7 Responses to “Ableton Live Quick Tip – Resampling and Sample-Based Workflow”

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  1. Mark T

    Hi Nick,

    Hey bro I wanted to stop by and say hi, it’s been a while. Love the new blog, you’ve really came a long way. I gave up on my Ableton website, I just couldn’t keep up with you man. I went back to music and still use Live everyday. Love the quick tips. Keep in touch. Peace…

    Mark T

  2. dj shiva

    Grrr. I didn’t even know it was that easy to select a section to cut. I was doing it the hard way by trying to draw a cursor line. Just that teeny little tip made my day. LOL

  3. Mark Turnham

    Now I understand what resampling is and how it’s used….Thanks

  4. Nice one! I’m going to be buying your various sampling packages soon, I need to step up my sampling game. I started making music as a traditional musician, and for a while when I started out making electronic music, I let the “real music” snobs get to me, and scare me away from trying sampling because it isn’t real music. Then I learned more about how producers in virtually every genre of music since the sampler incorporated either samples or resamples, including old school house, 80′s synth funk and boogie, and even disco. The song that really turned me on was Tullulah Moon’s If You Want My Love. Excellent and classic use of resampling to achieve a unique musical effect unachievable by other means.

    I study neuroscience by trade, and in the face of overbearing criticism from music snobs about sampling, I had occasion to sit down and thought about it, that anytime I played a given note on a piano, I was literally sampling every such instance of that note that I’d ever heard, and what I played next was probabilistically determined by my musical listening background and training. My brain is a highly sophisticated sampler, using probably distributions not unlike probability based midi effects. So someone who is skilled at sampling and listening potentially possesses every bit of musical sense as someone who physically makes music, perhaps even more so because there are many musical hacks among traditional musicians, too. Whether I decide to follow an inverted triad over root minor 9th chord with a suspended chord, or whether I sample the same thing from a D-train tune, I still need to have a musical sense to know what goes together in order to say something meaningful about my personal and musical history.

    Really liking your site. Please keep it up!

    Best,
    Navar

  5. jevins

    yee thanks for taking the time dude!

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