With its flexibility, ease of use, and famous warp algorithm, Ableton is one of the best digital audio workstations for working with samples. In this course, Nick Garcia will walk you through the variety of ways to flip your favorite samples. You'll learn how to work with the native tools Simpler and Sampler, slicing audio tracks to MIDI, time-stretching, warping, and repitching, and sampling from vinyl. Whether you make house, hip hop, or lofi, these sampling techniques will help you find great samples anywhere and manipulate them to your heart's content. The possibilities are truly endless!

Learn how to achieve a professional-sounding master in this free 2-day course with IO's own Nick Garcia. By using student tracks as examples, Nick will teach you how to use EQ, compression, saturation, limiting, and more to improve and finalize your finished tracks.

Your Instructor

Nick is a producer, DJ, audio engineer, and instructor at IO Music Academy, with seven years of professional mastering experience for some of the most respected names in dance music, hip hop, and R&B. With credits that include Grammy-winning producer Sharam, Cautious Clay, Sacha Robotti, SHAED, Starchild & The New Romantic, Healy, and many more, chances are you've heard Nick's work.

Learn how to build, synthesize, and sequence house chords in this free livestream course taught by house producer and jazz musician Nick Garcia. Over 3 lessons, you'll discover the secrets behind the classic stabs, and dreamy pads heard in your favorite tracks. After learning how to take your typical triads and transform them into saucy sevenths (or even nasty ninths!), you'll cover the signature synthesizers and instruments needed to achieve that classic sound. Finally, you'll learn how to process your sounds with creative effects to give them movement and life, covering everything from spacious pads to psychedelic stabs. Students will also receive a free pack of Ableton presets and devices, straight from Nick's library, for streamlining your house productions.

Have you ever gotten your hands on an amazing track that you wanted to play, but it just didn't fit in your set? Perhaps it was too hard to mix in, had a weird intro, or just didn't compare sonically to the other tracks in your playlist? Well, this is where the ancient art of editing comes into play.

Join Nick Garcia as he reveals the world of editing tracks to make them more DJ-friendly, give them a modern refresh, or even take things further into more original territory. He'll show you how to quantize older recordings, rearrange tracks to make them more playable, add drums and other elements to beef up a groove, and remaster your edits to make sure they stand up to modern productions. Dig up your favorite records because it's time to Make DJ Edits with Nick Garcia.