Ableton Live Sampler Explained
Join DAW expert Larry Holcombe for an in-depth look at the Ableton Live Sampler! It's an amazingly powerful tool for manipulating and creating unique, expressive sounds you can use to put your own personal sonic stamp on your productions. With these informative video Ableton Live Sampler video tutorials, you'll learn how to trim, tune, reverse, modulate, arppegiate samples and much more. These videos are for new Ableton Live Sampler users.
Videos
• Introduction & Interface (04:01) - The first video introduces the sampler interface, including the tabs and central display.
• Key Zones (07:15) - Next up, we introduce the Zone tab, creating a basic multi sample in the process. This allows us to create a key-mapped sampler patch that can be played correctly up and down the range of the keyboard.
• Velocity Zones (06:33) - Explore the Velocity zone next, where we introduce some velocity expression to our multi sample. We also discuss using the fade option to fade between different velocity layers.
• Sample Tab (12:02) - The varied options to manipulate playback of samples located in the Sample tab are covered next. We can reverse, tune, and loop samples in different ways for some fun and inspiring sonic exploration.
• Modulation Oscillator (12:23) - This video focusses on the modulation oscillator, which can be used in FM and AM mode and can be looped to add extra interest. This permits FM functionality within the sampler to broaden the palette of possible sounds we can create.
• Pitch Envelope (06:10) - The pitch envelope allows us to create pitch modulation for the sample and modulation oscillator. With it, we can create strange pitch effects, tight percussive transients, or bowed-style sounds. To finish off, we cover the global settings, in which samples can be spread, transposed, and detuned, and we can add glide as well.
• Filter/Global Tab (11:02) - This video concentrates on the Filter and Global sections, including the filter envelope, the wave shaper, and the global controls. We also cover the different circuit types that bring some analogue fatness to the filter.
• Modulation Tab (05:45) - Explore the Modulation tab next, which includes an auxiliary envelope that can be routed to different destinations and 3 LFOs that can be used to affect other sampler parameters.
• MIDI Tab (04:09) - Discover how to route velocity and pitch bend to affect LFO rate and loop length, introducing some expression into our patches.
• Using the Sample Selector (05:50) - In this final video, we create a patch with a macro control to quickly scroll through potential drum samples for a track idea.