Bassline Generator Based on Chords
Generate basslines with rhythm, swing, velocity and MIDI export. Create bass grooves for pop, house, trap, lofi and more.
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Music Production Tutorials
Music production tips, guides, tools, and tutorials for modern producers.
This section brings together our best music production tutorials, covering sound design, mixing, mastering, music theory, Drum and Bass production, beginner guides, sample pack reviews, and practical production tools.
From fundamental concepts in music production, sound engineering, and sound design, to more advanced topics like functional harmony, vocoders, DnB bass patterns, and polyrhythms, these guides are designed to help you build real, usable skills inside your DAW.
Whether you’re learning how to improve your mixdowns, build better bass sounds, or write stronger chord progressions and complex rhythm patterns, you’ll find techniques you can apply straight away. We also cover essential production topics like EQ, compression, reverb, MIDI, rhythm, harmony, arrangement, sampling, and sound selection.
You’ll find tutorials for popular synths and DAWs, including Serum, Massive, Ableton, Cubase, and FL Studio, alongside a mix of YouTube videos, music theory charts, and detailed written guides to suit different learning styles.
Choose a category below to start exploring.
Learnt enough? Need music production tools like Sample Packs or MIDI Packs to get started or improve your productions?
Alternatively, you can find more information by selecting from our music production tutorials below.
Melody Generator based on Chords
Paste your chords and generate melody ideas instantly. Create hooks, toplines and lead melodies, then export the result as MIDI.
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Polyrhythm Generator
Hear and visualise 3:2, 3:4 and 5:4 polyrhythms with this free online generator for music producers.
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How to Start Beatmaking?
Learn how to start beatmaking from scratch — Essential equipment, and simple techniques for building your first beats. Includes beginner-friendly tips, sample packs, and MIDI resources to help you create music in any genre.
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PolyRhythm Delay VST
2B Played Music PolyRhythm Delay XL, A unique delay VST that redefines rhythmic understanding. Produce advanced rhythmic patterns with complete timing controls.
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Polyrhythm Delay Calculator
Polyrhythm Calculator - Just enter the BPM and get delay times for complex polyrhythms. Works with any VST delay plugin for off-grid, Hypnotizing, and Mathematical Grooves.
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Best Online Shops to Buy VST Plugins 2025
A trusted roundup of the best online stores to buy VST plugins in 2025, including Plugin Boutique, Native Instruments, AudioDeluxe, and more.
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Chord Progression Generator
Generate chord progressions for music production with audio playback and MIDI export. Explore chord voicings, rhythm and harmonic ideas
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Kit Maker Review: Drum Auto-Mapping for Samplers
Drum Auto-Mapping for Sampler and Busy Music Producers. Kit Maker simplifies building drum kits and sampler patches from one-shot samples.
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These are the Best Guitar Sample Packs!
The best guitar sample packs ever made. It's a bold claim, but let me explain!... Real musicians, Real Studios Real Tools.
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Master music online with AI mastering
Test AI Mastering for Free, if you like the results then you can purchase the master. Audio Master in minutes.
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Sampling the Amen Break: Six Seconds that Shook the Music World
From Gospel Groove to Global Fusion: Six Seconds that Shook the Music World from Sampling the Amen Break
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How to Produce Like Chase and Status
Music Production Techniques, Sound Design and Studio Equipment, How to produce like Chase and Status
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How to Produce No Problem by Chase & Status
Our favorite DnB Educator Stranjah takes us through the steps showing us how to Produce No Problem by Chase & Status
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How to EQ a Mix: A Guide for Music Producers
Learn how to EQ a mix properly: frequency ranges, cutting vs boosting, hi-pass filtering, mid-side EQ, and how to fix common mix problems with equalization.
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How to write Jazz sounding chord progressions
Jazz Chord types, Chord progression theories, and examples of Jazz sounding chord progressions. Including Turnarounds, and Tritone Substitutions.
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Best Amapiano Sample Packs (Loops, MIDI & Log Drum Kits)
Browse all Amapiano sample packs — Royalty-free loops, MIDI chord progressions, log drums and melody packs for music producers.
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BPM to Millisecond Converter
Produce perfectly timed mixes using our BPM to Millisecond Converter to set studio effect lengths by tempo & rhythm
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Tap the Tempo with this BPM Counter
Tap the button to get the Tempo with this BPM Counter. Includes Tempo Ranges per Genre.
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What is an Oscillator in Music Production?
Learn what an oscillator does in music production: waveform types, pitch, tuning, detuning, and how oscillators are used in subtractive synthesis and sound design.
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How to make Liquor and Cigarettes by Chase and Status
How to re-produce "Liquor and Cigarettes" by Chase and Status using Ableton with Drum and Bass Educator Stranjah
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Music Theory for Music Production
Composition, Rhythm, and Arrangement Tutorials for music production. Understanding Scales, Dotted Rhythms, Syncopation, Functional Harmony and more.
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Dub Chord sound design for electronic music
Master Dub Chord sound design for atmospheric rhythmic energy in your electronic music production
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The Art of Nostalgia: A Journey Through LoFi Music Production
Get inspired by Lofi artists like J Dilla, Nujabes, and Boards of Canada. Embrace their techniques for your music.
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How to Create Lofi Drum Patterns; A Step-by-Step Guide
Step-by-step guide to lofi drum patterns. Learn swing quantisation, velocity layering, ghost notes, and the J Dilla feel with sequencing examples.
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How to Make Lofi Bass: A Comprehensive Guide for Music Producers
Learn how to make LoFi bass using synthesis, sound design, and groove techniques. Covers sub bass, saturation, pitch drift, and lofi processing.
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How to Use MIDI in Music Production
Learn how MIDI works in music production. Understand MIDI controllers, DAWs, MIDI keyboards, sequencing, automation, and virtual instruments for beginner producers.
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How to Produce Baddadan by Chase and Status
Music production tutorial featuring Drum and Bass educator Stranjah, on how to produce Chase & Status Baddadan using Ableton
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Jazz Fusion Music Production Techniques
Use jazz chords, swing rhythms, improvisation and melodic phrasing in your music productions. A practical guide to Jazz Fusion techniques.
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UK Garage Tutorial
Learn UK Garage chord progressions, syncopated rhythms, and vocal production in Ableton Live 11 with DnB educator Stranjah.
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Liquid DnB bass
How to produce Liquid DnB bass with Stranjah. This video experiments with 10 different basslines perfect for Liquid DnB producers.
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Ambient Music Production
Learn how to make ambient music with chord progressions, sound design, arrangement, and mixing tips. Create immersive, evolving soundscapes.
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How to Produce Jazz Bass
Introduce Jazz Bass to your music production using a DAW. Techniques cover, Walking bass, Syncopation and chord tone tips
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How to produce Jazz Drums
Learn Jazz drum production in your DAW: swing patterns, syncopated accents, brush techniques, ride cymbal feel, and how to sequence authentic Jazz grooves.
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Afrobeat vs Afrobeats: What’s the Difference?
Understand the real differences between Afrobeat and Afrobeats: origins, rhythm, instruments, and key artists. A clear breakdown for music producers.
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How to use sample packs?
Learn how to use sample packs creatively in music production, including loop layering, MIDI editing, modulation, EQ, samplers, kick and bass mixing, and workflow tips for producers.
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What Is Gain Staging? | Audio Mixing and Recording Explained
Learn what gain staging is in music production, how to prevent clipping and digital distortion, manage headroom, and improve audio quality throughout your recording and mixing workflow.
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Do I need an audio interface?
Discover the importance of audio interfaces for music production. Learn about sample rates, bit depth, latency, and tips for buying the right audio interface.
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How to Use a Compressor in Music Production
Learn how to use compression in music production with this beginner-friendly guide covering threshold, ratio, attack, release, transients, sidechain compression and mixing tips.
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Best Sample Packs for Music Production
The best sample packs for music producers, including loops, one-shots, MIDI, vocals, and royalty-free sounds for Tech House, LoFi, Hip Hop, Ambient, and more.
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What is a DAW? and which DAW is best?
Learn what a DAW is, how digital audio workstations work, the tools included in modern DAWs, and which DAW may be best for your music production workflow.
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How to use reverb in music production
Learn which reverb works best for different instruments, how to create depth and space, and how to fix muddy mixes, harsh reverbs, and loss of clarity.
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How to Create a Reese Bass | Drum and Bass Sound Design Tutorial
Learn how to create a Reese bass using detuned oscillators, unison, filters, distortion, and modulation. Explore classic Jungle and Drum and Bass bass sound design techniques.
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Dotted Basslines
Learn how dotted note rhythms create a polyrhythmic feel in electronic music. Includes bassline examples for House, Techno and DnB producers.
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What Is a Shepard Tone? | Endless Rising Pitch Illusion
Learn how the Shepard Tone creates an endlessly rising pitch illusion. Includes examples from Hans Zimmer, Christopher Nolan films, and music production.
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Syncopation in music production
Discover the nuances between beat syncopation and division syncopation in music production education. Explore clear examples and deepen your understanding of rhythmic concepts for enhanced musical composition and production.
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Are Sample Packs Royalty Free?
How sample pack licenses work! sample clearance. Learn to legally use samples for commercial music releases.
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Functional harmony and logical chords progressions
How to write Chord Progressions with Functional harmony, Chord Substitutions, and negative harmony.
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Turnarounds and Cadences for EDM
How to produce music using Turnarounds and Cadences in EDM, House and Techno.
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Processing a Kick Drum for EDM
Unlock the power of kick drum processing in EDM. From sample selection to mastering the mix, achieve professional results with ease.
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Music Production arrangement and mixing
A Tutorial to help you understand what is needed for a professional sounding track. Using arrangement and mixing to achieve loudness.
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What Is a Vocoder? | Vocoder Tutorial for Music Production
How do vocoders work in music production? Create robotic vocal effects. How to use vocoders on vocals, drums, synths, and sound design
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Music Theory for Producers
Understand Chord Progressions, Inversions, and voicing. Work out Keys and scales which is essential music theory for producers.
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10 of the Best Free VST Plugins for Music Production
Looking for the best free VST plugins? Discover 10 powerful synths, effects and mixing tools that work in any DAW. Perfect for producers on Mac or Windows.
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Polyrhythms, Polymeters and Euclidean Rhythms Explained
Learn what polyrhythms and polymeters are in music production, how Euclidean rhythms work, and how complex rhythm patterns create groove, tension and movement in electronic music.
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Fundamental Bass patterns in Drum and Bass
Fundamental MIDI bassline patterns for Drum and Bass production. Learn walking bass, sub patterns, and how to lock basslines to the kick.
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Fundamental Drum patterns in Drum and Bass
Learn Jungle and Drum & Bass drum patterns: 2-step, half-time, rolling grooves, kick placement, ghost hits, and classic sequencing techniques.
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Master your own music
A 10-step guide to mastering your own music, covering compression, EQ, gain staging, loudness and how to get a professional-sounding master at home.
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Hack music theory with Ableton
Use Ableton Live to explore music theory without prior knowledge. Learn scales, chord progressions and inversions with a practical, hands-on approach.
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How to Chop Amen Breaks | Stranjah Jungle Tutorial Part 2
Learn how to slice, sequence and rearrange Amen breaks to create authentic Jungle drum patterns and rolling breakbeat grooves in this tutorial from Stranjah.
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Detuned Bass Serum, Massive, Massive X, Operator
This tutorial demonstrates 2 different ways to achieve the detuned sub bass wobble made famous by the likes of Shy FX, Break and Serum. A popular bass used in jump-up and roller drum and bass.
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Advanced Jungle Drum Programming | Stranjah Tutorial Part 3
Learn advanced Jungle drum programming techniques including MIDI sequencing, drum layering and breakbeat processing in this final tutorial from Stranjah.
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How to Make Jungle Drums | Stranjah Jungle Tutorial Part 1
Learn how to make Jungle drums using the Amen Break, drum layering, EQ, compression and classic breakbeat techniques in this step-by-step tutorial from Stranjah.
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