Advanced Tips and Tricks for Building a Set in Ableton Live with Multiple Songs 

For the people like myself with short attention spans ;) 4:08 - setting up IAC driver on mac 9:18 - setting up stop clips 17:54 - Pause (stop) and go to next track 31:08 - Jumping between sections/looping sections Amazing info, Will, thank you so much! Love the fact you go super deep into everything and explain how the stuff works under the hood!

Hi Will, I want to activate/desactivate the "speaker on"/activation button of one midi track automatically as a song is playing (so I don't have to think about reactivate the loop mode you've showed us around 35 min of your video). For this purpose, I'm using a midi clip with a specific note on another midi track linked to the IAC driver in/out. I've mapped the note in the clip with the "speaker on" of the other track. But when I quit midi map mode, I can't activate the speaker on button of the target track no matter what (playing the midi clip or directly pressing on it) it stays off. Whereas, if I use a key mapping to activate/desactivate the speaker on button, it works fine (as you did in the video) and the key map trick doesn't work anymore if I try the midi clip solution at the same time. If I midi map the second clip to solo button of the target track (instead of activation button) it works fine. So is there a special behaviour of the activation button of one track which prevent midi mapping it ?

I decided to look at Abelton after seeing your videos. I was initially drawn to q lab since many theatre tributes use it. However it seems incredibly expensive and it looks like Abelton can do everything that q lab can do, but at a lower cost. Am I correct?

All done as explained. But after it stops and I hit Start (or spacebar) the playhead always jumps to the former starting point indicated by the blue marker.

wowweeee, incredible. the repeat trick?? thank youuu

May be a dumb question. But when setting up a pause and go to next track…. Is there a way to make the “arrangement insert marker” travel with the play head? When we start the set we hit “1” to move the insert marker to the beginning, but it stays there. So then later in the set when I have a “stop and move to next locator”, the play head jumps all the way back to the second locator in the set instead of the next locator based on where the play head is. What is the best remedy for this? EDIT: I found it in your video! Needs to be an “absolute” command. But, if I’m looping a section using a “previous locator” midi note in the middle of the set, and then I use a controller to go to the next locator (to stop looping the section and actually start the song) will that still work since the controller pad isn’t mapped to an absolute locator? Or would it be better to do what you did at the end here and have a note toggle the track activator on/off? But if I don’t want to have to reactivate the clip manually, then I can add another note after that to reactivate that clip automatically for the next time in the set that I want to loop a section?

You're... Amazing

Great video, I'm new to ableton live, when I map and position my clips to work with the "next locator" to go to the next song, it doesn't go to the next song, it goes to a later locator from where the playhead started. Is it possible to make this button work so that it goes to the next locator from where it left off by the hitchhiking? when I map the locators individually it works fine

Jared Dyke is a genius, the tip at 23:10 using track delay is mindblowing. Once again thank you for making this tutorial series available for free on RU-vid! No one else explains it as in depth and concise as you do, you're doing great work for the electronic musician's education!

Great!! Thank you very much again! Deep end easy solutions for real live show.

hey Will, love ur work. my midi controller is sending CC instead of midi notes so im not sure how to use the midi trick for stopping. can you help at all?

"Things need to be absolute, much like truth," preach brother! This Ableton series has been so helpful, thank you so so much!

the jokes are hilarious, keep em coming and these tricks are phenomenal ty

That Track Delay is GENIUS!!!

Thanks for your videos! Been using backing tracks and automation from Ableton a couple of years now, with bands and in theatre shows. And i've used track delay much, a mixing trick, when doubling up backing vocals for instance. Keep up the good work!

Great Information Thank you!! How do you deal with changing bpm On stage live? is there an easier way than clicking the tempo audio and double clicking on the new bpm? its hard to do that when your in the middle of the song.

I knew of this technique from a colleague but this video helped me recreate that myself. Thank you very much!

Hi Will. On my set of three songs.... on my third song When i'm trying to repeat the previous locator, i created a bunch of locators, i have the IAC driver set up, i create a midi clip, assign a midi note, i command M and midi assign the previous locator button, When i go to play once the timeline hits the midi clip instead of repeating the previous locator it goes to the very first locator on the first song... what i'm i doing wrong? I did every step just like you show in your video "How to repeat ....."

Im super new to your channel, but bro i love it! I too do alot of stuff for church, cut and run tracks for sundays and what not and ive been learning alot! Love your sense of humor too!

Thank you so much, this tutorial is gold !

This is great! Thank you, Will!

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