The Ableton Q&A Thread

[RandoRando]

Well my GF just ordered me a non Powered one. Well see how it works.

[RandoRando]

So I was wondering . Is there people who really build whole songs in session view ? How do you go about automating in session. Just make clip envelopes in different clips and trigger whichever one I want? And then justfreestyle the whole arrangement Of the song on my apc?

[mks]

So I was wondering . Is there people who really build whole songs in session view ? How do you go about automating in session. Just make clip envelopes in different clips and trigger whichever one I want? And then justfreestyle the whole arrangement Of the song on my apc?

This is my workflow. I jam out all of the different parts in Session view including all of the chord changes, bass changes etc. Then I start setting up Scenes to start giving me a rough arrangement of different sections I know I will want like intros, the body, outro. Then I will jam on all of these with my APC20 recording into the Arrangement view. This will include playing the individual Clips plus the Scenes. Now I will have the main idea of the tune in the Arrangement View. Now is when I start doing all of the automations and recording them into the Arrangement. From here I will tidy up the Arrangement deciding what else it might or might not need. The mixing stuff is usually happening concurrently while I work, but then I will start to go a bit deeper into it once I have the basic arrangement down.

[RandoRando]

So I was wondering . Is there people who really build whole songs in session view ? How do you go about automating in session. Just make clip envelopes in different clips and trigger whichever one I want? And then justfreestyle the whole arrangement Of the song on my apc?

This is my workflow. I jam out all of the different parts in Session view including all of the chord changes, bass changes etc. Then I start setting up Scenes to start giving me a rough arrangement of different sections I know I will want like intros, the body, outro. Then I will jam on all of these with my APC20 recording into the Arrangement view. This will include playing the individual Clips plus the Scenes. Now I will have the main idea of the tune in the Arrangement View. Now is when I start doing all of the automations and recording them into the Arrangement. From here I will tidy up the Arrangement deciding what else it might or might not need. The mixing stuff is usually happening concurrently while I work, but then I will start to go a bit deeper into it once I have the basic arrangement down.

Thanks for that reply. Now bow about if I want to perform 5 different songs of mine live in session view. How would Ito about bringing all of them into one set before I play (or even on the fly). ?? Would it bring all of the automations or vsts withthe clips? Audio effects?

[mks]

Bounce all of your final parts down to audio and make them into clips. When I am playing a live pa, I don't want to have to think about too much going on with multiple tracks, so I bounce and strip the music down to 8 tracks and make those into clips. Like down to drums, percussion, bass, keys, vocals, FX etc.

Set up a template and set up scenes. Leave your self room to improvise and get creative.

[RandoRando]

^^alright cool, looks like ill need to get a external HD though to organize all of that.

also could someone tell me why my velocity sliders in the piano roll from my drum rack arent responding at all to what i set them at? they could be set at 0 and the drum hit will still be the same. Are drum racks not responsive to those sliders or something? do i have to midi map the 2 together?

[nnny]

In the actual drum rack, bring up one of your drum hits. Look at the bottom right. Velocity will probably at 0, you need to take that up higher man. Whack it up to 70 or so and see if that makes a difference. That means the velocity you set the hit at will be affected 70%, get me? Hope I made it clear enough. I would post up a Screenshot but I'm not at home.

[symmetricalsounds]

if you scroll back a couple of pages i answered the same question for someone and stuck a screenshot in too.

[nnny]

if you scroll back a couple of pages i answered the same question for someone and stuck a screenshot in too.

Yes man that was my question haha!

Anyway, heres the link to the post Rando:
http://dubstepforum.com/viewtopic.php?f ... y#p2573120

[RandoRando]

thanks guys! now its perfect, just little things here and there i dont know how to do but i caught onto ableton pretty quick thanks to this thread!

all i gotta work on is building songs in session

[RandoRando]

well some of the cool things in impulse like the stretch function can be useful to have, plus i've got it setup so one square of a drum rack is an inpulse rack but got a radomiser before the rack which means any of the 7 impulse hits can be triggered randomly so then have the slight differences between hits so gets a more varied drum sound and cuts out lots of the work. that means an impulse rack for kicks/snares/hats etc... but then i'll also have straight hits in the drum rack too cos sometimes you don't want any surprises. the great thing is all those things can work together in the drum rack, you could drop another drum rack into a drum rack if say you've got a premade rack of hats, you could drop a synth into one of the drum rack squares and use that for one of the hits.

link to the original drumpulse video that i got the idea from http://blog.dubspot.com/drumpulse/

That vid's pretty cool. I will give this a try. I still have love for Impulse because I used it for years before Drum Racks came out and always thought it had some cool features. I still use it in fact along with Drum Racks because I have built so many kits with it. This looks like a cool way to combine them.

bumping this post, achieving "humanization" just got a fuckton easier with "drumpulse" downloading the .alp file now of the tutorial to make my own.

[dubstep22]

HELLO!! Wondering if there is a way to save multiple midi mapping schemes in live, and load a new one without ever cutting the audio...

[drake89]

so anyone know how to rewire individual reason insturments (audio tracks) into ableton audio tracks? I can rewire the mixer output no problem, but there's like 40 different audio channels to choose from and none of them work! what am i doing wrong?

[Volatile Psycle]

I've just installed Ableton but Reason Rewire won't show up on the audio channel input selector.
Anyone else had this trouble and resolved it?

Thinking a fresh install of reason might do the trick

[RandoRando]

[Disco Nutter]

Really fucking annoying problem my audio channel area bit keeps blanking out and it does it with the bit where you drop effects and instruments into aswell. Anyone got any idea how to fix this?

Just ran into this myself! Pressing Tab to switch to Session view seems to fix it, but it is annoying.

[daeMTHAFKNkim]

Hey I know everyone says it's preference but some reason and it has always been bugging me that Ableton is just truly better. It seems like the sound engineering/built-in plugins have more customibility...if that's a word.

But my question is if I can use stuff like SoundGoodizer/EQUO in Ableton(No I don't use SoundGoodizer but just an example)

Do I just find the .dll file and drag and drop into the Ableton VST folder or something? I'm totally guessing.

And if what I'm asking for is Rewiring then shit I don't know how to Rewire.

[RandoRando]

Hey I know everyone says it's preference but some reason and it has always been bugging me that Ableton is just truly better. It seems like the sound engineering/built-in plugins have more customibility...if that's a word.

But my question is if I can use stuff like SoundGoodizer/EQUO in Ableton(No I don't use SoundGoodizer but just an example)

Do I just find the .dll file and drag and drop into the Ableton VST folder or something? I'm totally guessing.

And if what I'm asking for is Rewiring then shit I don't know how to Rewire.

yes all the simple vsts work such as all the (fruity " " ) whatever, but those are just the ones with basic black squares with knobs, im not sure about the ones that have graphics like reverb2, delay bank, etc..

vst plugins wont work. sytus for example, youll need to buy the vst version from them for something like that

[daeMTHAFKNkim]

Hey I know everyone says it's preference but some reason and it has always been bugging me that Ableton is just truly better. It seems like the sound engineering/built-in plugins have more customibility...if that's a word.

But my question is if I can use stuff like SoundGoodizer/EQUO in Ableton(No I don't use SoundGoodizer but just an example)

Do I just find the .dll file and drag and drop into the Ableton VST folder or something? I'm totally guessing.

And if what I'm asking for is Rewiring then shit I don't know how to Rewire.

yes all the simple vsts work such as all the (fruity " " ) whatever, but those are just the ones with basic black squares with knobs, im not sure about the ones that have graphics like reverb2, delay bank, etc..

vst plugins wont work. sytus for example, youll need to buy the vst version from them for something like that

How about Grossbeat? . My most important thing I use for production

[DZA]

Is there a way to cut up midi notes?