Ableton Live Tips & Tricks

Ableton Live Tips & Tricks is presented by Timothy Allan, whose remixes have reached #1 on the dance charts. Tim shows you the tips and tricks he uses.

Effects

• Autopan Gate (05:10) - Learn a lesser known use for Ableton Live's built in Autopanner.

• Delays into Flangers (07:43) - See how to use the built-in delay to create a tuneable chorus / flanger rack.

• The Double Track Rack (08:35) - Create your own instant double tracking rack to create wide, phat sounds.

• Fun with Inverting (05:39) - Prevent effects from robbing volume from your mix by using phase inversion and natural cancellation of sound.

• Multiband Split Effects (08:54) - Discover the 'better' way to create a multiband split signal and apply effects to each part, even multiband sidechaining.

• Inline NY Compression (04:20) - Learn how to set up and use inline parallel compression without the use of sends New York style.

• Wet / Dry Knob (07:33) - See how to add a wet / dry parameter to any built-in or 3rd party effect in Ableton Live.

Mixing

• Oversampling & High Quality (08:31) - Learn why high quality doesn't always result in 'high quality'.

• EQ3 (06:45) - Discover how that handy EQ3 may actually be causing you headaches along the way.

• Utility Volume (03:47) - Get a quick tip on how to make complex volume automation bend to your will.

Production

• Borrowing Grooves (05:12) - Learn how to pull MIDI data from any musical material and how to modify it to suit your needs.

• Chromatic Sampling (07:16) - See how to use Ableton Live like a giant sampler and create your own chromatically playable samples without using any plug-ins.

• MIDI Mangling (08:12) - Discover how easy it is to generate, route and mangle MIDI data in Ableton Live, and generate your own 'happy accidents'.

• MIDI Warping (04:19) - Explore the hidden MIDI stretching features in Ableton Live.

• Multi Envelopes & Transient Shaping (06:21) - Learn how to make your own multistage envelopes and transient shapers, without any plug-ins.

• Never Ending MIDI Note (04:00) - Learn how to create a never ending MIDI note in Ableton Live for long effects and or sounds.

• Random Session Automation (07:08) - Use MIDI loopback to generate random automation for any parameter in Session View.

• Return Feedback Loops (06:51) - Watch the different ways to use the sends to create dub like feedback loops.

• Time Synced Simpler (07:56) - Learn how to add the much missed BPM sync to Simpler.

• Tuning Samples (04:05) - Discover how to tune any sample to play properly on your MIDI Controller keyboard.

• Vocoder Shaker (05:51) - See how to use Ableton Live's built in vocoder to create shaker and hi-hat loops out of anything.

Workflow

• Default Presets (03:18) - Explore the different ways to set and use the default presets.

• Slicing Presets (04:50) - Discover how to design your own beat slicing presets for any style of music.

• Frozen Bits (03:37) - Learn a seldom used trick regarding frozen tracks and the different bit depths Ableton Live uses, and how to possibly save some hard drive space.

• Impulse Secret Group (03:32) - Learn about the hidden choke feature in Impulse and how it can improve realistic drum programming.

• MP3 Housekeeping (03:20) - Discover that Ableton Live doesn't actually play MP3 files and a tip on how to save a bunch of hard drive space for DJs.

• Multiwarping (02:44) - Learn how to do phase accurate warping on multiple tracks simultaneously.

• One Button Live Looping (05:46) - Learn how to create perfect 1 - 8 bar loops using 1 button when using Ableton Live 'live'.

• Template Setup (03:24) - Speed up initial song creation time by making your own custom auto-loading template.

• User Remote Scripts Intro (13:43) - Delve into the unsupported User Remote Scripts and discover how to make all of Ableton Live's parameters automatically map to any MIDI controller.