Very grateful for the part around 22:34. The ability to turn off processing via chain selector is a game changer, and I never would have figured out the trick without this video. Thank you!
I didn't know you could group instruments like that and cycle through them so seamlessly. And the tip for automatically turning off the instruments when not in use is simply genius, and for someone like myself struggling with CPU on a low end macbook, it's immensely helpful! Thank you!
Joao Letelier that’s super cool to hear! For years I’ve also been trying to squeeze out the most I can out of my MacBook. I can also recommend (heartily) upgrading the main hard drive to an SSD (I even removed my DVD drive to add a second one later). This was an absolutely crazy improvement - but obviously only for macs from certain years. Thanks for letting me know it was helpful - really makes it worth making these videos! P.s. the (currently) free arrangement course might also interest you, in case you didn’t see it! WRKSHP.eu is the link 😌
three years since then, corona and many other subjects are changing the world, live is at 11.3 and your tutorial is very usefull in autumn '23 - thank you
This is the best Ableton tutorial I've seen. And I've seen a lot. This solves a huge problem I was having using Ableton in a live band setting.THANK YOU!
You're the best teacher ever. I was thinking this video was for beginners and I learned a lot even if I use Ableton for many years now. Thank you so much!
Thanks a thousand times ! I am doing a live set, with very big instrument racks, and my CPU was suffering. The trick of putting the ON/OFF button to the chain selector is genius. Exactly what I was looking for !
Bro I really like how you explain and your experience is gold .. can you post more of these videos ? I couldn't find another in this channel at least, only Push content, which til now I don't plan to buy. Take care!
Feedback is always nice when you produce content so I wanted to take a moment to say thank you for sharing this content. It was very well done, professional. The only thing you left out is that you have to create an Options.txt file in the preference folder of Ableton with the following, including dash for the item to appear in the menu. -EnableMapToSiblings=1 I had to Google why I could not find the Map To Siblings in my menu for I mistakenly thought maybe it was Copy Values to Siblings for it was the only item I had in my menu with the term Siblings but after about 45 minutes of trial and error I got the correct information and it worked like a Charm. I came across your tutorial trying to run different instruments out of the same VST, such as a Kontakt Instrument but using a different sound from the same Instrument or using Serum and having a certain sequence of sounds that I want to layer, playing the exact same sequence of notes but different sounds out of the same VST, layering them and building, so when song starts maybe only one instance of a sound, but after so many bars another instance of the same sequence of notes from the VST with a different additional sound playing same midi notes, adding as many sounds as I want to really layer the sounds playing that sequence of notes and I want to do this without too many tracks. I want the instances to appear in the clip section, layering the sequence clip after clip in the same track. Still not sure how to achieve this but loved what I did learn from your tutorial and want to express my gratitude.
Eric thank you so much for your warm words and taking the time to leave your detailed feedback. Indeed I forgot to include the options.txt part as (shame on me) I set it so very long ago that I had taken it for granted. The problem with TH-cam videos is that it's not possible to edit them or update them very easily or clearly - which is what I do with the videos and content in my school WRKSHP.eu but I'll take this learning forward, as well as your kind encouragement. I struggled slightly to follow your explanation of the problem (which isn't a criticism, it's very hard to verbalise a lot of these things) - but there might be 2/3 angles to look at: 1) using internal MIDI channel settings of Kontakt to have different instruments respond to different channels. 2) seeing if the programme change messages in clips can be of any use in this context (they are powerful and often forgotten) 3) using an instrument rack's other options such as velocity and key-range settings, as well as the chain selector. They are much more powerful than people think. 4) for truly complex routings, you can use internal MIDI routing such as MIDI Pipe or on Mac the built in IAC driver. 5) drum racks are also a powerful place for triggering various things from one track (in combination with 4) or by bringing in multiple instrument racks to a drum rack. Hope some of that might inspire a solution or a way forward, and thanks again Eric
Hey so I know this is 6 months out, but if you still need an answer, or if anyone else is trying to do the same thing, I'm going to take a stab at solving this for you! So, from my understanding, you have a sequence of notes (melody, ARP, etc.) that, in the beginning of the song, is played by one instrument/instance of a VST. By the end of the song, it's played by multiple instruments/instances of the same or various VST(s). instead of having, say, 5 different tracks, for workflow purposes or organization purposes, you would like to have all these instances play on the same track and be triggered by different clips. So for example, one clip contains the sequence of notes with 1 instrument/instance, one clip contains the sequence of notes with 2 instruments/instances, etc. If this sounds like what you're trying to do, I have an answer for you! Step 1 - Create an instrument rack and put all instances/instruments on the rack Step 2- Open the chain section of the rack. Step 3- Instrument 1 (the first instrument to play the sequence), set the zone as 10-50. Instrument 2, the second instrument added to your sequence of notes, set the zone as 20-50. Instrument 3, 30-50; Instrument 4, 40-50; Instrument 5, 50. These numbers are arbitrary, I just used intervals of 10 so you can actually "see" the zones. Step 4 - Add in as many clips as you have instruments on the rack Step 5 - On clip 1, under the envelope section, select Instrument Rack and then underneath it, Chain Selector. Step 6 - Add in a value of "10" across the clip for clip 1. For clip 2, add in a value of 20. For clip 3, add in a value of 30, etc. That's it! So now, when you trigger clip 1, it will be playing only the first instrument off your instrument rack. When you trigger clip 2, it will be playing both instruments 1&2; clip 3 plays instruments 1,2,&3, etc. Then just add in the notes you want these instruments to play and you're all set. Hope this helps!!
@@adamschmidt1103 this is so underrated for new producers like myself this is the exact issue i was wondering about thank you so much for this explanation even a year after !
Great tutorial. Andri is the master. I purchased his full Push2 course and now I am in love with the Push2 - and I'm only about half way through the course. Thank you so much for sharing this information in such an accessible way!
I've been building racks for a while, but the way in which you've standardized these was a revelation! Really smart, well done video. Quite useful, practical information for making the most of Live.
Huge tutorial - there is a mr bill video where he uses a hocket technique using a compressor to mute the different sounds in a chain but this seems much more efficient! Thank you!
Hi everyone! I forgot to add that some of you may well need to activate the "map to all siblings" option in the option.txt file in order to use that time-saver. This is really simple to do - here's a video that covers that - th-cam.com/video/Xf2blyH2ddg/w-d-xo.html
@@GuidoGautsch Ah sorry! I will update the video with a little "card" that will appear while people watch - to avoid anyone else losing their marbles, hehe.
Andri Søren hi Andri. This is probably obvious to everyone, but you have to have the first instrument in the chain selected for the ‘Map to all siblings’ option to appear.
michael walsh this is a very useful pointer actually! Many things like this are easily forgotten - I didn’t cover this myself as it didn’t occur to me. Bravo!
Thanks for this Andri. Growing up I used to play in bands and miss the ability to just pick up an instrument and composing straight away. These days I probably spend the majority of my time picking instruments and effects. Your videos have shown me that I can get that simplicity back.
Will McNeilly my pleasure! Messages like yours make me really happy to make such videos, more than one might imagine :) Keep going, and keep simplifying, is all I can say
I will say this was the most useful time I spent today. You are awesome! Thank you for sharing this stuff. I have really learned a lot from this video!
Summerland Soundscapes that’s such a nice thing to read just before going to bed - send me off with a big smile :) Thanks for the kinds words, they give me energy to come back and do more!
11:40 Man thats so useful! Recently I've been getting really frustrated when making future bass supersaws as I quite often layer different saw variations using instrument racks and then have to assign the same macro to all of them and it wastes sooo much time. Now I won't have that problem anymore. Thanks so much.
at first i was like what the heck i can do this all with a drum rack, but no. very cool. not sure how im gonna use it but when i rack up a few more presets its gonna come in really handy
I liked the intro, re: being able to grab all these sounds w/o kbd or mouse. The demonstration of rack content and tuning is great, but missed the part about mapping this functionality to your controller.
My second time watching this and I just hacked together my second live set for a show last Friday. I will be using this and have a different sound for each song. I will have a macro on the master that will control all the chain selectors as I step from one song to another. The CPU saving tip was very helpful too!
Eye (and ear) opening. I’ve used chains for effects, but never thought to use them as instrument selectors. Thank you. Very much looking forward to the next steps.
I'm quite the beginner so I'm about as far away from live performances as they come, but even as a beginner, and even though some of this was over my head lol, I found your video valuable and informative. Love the tip about keeping consistent coloring from the get-go, and the CPU tip was awesome!! Thanks for sharing!
That’s wonderful to hear, Theresa! Very happy it was useful and helpful. There’s much more where that came from on wrkshp.eu and hopefully sometime here on the channel again 🙃🙏🏻
Hi Andri, thanks so much for the device on/off hint, that saved me a lot of effort. I am currently creating an external Intrument selector rack where I can select all of my external gear (synth and drum computers). I also make use of the snapshot view to store each device as snapshot to be able to select via the name I gave the snapshot and each snapshot has the corresponding chain to the instrumet selected. Works well so far but I got some issues that the audio was audible in one channel from multiple synth also if only one chain for the specific synth was selected (maybe the range was to low? First synth 0-0, second synth 1-1, third synth 2 -2 ....). So with the device on/off mapping I think it should work as expected. I will check this out today. Many thanks for that!
Thank you for an excellent presentation. I did spend a fair amount of time trying to figure out why I was not seeing "map to siblings", finally it occurred to me to check the comments. Problem solved. I ended my view wishing for the 'next step' i.e. how I would map this for live use, using a controller, and integrating the instruments into an evolving performance (I will check your other videos to see if you perhaps already produced this). Thank you again for taking the time and energy to share your knowledge, it looks, from the comments, it benefited many.
My thanks in return! Apologies for having to search for the map to siblings - I wish we could update youtube videos in these cases. I am just finishing a huge online course which includes everything I know about using push, in which I describe various ways of using it, and I will follow up with more courses focussed on live performance and composition. Thanks again for the kinda words, comments like yours help make the world go round!
Great video. A lot of awesome info explained very well. One thing you could add to your videos if you haven’t started already, and that’s examples of situations that you’d use a setup just like this. I’m not really seeing why you would go to all this extent to do this when I believe there’s other ways to have those 3 instruments open to play. But, I’m somewhat new to this. Having to reach for the mouse to get to that one dial to switch instruments only to go too far and accidentally select the one you don’t want. Seems kind of finicky. But, that’s what these vids are all about. Learning Ableton. Thanks again, How to…well explained.
Wow, didn't know about the "map to the siblings" option, even though I'm working in Ableton since 2009. And never thought of saving CPU by mapping the device on/off parameter to the chain selector macro. You're an Ableton genious 👍🙌
Piotr thank you! Very happy to share - it’s indeed been such a liberating concept for me (the on/off mapping) and what I’ve been trying to do with my live sets. Thanks again for the kind words 🙏🏻
Excellent tutorial - there's so much flexibility in Live that sometimes you find yourself finding problems for solutions (LOL). Previously I hadn't considered using Chains for this application. Cool Tips and thanks for sharing your knowledge so concisely! I've been using Live since Live 2.xx so it's always wonderful to learn something new.
Thank you Jase! That’s really wonderful feedback to have, I mean it! That’s amazing you’ve been using it since version 2 - I was very slow to discover it, wasted years in the hinterlands bashing my head against other DAWs that didn’t set me free like Live 😅 I totally hear you about the problems / solutions thing (I live in Belgium where some memes say this is a way of life here!) and as a result I try to be very strict with myself and try and do more with less. Now and then I make some “playtime” to get into the sandpit and try random things. Thanks again for the warm words! Do join the mailing list if you’d like to catch future content!
this is SUPER useful, Sori! thank you so much for sharing that. i was just running into this this week, wishing there was a better way to use Ableton performatively. And here you are right on time to save my day!
Excellent tutorial. Gave me a better understanding of how to create an Instrument rack. Easy to understand. Do you have tutorials creating instrument racks for those instruments that already have chains created for example a "Organ Chimes and Dimes" to combine with other keyboard or organ instruments. Thanks
Great vid. Not something I would ever have discovered from the manual. Thanks so much. One note: The Map to Siblings feature is apparently not included w/ A10 Lite but rather Apply Setting to Siblings. Far as I can tell us Lite users must still do our mappings manually one Device at a time.
This is great, you can also automate the chain selector too so when u change song your instrument sound is set up automatically. One thing is I can't figure out is u can't automate macro variations. So if u messe with all the dials and mess up the sound , I'm trying to find a way to get back to a default sound without manually clicking the macro variation.
Wow! Just ran across this video - AMAZING. I just subscribed. Can't wait to try this out. I already have a number of inspired ideas. Many thanks for the video... well done.
@@AndriSoren I have to look well.. And think what exactly I have to map to my controller, which knob or knobs to make transitions from one instrument to the other in the same channel. I looked at your video and now I have to look again in order to further understand how to control that from Akai MPc 40 or Push. Any suggestion?... Or just the macro ?. Have to look at the video again.
Fantastic tutorial. Want to let others know that the map to siblings option wasn't available for mine on version 10 standard. You have to manually edit the options.txt file and enter a line to enable the feature. Just google it for instructions.
My pleasure, Shawn! Thanks for letting me know - but don’t feel embarrassed - there are so many little tips, tricks and hacks that once we know them we take ‘em for granted - but first we have to find them :)
This is seriously so helpful, thank you! Been battling the external instrument plug in which hasn't been playing nicely with kontakt and this is SO much easier and better on CPU.
I’ve not vanished, Danio! I’m in the last stretch of the course building. It’s been an absolute marathon! I’ll be back soon :) Thank you for the compliment!
Andri Søren I know. :) You are hard at work with your masterclass and I know it’s gonna be 🔥🔥🔥. We just miss seeing you here on TH-cam. Hope you get done soon! Stay safe and stay inspired. :)
Danio Caw I really appreciate your message, thanks 🙏🏻 I hope that you too are doing well and living out these strange times as best you can. I’ve stopped making predictions as to when I’ll be finished, but it’s pretty soon! :)
Nathan that’s really nice to hear, if I’ve done something positive during these times (and in general) I’m happy. Messages like these help the world go round :)
very inspiring ,,and as the last chap said been with live since day 1 and its reminded me to pull my finder out . i use mostly hardwear for my sounds , but thinnking now about how i can build my own samplers full off my own sounds ,, dunno if the filters are gonna cut the mustard though , might have to patch stuff out and back in again , but defo got some ideas on how to use hours of records of synth noodling.. thank you.
On my second day with Ableton (or any DAW). This was very helpful and easy to follow. Getting ahead of managing everything like this is really great. Thanks
If switching through instruments and presets is your thing, Cantabile is worth looking at. It is much deeper and more customisable than Ableton for this sort of thing, and you get text feedback of which instrument / preset you have selected rather than just a chain select number. Unfortunately there is no sequencer, so it's really more oriented towards live sets and jamming.
Ah! Does it integrate with Push well? By that I mean the text feedback appears on Push’s screen somehow? Did a quick google but didn’t come up with much.
@@AndriSoren not as far as I'm aware, unless you are very proficient at hacking your Live! You can get Cantabile to switch presets / instruments via CC and then send back the names of preset and instruments via sysex. Then you program a midi controller yourself (Arduino Leo with some encoders and a display) to interface with Cantabile. If you want to integrate Ableton, you would have to route midi from Ableton to Cantabile. If your soundcard allows it, you can also route audio from cantabile back to Ableton to complete the loop, now you essentially have Cantabile as an external instrument which is totally controlled via the Arduino. I did all this over winter (the things lockdown will do to you...). Not even sure if it was worth in the end, time will tell if I keep this current setup!
@@cs7160 oh wow! That’s indeed beyond my capacity or tenacity! It’s brilliant that you’ve been able to make it work though, bravo. For now I’m hoping for eventual improvements to Live/Push/VST browsing, although those hopes are getting pretty dusty 😅 Thanks for sharing though 🙏🏻
@@AndriSoren Nice to hear. This is very "easy to follow" and useful tutorial. Btw, "Mapped to all siblings" was missing in my Ableton Standard 10.1.30 (?). Is this some kind of hidden feature?
@@robertgrabowski2265 sorry it is indeed a custom feature - which I really unfortunately forgot to mention in the video - kick myself regularly for that! Do check the video I’ve mentioned in the pinned comment and the video description - this explains how to turn it on. In Live 11 it’s now a default feature.
![A better way to switch presets in Ableton Live - No chain selector [clyphx Ableton Live 11 tutorial]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/B5RaW4hEcTI/mqdefault.jpg)
Very grateful for the part around 22:34. The ability to turn off processing via chain selector is a game changer, and I never would have figured out the trick without this video. Thank you!
Great to hear! It changed so much for me too, when I first found it.
I didn't know you could group instruments like that and cycle through them so seamlessly. And the tip for automatically turning off the instruments when not in use is simply genius, and for someone like myself struggling with CPU on a low end macbook, it's immensely helpful! Thank you!
Joao Letelier that’s super cool to hear! For years I’ve also been trying to squeeze out the most I can out of my MacBook. I can also recommend (heartily) upgrading the main hard drive to an SSD (I even removed my DVD drive to add a second one later). This was an absolutely crazy improvement - but obviously only for macs from certain years.
Thanks for letting me know it was helpful - really makes it worth making these videos!
P.s. the (currently) free arrangement course might also interest you, in case you didn’t see it! WRKSHP.eu is the link 😌
Totally worth watching, even when on ableton for 10+ years. Great way of explaining things
three years since then, corona and many other subjects are changing the world, live is at 11.3 and your tutorial is very usefull in autumn '23 - thank you
Thank you in return my friend! Really nice to see this video keeps helping :)
This is the best Ableton tutorial I've seen. And I've seen a lot. This solves a huge problem I was having using Ableton in a live band setting.THANK YOU!
Greg I can’t tell you how much your words mean, really! Lovely to hear that it was helpful, and good to boot! You have my thanks in return 🙏🏻
Read my mind. Good god
His whole set up has a heavenly vibe!!
Like apple store am I right?
You're the best teacher ever. I was thinking this video was for beginners and I learned a lot even if I use Ableton for many years now. Thank you so much!
Thibault thank you so very much! I’m really touched, and grateful in return.
That bonus tip with turning off instruments using the chain selector made me subscribe
Thanks buddy, guitar player here who does a solo thing and needs to be able to play some keys sounds here and there.
:)
Thanks a thousand times ! I am doing a live set, with very big instrument racks, and my CPU was suffering. The trick of putting the ON/OFF button to the chain selector is genius. Exactly what I was looking for !
My pleasure my friend! Good luck with the set and the rest!
Bro I really like how you explain and your experience is gold .. can you post more of these videos ? I couldn't find another in this channel at least, only Push content, which til now I don't plan to buy. Take care!
Wow map to all siblings. Thanks
Feedback is always nice when you produce content so I wanted to take a moment to say thank you for sharing this content. It was very well done, professional. The only thing you left out is that you have to create an Options.txt file in the preference folder of Ableton with the following, including dash for the item to appear in the menu.
-EnableMapToSiblings=1
I had to Google why I could not find the Map To Siblings in my menu for I mistakenly thought maybe it was Copy Values to Siblings for it was the only item I had in my menu with the term Siblings but after about 45 minutes of trial and error I got the correct information and it worked like a Charm.
I came across your tutorial trying to run different instruments out of the same VST, such as a Kontakt Instrument but using a different sound from the same Instrument or using Serum and having a certain sequence of sounds that I want to layer, playing the exact same sequence of notes but different sounds out of the same VST, layering them and building, so when song starts maybe only one instance of a sound, but after so many bars another instance of the same sequence of notes from the VST with a different additional sound playing same midi notes, adding as many sounds as I want to really layer the sounds playing that sequence of notes and I want to do this without too many tracks. I want the instances to appear in the clip section, layering the sequence clip after clip in the same track.
Still not sure how to achieve this but loved what I did learn from your tutorial and want to express my gratitude.
Eric thank you so much for your warm words and taking the time to leave your detailed feedback. Indeed I forgot to include the options.txt part as (shame on me) I set it so very long ago that I had taken it for granted. The problem with TH-cam videos is that it's not possible to edit them or update them very easily or clearly - which is what I do with the videos and content in my school WRKSHP.eu but I'll take this learning forward, as well as your kind encouragement.
I struggled slightly to follow your explanation of the problem (which isn't a criticism, it's very hard to verbalise a lot of these things) - but there might be 2/3 angles to look at:
1) using internal MIDI channel settings of Kontakt to have different instruments respond to different channels.
2) seeing if the programme change messages in clips can be of any use in this context (they are powerful and often forgotten)
3) using an instrument rack's other options such as velocity and key-range settings, as well as the chain selector. They are much more powerful than people think.
4) for truly complex routings, you can use internal MIDI routing such as MIDI Pipe or on Mac the built in IAC driver.
5) drum racks are also a powerful place for triggering various things from one track (in combination with 4) or by bringing in multiple instrument racks to a drum rack.
Hope some of that might inspire a solution or a way forward, and thanks again Eric
Hey so I know this is 6 months out, but if you still need an answer, or if anyone else is trying to do the same thing, I'm going to take a stab at solving this for you!
So, from my understanding, you have a sequence of notes (melody, ARP, etc.) that, in the beginning of the song, is played by one instrument/instance of a VST. By the end of the song, it's played by multiple instruments/instances of the same or various VST(s). instead of having, say, 5 different tracks, for workflow purposes or organization purposes, you would like to have all these instances play on the same track and be triggered by different clips. So for example, one clip contains the sequence of notes with 1 instrument/instance, one clip contains the sequence of notes with 2 instruments/instances, etc. If this sounds like what you're trying to do, I have an answer for you!
Step 1 - Create an instrument rack and put all instances/instruments on the rack
Step 2- Open the chain section of the rack.
Step 3- Instrument 1 (the first instrument to play the sequence), set the zone as 10-50. Instrument 2, the second instrument added to your sequence of notes, set the zone as 20-50. Instrument 3, 30-50; Instrument 4, 40-50; Instrument 5, 50. These numbers are arbitrary, I just used intervals of 10 so you can actually "see" the zones.
Step 4 - Add in as many clips as you have instruments on the rack
Step 5 - On clip 1, under the envelope section, select Instrument Rack and then underneath it, Chain Selector.
Step 6 - Add in a value of "10" across the clip for clip 1. For clip 2, add in a value of 20. For clip 3, add in a value of 30, etc.
That's it!
So now, when you trigger clip 1, it will be playing only the first instrument off your instrument rack. When you trigger clip 2, it will be playing both instruments 1&2; clip 3 plays instruments 1,2,&3, etc. Then just add in the notes you want these instruments to play and you're all set. Hope this helps!!
@@adamschmidt1103 this is so underrated for new producers like myself this is the exact issue i was wondering about thank you so much for this explanation even a year after !
truly excellent teacher. He seems to be reading my mind for each and every explanation, always satisfying my curiosity. Thank you so much
Hey Andri! Got my first Push 2 today. So I'll be rewatching alot of your tutorials again. :) All the best.
Oh nice! Congrats man!! :)
Great tutorial. Andri is the master. I purchased his full Push2 course and now I am in love with the Push2 - and I'm only about half way through the course. Thank you so much for sharing this information in such an accessible way!
I came for a few tricks, but damn son... You gave me a paragraph.... Amazing
This might be my comment of the year 😀
The auto-populate feature is one of many reasons that made me move to Ableton. Usability is always at the forefront.
Thank you so much for sharing your awesome knowledge. Excellent tips for a beginner like me.
To get kind comments in return like yours makes it all worthwhile Kayden! Thank you, and good luck on your journey :)
I've been building racks for a while, but the way in which you've standardized these was a revelation! Really smart, well done video. Quite useful, practical information for making the most of Live.
:)
WOW...Had I known this feature exist in Ableton, I wouldn't have purchased the CR8 sampler by Waves....Thank you for the info, much appreciated....
Huge tutorial - there is a mr bill video where he uses a hocket technique using a compressor to mute the different sounds in a chain but this seems much more efficient! Thank you!
thank you Jean-Francois! 🙏🏻
Hi everyone! I forgot to add that some of you may well need to activate the "map to all siblings" option in the option.txt file in order to use that time-saver. This is really simple to do - here's a video that covers that - th-cam.com/video/Xf2blyH2ddg/w-d-xo.html
Thought I was going crazy until I saw this comment - thanks :D
@@GuidoGautsch Ah sorry! I will update the video with a little "card" that will appear while people watch - to avoid anyone else losing their marbles, hehe.
Andri Søren hi Andri. This is probably obvious to everyone, but you have to have the first instrument in the chain selected for the ‘Map to all siblings’ option to appear.
michael walsh this is a very useful pointer actually! Many things like this are easily forgotten - I didn’t cover this myself as it didn’t occur to me. Bravo!
Andri finally you resolve me the problem of CPU usage!! Man that trick is a
jewel... Thanks A LOT.
🙃
:)
Very, very good quality, rare too find on youtube these days ...
You have opened up a new world for me to explore, great tutorial
Thank you in return Paul!
So useful and clearly demonstrated. I really appreciated the good pace and super clear cursor. saved to my "Best Live list"
Thank you so much John!
Wonderful. Very precise and clearly spoken and illustrated. Andri you are a very good teacher. Thank you.
Thank you so much Stephanie - really appreciate your warm words 🙏🏻
You explained this so well, I bow down to you
No bowing necessary, my friend, but thank you for the kind words!
Thanks for this Andri. Growing up I used to play in bands and miss the ability to just pick up an instrument and composing straight away. These days I probably spend the majority of my time picking instruments and effects. Your videos have shown me that I can get that simplicity back.
Will McNeilly my pleasure! Messages like yours make me really happy to make such videos, more than one might imagine :) Keep going, and keep simplifying, is all I can say
I will say this was the most useful time I spent today. You are awesome! Thank you for sharing this stuff. I have really learned a lot from this video!
Summerland Soundscapes that’s such a nice thing to read just before going to bed - send me off with a big smile :)
Thanks for the kinds words, they give me energy to come back and do more!
11:40 Man thats so useful! Recently I've been getting really frustrated when making future bass supersaws as I quite often layer different saw variations using instrument racks and then have to assign the same macro to all of them and it wastes sooo much time. Now I won't have that problem anymore. Thanks so much.
i tried doing that it doesn't allow me to copy all to siblings.I'm using ableton live lite btw.any idea why?
Lightbulb moment video. Genius and inspirational. Thank you
Thank you very much for the useful info. It will be nice if you can come up with how to use Omnisphere in multi output mode in the instrument rack.
@Ozzie Nugara thank you in return for your message. That’s an interesting suggestion - let me add it to the to do list!
at first i was like what the heck i can do this all with a drum rack, but no. very cool. not sure how im gonna use it but when i rack up a few more presets its gonna come in really handy
well it is one of the best tutorial i ve seen ...Great explanation thank you very much
Music to my ears my friend! Thank you in return for the kind words
This was the best video for ableton users... if you think you're advanced, well, this still has stuff for you! ❤
I liked the intro, re: being able to grab all these sounds w/o kbd or mouse. The demonstration of rack content and tuning is great, but missed the part about mapping this functionality to your controller.
My second time watching this and I just hacked together my second live set for a show last Friday. I will be using this and have a different sound for each song. I will have a macro on the master that will control all the chain selectors as I step from one song to another. The CPU saving tip was very helpful too!
Awesome! Good luck with the show, let us know how it went!
I feel like it was my graduation day today watching this tutorial,thanks and God bless.
I'm going through the manual (for the first time) and can't possibly stress enough how helpful this is! Thank you
Eye (and ear) opening. I’ve used chains for effects, but never thought to use them as instrument selectors. Thank you. Very much looking forward to the next steps.
I'm quite the beginner so I'm about as far away from live performances as they come, but even as a beginner, and even though some of this was over my head lol, I found your video valuable and informative. Love the tip about keeping consistent coloring from the get-go, and the CPU tip was awesome!! Thanks for sharing!
That’s wonderful to hear, Theresa! Very happy it was useful and helpful.
There’s much more where that came from on wrkshp.eu and hopefully sometime here on the channel again 🙃🙏🏻
changing lives man! also i went one step further and midi maped the filters to to midi nobs. its so nice
Thanks a million, it helped me a lot. You are a great teacher!
My warm thanks in return! Glad it could help 🙏🏻
Hi Andri, thanks so much for the device on/off hint, that saved me a lot of effort. I am currently creating an external Intrument selector rack where I can select all of my external gear (synth and drum computers). I also make use of the snapshot view to store each device as snapshot to be able to select via the name I gave the snapshot and each snapshot has the corresponding chain to the instrumet selected. Works well so far but I got some issues that the audio was audible in one channel from multiple synth also if only one chain for the specific synth was selected (maybe the range was to low? First synth 0-0, second synth 1-1, third synth 2 -2 ....). So with the device on/off mapping I think it should work as expected. I will check this out today. Many thanks for that!
Topman! Especially the Pro tip of switching off instruments with macro, was looking for something and you just answered the questions 💪✊
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Very comprehensive! Great tutorial!
Thank you Gijs! Nice to see you here, and glad it was of use! 🤗
I have been looking for months to a CPU solution. Thank you so much! Subscribed
Salut Andri, tu était mon prof à la SAE, good to see you here !
Salut Julian! Chouette à te revoir aussi :)
Well spoken, succint and professional. Much better than the average ableton tutorial. Thanks!
still waiting on your super duper drum rack video! thank you!
Ahhh! Bonus tip at the end. That’s what I’ve been looking for. Thank you!
JD Torian 🙏🏻
Awesome info and tips. I really enjoyed and learned alot. Thank you!
Thank you for an excellent presentation. I did spend a fair amount of time trying to figure out why I was not seeing "map to siblings", finally it occurred to me to check the comments. Problem solved. I ended my view wishing for the 'next step' i.e. how I would map this for live use, using a controller, and integrating the instruments into an evolving performance (I will check your other videos to see if you perhaps already produced this). Thank you again for taking the time and energy to share your knowledge, it looks, from the comments, it benefited many.
My thanks in return! Apologies for having to search for the map to siblings - I wish we could update youtube videos in these cases.
I am just finishing a huge online course which includes everything I know about using push, in which I describe various ways of using it, and I will follow up with more courses focussed on live performance and composition.
Thanks again for the kinda words, comments like yours help make the world go round!
Great video. A lot of awesome info explained very well. One thing you could add to your videos if you haven’t started already, and that’s examples of situations that you’d use a setup just like this. I’m not really seeing why you would go to all this extent to do this when I believe there’s other ways to have those 3 instruments open to play. But, I’m somewhat new to this. Having to reach for the mouse to get to that one dial to switch instruments only to go too far and accidentally select the one you don’t want. Seems kind of finicky. But, that’s what these vids are all about. Learning Ableton. Thanks again, How to…well explained.
This is just what I was looking for. Thanks for the video, really instructive and very well explained. Thanks!
Wonderful! Thanks for letting me know, and for the kind words 🙏🏻
Wow, didn't know about the "map to the siblings" option, even though I'm working in Ableton since 2009. And never thought of saving CPU by mapping the device on/off parameter to the chain selector macro. You're an Ableton genious 👍🙌
Piotr thank you! Very happy to share - it’s indeed been such a liberating concept for me (the on/off mapping) and what I’ve been trying to do with my live sets.
Thanks again for the kind words 🙏🏻
Excellent tutorial - there's so much flexibility in Live that sometimes you find yourself finding problems for solutions (LOL). Previously I hadn't considered using Chains for this application. Cool Tips and thanks for sharing your knowledge so concisely! I've been using Live since Live 2.xx so it's always wonderful to learn something new.
Thank you Jase! That’s really wonderful feedback to have, I mean it! That’s amazing you’ve been using it since version 2 - I was very slow to discover it, wasted years in the hinterlands bashing my head against other DAWs that didn’t set me free like Live 😅
I totally hear you about the problems / solutions thing (I live in Belgium where some memes say this is a way of life here!) and as a result I try to be very strict with myself and try and do more with less. Now and then I make some “playtime” to get into the sandpit and try random things.
Thanks again for the warm words! Do join the mailing list if you’d like to catch future content!
You are a great teacher Thank you very much
Thank you so much Or! Your comment made my day :)
this is SUPER useful, Sori! thank you so much for sharing that. i was just running into this this week, wishing there was a better way to use Ableton performatively. And here you are right on time to save my day!
richard dorfner wonderful! That’s music to my ears, literally! :)
@@AndriSoren imagine if i sang it as an operatic element!
richard dorfner 😂👌🏻
Thank u ! I’ve been looking for exactly this method for cycling through instruments
Easy to understand - great work.
@thomas mulder thank you! I really appreciate you taking the time to say that.
one of the best tutorials I've come across. I learned so much new from this thanks for sharing.
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Excellent tutorial. Gave me a better understanding of how to create an Instrument rack. Easy to understand. Do you have tutorials creating instrument racks for those instruments that already have chains created for example a "Organ Chimes and Dimes" to combine with other keyboard or organ instruments. Thanks
Great vid. Not something I would ever have discovered from the manual. Thanks so much. One note: The Map to Siblings feature is apparently not included w/ A10 Lite but rather Apply Setting to Siblings. Far as I can tell us Lite users must still do our mappings manually one Device at a time.
This is great, you can also automate the chain selector too so when u change song your instrument sound is set up automatically.
One thing is I can't figure out is u can't automate macro variations. So if u messe with all the dials and mess up the sound , I'm trying to find a way to get back to a default sound without manually clicking the macro variation.
From INDIA 🤘👌 thanks it helps me
It is god mode, I think 🔥🔥🔥
I have never done this before
Thanks a lot
Very useful! Next step is to map the chain selector to a midi foot switch (like nektar pacer) to quickly switch on the fly ! :)
Thanks Bur bus - and that's a cool idea!
Wow! Just ran across this video - AMAZING. I just subscribed. Can't wait to try this out. I already have a number of inspired ideas. Many thanks for the video... well done.
Thanks Andri, I appreciate it
You are my f. hero !!!!!!! Thanks for the lesson.
Now that’s a TH-cam comment! 🥰
@@AndriSoren I have to look well.. And think what exactly I have to map to my controller, which knob or knobs to make transitions from one instrument to the other in the same channel. I looked at your video and now I have to look again in order to further understand how to control that from Akai MPc 40 or Push. Any suggestion?... Or just the macro ?. Have to look at the video again.
Fantastic tutorial. Want to let others know that the map to siblings option wasn't available for mine on version 10 standard. You have to manually edit the options.txt file and enter a line to enable the feature. Just google it for instructions.
awesome. thank you. pretty embarrassed how much time I've wasted not using that "siblings" button
My pleasure, Shawn! Thanks for letting me know - but don’t feel embarrassed - there are so many little tips, tricks and hacks that once we know them we take ‘em for granted - but first we have to find them :)
Thanks for spreading the knowledge
Excellent video. More techniques for CPU preservation would be nice. The one you showed was great.
Really awesome tutorial, Andri, answering lots of questions I always had, regarding instrument racks!
This is seriously so helpful, thank you! Been battling the external instrument plug in which hasn't been playing nicely with kontakt and this is SO much easier and better on CPU.
Great tutorial with super tips! Ultra clean ( like the studio )
Thank you so much Andri
Second last tip was what i was hoping forrrrrr yesss!
Thanks for the Bonus Tip! Very helpful.
I'm definitely going to check more of the stuff you have posted. Really well explained. Thanks !
Thank you Peter-Jan!! Much appreciated :)
The clearest explanation for setting up an instrument rack!:) where are you andri? We miss you lol
I’ve not vanished, Danio! I’m in the last stretch of the course building. It’s been an absolute marathon! I’ll be back soon :) Thank you for the compliment!
Andri Søren I know. :) You are hard at work with your masterclass and I know it’s gonna be 🔥🔥🔥. We just miss seeing you here on TH-cam. Hope you get done soon! Stay safe and stay inspired. :)
Danio Caw I really appreciate your message, thanks 🙏🏻 I hope that you too are doing well and living out these strange times as best you can. I’ve stopped making predictions as to when I’ll be finished, but it’s pretty soon! :)
This is super Andri, as a newbie exploring ableton in lockdown this was a super helpful tutorial, thank you
Nathan that’s really nice to hear, if I’ve done something positive during these times (and in general) I’m happy. Messages like these help the world go round :)
Thanks Andri!
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very inspiring ,,and as the last chap said been with live since day 1 and its reminded me to pull my finder out .
i use mostly hardwear for my sounds , but thinnking now about how i can build my own samplers full off my own sounds ,, dunno if the filters are gonna cut the mustard though , might have to patch stuff out and back in again , but defo got some ideas on how to use hours of records of synth noodling.. thank you.
fantastic tutorial! - I am so thankful for your time to prepare
it!
Love your little tips about colouring or naming! These are the ones you don‘t here very often and they save you a lot of time. 👍🏻
awesome video. I'm so new with Ableton, like maybe a week. This video was so easy to follow. Did you ever make the drum rack video? Thanks!
Great video man, even for semi-pro user! thanks! :))
Absolutely perfect presentation and explanation. thank you
On my second day with Ableton (or any DAW). This was very helpful and easy to follow. Getting ahead of managing everything like this is really great. Thanks
Nice tool man thanks, the flow state is key
Excellent video, thank you. The CPU trick is super appreciated!
If switching through instruments and presets is your thing, Cantabile is worth looking at. It is much deeper and more customisable than Ableton for this sort of thing, and you get text feedback of which instrument / preset you have selected rather than just a chain select number. Unfortunately there is no sequencer, so it's really more oriented towards live sets and jamming.
Ah! Does it integrate with Push well? By that I mean the text feedback appears on Push’s screen somehow? Did a quick google but didn’t come up with much.
@@AndriSoren not as far as I'm aware, unless you are very proficient at hacking your Live! You can get Cantabile to switch presets / instruments via CC and then send back the names of preset and instruments via sysex. Then you program a midi controller yourself (Arduino Leo with some encoders and a display) to interface with Cantabile. If you want to integrate Ableton, you would have to route midi from Ableton to Cantabile. If your soundcard allows it, you can also route audio from cantabile back to Ableton to complete the loop, now you essentially have Cantabile as an external instrument which is totally controlled via the Arduino. I did all this over winter (the things lockdown will do to you...). Not even sure if it was worth in the end, time will tell if I keep this current setup!
@@cs7160 oh wow! That’s indeed beyond my capacity or tenacity! It’s brilliant that you’ve been able to make it work though, bravo. For now I’m hoping for eventual improvements to Live/Push/VST browsing, although those hopes are getting pretty dusty 😅
Thanks for sharing though 🙏🏻
Wow! great possibilities to extrapolate from this. nice captivating video. Keen to see the others :)
Great tutorial! Thanks for all the Tipps! Keep going on with this tutorials, tips and tricks videos.
Awesome thanks for the CPU mapping tip!
My pleasure Snarly! That one tip has made my entire live set possible, otherwise my CPU would have melted 🔥
Hi, I would call chain for a "sound layer". There multiple sound layers can have individual settings and be used (or played) as a new single "sound".
Definitely a way of looking at chains and using them - a good descent option Robert!
@@AndriSoren Nice to hear. This is very "easy to follow" and useful tutorial. Btw, "Mapped to all siblings" was missing in my Ableton Standard 10.1.30 (?).
Is this some kind of hidden feature?
@@robertgrabowski2265 sorry it is indeed a custom feature - which I really unfortunately forgot to mention in the video - kick myself regularly for that! Do check the video I’ve mentioned in the pinned comment and the video description - this explains how to turn it on. In Live 11 it’s now a default feature.