Ableton Live: Songwriting & Sound Design Ideas
Gary Hiebner shows you creative ways to make new sounds and enhance your songwriting production ideas with Ableton Live! These videos are designed for those already familiar with Ableton Live and want to explore ways to use Ableton Live's features, functions, instruments and effects to make new and exciting sounds and productions. Project file included in the course extras section!
Videos
• Composing with Session vs Arrangement View (03:57) - In this video, Gary introduces you to what will be covered in the course, and then goes into detail on the difference between the Session View and Arrangement View, and how you can use them to compose your music.
• Using Clips for Ideas (07:33) - Take a look at how you can record ideas to clips in the Session view, and then how you can drag these across to the Arrangement view to build up an arrangement.
• Recording Ideas to the Arrangement View (05:53) - See how to launch clips and record the changes to the Arrangement View in realtime while the clips playback.
• Using Follow Actions (08:33) - In this video, Gary shows you how you can use the follow actions to randomize what clips are playing back to build up an ad hoc arrangement idea.
• Converting MIDI Clips to Audio Clips (02:02) - Discover how to easily convert MIDI clips to Audio Clips, an option that is covered regularly throughout the remainder of the video series.
• Using Dummy Clips to Trigger Events (09:33) - In this video, Gary shows you how you can use Dummy clips to Trigger different audio effect events on a track, which is great way to add interest to your productions.
• Interesting Audio Warping Techniques (08:50) - Learn how you can use Audio Warp Markers in interesting way to alter and manipulate an audio clip.
• Sidechaining Parameters with the Envelope Follower (06:24) - This video shows you how you can apply sidechaining to any parameter in Ableton, through the use of the Envelope Follower effect.
• Transition Effects When Arranging (09:19) - See how to create transition effects between changes in your Arrangement, such as Crash Swells, and Reversed Audio Parts.
• Building Layered Sounds in Chains (13:42) - This video takes a look at how you can enhance a sound or instrument by grouping the track, and then creating additional chain layers to build up a more complex and rich sound.
• MIDI Chains to Select Chords & Notes (12:34) - Watch how you can build up a MIDI device that allows you to change the note and chords for a MIDI clip.
• Conforming Your MIDI to a Scale (08:48) - This video shows you how you can use the MIDI Scale effect to conform and move MIDI note data to notes within the given scale. This helps improve your music theory and problems with tracks playing different note data. Plus, you can experiment with different modes, to hear the tonality change within the part.
• Resampling Your Audio to New Ideas (09:08) - Here Gary shows you how you can take a sample of audio, and pull it into the Sampler Engine, resample it through the processing on the Sampler, and create a new sound to use in your productions.
• Re-Pitching Your Audio to Create New Clips (09:36) - This video goes over how you can re-pitch your audio clips, and build up an interesting piece of audio through the re-pitching technique.
• Building Your Own MultiBand Effects Chain (11:24) - Explore how to create your own MultiBand effects by splitting up the track into different frequency bands, and then processing each band differently.
• Chaining Arps Together (06:45) - Here we take the idea of using an Arpeggiator, and then creating a group, adding different chains, and then adding different Arpeggiations to build it up. The result is a complex sound with many delays and feedback.
• Multiple LFOs to Modulate Parameters (07:18) - In this video, Gary shows you how to split up your bands on the EQ, and then add different forms of processing on each band. In the end you can listen to the audio track before and after and hear how the different effects on the different bands add to the sound.
• Moving Instruments & Tracks Between Projects (03:30) - In Ableton it's very easy to move instrument and audio tracks across to another instrument. Gary shows you how this is done, and the techniques to use to find and copy across instruments and tracks.