Ableton Live Tutorial - Sampling & Creating Synths From Field Recordings 

What a coincidence - I was listening to your work earlier today 'edge of forever', came home, sat to make some music, got stuck, went onto youtube to learn how to get over the hump - and here I am, watching this technique which helped me to get over the initial problem - ha! Thanks for sharing sir! ;D

Sounds much more organic than any pads I've tried to make with oscillators. Smooth atmosphere.

That's some fucking great wizardry, mate

I subscribed because you actually SHOWED STEP BY STEP how to control your original recording via midi. I seriously cant thank you enough ive looked at videos for weeks and seriously they dont explain it this simply. keep it up. THANK YOU

That was an incredible pad tutorial! I learned so much. I will give this a try and see what sounds I come up with! Thanks Matthew.

This is literally one of the most awesome parts of making music. I've seen similar stuff before, but not done this well. Amazing man, thank you.

Really good found sample ambient pad tutorial! Thanks Matthew!

never expected that. hugely inspiring! thank you so much for sharing.

You absolutely should do more of these "tutorials". You explain the process really understandable/educational! Good work man!

Best tutorial i have ever seen! thank you sir :) superb tutorial.

Really cool technique, and in an internet full of over zealous super chatty tutors, your tutorial was actually enjoyable to listen to. Thanks for speaking in a calm and collected fashion.

Brilliant quick and clear tutorial. Am completely fresh to Ableton and this is exactly what I've been trying to figure out for last week or two. Was doing similar stuff years ago on a Casio FZ1 with a lot more faffing around and complexity. Unreal how easy it is through Ableton! Thanks a lot!!

Nice tutorial Matthew. Thanks for showing us your methods. (waving from down the mountain, in Raleigh)

Man until now I found your video and it helps me a lot even if simpler is updated thank u so much for this

Super tutorial my man... simple, informative, no shit, good voice, great example... I will try this for sure. Thanks!

Yes! That would be so dope!

this is so dope, good job

awesome! i didnt expect that you can make such beautiful sounds only with a recording of a grocery store ... this sounds just amazing

so amazing! thank you for this tutorial, really informative

Great tutorial, within minutes of watching I had made a sound I intend to use for a piece.

Great video. Thanks for sharing your knowledge. Cheers!

I bought a zoom H4n for field recording and sound creation as an ambient artist.Thanks for this tutorial and I am going to try this out.

thanks Matthew... really good.

nice tutorial ! Love that sound.

this is just what I needed. Thank you!

brilliant this was exactly what I was looking for!

Genius. Thanks a lot for sharing.

Thank you so much, simple but beautiful !

awesome tutorial, thank you so much!

You sir, are a wizard

needed this.

Great tutorial! Useful and to the point! Thanks and do some more :)

Great video, it helped me a lot!

I'm feeling pretty inspired.

awesome! i tried it with Reason's NNXT and worked also very well!

Superb. thank you.

Many thanks, bet youtube tutorial yet for me, 10/10

thank you for the inspiration. i've subbed

Thank you so much!!

Sweet tutorial , cant wait to start putting my tascam to good use

Epic tutorial....Gamechanger

Asheville haha...same here :) Thanks for the tutorial

Thank you a lot man!

nice one thanks !

Thank you so much for this video ;)

7:55 I make the weeverb

nice tutorial thnx

You do exactly what I've been doing these days, but with sampler instead, should have looked into simpler tho! :D

Great tutorial :-) Deserves a like ;-)

sweet!

Great sounds man. What would you recommend for a field recording device?

this was worth a subscribe

thank you

amazing, great help... just couldnt understand why are you using looper... why dont you justa record the audio to another track? waht do you get using looper???

Nice vid! Can you make another one like it except sampling vinyl records. That would be tight.

5:48 - 6:00 sounds amazing for a pad

Also, what version (level) of Ableton Live do you have to buy to get the Simpler, and the effects? Does this require a more expensive version? This kind of thing looks very easy to do in Ableton. Thanks.

you could try mapping the parameters you tweak a lot to your macros, so you have to move your mouse a lot less when tweaking :)

Great technique. Is there any way I can do this in Cockos Reaper?

What do you like for a field recorder? What kind of sample rate does yours have? Thanks.

Hi, i did as you said and dragged the sample track over to the simpler instrument. But i notice that the sample track is grayed out and whenever i drag it to the simpler instrument it doesnt play from the simpler and when i crop it it doesn't play anything :/ please help, this is so frustrating i've spent so many hours trying to succeed with this program

I find granular synthesis really interesting but also find most of the sounds I create through it to be rather similar sounding.

Your so lucky to be able to live in AsheVille!!

Can you help me please . I have 6 samples ( 1 sound) in a folder . They are all named with the root key . I thought that ableton would map these to the correctly but they all end up with the Root key of C , I select them all and right click and select sort by root key but it doesn't map them to the correct keys. I.have another voice set of multisamples in a folder and when put in the sampler that maps them fine. . These are not even named with a root key but they map fine.how does ableton read the wav files to root them correctly ??Hopefully you can help, thanks

what do you use to record these sounds?

What did you record the sample with?

Wow

this is so fucking cool wow

This is amazing. Do you think this technique would work with part of Beyonce's vocals or something? Haha

Hello, Mr. Barlow. Out of curiosity, what kind of microphone did you use to record inside that grocery store?

Granular Synthesis

Very informative !

Have you had much success creating bass and lead patches with this technique?

Nice video. But why you bother to use the looper, it wasnt doing anything. You can record your performance as a midi clip in the Simpler track. And edit it later, and record your tweekings as automation envelopes.

No tuning?

fucking awesome, now I can recycle al the accidental iPhone recordings

holy sht

question why don't you just work with the I/O on the tracks to send audio from the simpler to your audio track without having to fuss worry about your voice getting in the way. I don't even think you have to arm the channel if you do that. Just record. With that being said this was amazing though

Do you guys know about Fields Of Synths???

You didn´t pay that sound in the grocery? :P

we got tunes sell yours its Cool.

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"Weeverb wet"

lol it sounds like biosphere