9 Incredible functions of Ableton Live 

What’s amazing is how quickly and clearly you lay out all the benefits. Thanks for respecting my time.

Section 1 is exactly why Ableton is my go to. It's so easy to edit audio, without the need for clicking on function buttons, etc. It's the best.

I just want to thank you for all the information you give us. You inspire me so much, I hope one day I can reach your level of creativity and production.

I'm in a serious relationship with ableton since 10 years and i think it will never end!

Mate I have needed this video so much, you literally basically solved all the efficiency issues in my workflow in ableton. Thanks so much

Actually mad, i have been using ableton for like 2-3 years and you just told me stuff i never knew i could do in ableton, things i wished were possible that actually are possible i just didn't know, thank you, and what an amazing video overall!

the side to side tongue in time with the wub was pretty cool 😛

Your autohotkey script + Ableton = Unbeatable workflow

Beginner's insights here: I started doing MAO last year of FL Studio, great software but I recently switched to Abelton and my creativity + ease of doing music skyrocketed I swear this DAW is the best. It's like Premiere Pro of music but it doesn't crash. Also, could you do a video with all the best shortcuts to use in Ableton??? I know so few of them.

The best thing about Ableton is the automation. You click a knob on a plugin, it readies the automation lane of whatever knob you clicked. Cubase can't do that unless you turn a knob while recording.

that's why i love Ableton, it's so comfortable to use and intuitive.

Nice video. Funny you don't use, or even know the session view of Ableton, which is the most specific feature that makes it so different from other daws. To me it is essential.

Dude thank you!

Holy moley, didn't realize I was early, because I was too busy watching the video. Good job dude!

Nice content and tips 👌 subscribed

yo bro, really thankya. Big respect

I just downloaded the trial version last week. The workflow is insane. The creative flow is just incomparable to other daws.

Ableton is LOVE ❤️

So many keyboard shortcuts. After 10 years of using it, I still can't remember all of them.

big thanks aiden this help me so hell now i switch to ableton!!!

just thank you

Started my music journey with Cubase5, tried FL studio when I was in Military Service, Learned and used Pro Tools when I started work with publishers, also have tried Logic for Co-writting Sessions, but yeah... I am keep using Ableton. It is just best.

I still use FL, but DANG! I just found your channel and you are now one of my favourite channels of all time XD GG man! you just gained a sub!

Love you Dawg

yo, forreal though, I love that I never have to stress about losing save data from a project. All the weird plugins and M4L stuff I use means I get crashes at least once a session. Even having stuff like a BSOD to the entire computer becoming unresponsive, even just me forgetting to charge the computer, I have still been able to recover every session after a reboot. Very underrated feature.

Ableton is way underrated, been usimg it since 16 years old🔥

For audio post-production i've switched from Ableton to Reaper. It's really powerful, has all the features you've described and a tons more. For example, you can apply an FX chain per audio item and automate these FX and you still have the track FX chain. You've spectral editing integrated in the DAW. Comping is much deeper. You can make track templates, etc, etc.. Mad. MIDI isn't as straighforward tho so it really is best for audio editing and UX in Ableton is also much better. But it's good to use them both in my opinion.

I love Ableton, but studio One 5 pretty much does the exact same things on your list and is done easier. There are a couple of exclusive things about Ableton that I do like though.

I basically started on Ableton… tested Logic for a bit but came back… have no reason to ever venture anywhere else again. Has everything needed plus more. Just a matter of learning the ins & outs and then rocking out with it. ✊

I love Ableton Live, but it is my main DAW. I have used Cakewalk in the recent past, like a bit over a year ago, prior to learning Live. I used Reason, when it was under Propellerhead, way back when, and tried Ableton and Fruity Loops back then as well and never grasped any of them. Now days, they are all much better than they used to be. Ableton Live is my DAW now and I doubt I will change that, any time soon. Had an intro in 10 and quickly upgraded to 11 on the cheap and then finally did the full upgrade to Suite, with Max for Live and wow.

Hey bro nice video. I have a great tip for everybody to stop the crashes and overloading. Just go to your computers power settings and select the highest power plan and boom 💥 no more crash issues worked for me really great.

didnt know holding shifting and resizing samples stretches them thanks!!!!

Ive been using Ableton for 3 years now and I can't see myself ever changing DAWs. I do use LUNA for some live recording but Ableton just feels like home.

The DAW skin is awesome 🥵

They just need to integrate Fabfilter plugins into the DAW as stock so it runs smoother, soon as I add just Pro-L2 for instance the CPU meter goes up 10% lol hopefully they do a partnership one day🙏

please do a video making drum and bass! id love to see your take on dnb

learning another daw seems really daunting but maybe someday i’ll switch for some cool sound design stuff!!

Can you make video trying to use LMMS

I switched from FL to Ableton, best decision I've made so far

Bro TRUST ME u have to produce and release music professionally, u r an underrated artist!!! Love your tunes!!!!

Good video, Ableton is the greatest on Earth. Do you know if there is a way while you are editing in the session view to temporarily disable the snap to grid?

it's interesting that you mention cubase as being intuitive as well after saying you tried fl and bitwig. as an ableton user one would think you tend to like bitwig's workflow most. but cubase also has this property to ensure great overview in bigger projects while bitwig is more focussed on smaller ones

shift tab you caught me, nice!!!!!! >

I wish ableton would buy out bitwig and they could take the best of both - combined into one daw. I currently use ableton the most but bitwig slowly keeps cutting into more and more of that time. Honestly though, I love FL Studio and I also love Serato Studio and then there is Alchemy and Drummer with Logic, so... I really do like all of them a lot. To me it comes down to what you're trying to do in the session and that determines which daw will bring out the best of the time spent

PLz do Mixing Mastering including loudness gain staging etc. 2022🔥😍😍❤️

Wow I'm so glad that I found out about FL studio first

The single thing I've always been jealous of as a Cubase user is racks. That sh!t is crazy!🔥But everything else in this video is covered.

Love your videos. Btw what’s the shortcut to 1:08? I’ve always wondered how to do that as I’m not that well versed in ableton yet. That is one thing I’ve been searching how to do

Ableton is the best DAW, no doubt

HI Bud, Enjoyed the vid, can I ask what Ableton Template /Skin are you using and where can I get hold of it? as it's the same colours I use but better than mine as you can see the grid lines more clearly,

You could also add "Turning audio into MIDI" and that could make 10.

i switched to Ableton from FL Studio but there are some things that i miss in Live, like the Pogo or Time streching Modes from the Sampler

4:02 Him: So we go from this, to this: Audio: Exactly the same :p

I've been moving from FL to Ableton and these videos are nice. There's not really any good "moving from FL to Ableton" tutorials.

ive used all DAWS and for me ableton is the best.....hands down.......and i was Fl Studio for life....

Reaper smiled slightly as he left this chat

Hmmm... I've been casually making music in fl studio for 6 years as a hobby, after watching this idk if I should move over to ableton now. Another detailed video will be really appreciated 👌 👍

i love Bitwig :)

I’m considering moving from FL to Ableton I never thought I would say it but I feel like it is exceptional for house music, people who have moved to ableton from flstudio what did you guys think was it easy to learn

Interface is the best so far! Everything is in the same place unlike FL's endless popping up windows.

What is your pc specs need some recommendation on a new pc 🙏🏽

Reaper Features 1. 64 audio channels per mixer track 2. Advanced routing features 3. Advanced "side chaining" for All parameters 4. Built-in pitch correction (both auto & manual) 5. Great stock (fx) plugins plus use any 3rd party plugin format 6. Extremely Advanced render options & render queue with flexible naming options when rendering multiple items. 7. 16 customizable tool bars 8. Create your own keyboard shortcuts 9. Create custom macros which automates multiple commands into 1 action then map that to a keyboard shortcut 10. Portable install 11. Advanced multiple layered "track freeze" with the ability to go all the way back to the original state even after closing the project 12. Load project in offline mode to troubleshoot buggy vsts 13. Extremely low RAM & CPU usage 14. Amazing noise removal 15. Vocal alignment function built-in 16. Versatile time Stretch options 17. Open & switch between multiple sessions 18. Remote session collaboration tools (NinJAM) 19. Online repository with over 2000 community based enhancements including plugins 20. Sub-project linking 21. Remote control daw via any web browser 22. ChordGUN 23. MIDI key lock 24. Save "undo" as a part the project for unlimited "undos" at anytime 25. Loop record & create take lanes for both audio & midi to capture the perfect performance or use comping to achieve the perfect take 26. Tempo lock samples to your project with built-in sample browser 27. Delta solo 28. Ara support 29. Agnostic tracks... Meaning there are no specific track type. 30. Put Midi, audio, mono, stereo, video or image files, all on the same track 31. Media browser can show 🎶 notes being played in the sample being previewed 32. Video editing & rendering 33. Oversampling for any individual plugin 34. Oversampling for any plugin chain 35. Spectral audio editing 36. Separate slots for Monitor FX 37. Parallel processing for any plugin 38. Advanced automation clip editing & manipulation 39. Midi side processing available for any plugin

For some reason I haven’t got those stretch audio and ctrl alt f features in my ableton 11 1.26 idk why

I switched to Ableton from Logic Pro a few years now and am so happy I made the switch. I felt limited in Logic Pro but it’s good to record vocals in

Ableton is sooooo fucking good, really the only thing i miss is a built in pitch-correction editor like logic has. Imagine if they bought melodyne and implemented it nicely into the UI 🤯

Wow. Super Cool tutorial. A bit too fast, but great. Thanx. I love Ableton, but when you use a lot of external synths, its a pain for me. Ableton is not able to compensate the time delays when using midi automaticly that some plugins generate. But the rest is fantastic.

In Logic Pro you can have all of this too 😎

I did lose a session to a crash, once, in 18 years. been using it since v4. I moved from Pro Tools to Cubase to Ableton. Ableton's workflow is essential to my living, I release 2 tracks a week and that's how I make my living from music. its all because I can import tracks from other projects with fx in tact, and all the time stretching is done for you before you even drag a sample in.

I am using Cubase , Maschine, Bitwig and i have Ableton but it's all same with different UI structure. Ableton is amazing but it's not better or nessery for "success" not giving up is the best advice

Very cool video, would love to see what you’d do with some of our products….

Some amazing black magic going on here my man. Seems like I don't know how to use Ableton at all😄👍👍

You should try Reaper, you will be very surprised by the work speed in this program.🙂

You're absolutely right. I used to use Cubase til i got properly introduced to Ableton 8 by my studio collaborator back then, and that was it. I've used Protools and Logic, even since Logic was called Notator. ..Cubase that's how f*ing old I am - lol. I remain on Live 9.7 cause it's the most stable version on my system, and it still beats anything else. So yeah, for what it's worth, I agree with you. I have had MANY conversations with protools heads -including my protools lecturer at uni-, and they all agreed, in private, Ableton is a much better system than PT, which is just an elitist trick these days. Cause it is. Your track at the end is awesome, whether it took a minute or not 👌 PS. If it was real, I'd marry Ableton too.

I’ve been using FL Studio for about 5 years now, and in that time, it has become an incredibly powerful workspace for producers. There’s only a handful of features that you’ve mentioned which FL Studio doesn’t have, like grid-highlight splicing and saving entire tracks with clips and effects, but personally, I can live without such features. It gets a lot of flack for its unintuitive layout, which is a reasonable complaint, but if you have the patience to learn where things are, it’s just as fluid of a workspace as Ableton. FL Studio’s patcher, mixer, and events editor are widely overlooked by people seeking a good DAW, yet it’s where I spent most of my time producing. My one big complaint about FL Studio is that it’s mixer is limited to 128 channels, which is just laughable. I think FL Studio is still missing a couple of features what would greatly enhance the workflow, such as macros than can be mapped to any parameter in the software. I will say, Ableton’s stock plug-in selection along with its effects rack appears far better than FL’s. It seems to come with far more tools for giving producers control over their sound. For this reason, I’ve considered saving up for Ableton, and that shit is expensive.

1:08 - can you please tell me how you can do that?

i just hope they focus on their send/return track functions in live 12

Where can i get the ableton skin that you're using

YO. The track at 5:15 - what's the ID & where can I cop that?

You Betta Tell em! Ableton is my wife too Good am I’m gonna make a banger!

I discovered an OP feature. You can make project templates.. BUT!.. You can select parts of a template inside of the browser while you are in a project. Thus you can quickly drag in complex or just really useful already set up project parts. Like certain channel routing

If I was an Ableton guy, I'd use Bitwig ;)

Well, I’m getting Ableton

I feel like after discovering hyperpop and experimental. I should probably switch over, but I have too many projects halfway through in FL studio, and transferring over would break me mentally, so

Try studio one

FYI for any Logic users. You can do all of this in Logic besides the multiple warp modes and MPE. However, Bitwig is better than Ableton at both of those. Also the MIDI transformation tools, key-command customization, and screen sets are more robust in Logic than in Ableton

Try Bitwig, honestly couldn't go back to Ableton

how do i make the shortcut of the 01:09 ?

The Session view is what distinguishes Live from all the other DAWS. You consolidate material in Arrangement view, drag it into its respective column and then use the trigger functions to launch the other clips in the channel. When you like what you hear, record it back into the Arrangement. With regard to signal flow on a channel, what's great about Live is that between each device sitting on a given track, you can see a small amount of space that registers the signal output going into the next device to the right. This is extremely useful when you're using a lot of saturation and distortion. Unfortunately, these little gaps between devices disappear when you group them together.

"Welcome back to the channel My name is peter parker 😂"

As a dual user of FL and Live, my only complaint is that Ableton doesn't seem to think I would want an easy way to return to the beginning of anything. Even the selection window at the bottom right doesn't serve that purpose without also adjusting the magnification of what I am looking at. This, and well... the built in sounds are kinda boring.

FL STUDIO GANG! My thing with Ableton is, nobody wants to remember a bunch of shortcuts. I just want to click to delete not presss five keys for a shortcut to delete. FL allow you to not think about shortcuts keys and focus on making beats. The thing I like about ableton is it's easier to work with audio clips, like you said. Some things that would require an extra step or two in FL like printing midi to audio is just quicker to do in Ableton. I bought Ableton's intro package and plan on getting the next tier after I purchase a few plugins I need.

And also, ableton is anagram of tonelab & notelab.

how do u move content on the sample

Btw at the end you said it doesn't piss you off but while I was trying to get used to the piano roll and arrangement view of it, especially the two line under the playback pissed me off a lot. In note view, you have to choose how many bars it's gonna be before you write the notes and it's a blockage for intuitiveness, I mean the other features are extremely intuitive according to other daws but to write something you have to choose the area and hit ctrl+shift+m, if you write longer you have to fix the lenght of the clip inside note view, we should have been already allowed to keep writing imo but that's a sacrifice for dragging and multiplying feature, understandable but I don't find that practical. But I'll go for Ableton. I love it so much. It makes me enjoy making music really.

I want Ableton to add macrosses and actions for certain tasks like Studio One has. For example, you need to make a quick double for a vocal, you press a certain key combination, the track is automatically copied, the pitch drops or rises - and voila, the dubble is ready. lots of time saved. Please Ableton!!!

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One of the thing that I dislike is the difference between FLstudio where you have a couple of midi, and if you change one it applies to all the other clip in the arrangement. Ableton won't change the other midi, but just the one highlighted. In complex project you have to remember to copy paste manually this clip where it needs to be. This in FL results with less midi in total. While ableton you can comeup with lots of similar midi.

How did you Change colors in ableton?

Would’ve been more helpful to say what keyboard shortcuts you were using.. Also when Ableton crashes, it doesn’t save unsaved VST settings so save VST settings or Ableton projects often

Huge downside of Ableton is you can't edit multiple clips simultaneously like editing the fades. You can't quickly replace drums through drag and drop like Cubase. I think the Manage Samples is a slow process.