How To make Ableton's Stock Piano Sound Great (For Ballads)

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In this video, we are going to transform Ableton's stock piano sound into a rich piano sound perfect for playing ballads ***** 🔴 For excellent piano presets, check out the Pro Piano FX Collection: livekeyboardis...
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📖 Show Notes 📖
Ableton's stock piano tends to be a little bassy and doesn't stay super present, so to make this piano work for a pop ballad we will want to do three things:
1. Use compression to create sustain and add color
2. Use saturation to add higher frequency Harmonics
3. Use EQ to remove trouble frequencies and accentuate warm tones
4. Use Reverb for Long Warm sustain
The first EQ can be used to remove frequencies below 90 Hz, since we don't need the information in that frequency range. It's also nice to boost a little bit around 300 Hz, since there are some nice warm frequencies in that range
I prefer the Glue Compressor because it is a little bit more colorful than Ableton's regular compressor. Both can be used depending on what you have access to. It is okay to be a little bit aggressive with this effect because it is stylistically correct, especially for a ballad.
The saturator is helpful in adding extra harmonics. If you want a little more color, you choose a soft sine instead of analog clip.
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Комментарии : 33

@Adam.Arendt-One 6 дней назад

Beautiful Piano Sounds ❤ Thank you😊Nice greetings from Hamburg.Adam

@whiskanhwang6417 21 день назад

Amazing, that really sounds great

@ZdenoMucina 3 месяца назад

very helpful :)

@ducoteaw 3 года назад

I've been struggling with keys tone in Ableton for months - this was a HUGE help! Thank you for sharing

@LiveKeyboardist 3 года назад

Really happy to help! Thanks for commenting.

@ultralighthouse Год назад

This is great! I'm new to ableton, and want to understand all of the stock plugins and parameters to really dial in my sound. This is straightforward easy information to understand and with some great "why" along the way.

@magica2z Год назад

Great video. Thank you and subscribed.

@ilovemyjob9108 6 месяцев назад

Please make this kind video with mainstage

@gettyfeet9119 3 года назад

Yes! Now I have to figure out gout to use the same settings in Lmms

@LiveKeyboardist 3 года назад

Glad you found this helpful. The details of the things vary from software software, but the concepts are the same. Depending on which piano you start with, you will need to EQ differently but other than that you should be good to go.

@jagdishwagh9664 3 года назад

Thanks mate once again :)

@DoctorEyeHealth 3 года назад

Wow...I feel so intimidated by my lack of music knowledge.

@LiveKeyboardist 3 года назад

Doctor Eye Health never too late to learn! BTW, I love your channel! Thanks for watching my video.

@larryotismusic 3 года назад

Lol exactly. But im learning and it will turn me into a monster. Definitely

@larryotismusic 3 года назад

41 vids of sound design knowledge. While in the process of moving so i cant touch any keys yet. Fully focused!!

@LiveKeyboardist 3 года назад

Let me know if you have any questions! Good luck on your move.

@bigtony7807 3 года назад

Thx fam

@LiveKeyboardist 3 года назад

Happy to help!

@OddDrummerGaming 3 года назад

Nice. Is Ableton your main DAW? I’m a Cubase guy myself :)

@LiveKeyboardist 3 года назад

Ableton is for sure my main DAW. But all these ideas work across DAWs. What kind of music do you make?

@OddDrummerGaming 3 года назад

@@LiveKeyboardist Years ago I dabbled in video game music. My Cubase stopped working on my computer so I took many years off from it. I recently got Cubase again, and I've been dabbling in making beats and such.

@taylorrowanhughes 2 года назад

Any tips on redcuing CPU usage on Abletones Grand Piano. When I use the pedal my CPU goes mad. I've done all the standard things like buffer, etc etc I can't seem to fix it???

@Garflips 3 года назад

Some nice tips that can be used on a variety of instruments. I'm a long time Ableton user with still a lot more to learn. This is a bit off topic but I've been searching all around trying to find stock or Max for Live effects that will give me the Heavyocity Ascend or NI Noire arpy/generative/rhythmic/partically accompaniment thing on either the stock Ableton piano or actually my favorite, Pianoteq. Got any ideas... or maybe even links? Cheers!

@LiveKeyboardist 3 года назад

Hey Gary thanks so much for commenting. I’m not super familiar with exactly what you are looking for. But based off of your description I think I would look at using granular synthesis on a piano sample. Could be totally off here but when I think of rhythm and particles that’s what comes to mind.

@Garflips 3 года назад

@@LiveKeyboardist So I take it you haven't heard any demos of Heavyocity Ascend? If not you should check it out - truly inspiring IMHO.

@LiveKeyboardist 3 года назад

Just had a listen. They are really awesome. If I were trying to re-create that I would probably put ableton‘s echo device and convolution reverb on a send and have some way of manipulating the delay time. Won’t get you exactly there, but will probably get you pretty close and maybe give you part of the experience you’re looking for.

@Garflips 3 года назад

@@LiveKeyboardist I bet Max for Live is the way to go. Lots of generative stuff there. But then might be easier/cheaper to buy Ascend... I believe you can turn down the mix of the main piano voice and use your own piano or instrument for the primary sound even though the generative rhythms are still based on the Ascend piano.

@joepaquet4332 2 месяца назад

Do you offer help with PCs or just Apple?

@LiveKeyboardist 2 месяца назад

Depends on what challenges you’re having. Send me an email through my website and I’ll be happy to let you know if I can offer assistance.

@joepaquet4332 2 месяца назад

Thank you, when in doubt, unplug and replub, lol, I got it but very impressed with your channel, I hope to contact you for other learnings soon, Cheers!

@M4rcLL 3 года назад

If I touch the keys softly it sounds as loud as when I press it normally, or at least almost as loud (but if I press it a bit harder it's louder, so the weighted keys work). Any tips to get a quieter sound when pressed softly?

@M4rcLL 2 года назад

@@wwater2162 No, sorry :(

@M4rcLL 2 года назад

@@wwater2162 and I haven't meant weighted keys, I meant touch sensitive keys