Ableton Live was the first DAW to incorporate both a traditional timeline view and its unique clip-based view that was designed to help electronic music producers intuitively arrange various parts and layers. Ableton has long positioned itself as the DAW for creators. Today its most recent iteratio...
Looping originated with tape experiments in the 50s. It’s called looping because back then the two ends of a section of analog tape would spliced together to form a literal closed loop. It’s called looping because back then the two ends of a section of analog tape would spliced together ...
So, let’s sayyou’ve downloaded an acapellathat’s at 105 BPM, and you want to bring it down to 90 BPM. How do you do that in Ableton Live? If the acapella doesn’t have any timing issues, then it’s a pretty straightforward process. ...
They jam-pack their software with so much that you’ll never run out of things to explore, which can be a good or bad thing, depending on your workflow. That being said, Ableton Live still has killer, high-quality features that make it a more than capable DAW. FL Studio also offers ...
a Follow Action to play one bar, then go back to the First clip, so whenever I want a little bit of variation in my drum loop (at the end of a phrase etc) I can trigger an edit clip, and know it will only do the fill clip for one bar, then snap back to the original clip....
“Four Producers Flip The Same Sample” series. These videos do a great job of illustrating how artistic journeys can be radically different, even if they start at exactly the same place. This notion was one of the ideas we wanted to explore at Ableton Loop 2018 and so, in collaboration ...
These will jump the loops back and forth based on the width of the loop race itself. Press play to search around for the best four bar section in your music. Now, set your first attack in your loop by zooming in on the hit. Hover over the audio and create a warp marker to drag ...
This sequence is set to a 2 bar loop. Step 3 Next, we’ll quickly change the routing of our newly created Analog synth. Locate the routing section by clicking on the main panel (1) and clicking the “Quick Routing 2″ option (2) under the routing section in the middle of the...
Perhaps there’s an awesome little synth line you could loop and filter? Or maybe there’s a vocal line that you’d like to hear more of… try cutting and pasting it in new spaces in the track. Be as creative as you like, and don’t be afraid to chop things really short – ...
You can choose to record a rhythm over the whole progression, or pull the record markers into whatever position you want to work on. Take 1. As you record, the chord progression will silently loop, as you trigger chord rhythms. As the pattern loops, the Take number increases. To revert ...