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  • September 19, 2012 at 4:57 pm #1012353
    David Somerville
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    I’m learning ableton at the moment so i will keep a check and add any little handy shortcuts etc that i come across that may be of help to other new producers.

    September 19, 2012 at 5:21 pm #1012358
    DigitalJunkiie
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    Ockerdoc! thank you for contributing in this thread! My main goal is to be able to turn this thread in an information hub for ableton and if more users on this forum can contribute it would be nice to have like a little thread archive! But my next ableton class is tomorrow which is september 20th, so I will be learning and covering on new topics stay tuned for this weeks ableton topics!

    September 19, 2012 at 11:37 pm #1012388
    Arthur Kokanov
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    perfect il contact you sometime this week im starting up ableton as well and this is perfect! 🙂

    September 20, 2012 at 5:57 am #1012395
    DigitalJunkiie
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    Glad to hear from a fellow user! DJ Manhattan feel free to ask anything you need and If i know Ill help you the best i can!

    September 24, 2012 at 7:01 pm #1012549
    DigitalJunkiie
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    So due to personal matters I unfortunately didn’t go attend my second class of ableton core training. I contacted the teacher and was able to get a overview of what we learnt in the class, my third class is in 4 days so within these 4 days balancing between school work and Ableton work Ill be doing my best to catch up and this week especially if anyone has questions or tips on the topics that were learned please feel free to PM or reply on here Ill be more than glad to help you the best I can!

    Topics that were covered:
    Lesson 2: Arrangement Preparation

    – Cip Envelope Introduction
    – Tetris Style Arranging
    – Adding Samples using Simpler
    – Key Map Mode Introduction
    – Introduction to Scenes
    – Arrangement Preparation and Jamming w Scenes

    I’ll be doing vigorous studying and a heinous amount of time learning about these topics and I would love to relay some of it to people
    who need it so I myself can absorb what I learn and hopefully educate a new producer!

    September 25, 2012 at 10:21 pm #28867
    softcore
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    I’ll be popping in here ‘n’ there to give you “tips”….

    Here’s my first one:

    You can name scenes with BPM values – example “124 BPM” – launching this scene will change the project’s BPM to that value!

    October 10, 2012 at 4:10 am #1013311
    DigitalJunkiie
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    So my teacher now puts tutorials and reviews of what we have done in the pass classes ill be posting one for now and if I get good review and feedback Ill post some more! This one is about return tracks! Enjoy!
    [media=youtube]WHafxDPsdn8[/media]!

    October 16, 2012 at 7:03 am #1013711
    DigitalJunkiie
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    sorry I have not been able to keep updating this been busy with school. Continuing where we left off I have two lessons to update up upon.

    lesson 3: topics that were covered
    -the purpose of return tracks
    -practical use of return tracks
    -automation in session and arrangement view
    – focused on a track in this form
    – 16 bar Intro – 16 bar Main – 16 bar Breakdown – 16 bar Main – 16 bar Intro

    lesson 4: Topics that were covered
    -Operator and touched based on impluse
    – wave forms
    – sin, triangle, square, sawtooth
    -operator interface review
    -synthesis 101 learnt the basic fundamentals on how any synthesizer works.

    Ill be updating them weekly from now on. Remember the topics I cover if it’s not listed on here, ask it and ill do my best to help !

    October 18, 2012 at 4:44 pm #1013935
    softcore
    Member

    tip#2:

    -Send (return) channels provide an easy way to set up your effects for DJing purposes. For example, you can create 4 return channels and on each one of them insert an effect like reverb or delay. Then you can switch on-off the effects for each of your decks by turning the send knob of that channel from 0 to full.

    -Effects that work well on return channels are those which are commonly heard simultaneously with the “dry” (un-affected) signal – reverbs or delays. You wouldnt use a filter however on a return channel – that would go as an insert in your desired channels because when filtering you dont want any “dry” signal (un-affected) pass through.

    – following the above advise, make sure that the effects inserted in return channels do not let any “dry” signal pass through, if they have a “dry-wet” knob turn it all the way to “wet”. The dry signal is audible from the “source” channel so you do not need any “dry” signal passing through the send channel.

    – the “post-pre” setting found in expanded view of the Live’s mixer sets the way the signal is routed to the sends (and then back). “post” means post fader – if the source track’s fader is 0 no signal is going to the send (even if your “send” knob is all the way up). “pre” means pre-fader – 100% of the source track’s signal is sent to the return channel even if its fader is all the way down – in this setting the signal going to the return channel can only be controlled by the “send” knob.
    Pre and post, to be more accurate, defines if the signal is split before or after the channel fader to go to the “send” knob and from there to the “return” channel.

    October 19, 2012 at 6:05 am #1013974
    DigitalJunkiie
    Member

    Just came home from class, tonight what we worked on was:

    -Instrument Racks and the purpose in ableton
    – Utilizing Instrument racks in arrangement view
    – Creating Instrument racks with different “Instances” (Instances = operator, analog)

    Pretty tired, Ill add more on what we went over in the morning. And Ill also be adding Tips Daily just a random tip about somewhat I learnt in previous classes just like how softcore is doing!

    Tip 001 – creating a lazer type of sound
    This is going to be a very rough overview on how to create a lazer type of sound
    -Start a new session in ableton
    -Load operator, turn off the b,c,d oscillators (right next to the graph you’ll see them in different colors just click on them to turn them off)
    -So now you have one oscillator running which is “a”. To the right of the graph you’ll see a cell column with “pitch Env, spread, transpose” by default its turned off, so to turn it back on press the grey box next to “Pitch Env” to turn it on,
    -Once its on the knob under “Pitch Env” if you turn that all the way up it should produce some sort of lazer sound as you hit the keys on your qwerty keyboard. play around with the knobs and make some lazers that you like! enjoy

    October 19, 2012 at 5:53 pm #1014026
    DigitalJunkiie
    Member

    Tip 002 – Creating a Bass line for a house style track
    This tip is going to provide some insight on creating a bass line in a house style track (intro)
    -Start a new session in Ableton, once loaded you go to your live devices folder which is the second icon below the play icon on the far left hand on the screen.
    -Once you are in live devices browser, load up a drum rack from the Instruments folder. Load up your slots in the drum rack with a simple one shot of hi hat and kick drums, maybe a snare in there.
    -In session view (the session view looks like columns with clips in the columns) in an empty cell thats in the drum rack column double click on the empty cell to start a new piano arrangement note input. You should see the one shots or samples you loaded up on the drum rack to the left hand side of the piano arrangement where the notes for the black and white keys should be will be your one shot/ sample names.
    -By default the Piano arrangement view would be looping 1 bar, to increase to 4 bars, right next to the piano view you should see a box that says “Notes” bottom of that box, should be something that says “Length” and it should say 1 in the first box and 0,0 in the respective boxes after. that means that its looping 1 bar, change the 1 to a 4, and you now have a
    4 bar loop.
    – Kicks are usually on beat 1, and 1.3, 2,2.3,3,3.3 etc snares are on beat 1.2,1.4,2.2,2.4 etc and you can visually see how a simple drum pattern for an intro of a house style track can be easily assembled. Play around with it and see what you can come up with!
    Let me know if anyone needs more clear instructions on how to create a bass line in ableton. Cheers Digital Junkie

    October 20, 2012 at 7:07 am #1014055
    softcore
    Member

    Tip #3 – Ableton Live does not have a native “templates” system – you only get to define one default template with which the software opens. You can however, start a new project, add the channels, return tracks, instruments and effects you use most often and save the whole project as something like “My_x_template”. Create as many projects with varying instruments and effects as you wish.
    Next time you want to start Ableton Live with one of these pre-defined projects (templates), just double click on any of them (instead of the Ableton Live application shortcut) to start a new working project. For ease of use, you can also create shortcuts of these projects-templates on your desktop – just remember that upon adding content, you might want to re-save with another name so that you keep your empty, starting project-template intact.
    Of course, the same can be done if you are DJing with Ableton Live – after setting up all the channels, effects, controller mappings, etc. that you want to DJ with, and before adding any tracks in the project save it as something like “My_DJing_setup” and use that everytime you want to build a set-playlist.

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