Music producer, educator and Ableton Certified Trainer.
Hey, my name's Matt Tinkler! 👋
I'm an electronic music producer, educator and Ableton Certified Trainer from Australia. I love making music and crazy sounds, and I love helping other people learn how to do both of those things too! If you like what I do, you can support me in all the usual ways or by shouting me a coffee over on my Buy Me A Coffee page.
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Your template is pretty similar to mine, only all my groups are sent to a premaster, no instruments are loaded up, and my processing is neutral and turned off until I need it, whether serial or parallel. Also my master has ONLY metering plugins, that way if i resample audio its not hitting a master eq curve or limiter being double processed. but its self contained pre routing to the pre master where my limiter is.
Thanks Matt... I have found that I have gone back and forth from complicated to simple templates and have, since Live 12, landed on a few specifics that help my workflow better. My default template (when Live loads) is a very simple Session view that has 1 midi track @ -6db, 1 audio track @ -6db, and reverb(with a utility on it)/delay returns + a bounce in place bus, with span on the master - and that's it. This is what I like to call my idea playground. Then if I want to work it further, I can pull it into my standard Arrangement template, which is still pretty simple, but has a few more buses, including a mix bus, and more tracks that further divide up into bus sections for each. My default midi and audio tracks are all @ -6db. I also have a reference track (with a utility on it set @ -12db), a midi arrangement track for making colors, an SC trigger, a couple of BiP lanes, etc. I typically don't put anything on either of these templates master, except span. However, I have a saved rack for mixing, that I drop on my master, once I get there. Racks are so helpful! I typically do mix downs, as a second save of the project, so I can go back and fix things - so its important to save variations - I often do this and each track typically has versioning, as I am a nerd. Plus I can go back and listen again, after my ears have had a break. Finally, I have a mastering template, that I pull in my mixed bounce into and work from that. This mastering template has SmartLimit on a Pre-Master track (so its easy to turn on and off so I can triple check things on my headphones) and all of mastering chain on the master. Everything on my master is turned off when I load it, as I take an additive approach to mastering. I have kept all my complicated templates and still sometimes use one, but sometimes I wonder what I was doing, when I created that. Yes - I am constantly changing and evolving these templates. However - from the start, I like things to be really really simple, as I know what I need and all the clutter seems to slow me down, at the start. On a side note, I organize my Live projects by - Artist and then - 1. Ideas 2. InProgress 3. Working 4. Mastering 5. Completed 6. InTheWild. I keep versioning in each song's folder, so the whole folder moves from Idea to InProgress (still not a completed song) to Working (meaning its a complete song - but needs stuff or I am mixing) to Mastering to Completed to (not always) InTheWild. InTheWild is you guessed it - submitted if it is mine or back to whoever I am working with. I do not work with any labels - cause labels are bad, mmkay. When I say submitted - I have it on the streaming services earning my .1% of pennies. Not a clue why I submit them, other than for others to enjoy or hate, as it ain't about the money. I simply enjoy making music.
I'm wondering if we can easily convert a simpler to a drum sampler (right click context menu) as we can already do for switching simpler/sampler devices. Is it possible? It would be great to "convert" drum kits containing simpler instead of drum samplers (when appropriate).
@@matttinklermusic thanks for your quick reply. Let's cross the fingers 🤞 Another annoying thing is that the collection browser filter does not work with elements included in a folder tagged as a collection. Do you know if 12.1 changes this behaviour, please?
Still can't cmd/select non-contiguous items on the same or multiple tracks without selecting unwanted items or decimated unintended chunks? Pfft waste of time.
Being able to float the stock instruments and devices so you don't have to look to the bottom left of the screen so much is a much needed update in my opinion.
It would be interesting to see this as an option, but I'm not sure it would be aligned with the design ethos of the software. I recommend leaving a suggestion in Centercode if you're a part of the beta program!
Sorry to hear that! I'm travelling to I only have access to some travel lav-style mics that can be a bit tinny sometimes. To my ears, this video really isn't that bad, but I'll keep an eye (or ear!) on it for future. :)
Yea… That’s cool and all but when can I freeze/flatten groups and strip silence? Literally this is all I want. Why have they added all this extra filler we don’t need and ignored this seemingly easy to implement major quality of life improvement? So frustrating 🫠
@@matttinklermusic I’ve been waiting for this since live 9. Honestly just feels like they’re trolling me at this point 😂 a man can dream🤞 coming to you in Live 56
I wish Ableton would enable scaling for the size of Groups; they take up so much real estate in the Arrange window. Such a simple fix that would make a big difference. Thanks for the video
Hard agree. At the end of a mix session the other day with like 160+ tracks, I had to put everything except drums into a group and it just looked so stupidly big 🤣. Minor issue, but it would be nice when you work with groups often.
Literally tom-aa-toe and tom-aah-toe, or daance/dahnce. It's a pronunciation difference between accents, not a right and wrong like it would be with a proper noun. :)
For starters I love the polyphonic midi control in Auto Shift and the FX section in Drum Sampler. I can also do granular and fm synthesis there now! First impression on the negative side is that some of the new midi editing tools seem a bit far fetched. Sometimes less can be more, but maybe I'll find a good use eventually.,
@@matttinklermusic Yeah out of everything that this update brings, I'm struggling to understand why they implemented that feature. Hopefully someone more creative than me will come out with a video showing "7 cool ways" to use it or some shit lol.
Same! I've been teaching Live at a university for the past 10 years on v9... We're finally updating to 12 and I gotta say I'm happy I have the summer to figure out how to incorporate all this new fun stuff! Excited though :)
Split arrangement clips in clip view FINALLYY 🕺as a former logic user it annoyed me so much that this wasn't possible! Almost makes me as happy as the Auto Shift tbh 😅 but yeah it would be way better if you could also edit the clips in the clip view, do crossfades etc.
It would be cool for sure, but I think it might get very confusing for people new to the software, and with all of the ways you can curve automation you can get pretty close to anything you'd want to create with bezier curves anyway.
Yeah this would be a really good feature now that we have scale awareness on audio clips especially! Could transpose audio clips in terms of scale degrees, which would be awesome.
I often find myself struggling to identify the scale that a song/sample is in, as you did in this video. Is there a way for Ableton to autodetect this?
Mauby one day we will be able to use program change with VST3? Well, it took them 15 years to fix their latency problem, so I won't hold my breath. Ableton are the worse for the consumers. They make you pay for small upgrade that should be free and give you a lot of stuff you don't use.
