Expanding Ableton Operator
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 3 ก.ย. 2019
- In this video we break Operator out and explore crazy vast sonic potential of synthesis using Ableton effect chains and racks! We are using Operator as it was meant to be used, as a building block in a larger context, where Ableton live is now a modular synthesizer. We cover effect chains, instrument racks, simpler layering, corpus, multiband compression, and more! Enjoy!
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00:45 - Effect Chains
02:19 - Grouping Effects into Racks
03:00 - Shrinking down Effects
03:30 - What are all those effects?
09:22 - Unison Detuning with Instrument Racks
12:00 - Duplicate Operator Voices
14:27 - Adding Auto Filter Envelopes
15:00 - Side Chaining Auto Filter
17:40 - Using the LFO Device
19:22 - Mapping LFO
20:54 - MultiMapping LFO
22:30 - Random LFO Shape
23:40 - Smoothing the LFO
25:50 - Soft Clipping Glue Compressor
27:23 - Multiband Dynamics as a Tonal Shaper
31:53 - Waveshaping!
36:50 - Using the Envelope Device
38:48 - Erosion
40:00 - Adding Noise and Textures with Simpler
46:30 - Vocoder Device for Texture
49:33 - Simpler to Sampler
50:05 - Scaling Sampler Playback
53:30 - Using Operator in Karplus Strong
55:15 - Side chaining the Gate Device
57:12 - Using Operator with Corpus
101:08 - Tying it All Together
109:20 - Creativity Rant - เพลง
00:45 - Effect Chains
02:19 - Grouping Effects into Racks
03:00 - Shrinking down Effects
03:30 - What are all those effects?
09:22 - Unison Detuning with Instrument Racks
12:00 - Duplicate Operator Voices
14:27 - Adding Auto Filter Envelopes
15:00 - Side Chaining Auto Filter
17:40 - Using the LFO Device
19:22 - Mapping LFO
20:54 - MultiMapping LFO
22:30 - Random LFO Shape
23:40 - Smoothing the LFO
25:50 - Soft Clipping Glue Compressor
27:23 - Multiband Dynamics as a Tonal Shaper
31:53 - Waveshaping!
36:50 - Using the Envelope Device
38:48 - Erosion
40:00 - Adding Noise and Textures with Simpler
46:30 - Vocoder Device for Texture
49:33 - Simpler to Sampler
50:05 - Scaling Sampler Playback
53:30 - Using Operator in Karplus Strong
55:15 - Side chaining the Gate Device
57:12 - Using Operator with Corpus
101:08 - Tying it All Together
109:20 - Creativity Rant
Thx for this! 🤩
Do you sell Presets for Operator / LIVE ?
Please don’t stop making these videos on different topics!
This is so good!
Thank you!
Dude. I just want to take a week of vacation time and study all your videos in depth to really absorb all this info. You are awesome.
4am in Argentina and i can't believe how much you can actually do, the sky it's the limit.... Don't know how much time took you to figure out all this thing but thanks a lot for share and open our brains up and start to do more complex sounds
I get so excited when you upload dude your tutorials are my favorite
Top tutorials! A suggestion: play with the attack time of the glue comp. Slowing it down means that the transients will get through just before the comp kicks in and you can preserve some of the HF and just tighten the mid/lows. In the mix or live you might want this to keep the excitement of the line playing played. Having super fast attack time will tame HF and help if you need something underneath or further in the mix.
These videos are so flipping good.
1. Extreme respect; for opening our eyes
2. Please make a playlist of just the operator tutorials, it's right now a little difficult to find unless you come by it. I could have found the video a lot earlier if you just had a playlist for it. And my life would have been so much better. Sooner I mean ;)
3. Personally, This series has been of the highest value out of anything else on TH-cam on production so far. I appreciate your love for art and the dedication to service.
Thank you, for everything.
Dude you are changing my life. Thank you ^^
right!!!!
This is really, really good. Been cycling production videos for just a couple of years, and this is just pure gold man. Huge thanks!
Awesome stuff man, I was waiting for this.
Really enjoying this! This is a great tutorial. Appreciate the reasonable explanations for everything and your thoroughness. Keep 'em coming man.
I absolutely love your content. Thank you for your in-depth tutorials and lessons! As a long-time DAW operator relatively new to Ableton, this information is indispensable for my live production.
The BEST Ableton content on Planet Earth. Just finished the first course and looking forward to the next one! Thanks for everything you are doing!
These videos are great! Goes much much deeper than your average tutorial. Your explanations are very articulate and easy to understand. Learned some new things. Keep it up! Just subscribed.
Thank you for making these videos! It's incredible how much I've learnt in 2 hours!
Seriously.... one of the best production tutorial I’ve watched in close to 5 years! Really, genuinely amazing
You’ve got the cleans and clearest tutorials on these concepts. Nice job!
Highest quality Ableton tutorials on TH-cam hands down! Thanks so much!
I am using Ableton for two months now and I am so pleased with your tutorials you are making with Operator. I can't wait to check your next video!
I'm doing a lot of sound design with Operator right now, and you're absolutely right: the sound design you do in Operator is only the beginning of a good sound. Great vid, great channel, keep it up.
This is packed with great seeds! thanks again.
Thx so much, you opened my eyes and my ears for the potential of Operator, both Thumbs up for this exciting journey into the depths of live, incredible job ☺👍
Incredible tutorial. Can't even really express what a great teacher you are
This is for sure one of the best videos about ableton i've ever seen. Please keep the great work, you just got a new follower. =)
Very inspirational man, awesome stuff. Thanks!
amazing series! thank you so much
This is just genius. Please keep it up :) I'm so inspired when I see your tutorials!
Dude, just astounding. As always. :)
man i love this tutorial. gold 4 producers trying to evolve their sound
Thanks a lot for this, very informative! I would like to add though that replicating a specific existing sound still is a very good way to practise and learn using your tools in a directed way. It also trains the ear while deconstructing the components of the original sound.
Best ever and most useful videos about operator! well done! Greetz from Thailand!
Fairplay man, you are an awesome teacher. Your videos are quality, good work!
Great video. Highlights for me were layering found sounds into instrument racks and side-chaining corpus! Thank you.
Great tutorial man! Really inspired me today.
Very much appreciated and very much needed.
Love your tutorials, thanks!
Man, I have no idea, how you know all that, but I rarely find a channel with so much knowledge and deep explanation. Thanks!
This video was so mindblowing im gonna buy the pack asap! Thank you man.
What a beast of a video. Holy cow.
Amazing, thanks so much. I hope you get as much out of making these videos as we do in learning from them.
Awesome Operator series. I had problems initially with the sounds you were creating,as they are not my style, but once I got over this I realised how much I'd been missing with this instrument. I'm hugely addicted to Ableton overall, but if Operator came in just a standlone VST I'd be worth the price of Ableton Standard, if not Suite, on its own. Have a gold star and keep up the good work.
Anthony knows what he does. Thanks & props!
Great series, Thanks
Mad props for these videos! Amazing as usual. And great to use the built in devices - trying to make similar things in Phase Plant or Pigments or Serum has my laptop in a fit - no fans in overdrive running these! Great sound design lesson!! THANK! YOU! LOTS!
Damn super duper awesome class!🥰
Best ableton tutorial ever!
dude .... this is to much! amazing amazing work thank YOU!
Finally someone with some honest, real information!
Dude those sounds are uhhmazing 👍
This is great !
Love your vids. The 2nd Operator video showed me things I haven't touched yet and I make/made almost everything in my tracks in Operator, over the last six years.
PS Bobby West says hi.
Good tutorial. It helped me to re-learn and learn stuff :) I appreciate your effort here. Cheers,
Wonderful!!
the best operator tutorial
so so good. Thank you
Man these are fantastic vids. Super inspiring and enlightening. Perfect for total noobs like me.
Amazing!!
thank you so much
wow! such a good show!
Awesome channel, lot of information
This video series is so rich in information, let's fucking go
You are crazy, man!))) Such a useful tutorial!
Really excellent. Keep making similar videos where you break down interesting ways of using Ableton FX. I do think there are some overarching basic principles of sound design which you only truly understand through experimentation yourself or watching someone else doing it...cheers!
Love. Autechre is a big inspiration for me, their sound design is phenomenal. Wondering if you'll dive into some max?
sei un grande zio!
thank you
Love ya !
Thanks so much!
Just bought you nature sample
I've watched all of these Operator vids, and I now dream of you saying, "Now I am going to turn on the shaper, add a little bit of drive, compensate with some volume. actually lets use the hard" haha keep up the hard work man. you've changed my ableton life in the past two months!
good shit, cheers
still legendary
Best Operator tutorial, Ableton should take yours to an Official ;)
EXTREMELY valuable information. You can hear the passion in his voice.
you can highlight any instrument and hit ctrl/command g to group it to instrument rack. and you can highlight your FX and do the same. rightclick group is nice if you do this constantly in your workflow. but i think ctrl g is way faster. it is very intuitive because channel grouping is as well highlighting channels and hit ctrl g.
this tutorial series blowed my mind. very insane tricks that are showed here. ableton is such a crazy tool.
if you tend to forget the key think about G is the first letter for Group.
Youre content is so amazing and engaging. I stay through the video which i dont do for other creators because its o engrossing. I actually had a small request if you could do a video on multiband dynamics much like in the way you did for the operator. It would be amazing if you could do that.
it would be great!! but if he never make it, we canalways read the manual
Don’t know if this is something you go over at some point, but mapping LFO to delay time at a very low range, say 19-23% on the left and 21-19% on the right gives a great sense of movement.
Andrew Sharpe you mean an LFO mapped to volume?
No, delay time. I’ll put a video up and link it here shortly
Here you go. It's not a patch on what you can find on this channel, but I hope you find it useful.
th-cam.com/video/-IZhzfQFVB0/w-d-xo.html
would you like to make a wavetable series?
Are you planning on covering synths outside of live someday?
Bonjour,
merci bcp pour ton aide.
Peux tu faire la même série de tuto sur un plugin de reverb stp ?
sound design god!
My whole life was a lie! Thank you so much!
What you did there with the chained LFOs modulating all the parameters of the operator chain? With a different waveform in each LFO? lifechanging
Fckn great
52:55 "Alright I'm gonna fly through this" I see what you did there 😏
Oh my God I love you.
Just a thought the auto filter (14.27 on) looked like it was on the 5th operator only - am I correct in this? If so, how come it affected the whole sound? PS AT LAST I am finding how to make BIG sounds ... thank you.
Am I mistaken, or did the phase of the bass flip around the 45-46 minute mark? And isn't that messing with the mono image for when you want your bass to translate well that way? Thanks for the great tut!
🥴 instant subscribe!
I'm trying to work out what you did with the Operator's internal LFO by around 34:02 - it's presumably not affecting the A Oscillator as the pitch isn't bending up & down, so where is it going to?
41:41 made me laugh so hard and idk why. "So what I did is I added a saturator".
Is there anyway to get the LFO for the standard edition?
Love your vid - its one of my favorites now. But wanted to point out you made a slight mistake where you used Operator to make your Hyper saws. @ 10:00 you demo the preset you had made, but when you rebuilt it from scratch, you neglected to change the Algorithm from 4 in series, to 4 in parallel. Your narrative said you were seeking to illustrate how to create lots of parallel detuned saw tooth voices (16 using 4 instances of 4 osc's each), which is essentially what the "unison detune" function does, but what you did was make 4 complex FM'd instances of Operator voices. Since your levels for FMing were down, it didn't get very obvious, but you might want to think about how you could fix your video to clear that up. You obviously know your stuff, and covered a lot of ground with this one - thanks!
Is there a way to quickly sample any synth with Ableton? Not just one waveform sample BUT actually for printing into a sample instrument/rompler like kontakt? FL studio has a function like this: u can right click any software synth (say like SERUM) and click create sampled instrument = creates a nearly identical sampled instrument in DIRECTWAVE ... :O
how do you hear a limiter pumping? can't tell the difference in the last section
I really don't understand how you can get that sound with that specific algorithm. I would guess that there hasn't been some big update in that area, and when I try and replicate your settings I get really noisy shit. I needed to change the algorithm so all oscillators were independent.
You left Vinyl Distortion on mono after showcasing how good stereo is comparatively.
hey man! in which ableton version is the lfo? i got the live 9 suite and it is not in there :/
I'm just watching it 4th time. No, I was interested in content the first time. The second time I watched I was checking this stuff out myself along. All the rest I'm just watching for ads. You gotta be paid for that, bro!
Holy Sh*t! :O Alright... dude, you're The Man. Thank you for your hard work! Your explanations are great and you're a great teacher. I've never found a tutorial on Ableton's built-in tools as comprehensive and detailed as your serie on the "Operator". Huge ups to you and thank you!
agree!
thanks for the video! i'm curious about this LFO device. i have ableton 10 suite but i don't have this LFO in my library :( any ideas?
nvm... it's the "max for live" devices