Cinematic music production with Yuanyue · Ableton Live
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Big, cinematic music — made in the hours you actually have.
The work
Everything I teach, I use on these.
Not demo loops — finished, released tracks. Every technique in the tutorials and the course exists because it earned its place on one of these.
Cold Harbour
Trailer · 92 BPM · D minor
Coming soon
The Long Hallway
Cinematic · 74 BPM · F minor
Coming soon
Nine Weeks of Rain
Ambient score · 60 BPM · A major
Coming soon
Free on YouTube
The slow, unintimidating way in.
No gear talk, no jargon sprints, no “simply”. Every video assumes you are new, busy and tired — and gets you somewhere anyway.
Taught by Yuanyue
Your first cinematic track, start to finish
Stock devices only · absolute beginner
The only 6 buttons you need on day one
Ableton from zero · episode 1
Writing a whole cue before the kid wakes up
Real-time · unedited · one take
Make strings sound huge without a string library
Free tools · works in Live Intro
Why your track sounds small — and the 3 fixes
Mixing for beginners
"I have 30 minutes a day." Here's the plan.
For people with jobs and kids
The course
From nothing to your first finished track.
Five modules, twenty lessons of thirty minutes each — in plain language, built around the evenings you actually have. You finish a real, releasable piece of music, not a folder of exercises.
- 01
Set up
What a DAW is, the music you actually need to know, and Live 12 installed and working.
- 02
Make your first pieces
Beats, bass, chords and a melody, arranged into your first one-minute piece.
- 03
Your own sounds
Record during the day, warp and sample at night, shape it all with the stock effects.
- 04
Plugins
What a plugin is, five free ones installed, and instruments and effects that go further than stock.
- 05
Finish and share
A full arrangement, a balanced mix on headphones, a stream-ready export and your own template.
One payment
US$99
at launch
Lifetime access, every future update included.
What you’ll get
- 5 modules · 20 lessons · about 10 hours
- Every Ableton project file, unflattened
- Works in Live Intro, Standard or Suite
- Lessons 1–2 free to start
No subscription. No upsell.
The switch
The kid is down. The mug is empty.
The apron comes off, and the amp comes on.
Sounds & tools
The instruments behind the tracks.
Every sample here was recorded or synthesised from scratch — no third-party library material, so you can use it in anything you release, commercially, forever.
Night Textures
Sample pack · 412 sounds
Coming soon
Starter Racks
Ableton racks · stock devices
Coming soon
Lullwave
Plugin · in development
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Who’s teaching
“Whatever you can give this — even forty minutes once the apron’s off — is enough to get somewhere real.”
I'm Yuanyue. I'm not a conservatory graduate and I didn't grow up in a studio. I'm a mum with a job and a young kid, and I write cinematic music in the evenings — because that's the time that exists.
Most production tutorials are made by people with all day and a room full of gear. That wasn't useful to me, so I started making the ones I actually needed: short, plain-spoken, stock devices, no shopping list.
If you've been told you started too late, or that you need to be technical, or that you'd need a proper studio first — you've been told wrong. Here's the shortest path I know.
Yuanyue
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- Beginner Ableton templateComing soon
- 12 cinematic samplesComing soon
- First lesson, 18 minutesComing soon
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