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Description
An Ableton 8 Midi-Based Big Room House Template Created by Dan Castro
Imagine having a pro producer come to your studio and adjust all your knobs and settings so your mix sounds amazing. Well, he's already done it and now you can download his midi - based Ableton Template, open it up and learn from a pro producer in the industry. We don't just give you a template on this one. You'll receive a full song to tear apart as well as a production notes document to help you learn why Dan made the moves he did.
About the Man...

Beat Elite is proud to bring you our latest Big Room House Midi Template for Ableton 8 Suite
With over 108 releases to his name, Dan Castro has more releases than a White Collar Prison. In this Big Room House template by Dan Castro, he lets us inside his bag of tricks on how he gets his signature sound.
- Learn how he uses an overdrive and saturator on the sub bass sounds to give it grit and help it cut through the mix.
- Learn a special trick he uses after every reverb insert in the song
- Learn how he uses a very powerful, free, VST synth to create a big room sound on a low budget rig
- Learn what Dan Castro uses over the master bus to give some unusual creative effects
Now Featuring Production Notes

We recently and quietly starting including production notes in our newer templates as a test. While just having a template to work from is great, we believe that learning should never stop. These Production Notes have gone over incredibly well. This Big Room House Midi Template for Ableton includes these notes and were personally written by Dan Castro himself. You can expect to see these in many more Midi templates.

Midi Based Templates for Infinite Creativity
As always, this is a Midi -based template so you can rearrange and recreate however you wish. You will also have a ton of new channel strip settings to add to your collection and all the sounds are completed only using ableton native plugins and one free 3rd party plugin. Download this project, open it up and use it as starting point or as learning tool. We know you're going to find this Ableton Midi Template an invaluable resource.
Audio Processing By The Pros

Every audio processing chain in the file was created by the pros. With every mid production template for Ableton, you'll receive a plethora of new Channel Strip Settings and new Instrument Racks to add to your private collection.
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Dan Castro's Street Cred
| 108 Label Releases On |
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| Cr2 Records |
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| Le Mans Recordings |
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| ICompilations |
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| Caballero Recordings |
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| Erase Records |
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| Netsworks Records |
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| Big Beat Records |
Notes*
- This template uses Ableton 8.2.2
- This template uses a free VST for mac and PC called Synth 1- you can download it here
- This template does have audio stems in some of the tracks. This is simply to lower the overall size of the download. Everything Dan did to create the original tracks is listed in the "Creative Notes" document inside the template folder.
Features
This feature indicates the original tempo of the track
128
Main Room House
The number of instrument settings refer to the number of newly custom created patches for any native or 3rd party instruments (Exs24 Operator, Sylenth etc). This also includes any channel processing for that instrument.


The number of music-based midi files. This number does not reflect midi files that trigger drum patterns.
This refers to the number of channels that have any kind of signal processing. This could mean either standard .wav or .aiff processing or a bus or group of channels that have been merged and processed. Generally, it's any audio other than a direct virtual instrument, sends or master processing.


The number of sends for custom effects like reverbs, delays, stereo spreaders, exciters etc.
This refers to whether there is bespoke Mastering done on the mix bus of this template. This isn't meant to replace a mastering engineer but to give you a good idea how to get your track up to a commercial level.


This refers to whether we used any third party plugins or instruments or if only native-DAW instruments and plugins were used. In most cases, we only use native. However, there may be special occasions where we use 3rd party. All third party plugins will be listed here as well as on the product description page.
None -Only Native plugins Used
What are Production Notes?

These notes that cover, at a high-level, not only the how but the why things were done. This helps the engineer understand the trick but also gives context. We try to include these in as many templates as we can but there may be times where the engineer that provides the file is not able to produce notes due to time restrictions.
This featured indicates that this template's arrangement has been standardized to work with any Logic Element, Remix Stem or any other Standardized template in our marketplace. We standardize the arrangement in the following way:
Intro = bar 1 to bar 33
First break = bar 33 to bar 49
1st chorus/bridge = bar 49 to bar 97
second break = bar 97 to bar 129
2nd chorus/bridge bar 129 to bar 161
Outro = bar 161 to bar 193

Bonus Template Versions
Mini Template Version
This version has been reduced to 32 bars for ease of use.

Unity Template Version
All automation, music, midi and mix levels have been reset to 'unity' in this version so you can save this to your template collection. To do this in logic, navigate to “file” then select “save as template.”

Drums Only Template Version
This version has all music stripped out so you can just start writing to a drum track.


