11:32 cool video but wrong information here. Space bar = play in Ableton. You might be in piano keyboard mode or something like that (maybe 2 locators in same place) if not working. Other than that, a big thank you for your amazing work! 12:15 so true 😢
The "seems like we human really evolved from monkeys" made me crack up. Thanks for the vid, withthe money I've saved with your GAS Therapy videos I'm halfway through being able to afford real therapy. And the demo bassline sounds like Gainsbourg, I loved it!
Correction! Ableton Live DOES use spacebar to play/stop in arrangement view, I must smoked some on the trouble water. I need to give Ableton Live another shot, it's way easier than Reaper, although it might seem not. Also want to share a story about “朝三暮四”. “朝三暮四” (Three at Dawn and Four at Dusk) is an ancient Chinese idiom about a group of monkeys get tricked by how their host feeds them. The host used to gave each monkey 8 chestnuts for each day, but as he got older and poorer, he decided to only feed 7 for each to maintain his wealth, 3 for morning, 4 for evening. Monkeys got angry, started to make loud noises, jump up and down against the idea. Then the host came up with another one: "How about 4 in the morning and 3 in the evening?” Then, monkeys were satisfied. It has been thousands of years since this story, but seems like monkeys never change.
reaper becomes easy as walking if you customize it. the workflow is dependent onto you instead of the developers making it, pretty much everything in reaper is customizable.
Hi! I don't understand the bit about the space bar. That's how you hit play in Ableton- the space bar. I've been using Ableton since v4 and it's always been the space bar! Other than that bit of confusion, I love your videos. Cheers!
Hi Michael! What did you have to use to play in Ableton -- did you manually click on the play button each time? I'm very curious about why your space bar wasn't working!
I forgot what I did with it, it stuck at a status where I couldn't use spacebar to play in the arrangement view, so eventually I quit learning it. But now I know it works, I'll give it another shot. If not the spacebar thing, I won't even waste 1 minute on Reaper.
@@playpm Curious! I'm glad you'll be giving it another shot. While it's not a free product, it does offer a lot of features. I hope you enjoy revisiting Ableton!
Personally, I found it easier to teach myself piano and theory than figure out how to get one of these "easy instruments" to do what I want. Cheaper too - keyboards don't tend to reach the $2k range unless you're looking at full-blown workstations.
what were your tips for learning piano and theory? I would like to do that as well. I have an old Yamaha keyboard with midi i/o and that plus garageband is basically all you need.
@@Guacamole1000 There's a lot of material out there and people who have better teaching methods than I do, but I'd recommend starting by looking up scales. Practice ascending and descending through scales with one hand at a time at first, just to get a feel for the technique and how it's supposed to sound. C Major is the usual starting point since it's all white keys - no sharps or flats. As you do this, you'll want to get to know what note each key corresponds to, cause that'll help you figure out other scales later. Learning to read sheet music isn't absolutely necessary, but if there's a particular song you want to learn it'll be easier to look up how to play it that way than trying to learn by ear. At the moment I'm working on hand independence cause I want to be able to lay down basslines with my left hand. Again, I defer to the experts on the best method to learn, but what made it click with me was learning to play drum grooves. Whether you got a kit, a launchpad, or just air-drum, it's a good exercise to get your hands used to playing two separate rhythms.
@@aneveningwithebola2727 This absolutely sounds like sound advice. Going to some basics and get the feeling by repetition. This will work for a lot of people and should not even differ that much from "classical" teaching.
I feel like the point about RU-vidrs not using the gear they promote was spot on, and some one needed to say it. I'm guessing most of these big channels that do this kind of promotion all have storage closets full of gear they never use :D
I have the same iPad Mini, found it extremely underwhelming at the time as I could only get one "synth" to play at a time. Tried multitracking using a Zoom H6 and it was just impossible. An old laptop with tiny11 Windows and REAPER is just miles away for recording, no stuttering at all. Granted, MPE iOS synths can be fun but I hate the tactility of the glass screen.
If you don't have an MPE controller or iPad, most DAWs allow you to automate MPE features. Studio One (The Artist version is the best cheap DAW imo), Ableton, and Bitwig have the best examples of this! Edit: Beat Pads, Velocity KB, and KB-1 are excellent MPE iPad apps!
An interesting middle way is Beardyman who uses both - Ableton Live and multiple Ipads as midi input Btw - thanks - I totally overlooked how cool Garage Band is on Ipad
I have fallen in love with your videos. We all have that gas feeling. Even tho I am a lover of Ableton and all of the max for live stuff. I think it's super important to keep these things in mind. I love using my iPad as a controller. It even has a gyroscope and accelerometer in it! In fact I've found that I find more musical inspiration comes for me through controlling modulation parameters than playing notes most of the time. I've gotten a launkey25 a for school and just don't use it all that much.
This is gonna evolve into “how this DAW software should improve” series because I remember you telling me some DAWs and plugins are poorly developed. I would pay to see that
😂🤣😂🤣 you called it anti humanity hahaha it felt that way when I first started using it now years later it is customized toy exact work flow. Reaper starts as the worst daw and if you spend time tweaking it a year later it's the best daw ever 🤷🏽♂️
@@playpm Looking forward to it. I tried and tried to make Reaper work for me, but it's like... not really a DAW as much as it is a DAW toolkit. It kinda requires the user to build their own DAW out of the parts it provides... which could be great once it's done, but the setup is way more work than I wanted to put in. I wanted a clips+arranger workflow, not just an arranger. And given that I don't really like using a mouse+keyboard for music, and it's a pain dealing with audio interfaces and latency and jitter and operating system maintenance and drivers and stuff... I eventually dropped it and switched to a hardware solution where I can spend my time making music instead of maintaining software.
@@ToyKeeper that sounds to me like it would be nice to have some templates ready to load in... so people can promote sell or give away their presets so that you do not have to fiddle around with it.
@@philxdev Reaper is really powerful, and getting it to run well goes way beyond just templates. It's basically a complete programming environment that people can build stuff in. As a programmer, I'd normally be into that... but when I found a hardware DAW which already does what I want without having to write it myself, I went with that instead. I got a Force and have been really happy with it. It has the workflow I like, and it "just works" by default without having to get out of a musical flow to write code or troubleshoot tech issues.
It's all just showing off, paid reviews & MAJOR GAS. I've unsubbed from many 'synthfluencers' lately for this. I won't name names but one person inpartilucar has bought a £40k mixing console & tens of thousands of dollars of synths, just to create ambient electronic & it's totally absurd.
you are 100% right, yet, i love my push controller. it changed the way how i make music, radically, wth all its quirks & limitations. i really like the channel and agree w/ everything though :) also motorized faders and endless knobs are the way to go imho bc only these can support preset recalls and automations properly. i made more than 500 improvisations (on record, all vods on my channel) in about 1 year with the push. if i wouldn't use it would have sold it already.
never used mpe... it's great but not vital to compose... PITCHBEND Wheel juste One thing old as MIDI is one thing barely used by musician other than skilled ones. I recommand to watch this old KSHMR tuto where he use pitch bend at each end note in a melody.... brief MPE will be for later. Thx for your videos
HOLY SMOKES! You have finally reached Gordon Mah Ung (PC World) levels of rant! Paul Chato would also be proud. Of course you are right about YT ‘influencers’. They are all shills. Anyhoo I can support your efforts any way you like, but NOT THROUGH PATREON. Sorry to yell. I’ll get your plugins, and your finger drumming course, etc. only if available without Patreon.
All well and good but half the fun is opening up the box and admiring the purchase that you have caved into buying and lumbering yourself with a credit card bill you never clear. Right I need to buy a new Ipad
I love the Push 3, but I swear a demo guy even said they were using the same tech as capacitive touch screens on phones and tablets when showing it off 😂
But you don't buy the Push3 only for the MPE pads, it's an Ableton controller that now also have MPE pads. ...and yeah if you don't have the money there are workarounds. But it's not exactly the same to play on a touchscreen vs. pads with haptical feedback.
A launch pad mini is about 20 quid and works great on iPad , boom there is your 64 pads , I used one for years with my iPad, I have the MPC one now and I think it was worth the money I paid as it forces me to concentrate on one device
It’s all good. I have IOS, Mac OS and some synths and other gear. I like them all but you bring me back to software which is commonly more comprehensive.
that ableton push thingy looks insane but.... I do think I would prefer something with physical pads to an ipad screen. If I knew how to build a midi controller myself like that, I would do it and cut out all of the stuff I dont need.
-Basically. What I'm saying is I want is something that can just send out the new Midi standard, so I can control other synths in this way. The Ipad is fine but I really dont want to be locked to Apples universe or really even participate in it, I want to use my own synths and programs. I don't need all the extra stuff I just want an MPE controller...
@@playpm Yes definitely, and right now it seems like a lot of high cost proprietary stuff. As I understand it, MPE is nothing more than a new standard for Midi, so maybe it will get more adoption over time. In my case though I like designing synths so I bet I could find out how to make whatever it is work with MPE. Sadly I just don't have a cheap MPE controller.
This is the best Review of Ableton Push 3! I love Ableton Live, but I have the same opinion... Garageband is one of my Sketchbook for my Musikproduktion
I'd assume that no one would buy the Push 3 without also buying into Live. Meaning, you don't need stem expert on the controller since it's available on the computer. Push seems different from the MPC in that sense, it's not standalone first.
@@sinewaymusic I think it should still have it, they've entered a space where nearly every competitor (MPC, Force, Maschine Plus, Polyend Tracker) can basically create a song and export the stems in standalone. Not having that makes it a starkly weaker device in some ways. Especially for people who might use other daws but want the push workflow. I personally use Live so it's fine, but it is weird imo.
@@DylanParisMusic Oh yeah, I agree. Wasn't trying to defend Ableton here, merely trying to explain how they might deprioritize the export functionality given that 99% of their initial buyers being Live users. I'm sure they will eventually add stem export. And let's not even talk about how greedy they are by creating a controller for 1999 and only bundling it with Live Intro. 🙈
Sorry, Your solution is not free. As an Ableton user on a PC, I have to buy a Mac, an IPad, and Logic Pro to get Your full solution..... ;-) Cheers from a happy Push 2 user
Yeah that thing is super expensive. The orba 2 or keith mcmillen kboard paired with garage band or zen beats and then you don't even need a laptop to get a similar sound to the push3
I got to the point where I do everything with my android cell phone, between zen beats, koala sampler. But I have a dried who used garage band to write a sound track to a feature film.
Your comments about people wanting an 'easy instrument that plays chords and scales to make them look cool' just about sums it up. The £1,669 Push 3 'Chopping Board' cannot use Ableton's arrangement view or run 3rd party free VSTs but my £69 Ableton LIve Intro, PC version can (this is not cool, IMO). Thank you Michael for GAS Therapy. 🙂
2:53 it's nice to see you break out of your angry persona for a second. I'd like to see more of happy and genuine Michael, you came across as charmingly genuine there. In MY opinion. 😅
What makes Reaper most anti humanity designed DAW? It's the most efficient, customizable, flexible DAW out there. GB doesn't even have 10% of what Reaper has.
If only Apple would have used their tech forward thinking to improve the UI experience of GarageBand. Every time I try to use it, I find it so clunky. For most music gear, once you get past anticipating how it might work for you, the real value is in how it creates a unique workflow. As a guitarist, I’ve learned that different types of guitars cause me to play different styles more. For e-gear like samplers, grooveboxes, or even iPad apps, the workflow and speed of doing makes or breaks it. That’s the only thing we should be evaluating when watching influencer gear videos. Does that device have a workflow I would gel with and is it worth the cash to find out. I love me some iPad apps, but I also love a well placed knob, fader or button too.
I have Push 2 and the 6/8 week order time probably stopped me from copping 3. (Never give customers that much time to think.) So I asked myself… Can’t I get a cheap MPE controller? (In the simpler one shot far right there’s a button called MPE!) Do I need stand alone? (We have laptops to travel with. Why limit yourself to push capability when a whole Ableton can travel with you.) Do need 2 hours of beatmaking time on a 5 hour flight?) I like looking at my computer. Watch enough hype and you will be affected. Sometimes we need a rude awakening.
I've been wanting a clips+arranger music workflow in hardware form for over 20 years... but the Push 3 isn't it. I've been really happy with an Akai Force though, since it has my favorite workflow and great Linux compatibility and a decent homebrew scene. Now the only time I get GAS is if I eat too many beans. I still enjoy watching gear videos, but have no interest in getting any of the gear... it's more for ideas and inspiration I can try on the instruments I already have. Apple gear could be a good option since there are fantastic music tools in Apple's ecosystem... but I really, really don't want to have anything to do with Apple. Or Microsoft, for that matter. I switched to Linux a long, long time ago and have no intention of ever going back.
Why everyone is suddenly praising Push 3? I tell you why, because they got it for free! Ableton pushes push (pun indented) by giving away a $2000 dollar box for free to the so called groovebox "Gurus" so of course they are going to praise the product. Now, if you have to buy Push 3 believe me more sooner than later your going to find many things wrong with it.
Ableton in conjunction with a Push Controller is an amazing experience and i use my ears more than my eyes. I don’t get your point here 🤔 anyway…thanks for the Video…it’s interesting to see other people’s opinions
Welcome to the jungle. Yeah lots of people paid to use the push. But it is useful. . I bought slate headphones. Could not see a bad review of them. But I don’t think they are great. I’d say people were definitely paid to give them amazing reviews.
I would love see Apple opening up Airdrop feature outside their ecosystem. I am PC/windows user and I would love to send files over Airdrop to my PC from my iPhone. But its not possible, and I am using workaround with VLC and its file server feature. A bit bulky and slower than Airdrop, but at least I don't to mess with cables, itunes and its stupid updates.
@@playpm Completely agree. Apple' designed good work continuity flow across their devices and they just lock you in their ecosystem. Once going in, it's hard to go back, and you stuck in money-sucking machine. Performance and software-wise its good tho.
The first DAW I ever used was GarageBand. Our school bought these new old cubic sized apple computers and they had GB installed. Playing around with all the loops and arranging them to have a full song took only minutes. Every student was able to create a full song without any knowledge about music theory. We did not need any tutorial explaining how the program works. We were like 12 years old and using garage band came natural to us. For years I have been playing around with all kinds of music programs on my iPhone until I bought a launchpad pro mk3. Ableton live Intro came with it for free so I gave it a try on my PC. I watched a few hours of RU-vid tutorials and made great progress every time. Now I wish I would have tried ableton live years ago. It’s my favorite DAW by far.
lool, i love it. sometimes i find myself opening someone’s eyes about a 10yo tech too. many people somehow missed the fact that iOS has already solidified itself as portable music-production-compatible environment a looong time ago. it was literally the segment for the development of iOS from the ground up, even when the OS itself hadn’t any software solutions available for users, it has already had a ported version of CoreAudio (the audio core Apple uses for their desktop systems for audio-related tasks and is the solution they’ve based their GarageBand and Logic Pro around, and it’s still so to this day). and the very first iOS version (iPhoneOS at that time) had CoreAudio on its board. so they clearly started to think about portable music creation workflow way earlier than anyone else. so practically whatever any of today’s portable-ish external gear’s is capable of - by most part it has already been implemented years ago to a more compact touch-screen oriented format in iOS realm. 80% is possible to achieve within free software, but if you could spare 30-40 bucks on additional software (like AUM or Drambo, etc.) then you’re practically light years ahead of capabilities of Push 3 or any similar gear - and it’s with a device that fits in your pocket and way faster than those external solutions in terms of processing power. -- btw, i believe you got the part about track limitations in GB a bit incorrect. as far as i remember, it supports up to 32 tracks. at least in case of iPad Mini 1st Gen. it’s still higher than a basic Ableton 16-track version though, so your point is relevant anyway.
