I am very new to music production and have only been using Ableton for 3 months so I apologise if this sounds very basic and amateurish.  If it does that's only because it is!  I would appreciate any thoughts or feedback on ways I could improve a track like this though.

I made this track because I learnt how to use the cut off switch on my synthesizer and I wanted to make a track as an exercise in using it.  I use the 'ANA' synthesizer designed by Sonic Academy.  I have a very limited range of beats I can use as I have not got any more sample packs yet, I only have what Ableton Live Intro came with (which is the software package I am using).

The track is called 'Toronto calling' as one of my favourite tracks is 'Faxing Berlin' by deadmau5 which definitely influenced me here.

Any thoughts, please let me know

Thank you

Iain

Toronto calling

Here's another track I made about a month before 'Toronto calling'.  My girlfriend, as a bit of a joke, asked me to remix 'Careless whisper' by Wham so I thought I'd have a go.  Now, that was pretty difficult so all I did was use a clip of the original for an intro and outro (which I have not included on this edit for copyright reasons) and then worked out the key of the track so that anything I made then on fitted in.  The vocal samples I have used are of the track but are taken from an acapella version I bought from some other random band who were covering it.

This is of course pretty cheesy, how could it not be being based on a Wham track and although this track was made as joke I did soend a bit of time on it, particularly the different effects and beat.

The same excuses apply as Toronto calling though, I was only about 2 months into learning the software when I made in this and I have a very limited number of sounds I can use (I was using the ANA synth by Sonic Academy and Ableton Live Intro).

As before, any thoughts would be appreciated with regards to the technicalities of the track.

Thanks

Iain

Iain Bignold