Ableton Live Clip Tricks

Use Ableton Live? Well then you need to know all of these awesome clip tricks! Ableton Certified Trainer Craig McCullough takes you through all of his personal favorites, one by one, in this power packed micro series, empowering you and your Ableton Live knowledge to work faster and more creatively.

Videos

• Quantize & Launch Modes (06:29) - Revisit the launch modes and quantize settings that are important when playing clips like a sampler in the session view.

• Mapping & Launching (06:37) - Learn about the velocity settings and range mapping to play velocity sensitive clips over the full length of a MIDI keyboard, like a sampler.

• Glitchy Follow Actions (06:38) - See how you can use follow actions to create glitched up samples from several different clips, then make a new clip that can be triggered individually.

• Follow Actions for Offbeat Intro (04:00) - See how follow actions can be used to attach an intro to a clip so that it can be triggered with one press.

• Clip Envelopes (11:39) - See how clips can be used as a highly flexible way of controlling effects.

• Dummy Clips (06:01) - Now that you can control effects with clip envelopes, see how we can then use ‘dummy’ clips to create specific clips for triggering effects, so you can store a bank of effects changes for later use.