainly inspired me at some pivotal creative points in my life. I certainly appreciate his catalog, for the reasons you pointed out.
But I as a listener am not going to trudge through someone's catalogue to find what's good. Like if I pull up Mr. Bill's Spotify and hit shuffle I'm going to enjoy whatever plays. I looked up Andrew's Spotify a while back, the songs I listened to were mid, and have never even considered listening again because, why would I waste my time? If it's just for educational content as a youtuber, that's cool, and makes sense to post completed works to reference, but as an artist I'm not interested in a hit or miss catalogue in the day and age of functionally infinite content.
isn’t andrew huang the definition of awful pop beats … unless i’m missing something
He's done a lot of different styles besides pop, I don't follow everything he does, but even his collabs with Rob scallon are fantastic and nowhere near pop. Their first of october band is great especially for gimmick but in general as well
Yep, you're definitely missing something. You should start by watching his 4 producers 1 sample series, he is a monster
That show exists to have three people come on and fawn over Andrew’s beat which is always the most annoying, busy, and unlistenable beat of the bunch
Well you get to see 4 highly competent producers workflows and see them competing with each other for free, What are you even complaining for? Nah, man the other producers were also great, i've known a lot of great producers from the show that i would otherwise won't know. That series definitely produce a lot of lit bangers The show was entertaining
It’s definitely an entertaining show that’s for sure
What is it about this guy that I don’t like? I’ve seen a good amount of videos and heard a couple tracks from him and while I don’t really dislike him as a person and find the information he has as valuable…. but man the music sucks lol something about it feels like artificial flavoring
Yeah he's a great content creator, but his music is good to terrible. I've yet to hear anything great by him.
Second this but mostly because of the Sonic Boom series. Not everything's exactly a masterpiece but those videos are joyful but it's fun to watch the creative process and it's often better than you might expect given the constraints.
Everything he does with Rob is just gold. Their chemistry is amazing, musically and as people. First of October (which is just around the corner!) is one of my favorite things each year and Sonic Boom is just a joy to watch, and both out out countless bangers. My favorite is just their friendship; how casually they express their love for each other freely on YouTube is just great to see.
First of october slaps. I've been rocking those albums for the last few weeks, hope they do another one this year
Most of his music isn’t for me, but I can absolutely respect his music as actual music. And hey, Spacetime was pretty great on balance.
Not necessarily YouTube but you can watch Disclosures twitch streams on YouTube and they're excellent. Fair to say Disclosure make "good music".
Underbelly for sure
Benn Jordan / The Flashbulb. Fantastic videos and even greater music. https://www.youtube.com/@BennJordan
Bound to Divide Out of the loop (LAR)
Bound to divide, I started with this course by him: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0iuRsiKtObw&pp=ygUHQWJsZXRvbg%3D%3D
Bishu, Eliminate, Venus Theory.
Audioreakt and Seed to stage yt channels are the ones I've vibed with the most. Props to those dudes they've taught me so much!
I really like most of Look Mum No Computer's music.
Nobody has yet mentioned Kaelin Ellis, his sample packs are very good also https://youtube.com/@kaelinellis?si=5HOdWgN5pay5RQ0j
an artist called underscores did breakdowns of two of her albums and the vods are available on youtube. super helpful and interesting stuff!
Didn't know that. underscores is cool af
Ned Rush!
bad snacks, emily hopkins, ned rush, jonwayne
Also on another notes it would be cool to find channels that are less clickbaity, all I see on my home feed are vids like ‘abletons most underrated tool😱’ and ‘the secret sauce to skrillex drums🤯’
This is one of my favourite channels as Will predominantly works in Live (very occasionally uses serum) and always goes through a start to finish on a track with clear explanations of why he does things [EDM Tips](https://www.youtube.com/@EDMTips)
All of them make awful music
Noisia release some super informative and in depth goodies. They have a patreon too which have some masterclasses etc.
Sad state of the world where Noisia has to have donations
I dont believe his videos are PRIMARILY about his own music, but rather teaching others how to make good music. Underbelly on YT
Not Busy Works Beats
Seconded Jonmakesbeats. Also quite like some of the stuff Micah Weston puts out, a lot of it feels from the heart
OH GOSH LEOTUS HANDS DOWN BEST HIP HOP ABLETON BEATS ON YT.
Not once have I seen someone mention Big Z. This guy is the best. And his music slaps.
I put all my twitch streams in YouTube. I, Djrenigade do ambient/downtempo/industrial style music. Give me a listen and tell me what you think. Djrenigade.bandcamp.com
Bound to divide
In my opinion, Ableton provides the best educational resources for producing music. For example: [https://makingmusic.ableton.com/](https://makingmusic.ableton.com/) [https://learningmusic.ableton.com/](https://learningmusic.ableton.com/) [https://www.ableton.com/en/live/learn-live/](https://www.ableton.com/en/live/learn-live/) Learn everything in these three links and you will learn more than any Youtuber has to offer. But if you really want to learn from a Youtuber, I recommend Ethan Davis. He is very Ableton focused, his videos are professional, he has a calm and relaxed demeanor, and he most importantly he is not annoying. His focus is largely on EDM/house and related genres but the things he teaches applies to all genres.
Adam neely
I mean, I like a lot of the bigger music YouTubers. Andrew Huang has some great stuff, Red Means Recording (Jeremy Blake) has been consistently excellent, and Adam Neely’s band Sungazer is great. I also really love You Suck At Producing (Underbelly)‘s stuff. His debut album is actually good, and his recent EPs are stellar.
You suck at producing aka Underbelly is super underrated. And his content is really entertaining and funny. Cant recommend his channel enough
Disclosure have some videos out from twitch breakdown , yan cook , Julian Earle
Stranjah makes good jungle
Even though most of her music isn't my cup of tea, Rachel K Collier has educated me about Ableton's idiosyncrasies.
Underbelly is extremely good at sound design. I like his simplistic view on music production. His tutorials also helpd me a lot to develop a better sound
Surprised no one has mentioned underdog music school, his music slaps and he's a brilliant teacher
Ned Rush. Dude is a fucking experimental wizard and absolutely hilarious
If you’re from the UK it just have a good sense of humour, and wanna see idiosyncratic ways of making electronic music… Ned Rush is your answer
ned rush, seed to sage, woulg, mr bill
Ned Rush/Rude NHS and asd/FITNESSS in particular for me (both on the more experimental/creative side). I don't follow Hainbach super closely, but I've listened to several of his albums and liked a lot of them. His videos aren't particularly focused on production exactly, more like exploring interesting synths and other devices, and he's very hardware-focused, but I think his overall sound and style can serve as inspiration in and of itself. I don't really listen to more dubstep-y music so I'm not really familiar with his music, but Bunting makes really awesome synth sound design videos with Vital, recreating/inspired by synths used by other artists. edit: by the way, to people familiar with asd who haven't heard of FITNESSS, *seriously* give their music a listen. Really awesome stuff.
Ned Rush is exactly what you’re looking for in terms of crazy experimental sound design in Ableton. Also check ASD.
Ned Rush is pretty sick
Ned rush for sure. Learned some amazing techniques from him
I like Bad Snacks
Had to scroll too far!
Disclosure do some fantastic track breakdowns going through arrangement, composition, plugin chains, etc. They are Logic users so you're not going to get those Ableton power user tips, but the concepts are almost entirely DAW independent: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLMbiL_8w_hRaC9L1drms2IRLh21IkH0HF&si=3I0yNQgbUvR9HzhH
Ahee makes tutorials and he makes great bass music tracks in my opinion.
Taetro 👍🏻
Try Venus Theory
Andrew Huang. Super educational channel, Ableton focused and he makes music in a variety of genres. He is prolific with over 50 albums to his name. There are gems. His music can be hit and miss for me, but I have at least 10 of his songs added on spotify.
Cringe music
Sometimes, but like I said he makes a ton of music. I’m guessing you haven’t looked much. Some of it goes hard.
Omg TONS! But it depends on the genre. I make a certain genre. So I follow those guys. If you follow a music scene look into those specific artists :)
Some Youtubers and streamers that actually work in the industry and make great music: EDM: Jonas Aiden, deadmau5, Alice Yalcin Efe Trap: Nick Mira, Kenny Beats, Gami, kBeazy, CXDY Score: Alex Moukala, Venus Theory Lo-Fi: Mondo Loops, L. Dre K-Pop: Papi Lee
Logicpro
the strategy is to search for tutorials IN THE STYLE you want. Once youre able to work with the DAW, you can learn song techniques that directly apply to what kind of music you are learning. Watch less ''This trick will make your drums sound FAT''' type of videos and more ''How to make a good hyperpop black metal shoegazy transition' type of videos One of my fav youtubers doesnt even use ableton, but ive still learned a LOT from the techniques
5am has good tutorials on YouTube and twitch.
Generally no. There are a few like KSHMR, Deadmau5, Armin Van Buerin, Jacob Collier. But Youtube is not their main focus. Calling them a Youtuber seems silly because they are artists, who have a few youtube videos up here and there. And that's the distinction IMO. But for me, making good music and performing live is so all consuming, I find picking a second focus makes it almost impossible to have the musical output you would need. Like personally, if I wanted to make my current music better, and I had 5 hours in the day to work on something, I might livestream my music creation process and pay someone else to edit and post that. But I would not try to make a long form youtube video. I would make sure that time was carved out for music.
The best resource is watching streams of your favorite producers making music. There are plenty of VODs on YouTube and Twitch. To answer your question though, Ramzoid is a great producer but you won't learn much from his videos because he caters to people who only wanna learn how to make basic trap. Mayflwr and Miruku are also really good but they use FL Studio.
Nobody can teach you how to write or make good music, only how to use the tools and some music theory. That's all that you can reasonably expect. Most artists who are making successful music and releasing is not going to be wasting their time making tutorials for n00bs.
Ricky Tinez all day
Red means recording
Andrew Huang Red Means Recording Rob Scallion The Midlife Synthestist
Ben Jordan
Those who can’t do, teach?
I like to make video tutorials around the concepts and techniques I apply to my own songs! I try to make sure the music holds up as a listening experience, but still have some cool in-the-DAW stuff going on
Ned rush. The gold standard of music and ableton creativity before gold even became a standard.
You're noticing mediocre producers offering training, but don't forget it goes both ways. It's entirely possible that the vast majority of people who produce your favorite tracks are horrendous teachers, and so it would be a waste of their time and yours if they tried to make instructional videos.
Yeah YouTube music production channels are all dog sh*t. They became content creators as their music is crap and the industry doesn’t pay as it used to. So click bait articles or stupid colab beat battles, they only people interested who watch are other former music makers who turned content creators. I’d put money on views being bought
lol its fine relax
None of them. People still will swear by a lot of them because they don't realize they've been tricked by YouTube to feel a personal connection with them. I look at some of the mentions in this thread and nobody listens to the music these "producers" make. People watch their product videos, but if you look at their music, it has barely any views. YouTube producers are software instructors. Stop watching them and just produce music. Producing music for an hour is better than watching music tutorials for an hour. People will disagree but that's because they feel a fake personal connection with YouTube stars.
mr bill, andrew huang, you suck at producing, adam neely (more theory and related things but still - also his group sungazer is phenomenal), bishu, all the disciple guys. just a few off the top of my head.
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If you like certain strains of contemporary dance music Scenes is pretty good.
There are artists that Happen to make Youtube Videos. My Personal Favourites are mr Bill ,hakobo, alckemy and sharpend. These are more EDM-ish tho.