Hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, and welcome to LNA Does
Audio Stuff. Hey ail, Ableton Live 12 is out, and I've been using it now for a couple of
months. I made a couple of tracks with it as well. So in this video, I want to talk about
how Ableton Live 12 is now part of my workflow, which of the new features I actually love.
I'm also going to show you samples of why I enjoy them. I'm also going to talk about which
features I have struggled with a little bit, and I'm going to talk about each one of those case
by case. I'm not going to be able to talk about every single feature in this video, so please
comment below other features that you would like me to cover on this channel, and I can make
some tutorials. Also, please subscribe to this channel because I need your love and validation,
and I'm going to get it through those likes. We're going to start with the browser, so
the browser is a very talked-about element, and to be honest, it's the one that I've struggled
with the most. Is it because of the new update, or is it because it's taken me a while to get used to
it? For example, one of the things that are new is here, this filter area. Something that I struggled
with the most is that when I go to audio effects, it doesn't have those groups anymore like in Live
11. So, for example, if you want to add color, you go to the group that says color, and
you will find all these petals, saturation, everything under that category. You don't really
know what you're looking for before you go to the actual folder, and then you're like, "Oh yeah, I
could use that one." So that's kind of what I've been struggling with until literally a couple of
days ago. I figured out that it may be because of me. So when you go to filters, I've created those
same categories here by myself. So we go edits, and then here devices. Under this category,
I could add a tag. So, for example, color, delay, dynamic devices, EQ, filters,
mods. So modulation, reverb, resonance, utilities. And then I can go through each one
of them and add. There was one that wasn't, add cabinet color. So I can add each one of them
into one of these tags. So when I now open filter, I can go color, I see all the different devices
that are under color. And I like the fact that I can do the same with plugins. I have not done
that yet because there's quite a lot of plugins, and it's going to take time to do that. But for
example, now what I've been using is Baby Audio, you know? And then I find the Baby Audio plugin
that I really like using. I think I struggled with it because I was kind of ignorant about
what you can actually do with this whole filter area. But if you're not really familiar with
Ableton Live and how it works, you might not know how to add these different categories. For
example, what different devices go under color, which ones go under delay and dynamic devices?
You might not be familiar with this concept. So in a way, Ableton could add these ones here
already just to cater to those people who might not know. But for me, this really worked. Right
now, if you would like to learn to make tracks in Ableton Live from start to finish, I do have a
course. It's around 7 hours long, and it teaches you how to make a track from start to finish in
great detail, like every single bit. Also, there are beginner courses for Push 2 and Push 3, and a
live performance course coming up very soon. The course is taught in Ableton Live 11, but it also
works in 9 and 10, as well as now also 12. Cool. So let's talk about Meld. I'm not 100%
got used to Meld yet, but I do find it quite intuitive when I have been using it.
So I like the fact that the categories are easy to find and navigate. So envelopes, LFO, the
matrix, MEY, MP. We also have the A oscillator, B oscillator, and then we have the settings. Oh
yeah, and we can also extend this, which is nice, to the mod matrix. And we have also AMB. One
thing that I really enjoyed with Meld was this thing that they have actually crackle and rain and
bubble. I found this, and it was like, "Oh my God, sound design." So we could create some really cool
sounds. I also like the density and intensity. So this is the density of the oscillator, and
then intensity is a change in some functions depending on which oscillator we're using. For
example, we could create something like this, or we had the but rain. Oh, that's nice, nice.
And then we can go to envelopes. It's really, really fun. I feel like I want to explore that
even more and the different capabilities of it. But already a big fan of that. It's quite
simple to navigate, and that's a big thumbs up. Okay, Roar. So anyone who's already watched
any of my live streams on Patreon, by the way, I stream on Patreon. I do most of my tracks in
there. Anyone who's been following that knows that Roar is a big, big, big, big, big to me.
So for example, base, let's have a look at this base that I created as part of my latest track.
Good choices, I forgot the name for a moment. [Music] Horus, okay. So if we have this here and we have
Roar over here, here firstly, I love how it opens up. It looks quite like there's so much drive
happening, but I love the versatility of it. I love that we have a modulation matrix.
We also have, this is my favorite aspect, so we have different, we can actually add
single, serial, parallel, multi-pan, M, mid-side, and feedback processing for the signals. But my
favorite is multiband. The fact that, for example, if we're doing sound design for a bass, it
allows us to control the low, mid, and high frequencies and add resonance and dry to them
to each one of those bands separately. Oh yeah, I could just take these off, so that's just the
low one. Then mid one, I added soft sine wave, and I like that I can also change the bias of
it. So does it affect the sound differently and the signal? And then we have the amount and
then frequency, which also each one of them has their own filter. So versatile, so easy to use.
On top of that, we have obviously LFO1, LFO2, envelope follower, which is built into it, noise,
which is great for bass, any kind of sound design, lifts, drops, whatever we want to create. Plus,
we have the modulation matrix. So, for example, I could connect LFO1, which I have to filter
frequency one, and they are pumping like that. And that adds a lot of, so without them, it's
quite smooth, and with the LFOs on the modulation matrix, it complements that movement, compliments a lot of the ducking effect that is
happening. So big, big, big thumbs up for that. Okay, tuning. This tuning area here on
the top has been very practical because, firstly, it reminds me what tuning
it is that I'm in. So, for example, I'm in minor now. If I sometimes in the
beginning of a track drop something in, it recognizes the tuning of it, and it tries
to change that. So sometimes you need to be kind of careful that it doesn't change it.
But otherwise, I do like it because then it automatically on the clip editing window gets
a minor in here as well. So been liking that. Okay, clip editing view. We are here. So it
looks like this. And there's quite a lot of new features here. I like the humanize aspect.
So I clicked it and you see that it's slightly off the grid. So it adds swing, especially
for high hats, anything kind of MIDI drums, anything like that. It's being really, really
practical. At integrals, I definitely have been using this. So I can just go create chords by
adding, for example, seventh here to the chord, and it just automatically adds the seventh.
Great, great, great function. Just again, makes your workflow faster. This Abadi here, I've
tried to use it a couple of times. It's not been super intuitive for me yet. I don't know if
the reason is because I've been using the basic abator enabled to live for so many years.
Again, it might be just that I need to get used to it. But basically, it works the same way. So
I can just go, for example, for these chords, I can go chord trigger, and it just pops it over.
There, there. So many sounds I have used the other brator. There's an updated version of the regular
abator here, and I have enjoyed seeing the visual representation of the notes here on it, which
was not there before. So that is a very great addition. Something else I have enjoyed is
that these are here now. Note envelopes, MP, are here. I feel like they're fast to access than
before. So it's super fast to just go and select whatever you want to modulate or automate inside
of the clip. Also, we have the MPU section here, and this has been something I definitely have
been using because I have Push 3, and with Push 3, you can do MP. So, for example, let's see a
clip where I've done that. We have the base, we go to MP, and you see the drawings here. And
something that has been really fun to access here is how easy it is to go and add MP. Even if you
don't have an MP controller, you can create some really cool shapes by just manually clicking
them. You can do that with Ableton Live 11 as well, but I do enjoy how simple, like, more
clear this view is. So that has been great. The last thing we have is the mixing windows,
and when we're in Arrangement view, one of my new absolute favorites is to be able to see
the mixing window here in this view. I have been definitely using this a lot. When before, I
did go to the side here and use the little logos to open return tracks, open send IO settings. As
well as now, the mixing everything here is now on this drop-down menu on the lower right corner.
Because they are behind the drop-down window, I find a bit more clumsy to go and click it here.
But I have found that the shortcuts for all that is very practical, and I'm now used to using them,
and I don't have that issue anymore. Like, go here and click and use that little arrow there and go,
"E" sense and volume and in and out. For example, it's Alt + Command + M is the mixing window. Alt +
Command + I is the IO settings. Alt + Command + B is the browser. Alt + Command + R is the
return tracks. And Alt + Command + S is the sends. Actually, pretty freaking practical.
So I don't have an issue with that. Otherwise, I haven't had any issues with CPU or glitching
or crashing down or working with plugins. I've actually had a pretty, pretty good time with
Ableton Live 12. Not even pretty good, very good time. And I made this track, and it's out now. So
this year, I am making 12 tracks in a year. So one track per month. If you would like to also be a
bit more productive or just find confidence in your creativity in Ableton Live skills, whatever
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