How I Turned a "Bad" Neo-soul Beat Into a Monte Booker x Smino Type Beat (Pastel Bounce)

Monte Booker type beat x Smino type beat tutorial — how I make a pastel bounce neo soul beat in Ableton Live from a beat I almost scrapped. Full breakdown of chords, bass, keys, and drums. In this video I take a neo soul beat I almost deleted on TikTok live and turn it into a Monte Booker x Smino inspired pastel bounce beat by rendering it out, resampling it, pitching it down, and rebuilding the drums, bass, and melodies from scratch. What's covered: Why I resampled instead of scrapping the original idea Pitching and stretching the sample for a new key Recycling drums/melody from a previous session inside Ableton Stem separation trick for extra texture (low quality mode over high quality) Bass line automation: pitch bend, sustain pedal for slides, mod wheel for vibrato Layering UV workstation keys, cello, sax, and sax trills Sample chopping with Operator + white noise gate for that pastel bounce chop sound 808 processing with 808 Shaper Kick 12, layered hi-hats off the grid, early claps the drum recipe for that bounce feel Pianoteq 8 solo with a 1ms note echo trick for a subtle octave double 🎧 Buy this beat: https://bsta.rs/BuxmYG 🔓 Join the channel membership for samples + project files:    / @tjnotico   Follow me: Instagram:   / tjnotico   TikTok:   / tj.notico   Business inquiries: [email protected] *Timestamps:* 00:00 – Beat preview (teaser of the final beat) 00:22 – Welcome / intro 01:44 – Recycled drums & melody from a past session 01:57 – Chord progression 03:07 – The sample 03:32 – Pitching down the sample 04:09 – Stem separation trick 05:03 – Bass line 06:22 – Bass automation (pitch bend, sustain, vibrato) 07:00 – Keys (UV workstation) 08:06 – Sample chopping 08:40 – Operator + noise gate trick 10:05 – Cello & sax layers 11:15 – 808s 12:17 – Drums (kick, hi-hats, claps) 13:01 – Piano solo (Pianoteq 8 + note echo trick) 14:08 – Closing words 14:26 – Final beat preview #typebeat #montebookertypebeat #sminotypebeat #pastelbounce #neosoultypebeat #ableton #musicproduction #beatmaking #howtomakebeats #producertips #tracklib #808 #hiphopproduction #trapsoul #beatmaker