Nate Lain Music

11/23/2025

Spent the weekend tracking rock drums. 💪

These 2 dudes have absolutely crushed it from sunrise to sunset. Massive shout out to our drummer Tanner, and our friend Nathan Lain for their incredible drum work/production today on 4 brand new songs. It was especially fun to track in our home church sanctuary, as the drums sound EPIC. A joyful noise indeed. Stay tuned for more updates on all things new SK!! :-)

09/22/2025

The days have passed when congregations could easily sing in four-part harmony. Most people come to worship expecting to sing the melody, and that puts some limitations on finding a range of notes that everyone can sing comfortably.

Most modern worship songs have a fairly limited range to their main parts (chorus/bridge), often around a fifth. That means if the song is in an uncomfortable range, the strain is going to be constant.

If singing feels like too much work, they will eventually stop, even if they really want to worship.

Something as simple as moving every song into a sweet spot between A1–C3 can transform engagement and create momentum around real worship.

09/03/2025

I’ve always found synth presets to be far too complicated and busy for my taste. It’s one of the reasons that I switched to Ableton from Logic years ago. I wanted the simplicity and customization that the DAW gave me. So often, a preset has too many parameters that the main objective is turning enough things off to get a foundational sound.

These presets are in the range of what I would consider extremely functional and useful. They take up the right space for a pad and have the essential parameters mapped to macros and saved in contrasting presets. I’ve taken my experience from crafting custom sounds for live worship, demos, and recording projects and applied them to these ten pads.

View each pad as an instrument with a variety of tones and textures. They each have a range of colors they can create, so you can pick your favorites and tweak them to custom configurations.

Instead of trying to create too many options, I’ve offered ten palettes. Find a few you like, map the macros to your MIDI controller, and explore the sonic shaping.

I made ten super useful custom dynamic presets using Ableton’s Wavetable Synth and stock Ableton Audio Effects. These pads are designed to be everything you didn’t know you needed in a pad. Because let’s be honest, the pad has a very specific role in most songs, but that doesn’t mean it can....

08/06/2025

A central piece of songwriting and recording is a customized collection of drum and percussion samples. Here are three of my favorite free options that I use regularly in my workflow.

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Three drum set packs that I use in most of my projects. These sounds a free downloads and offer variety and quality useful for pop, country, rock, worship, and CCM music recording productions.

06/25/2025

I spent all week prepping back tracks for our services at Camp Cotubic. Check out this walkthrough of me building the track for “The Lord Will Provide” by Passion.

In this video I go through my unedited process of building a backtrack for a worship song. It shows my philosophy of letting the back tracks enhance the band...

06/20/2025

In this video, I go through my unedited process of building a backtrack for a worship song. It shows my philosophy of letting the backing tracks enhance the ...

07/25/2024

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Subscribe Sign up with your email address to receive news and updates. First Name Last Name Email Address Sign Up Thank you! Nathan LainNathan is a music producer, worship leader, and teacher. He lives in Kankakee, IL, with his wife and two boys. He has a B.M. in Music Composition from Olivet Nazare...