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Ableton Live Tutorial: Matching Clip Lengths In Arrangement View
A customer of mine recently asked how to match one audio clip’s length to another in Arrangement View. I get this question fairly often, so I put together a quick and dirty video on how to achieve this with warp markers in Ableton Live. It’s also important to note that you can do this the [...]
Ableton Live Quick Tip: Creating Inspiration With The MIDI Devices
Today’s Ableton tutorial is all about finding or creating inspiration on those days when writer’s block is kicking your ass. Anyone that writes music on a regular basis is going to run into this problem once in a while, but for working professionals, simply choosing not to write isn’t always an option. If you have [...]
Ableton Live Quick Tip – Decluttering Your Arrangement With “Consolidate”
Today’s Ableton Live tutorial is all about keeping your arrange view neat and uncluttered. After moving, splitting, and rearranging clips on the timeline, it can start looking pretty messy. This gets especially bad when you’ve shifted the start point of a clip to overlap either the start or end of a natural loop or phrase. [...]
Ableton Live Quick Tip – Resampling and Sample-Based Workflow
Resampling is an incredibly simple yet powerful technique in digital music production. The idea is straighforward: Record the output of one or multiple tracks into a new, editable audio file. It’s not much different than rendering your composition, except here you’re actually going to incorporate the new file into the current song. I employ this [...]
Ableton Live Quick Tip: Demoing Note Velocity Values
When you’re programming drum lines, one of the easiest and most effective things you can do is add velocity automation. These subtle changes in velocity can take an otherwise bland loop and add a more organic feel. If you combine this with editing your note triggers off the grid, you’ve got a simple recipe for [...]
Ableton Live Quick Tip: The Basics of Parameter Automation
Ableton Live is a simple-looking tool on its face, presenting only the essential functions in an explicit way. However, if you dig a little deeper you’ll find all sorts of clever functionality that can make your music production life a whole lot easier. While these things might not seem that special to people who are [...]
Ableton Live Quick Tip: Dusting Off the Impulse Device
Remember Impulse? I know there are plenty of people who rightfully swear by it, but there are many more new Live users who purchased the program well after the introduction of the newer stuff like Drum Racks, Sampler, etc., who just haven’t had the time or inclination to dig into the older devices. Impulse has [...]
Ableton Live Quick Tip: Resetting Default Device Presets
Have you ever loaded up a device in Ableton Live, only to have the default preset come up with all sorts of strange and arbitrary settings? This issue generally comes about when people unwittingly change the device default preset when they’re mousing around in contextual menus. The following video shows how to fix the issue [...]