drum tips in ableton

Thank you to Beat Academy once again.

https://youtu.be/02B3oBje1hA

I use the velocity trick often to try and humanize drums a bit more, but I did not know about the second portion that allows you to dial up the sensitivity of the velocity slider. Awesome!

The drag and drop within the drum rack was very cool.  Then being able to right click and reverse the sample is pretty killer.  I will save myself on so many extra tracks I create for a quick reverse like this. Sweet. 

Send and returns in the drum rack. Excellent. Thank you.

Ableton :: Evolving Pads in Wavetable

Thanks for this video!

I very much like how you went into more detail about why you made such choices.  The explanation between high and low settings for various settings was great.  Moving the slider so you could hear it, and giving some words to it.

Ableton Tips

Bound 2 Divide

Ableton Wavetable Videos

How To Make Slap House Bass In Ableton Live Wavetable

Thanks to :: Rudram

Used this to create a bass used in part of an upcoming song called "Deep Groove" by 31ric. I liked how the bass cut through on it's tone in his track, but was going to target mine to be a little brighter sounding. This video led me to put some variation in the original sound. It was a good video to get started with twidling the knobs a bit. He does not go into why he is setting things the way that he is though. 

I got a lot more out of this video, by ignoring the values he was setting, and worked towards something that worked better within my song. 

The very quick bit at the end with the saturator was a nice little tip for me as well. I threw that on both basslines and it perked them right up. I have found a new effect to play with for a minute.

5 Wavetable Sound Design Tips You Should Know!

Thanks to :: Dowden Production Academy

The random tip in here was great! Thanks very much for that. Added to the instrument, and the other bass sound, and it added just that little bit of variety.

Song :: Dark

I sat on this song a long time.
Made real progress for a month, and then sat on it for awhile.

Today, I am forcing myself to be done with this and move on.
I think I was getting to micro-focused on parts of this song.

There is a lot of stuff in this song, that I like, and a few thing that I wish I could do again. oh well, right?

I could not get the sounds dialed in fully for what I wanted at the end of the song. The last little melody that starts on a string patch, and moves to a combination of sounds.

Ableton Collections

Discovered a new thing this morning in Ableton. Collections.

So when I hovered aroudn the word, a little 'edit' button became visible.

Of course I clicked it.
This lead me to a series of colors, that I enabled.

I then surfed around to a plugin, and was able to add a color to it by right clicking on that plugin. I went back, and right click on the color, or 'Ctrl + R' let me rename it.

Freddie Joachim - Made in Ableton series

Grabbed some tips from this. 

Thank you.

https://youtu.be/kadQYV3yLwU

Thanks for the video

Chris Punsalan TV
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In this episode of Figure It Out, I show the EASIEST way for me to sample using the Time Warp function in Ableton Live and how I chop samples using the slice to new midi function in Ableton Live.
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Thanks for this. Was helpful and gave me some new ways to look at ableton and music writing.

Song :: I Recognize Her

There is not much to this one. Was exploring some elements with Massive. Maschine, and then finally Ableton. This is another thing that I sat on forever, so really just want to be done with it I think.

Song :: Still Not Satisfried

This is a song of happy accidents again.

Also one, that started with a whole bunch of steam, and kind of petered out. I have started my usual process of sitting on a song, so I am releasing it today, just to be done with it.

So, was trying to find an effective means of practicing a muted thumb technique on the bass guitar, and the bass line came from that. The chords came next. When I began to put this into ableton, the melody elements was the first accident. Saving the file was the second. The percussion bits were the third. All of these in a row.

Drums I feel needed more work. I am not happy with the sounds, but again I need to stop sitting on songs.

The guitar parts were all played straight into Ableton through my PreSonus interface. I have had the 22VSL for some time now and I have been happy with it. Especially its portability. That has come in handy quite a few times.

https://soundcloud.com/31ric/still-not-satisfried

Digging the new DAW

Have to say, that I am really enjoying Ableton 10. It has been quite many months since I was able to do anything musically on the PC, so the program has been installed and not really used in the past few months. Anyway....

A couple of you tube videos, and I am off and running.
Thanks Antonio & Reverb

So far so good.
Ableton fits nicely with my previous experience with Sonic Foundry/Sony Acid & Native Instruments Maschine.

Hopefully some out put will be coming soon.