7 advanced ABLETON TIPS in 400 seconds!

[Music] bring your pads to life we start with a simple pad let's add some movement to it load up ableton's envelope and utility on the pad track map the envelope midi to the utility's gain set the adsr turn off velocity and turn down the range's maximum next add a shaper duplicate the utility and map the shaper to the new utilities gain lower the maximum range set the rate and the [Music] depth quick sample trick for high hats add a hat sample to an empty midi track activate the slice trigger and manual modes Place three markers for a total of four chops select a bar on the track and insert a midi clip make a pattern each note triggers one chop change the velocity of each to emphasize the Rhythm and duplicate the notes next add an LFO map it to the simpler fade in and reduce the LFO top range add a high pass EQ and a compressor side chain to the kick lower the threshold and activate Peak mode played in context the high hat feels more [Music] human happy accidents with this blending Technique we start with a Plucky loop from our new acoustic four pack group it now we are looking for a more atmospheric [Music] sound perfect place it on the second chain activate chain and adjust the lines accordingly you can now blend between the Sounds by moving this marker next we automate this with a LFO map the LFO to the marker of the chain dial in the rate to your taste and adjust the depth great starting point for happy accidents are you adding Reverb properly this is our dry sound this is with improper washed out Reverb let's fix this and create space for the sharp stab transients we're going to group The Reverb then create dry and wet chains make sure the Reverb is 100% wet next we're adding a heavy side chain to duck the reverb when the sharp stabs need to cut through dial in the reverb's volume to suit the [Music] Trap struggling with two sounds that clash with each other do this here we have a base layer that gets in the of our base stab put an envelope follower and an eq8 on the stab's track here you can roughly set the EQ bands to cover the overlaps using eq8 visualizer then map your envelope follower to the gain of these filter nodes and set the mod percentage 50 to 0% next move the eq8 to the base layers track [Music] you can dial in the attenuation with the envelope followers game [Music] knob how to add depth to your drums creating depth in your songs is all about smart layering here we add a stunning Dimension to our high hats in parallel processing we're using an envelope follower to modulate the amount of erosion after cutting all the low frequencies we send the signal through reverbs lastly we use a gate to tighten up the effect and control the groove this is our original sound here is the effect and the two [Music] together let's check out the PML Rumble rack it's a great tool to create the perfect kick Rumble for your techno track use the rack on your kick track and simply dial in the low and mid Rumble knobs to your taste here's how it [Music] works [Music] [Applause] [Music]

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Keywords: Ableton Live, Ableton Live Tutorial, ableton live 10 tutorial, Ableton, Ableton Tips, ableton tips and tricks, abletontips, PML, Ableton Live Beginners, Ableton Tricks

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Length: 6min 21sec (381 seconds)

Published: Wed Dec 20 2023