Tom Cosm - Audio Production Tutorials and Templates

What Does a Pro Membership Get You?

Tom Cosm

Published on Saturday, 23 February 2013 04:04

tom_ebony As much as I love making tutorial videos and Ableton Live projects for free, there is some content that I reserve for special premium members. These are people who want to take their musical production seriously and jump right into highly descriptive and straight to the point HD content.

Once you become a pro member, your account is enabled automatically and instantly, giving you access in less than a minute from making the decision. Once you log in, you can go straight ahead and start downloading your selection from every single video and project I have ever created. There is no restrictions.

You'll also get instant access to a Pro Forums, which is where more advanced users, including myself. discuss ideas and answer questions.

Below I've compiled a list of the current content in the Pro Member download archive so you can have a look and see if it's to your liking.

The Bullshit Free Dubstep and Glitch Hop Powercourse

20 HD Tutorial Videos / 1 Entire Project File

The course was made for the bass junkies, showing how to create a dubstep/glitch tune from scracth. We start off with programing a beat, then move onto the main course of synthesizing 16 chunky basslines. I worked hard on the quality of the bass sounds, as a lot of tutorials out there don't end up having a powerful end result - so I wanted to make sure that not only did people learn a shit-load, but the actual sound at the end was up to a professional standard.

The 16 Bassline presets are

Dr. Wub - Most tutorials aim for this type of wobbley sound but don't often hit it, so I've made my version showing how to get the maximum wub in the simplest way
Chiponk - Like the Dr. but with more of a sharp stab to it, this guy hits hard and fast, yet dissapears quickly in style. This is made for lots of fast little notes rather than a long wobble.
FUCKING AWESOME - Think of a space robot trapped inside a cage getting poked with hot spikes by sexy alien chicks.
Freak - If Tesla was a super hero this would be the sound his sheild powering down would make
Harm - We start exploring the world of harmonics and overtones, the foundation of pretty much everything you hear.
Simple - Harm's bigger brother, we look at how raising the level of harmonics can beef up the fundemental bassnote.
Dippy - The sound someone makes when they pull off a perfect cannon ball dive into a pool, followed by the worlds largest zipper being undone.
Velocirator - The velocity doesn't have to change the volume of a sound, we assign it to heaps of shit and see how we can make this beast scream!
Robopoke - Similar to FUCKING AWESOME but with a much more advanced way of synthesizing the grit and controling the vowel sweeps. Weeaaawwooouuuwwoowowowowaaargh etc.
Tramp - Exploring the realm of making a sound come from different directions, we creat a heavy, clunky kick in the nuts that jumps around from all directions
Sore - A very rich sharp sound with the emphasis on the stuff higher up the frequency range rather than down the bottom - think of an old wooden door creaking.
Greg - Greg's alright. He sounds like a piece of paper being shaken around furiously, under water (if that's possible)
Wubble - This one's also about the wub, but with more of a focus on changing the wub speed very fast, and distorting it juuuuuuuust riiiiiight
Dickhead - A totally different approach here - we record our voice trying to sing a dubstep bassline, then use a vocoder to actually make us sound super cool.
Carnie - Another silly one - This one is about silly fast wobbles at humorous intervals, more of a compliment to bring out the best in the dirtier, darker basslines.
Fazed - Hold your hand up out flat in front of you, staring at your open palm, then blow towards it (trust me) while bringing your open palm towards your mouth. Hear that? We do that, but with bass.

I've made a short video here showing you what the end result is, as well as a tutorial on one of the basslines so you can get an idea.

An Introduction to Digital Audio Production

The biggest and most important tutorial series I have created. It's a 10 hour long collection of videos that explain how to write a tune using Ableton Live from absolute scratch (you also get the Ableton Live file with the series, so you can open it up and see exactly how it was made).

The set has only Ableton Live native instruments and effects (no VSTs) so anyone with a copy of Ableton can follow this easily. All samples are also included in the live pack.

Topics covered in the video include

Creating your own sounds from scratch using Synthesizers
Making drum loops using the piano roll and samples
Using EQing, Sidechain Compression and other effects to fatten up your sound
Making your tune flow and progress steadily
+ many more of my own production hints and tips explained in massive depth

When I create my tutorial videos, I like to talk as if you were right next to me. I speak all my thought processes and explain what I am doing clearly. It's all very friendly, unlike some tutorials that give you a feeling like your being talked down to.

I also do my teaching as a secondary job, with my primary job being an actual producer and performer. I am not some geek who has decided to try and make some cash by talking technical jargon about software, I actually move around the globe doing this for a living.

Here is part 1 of this series, so you can get an idea of how I have decided to approach making these videos. This is the ENTIRE part 1, so it is an hour long.

I've put a lot of energy into making this series the quickest and easiest ways to get prodcuers putting those ideas that they have into practice.

Ableton Live Sound Design - The Family

I have created 10 Ableton Live Instrument Racks, each one a different complex sound. Each rack uses a combination of Operator, Analogue and Sampler, plus various Ableton Native effects.

As I made each sound, I documented the process with a video, giving a running commentary throughout, explaining the design from scratch.

Each of the 10 have been given human names, because I suck at naming things, especially presets.

Here are the 10 Videos, pro members can click the links to download.

Barry - A punch saw bassline with a long tail
Beatrice - Big lush atmospheric pad good for chords
Bert - A wobbley bassline
Claire - A white noise snare with a punch
Dick the Kick - Stock standard electronic kick
Jason - Another bass with wobbley overtones
Kevin - A big epic trance style lead, good for chord stabs
Keith - Saw FM bass sweep with lots of reverb and a long tail
Patrick - Hihats
Skye - Strange soundscape, using my cat as the main guts

Download the Ableton Live Pack.

You can preview each sound by watching the video below.

+ Heaps More!

I've got bassline tutorials, progression tutorials, build up tutorials, glitch tutorials - you name it, it's all in there.

I've even uploaded entire project files of completed songs so you can download, remix, mess with, destroy! Here's a preview of just one

This archive is my lifes work, explained and in detail. I am constantly adding to it whenever I come up with something new, or a new version of Ableton Live comes out.

So what do you say? worth the price of a couple of beers?

Click here to become Pro for only $10