deadmau5 deletes his iconic SYNTH SOUND. 

ANYBODY! how does he make the project play from playhead being in midi-editor (not from the main arrangement window). This setting in Ableton drives me crazy (in any other DAW you can set playhead being in whatever view - piano roll, note-editing - but in Live you have to go up to Arrangement view, while editing midi-notes and I found zero info about how to change this setting). Thank you very much in advance. If you open that secret, you're gonna make me and hordes of other people super happy.

Big respect to deadmau5 for having the courage to show his raw workflow. Most artist only dare to show their final tracks, to make sure they make the best possible impression. But the truth is - everything sucks in the beginning. Iterative refinement is key to making good stuff.

Even the default sound on Serum sounds better when he plays it than when i play it.

This was like watching Rogue One; You know it ends with everything being trashed, but you still feel bad when it happens.

"surprised you are doing chords the old fashioned way.. no rapid prototyping in cthulu" *Opens up Cthulu.*

Man look at all these chart topping producers in the comments nit-picking everything

Deadmau5 finds the cure for cancer. Then scraps it.

I fell asleep listening to this and had a dream of all the chords climbing up and around a tall oak tree, and they were all white with sparkles on the chords. Great dream.

you mean a detuned saw wave?

5:05 when you get the mushroom in Super Mario Bros

As a music producer myself, thing kind of thing happens very often. An artist will have tens if not hundreds of dumped projects and melodies and chord progressions for every one that they release.

I think the chord progression at 7:07 and beyond is definitely much more attractive than the synth sound itself. It’s very hypnotic.

WOW saw wave with enveloppe on the filter o_O First time i hear about such a complex sound

but this track is useless without parallox in chat that no say "you can hide the keyboard"

The way it opens up at 12:45 gives me chills every time

I respect how he still finds the time to talk to his chat

I love how the title just has to say THAT SYNTH SOUND and everyone instantly knows what you're talking about

i like the way you said it "THAT SYNTH SOUND"

11:02 Read the last message in the chat box lol.

Deadmau5 play any instruments? their melodies are so deep. I take weeks or months to create something decent, he makes an exciting melody in minutes ... OMG.

HELP! Someone made an amazing arrangement of this, kicking off where this track is around 8:55, to make it a full track (!) and it was taken down by YT for copyright… I can’t find ANY other version of this track now. It’s actually one of my favorites and I used it often to focus at work. No more! What a loss… Does anyone know where it could be found?

im def in love with the way he edit chords

That chord progression is gold

09:59 Thank me later..

If u know what he is doing, you know he's good. Other producers don't even know what an hp12 filter is... While deadmau5 makes that filter himself xD

Are my titles are driving some of you bonkers??? "Deadmau5 makes another detuned saw wave"... Maybe I should try that and see if anybody watches it. I'll post the same video with two different titles and see which performs better....the data will show if it's worth the effort.

That indeed is a nice chord progression, I'll give him that.

this arpeggio game is a magic of great combinations

I love how everyone in the chat are now "master producers" saying how trash he is but yet they are nowhere near an amateur producer lmao

This chord progression! Ahhhh 😍

every time i hear this it makes me go to sleep its soothing to me

Sometimes you got to be the villian, but to be a deadmau5 is understandable too.

watching this whole was am amazing experience

amazing how trance never dies.. his majesty deadcow's skills aside...

Deadmau5 makes "That chord progression"

You mean a hypersaw? You can make one literally by turning up the unison on a basic saw wave and some LP Filter Modulation. That’s it. Takes like 15 seconds.

i got banned on his stream for calling him mousey boii when hes was playing pubg XD Phantom sage raid!

7:08 Reminds me a bit of "Son of Flynn" by Daft Punk

Arp is so beautiful

3:57 Beautiful!

''Get Kanye to pay for Serum'' LMAO xD

Awesome vid. Amazing to watch the process of a true genius!

JOEL, you can hide the keyboard

do u mean a saw wave with a bit of unison, distortion, and a lowpass with a plucky lfo on the cuttof as "THAT SYNTH SOUND"??

That sound is just a super saw and a good filter? Why is anybody impressed?

My friend will do awesome stuff like this, by that I mean he'll make a beautiful song & maybe post it on his soundcloud for a week... I hear it & think "this shit is REALLY good!!"... next day I'm thinking "I wanna hear that again", but then he's taken it down, so I say Hey dude that one was really good, why'd u take it down? & can u at least put it back up but mark it as private so at least I CAN KEEP LISTENING TO IT even if u don't want other people to hear it anymore? & he'll tell me "nah man I got rid of that one, I got something better I'm workin on"... which is good because he's pushing himself to be better, but I'm always thinking "man, that track was great... there was nothing wrong with it...people would love it! Why did you have to completely erase it off you're computer? Your hard drive has plenty of space... you could at least just save & keep the file for a while & maybe check it out again later & maybe you'll see that it was fucking awesome to begin with... maybe it just wasn't your own personal favorite of your own work at that time, but damn! I see you just making gold & then just throwing it in the trash! .... Last time I hung out with him, we were in his car & as he drove he was scrolling through the mp3s on his iPod... he played a new song of his that I hadn't heard yet & as usual, I loved it, but I thought it soon wouldn't exist, so later that night I asked him to play it again & sneakily was running a voice recorder app on my phone while I sat in the passenger seat holding my phone's Mic next to one of his car's speakers so that I could AT LEAST have THAT audio recording memory of yet another awesome song he'd made that, of course, might soon not exist...

awesome chords

I would actually be upset if he didn't name his studio "The Mau5trap".

Vsauce michael here

It wasn't the sound he junked... it was the chord progression... -_-'

I dont know why people are amazed by the sound design and not the song writing and music theory 😂😂😂

i absofuckinglutely love this

im happy you upload these you could put the title "Deadmau5 sucks at making music" and id watch it

One guy in that stream chat said that no other producers do streams and communicate with fans like Deadmau5 do. Well, I definitely know that there is James Egbert who used to do exactly same.

Story of my todays session :D freaking recording and tweaking and in the end just DEL everything

Realistically idk why everyone is freaking out. It was ok, but realistically it wasn't anything too unique and he is always looking for something unique. He probably has thousands and thousands of scrapped ideas cause he isn't feeling it. I save all my scraps but realistically I shouldn't as I'll never go back to them. Some things click some don't and sometimes ideas are just not felt especially if ur someone like Joel. I mean he is looking for something specific each time and all he does is sit and make shit, so if he ain't feeling it, then it's gone. Someone like joel for example live inside melodies. They are everywhere for him and abundant. If that's the case then this was far from something special for him. Joel also cares a lot about what he likes so even if others would like it, he really mostly operates off of if he is feeling it. Just like strobe. He almost deleted strobe. He never probably would've guessed that would be like his biggest song.

Deadmau5's masterclass commercial before this vid? COINSIDENCE?!

How does he have it so Ableton's playhead jumps to wherever he clicks? @4:35

*gets a deadmau5 online class ad*

You have to go through the motions in order to identify something in the chaos. Takes me 4 or 5 versions before I'm on to something..

Is there a very technically inclined person that could extract the audio and put the file up for download? Crediting Deadmau5 of course! EDIT: I mean the song itself, not the parts where he edits... like make a continuous song without including his stops/breaks when he adjusts his settings etc.

10:56 he had it for a sec

Dude... there is now limits as to how youdo your thing and on how creative you can be -Daeseus 2017

Getting a very Boards of Canada vibe as it progresses.... very nice...

3:10 I think it would've been way better if he didn't move the chords up a few semitones.

He spent more on the plugins used in this clip than I spent on textbooks last year... Fuck, dude.

"Joel would bitch slap a kardashian so fast lol, plus he's got a fine mamma jamma" I died there in the chat😂

Thanks for teaching me how to make an arp! I shall explore cthulu

I'm a huge deadmau5 fan but I don't know that much about producing. Can somebody explain to me why everyone is arguing in the comments?

Hey Oskillator! What do you mean bins it? he didn't delete the project.

How do you make music with a live commentary at every move you make

is that not just a detuned saw? lmao

It's just a saw oscillator with a lowpass???

I use logic pro x , does anyone know how to get it to play the whole chord when adding a note in piano roll. For me when I move the note it only plays the one note. .. hope that makes sense.

how is he able to click and have the playback start upon click?

I HAVE A QUESTION? Does anyone know how to get rid of white noise when working with analog synthesizers? I get a lot of white noise when I record my audio into my computer.... I'd thought I'd ask on this video considering Deadmau5 used a lot of Analog gear.... would a noise suppression pedal do the trick or is it more complicated than that? FEEDBACK WELCOME :)

In every video that sais like ".... and junks it" he actually never delets anything.

every second is a different beginning to Some Chords…

his chat is something special, but he does know how to make an arp

What money, connections and fan base will get you! Congratulations

Wow, hey Joel how do you call this Preset?: *Init*

I could've seen part of it being club trance back in the day for sure, but I know that wasnt what he was going for.

How does he keep skipping back to the start of the bar while he's drawing?

deadmau5 the best!

Can we have the title of this record please guys ??

Well he said in the comments that he thinks he can do better, and honestly neither the melody nor the synth were anything special so I reckon he's right

music, refinery ad nauseum

this video is an ear massage

Is this released yet?

(not that I have any real say in the way he produces) But I feel like deadmau5 should have listened to the chords first without an arp to get a good idea of what he wants the background of the track to sound like before altering it as an arp. He still gets interesting results, but everytime he changes a note the arp has to catch up and reset which can sound a bit confusing... I wish I had a computer to make music again, he inspires me so much...

5:56 how does he play the song from the point he selects in the piano roll?

My guy Daeseus in chat acting like he’s better than Rick Rubin

what program is he using?

what progam is that what deadmau5 use'

He is classically trained, the way he leads the chords witness it.

i can't believe he just...... dumped it. :(

Is this on Deadmau5's twitch or Oskillator's twitch?

Thanks for the share. Nevermind the synth sound, no loss there. The arpeggio's nice and i'm going to give this a twist of my own with timings.

"Why does eating jalapenos make my nipples hard" XD 11:07

There is one reason for him to junk it: Its so fucking easy to create something like that.