been an abletonite for over 6 years, just decided to look into legato and this is what I find. excuse me while I clean my brains of the wall, I seem to have lost my mind over this. holy fucking shit... exactly what I needed, thanks mate
You bet. All you have to do is create other clips with different follow action lengths. For example, if you had 8 clips, you could set them all to different lengths under the launch menu and randomize them all, so when each on triggers it will trigger the NEXT one at a different rate than the others would. Another option would be to create a separate 8 clips for each follow action length and just make sure they are all consecutive in the vertical session track.
Very well explained! Btw, does anyone know if this technique of changing between multiple synchronised beats on the fly has a name? It would be easier for me to look up this kind of things if I knew some keywords!
Very good tutorial and even better music. I like the sound of that guitar! Thanx for posting this, learned quite a lot. Could you do one on drum programming? ie How to make programmed drums sound like they were played by a real drummer.
Great information. But I think a better example would be to jump between drum patterns in the same time signature using different sounds and live effects. Cutting up loops chops off reverb trails and other time dependent effects. But using legato MIDI clips allows for really complete patterns without chopping effects.
thank you for the video man! gotta love a useful tutorial. had no idea about the legato function. i can think of all kinds of neat stuff i could do with this. do you ever use it to jump around vocal tracks?
This one could be either. I definitely use this in the studio when composing. You could simply hit the Global record button in the transport at the top of Live and then all the various clips getting launched would record to the arrangement view in the order they are triggered. Sort of a way of recording your performance while composing, right? Or recording the random follow actions mentioned at the end of the video.
Great little tutorial - had no idea that function was there. In addition to getting random jumps to the other clips in the track, is it also possible to vary or randomize the quantization? eg: jump from 1/8 to 1/6 to 1/32 etc.
@DJVespers I know, but running it red is probably not the best thing to practice. surely you would run into problems later when encoding to something other than 32 bit?
+James Laws quintuplets. Triplets are 3 notes in the space (time) of 2 (i.e. quarter tripplets is 3 notes in the space of 2 quarters). Quintuplets is thesame concept but with five in the space of 2
Nice, are those Maschine kit sounds in a drum rack? (Leibing, Apparat...) I was wondering what the hell legato was. Any tips on programming some of those crazy polyrhythms?
@islilje No doubt. Although waveform chopping definitely has its time and place, and I still love doing things that way, working with MIDI really can have a more organic & natural sound to it. Glad you enjoyed ;-)
Im extremely curious about that 5 to the quarter feel, what are you doing? How do you subdivide that in abletons piano roll? How would you get quintuplets
Great tutorial. Thanks! Quick question - what controller would you recommend for producing with ableton? I'm looking for 1 to control clip launching mainly. Cheers
I have a Akai APC40, i don't know what's the best way is to use it live? Right now i produce my tunes in Propeller-heads Reason, then i take each track (drum, guitar, bass, synth etc.) and i put them in Ableton, so i can launch each scene as a track. If you know what i mean? But i don't feel i use my Akai APC40 to it's fullest? Can you help? Cheers. PS. Can you send the drum samples? They're nice, especially that rim!
I appreciate your time, Ryan. Just subbed. That was right up my alley -- sound design. How do you go about programming in "odd" time signatures? Are you using Groove Pool or is there a basic mode of thinking where the beat should fall on/off grid in a certain place in the measure/bar? Thanks for any insight!
Good eye mate! Indeed these are samples from the Maschine library. Best thing I can say about programming rhythms: don't try to make them sound complex, but rather build up simple repeating patterns of varying speeds and lengths from simple elements on each instrument (kick, snare, hats) and they will naturally work themselves out. For example think of the hat loop as a loop lasting 5 8th notes with hits on 1, 2, and 4 and how that will sound against a straight 4/4 kick snare loop.
I'd export my tracks out of Reason as audio stems. Make sure they are all of equal length (the entire length of your piece) regardless of audio content, then import into Live's Arrangement. For each section of your song (intro, chorus, verse, breakdown, etc.) split all your stems identically. Then drag the cut up stems into the Session view and Live will automatically drop them in as separate Scenes. Now you can arrange your song on the fly live using your APC40! Tweak some effects for more fun!
Hi! I'm new with ableton, and this tutorial made me even more curious. My question is; how do you get everything to work with legato in the arragement window? When I try to move it over there, they're just copied into their full lengths and not made randomly like legato should do.
Open a new audio track in clip view, set it to resampling via the audio input little menu, then copy the recorded audio of the performance in the arrangement view (press the clip, keep it pressed, click tab, drop the clip in the arrangement).
Hey! Do you know if this is the standard way to do things like this? I'm trying to understand how drum variations are played live, both ones like this you showed (aphex twin style) and amen breaks type of drum loops with variations (venetian snares style). Most of the time they seem more random or improvised than actually purposefully written in advance. Can you tell me what the standard procedure(s) is?
The APC40 is definitely the Launchpad's big brother in a lot of way, the Launchpad has always been more of the "budget" option. AKAI's hardware is much better quality than Novation's all across the board, but the Launchpad does offer a few cool features not natively available on the APC without hacks. For example the Launchpad can be used like as a pitched midi controller for playing drums or synth plugins, the APC does not do that by default.
I was referring to how the actual track in ableton was clipping (going into the red). the actual audio wasn't clipping. its a bad practice to leave a channel in the red, which is what i was referring to. Krk Rokit 6 G2's definitely aren't crappy speakers as well.
Unfortunately this one never really made it beyond this tutorial. Maybe I'll dust it off someday and see if it can be fleshed out a bit into a full track!
This is one of the most helpful, not overexplained though clear tutorials i've seen since a while! Thank you, really, much appreciated!
been an abletonite for over 6 years, just decided to look into legato and this is what I find. excuse me while I clean my brains of the wall, I seem to have lost my mind over this. holy fucking shit... exactly what I needed, thanks mate
searched for "ableton aphex twin" and this is perfect
lol same
"drums Ableton aphex Twin"
same
There is possibility that you've saved me from frustration and not understanding how ableton is amazing. Thank you for sharing your wisdom!
This is probably the best "trick" i have seen in ableton, especially that follow action of all the variations of the same drum loop.
its about time someone explained the launch section thoroughly! gracias!
One of the best vids ever of the genre! Congratulations, man, and thanx for sharing your Art :)
i appreciate this, i wouldve never thought to put crazy effects like this on my drums
I really enjoyed this, had no idea about the potential uses for the Legato function. Thanks!
The straight and straight busy sound great. Taking it to 5 over 4 or 6/8 makes the beat too chaotic for my taste. But great tut! +1
Wow, very interesting. I've used Live off and on since 2004 and I never knew about these.
Thanks for this great tip. Haven't seen this explained anywhere else yet. 15 minutes well-spent. Your music sounds cool, btw
who writes such stupid criticising comments ? this video is the coolest - thanks a lot bro - really nice
IT's not the coolest but it isn't bad. He shows how to do something Abelton. It's helpful to beginners. Good guy.
Is anyone else bugged by the fact that he's peaking like fucking crazy
Thank you so much for sharing this man! Solved many of my problems... Your tutorials are awesome and really clear
Both Educational and inspiring. Great work!! Love the music.
Very nice Sir. You really bring imagination to music. So much fun... Thanks!
You bet. All you have to do is create other clips with different follow action lengths. For example, if you had 8 clips, you could set them all to different lengths under the launch menu and randomize them all, so when each on triggers it will trigger the NEXT one at a different rate than the others would. Another option would be to create a separate 8 clips for each follow action length and just make sure they are all consecutive in the vertical session track.
thank you for sharing! this will take my music to a new level
looks amazing for breakcore
13:30 is beautiful. Do You have whole track?
Very well explained! Btw, does anyone know if this technique of changing between multiple synchronised beats on the fly has a name? It would be easier for me to look up this kind of things if I knew some keywords!
GREAT STYLE TO USE LEGATO ON DRUMS BRO. NICE
Very good tutorial and even better music. I like the sound of that guitar!
Thanx for posting this, learned quite a lot.
Could you do one on drum programming? ie How to make programmed drums sound like they were played by a real drummer.
Great information. But I think a better example would be to jump between drum patterns in the same time signature using different sounds and live effects. Cutting up loops chops off reverb trails and other time dependent effects. But using legato MIDI clips allows for really complete patterns without chopping effects.
ABLETON GANG, wow this was exactly what I was looking for!!!
thank you for the video man! gotta love a useful tutorial. had no idea about the legato function. i can think of all kinds of neat stuff i could do with this. do you ever use it to jump around vocal tracks?
This one could be either. I definitely use this in the studio when composing. You could simply hit the Global record button in the transport at the top of Live and then all the various clips getting launched would record to the arrangement view in the order they are triggered. Sort of a way of recording your performance while composing, right? Or recording the random follow actions mentioned at the end of the video.
Great little tutorial - had no idea that function was there. In addition to getting random jumps to the other clips in the track, is it also possible to vary or randomize the quantization? eg: jump from 1/8 to 1/6 to 1/32 etc.
Great tutorial! thanks.
I loooooove the sample you use in the end. could you shere what it is / where its from?
cheers man.
@DJVespers I know, but running it red is probably not the best thing to practice. surely you would run into problems later when encoding to something other than 32 bit?
oh my god thank yooooooooooouuuu for this. this is so cool and easy it feels like cheating
Phat hands on the APC 40
That was GREAT!!! Thanks for sharing
Could you explain the 5 to the quarter technique? I really liked the sound of that
+James Laws quintuplets. Triplets are 3 notes in the space (time) of 2 (i.e. quarter tripplets is 3 notes in the space of 2 quarters). Quintuplets is thesame concept but with five in the space of 2
Can you post a link to the track it's very good
Nice, are those Maschine kit sounds in a drum rack? (Leibing, Apparat...)
I was wondering what the hell legato was. Any tips on programming some of those crazy polyrhythms?
@islilje No doubt. Although waveform chopping definitely has its time and place, and I still love doing things that way, working with MIDI really can have a more organic & natural sound to it. Glad you enjoyed ;-)
damn dude you gotta do more tutorials on beat grooves you really know how to switch up time signatures like a BOSS
Holy shit you haven't done a video in 5 years - you still out there???
Again! You're everywhere! Hahaha
Present
Im extremely curious about that 5 to the quarter feel, what are you doing? How do you subdivide that in abletons piano roll? How would you get quintuplets
Hey man, check this out: th-cam.com/video/MpAAQyQfEQo/w-d-xo.html
Great tutorial. Thanks! Quick question - what controller would you recommend for producing with ableton? I'm looking for 1 to control clip launching mainly. Cheers
I have a Akai APC40, i don't know what's the best way is to use it live?
Right now i produce my tunes in Propeller-heads Reason, then i take each track (drum, guitar, bass, synth etc.) and i put them in Ableton, so i can launch each scene as a track. If you know what i mean? But i don't feel i use my Akai APC40 to it's fullest? Can you help?
Cheers.
PS. Can you send the drum samples? They're nice, especially that rim!
I would like to know if it would sound more synchronized if the general bar were at the same BPM of the loop tracks.
Which effects did you use? I'm more interested in that rather than how you used the legato function. Thanks in advance!
Nice, I was starting to tire of only having waveform chopping to back up my breakcore stuff. Immensely useful :3
It sounds like someone's playing Breakcore and toying with the flanger. I like it!
Excellent tutorial. Thanks!
oh man! i'm gonna do this asap! so glad you made this tutorial!
I appreciate your time, Ryan. Just subbed. That was right up my alley -- sound design. How do you go about programming in "odd" time signatures? Are you using Groove Pool or is there a basic mode of thinking where the beat should fall on/off grid in a certain place in the measure/bar? Thanks for any insight!
Good eye mate! Indeed these are samples from the Maschine library. Best thing I can say about programming rhythms: don't try to make them sound complex, but rather build up simple repeating patterns of varying speeds and lengths from simple elements on each instrument (kick, snare, hats) and they will naturally work themselves out. For example think of the hat loop as a loop lasting 5 8th notes with hits on 1, 2, and 4 and how that will sound against a straight 4/4 kick snare loop.
I'd export my tracks out of Reason as audio stems. Make sure they are all of equal length (the entire length of your piece) regardless of audio content, then import into Live's Arrangement. For each section of your song (intro, chorus, verse, breakdown, etc.) split all your stems identically. Then drag the cut up stems into the Session view and Live will automatically drop them in as separate Scenes. Now you can arrange your song on the fly live using your APC40! Tweak some effects for more fun!
Hi!
I'm new with ableton, and this tutorial made me even more curious. My question is; how do you get everything to work with legato in the arragement window? When I try to move it over there, they're just copied into their full lengths and not made randomly like legato should do.
Open a new audio track in clip view, set it to resampling via the audio input little menu, then copy the recorded audio of the performance in the arrangement view (press the clip, keep it pressed, click tab, drop the clip in the arrangement).
Hey! Do you know if this is the standard way to do things like this? I'm trying to understand how drum variations are played live, both ones like this you showed (aphex twin style) and amen breaks type of drum loops with variations (venetian snares style). Most of the time they seem more random or improvised than actually purposefully written in advance. Can you tell me what the standard procedure(s) is?
Great technique, could apply to synth and keep drums straight..
What type of beasts did you saturate? Is it safe to assume they weren't mystical? That's not in my sample pack I just downloaded.
So how do you actually use it then? I have legato switched on but it doesn't sound any different and I cant switch to different times or anything.
The APC40 is definitely the Launchpad's big brother in a lot of way, the Launchpad has always been more of the "budget" option. AKAI's hardware is much better quality than Novation's all across the board, but the Launchpad does offer a few cool features not natively available on the APC without hacks. For example the Launchpad can be used like as a pitched midi controller for playing drums or synth plugins, the APC does not do that by default.
now i suddenly realize how tim exile's "family galaxy" has been created. thanks for the ideas
great tutorial, just to ask, how do you easily record a beat from midi to audio, and with effects? thanks for answering ::))
Hey:D So nice tutorial, could you maybe make a video explaining how to do beats like those you use:D?
@Tommerry11 i should also clarify this is more along the lines of intentional saturation than digital clipping. different beasts.
Thanks...v useful info. Need more on the 'five to the quarter'. Can you point me somewhere ? Ta.
Sounds a lot like Anika Nilles. Nice!
thanks a lot for the knowledge, really helpful and clear tutorial, also R.I.P. my ears at 1:06
awesome gonna try it out!
I was referring to how the actual track in ableton was clipping (going into the red). the actual audio wasn't clipping. its a bad practice to leave a channel in the red, which is what i was referring to. Krk Rokit 6 G2's definitely aren't crappy speakers as well.
those drum tracks do they have grooves?cuz it sounds pretty human.do ppl use grooves all the time?
This would be cool with vocal samples
You can quantize to a triplet grid
possible to do this in FL studio?!
Thanks for the tips!
You have a new subscriber! Thanks for the vid :)
great tips! thanks!!!
This is an Aphex Twin tutorial lol
Great video! thanks for the tip :)
wonderful!
2nd half of vid 10x better then first half
Unfortunately this one never really made it beyond this tutorial. Maybe I'll dust it off someday and see if it can be fleshed out a bit into a full track!
lmao. did you get Vengeance Essential Beasts 3?
holy shit this is cool
really cool
@ryandmca woh. i see what your getting at man. yeah. I can definately agree with that.
Thanks!
you are my hero
Hands down the Akai APC40. Nothing else even comes close to it.
good stuff.
well done
SWEET!!
thank you
@Tommerry11 intentional clipping courtesy of Ohmicide my friend ;)
Thank you for the help! ;D!!
yeahhh great tutorial.. thanks
I wonder if Koan sound uses this method in their production, anyone else think so ?
thanks
nice! thx
great!
Thank you
6:09 - awesome shit dude
nice