Ableton Live - Sample Flipping MJ using the Fourtet Technique 

This is like a "Holy Grail", Special Sauce type tip! I played around with this technique for a couple hours now, and I've come up with 3 totally unique tracks. Thanks for sharing this. This has pretty much eliminated my fear of sampling. I've always been hesitant because I didn't want to sound "Unoriginal," but this is a game changer.

I use this technique when working on soundpacks, but I generally have not laid the notes out, but rather play them and feel for beats/atmospheres. Going to have to try this for SURE! Absolutely FANTASTIC tutorial. Thumbs up!

you can add a Max LFO to control the start point of one or more notes, then each time it's gonna get a different part of the song. SICK!

Love this channel, so good to find tutorials aimed at people who want to make something a bit more unusual!

I watched that Fourtet video about 5 times today, trying to sort out just what he was doing. Thanks for your video!

Cheers Bud, always good to mix and match new techniques and styles + a very clear video.

Love stuff like this. Props! Love how passionate you sound. Gwarn.

Using percussion loops you can create some pretty interesting techno using this method

I did this in Maschine for a long time when I had it, but it's nice to see it done in Ableton. Good video yo!

so dope man! used this technique with a Queen sample and it turned out really good.

Fun technique! Thanks for sharing.

I am so happy I found this video :) never seen this technique before!!!

cool. the trick would be to get something interesting and more complex, with at least a 4 bar measure, it's too static as a 1 bar measure. also, you've got all those envelope and routing options.

Neat tip. This technique has been around for ages in the tracker community though. Fun to see the same idea applied in a different environment.

Try putting different effects on different Drum Rack cells and adjust the loop end points as well. It'll get even more interesting!

That's one great video!

Interesting technique by FT well explained here- thanks mate

Amazing!

love u man!

Used a similar technique on a tribute remix I did a while back. I just put the melodic bed over a beat and bass. Ofcourse the way I used it was more of an overdub. Nina Simone - I Put A Spell On You (Sergiu Nadasan Tribute Mix)

thank you so much!!!

There's a good reason for his the controlorless part of his technique. Back in the day - in the mid 90s - he started with Acid Pro, which is the same DAW I got my start on back in 96. There was no midi in ACID as I recall - only audio. You would literally paint paint the wave files. I didnt get my first midi control until 2004, when I bought Live 4.

i can remember that while you still were at PointBlank you did a video with Vocal Chopping in Logic's Ultrabeat where u used a similar technique with the Sample Startpoint - that equals the Sample Offset of Abletons Audioclips. Im not very well known at RU-vid nor do i have any releases at all - but as i started using Ableton Live years ago i already used this method without knowing that theres a name for it lol :) Its really old, but its the best way of doing chops in Live in my opinion. Try combining this with the different Sample-Loop Settings in Simpler and adjust the Envelopes - use the Gate to filter out bits and pieces and use some effects with short Decays or a subtle Dry/Wet - when resample the whole stuff and layer it with different versions of the same original Chops ... you end up with worlds of different sounds from just a few different sample startpoints of the same sample in the End :-) For me this creative way of working in Live was my go for moving from Cubase to Ableton Live back in the days ...

Very simple technique

Love it.

really cool

Great. Thnx.

Hi Danny, as always great tutorial. I would like to ask you a question. I there a way to control the decay time of drum samples via it's velocity values? Example: Let's say i have a hihat drum pattern playing va simpler and want to control the the decay time of the drum sample being controlled via its velocity values.

The video sound is pretty good, beyond my imagination

dope!

Interesting!

omfg ! thankyouuuuuu !

Watch some tutorials from Mr. Bill. You will be amazed.

cool thanx

Yes it's kind of cheating compared to playing/programming everything but it's great fun and still valid as a compositional technique.

Great video! I got a question for you. I am used to only arrangement view and I am now learning how to make music using clip view. You dropped multiple instances into each drum rack in order to build your track. How do you record that? For instance I have 5 clips loaded into drum rack and when I go to record I get a recording of 5 midi tracks on one single channel. This makes it hard to edit I am finding. Is this how you would do it?

Get a push 2 it's worth the money trust me or mk3. Or any controller. It helps with creative sounds. And sample flipping.

I use kinda simular technique with the fruity slicer in FL. It doesn't have to be in tempo with your track even. But if you want to do that right you do have to program some drums first, then start fooling around with individual tempo's of the sample slices. That way you can get insane sounds

interesting idea...it sounds like shit tho no offense

Yes, this Kieran guy is interesting. Gonna investigate his stuff. Any recommendations? This technique would be a good candidate for the new Groove Agent in 7.5 don't you think?

in Africa we know this method very good we call it flippin' de egg'

it's this how you guys make footwork?

I have exactly copied the same track (Michael Jackson - I Can't Help It) and noticed what you did (sampled in The Drum Rack) and what too try within 5 seconds i hear the sample of Joey Beltram - Energy Flash :) wauw wauw wauw

whats the advantage using this technique over using startpoint automation curves?

ahahahha the irony here is strong.i laughed so hard at this video

What is the other video you were talking about?

danny did u see this one? Farewell, samplepack. Part I.

I am unable to alt+click+drag the way it's shown in the video...it just puts the clip into the destination and opens up an instrument rack. Any suggestions would be welcome.

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Couldn't you warn the samples then drop it in the sampler, to warp to your projects bpm..

Holy fuck.

I thought everyone who ever used ableton did the same thing? this is the only way that ive done it.

"real organic vibe" ... well well that phrase is everywhere now from the BBC to the elevator muzak channels to even Ableton...?

eh? i was doing that on the Atari st man. Its Just midi editing.

its basically granular synthesis?

nothing new here

sounds like the field

Sir nice vid please just Breakadawn better, De La SOULLLLLL man ya dig? Ah one two, ah one two / I was born in the Boogie Down catscan…

Technique great. Demonstration mhh

How is this new? It IS sample flipping like on a MPC....

Wow, I feel really cynical right now. This isn't that amazing of a technique to me in the least... I'm not a pro but I've always come at music with creativity- not blowing my mind with any of this. Sidechain compression???

I think this is just sampling for people to broke to buy a controller

„Yeah, I really like that!“ ... a hundred times, while creating total crap.

This is awful

I think POGO uses a bit of this technic too