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
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 😌
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!
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!
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!
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 !
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!
@@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.
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!
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.
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 RU-vid 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 !
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!
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
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!
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 - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Xf2blyH2ddg.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!
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
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!
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 🙃🙏🏻
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 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.
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 🙏🏻
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 RU-vid. 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! :)
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.
