Groove3 Ableton Live 12: Creative Drum Production TUTORIAL
If you’re a producer, beatmaker, or electronic musician looking to give your drums more depth, texture, and personality, this course is for you. In Ableton Live 12: Creative Drum Production, production expert Thomas Cochran reveals powerful techniques for layering, processing, and manipulating drum and percussion sounds to make your tracks stand out.
Using only Ableton Live 12’s stock devices, you’ll discover how to take standard drum samples and turn them into rich, dynamic, and expressive grooves. This course is perfect for intermediate Live users who want to elevate their drum programming and experiment with creative sound design.
What You’ll Learn
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How to layer texture sounds into drum one-shots to create unique, custom hits
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Using Multiband Dynamics to control ambience and enhance acoustic drums
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Designing custom percussion with Foley loops and generative MIDI techniques
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Adding granular and textural elements with the Granular III Sampler
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Processing classic drum machine sounds (like the 808) to create fresh rhythms
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Applying round robin sampling for natural, evolving percussion loops
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And much more!
Plugins Used (All Ableton Live 12 Stock Devices)
Sampler, Glue Compressor, Erosion, Multiband Dynamics, Saturator, Drum Buss, Reverb, EQ Eight, Grain Delay, Roar, Granular III, LFO, Overdrive, Chorus-Ensemble
By the end of this course, you’ll know how to creatively process, layer, and sculpt drums in Ableton Live 12 — turning static samples into dynamic, expressive performances. Whether you produce electronic music, hip-hop, or cinematic soundscapes, these techniques will help you create drums that are unmistakably your own.
