How To Make Ableton's Stock Piano Sound Great (Using Only 4 Stock Devices)

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In this video, I am going to show you how to transform Ableton's grand piano sound, which leaves much to be desired, into a great sounding, highly playable piano using only 4 stock devices
1. EQ Eight - To remove the overpowering low end, a few mid-range trouble frequencies, and boost the high frequencies.
2. Saturator - To add some character and body
3. Compressor - to keep everything feeling nice and tight
4. Reverb - to make the piano feel more like it is in a room.
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@jeremywhitten5283 2 года назад

the reverb at the end made the most difference in clarity! awesome

@greatvirtues8204 3 года назад

I also did not like the stock sound so much, but then I followed your instructions and played again the intro from Adele - Someone Like You. It really made a huge difference! Thanks.

@kaminooratr 4 года назад

I always wanted this kind of trick ...🙌

@MADPritch Год назад

Thank you so much for this! So helpful! You are so talented!

@mateomadariaga8402 3 года назад

im starting to learn ableton and i appreciate very much these tutorials!

@LiveKeyboardist 3 года назад

Thanks for commenting. Glad you are finding this helpful.

@bondaruuk Год назад

Thanks for the video!

@Ayo.Ajisafe 2 года назад

These were excellent tips.

@IanSolano 2 года назад

Thank you so much for this!

@mickimarbhmusic 2 года назад

Excellent thank you so much 👏

@tostare Год назад

this is great, thanks!

@wakawaka02 3 года назад

This is incredible Damn!!! thank you so much

@jimmydim2212 3 года назад

Great stuff. Thank you! Subbed

@LiveKeyboardist 3 года назад

Happy to help! And so glad to have you on board!

@jovbrza1749 3 года назад

awesome super high yield, I like what you playing the piano sounds like.

@LiveKeyboardist 3 года назад

Thanks Jov. Glad you found this helpful.

@joehunterstudio 3 года назад

Star, thanks for the tips!

@LiveKeyboardist 3 года назад

Happy to help! Glad you enjoyed.

@HeavenlyBridegroomMusic Год назад

Amazing!

@BullsBooyachaka 3 года назад

Thank you so much! I will definitely upload a before/after version of my piano video that I uploaded yesterday. +you have a new Subscriber👍

@LiveKeyboardist 3 года назад

Happy you found this helpful. Leave a link here so I can check it out.

@BullsBooyachaka 3 года назад

@@LiveKeyboardist unfortunately deleted the 2 old versions already but here is one of the new: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-tFxeQzL9__w.html Now only my playing has to get way better 😅

@jagdishwagh9664 3 года назад

Thanks...really loved it :)

@LiveKeyboardist 3 года назад

Happy to hear it! Glad you found this helpful!

@DJBencollinson 4 месяца назад

Wicked thankyou

@DitaSvarupaMusic 3 года назад

Thank You! You saved my song!

@LiveKeyboardist 3 года назад

Happy to help!

@_benrelf 4 года назад

Awesome vid !

@LiveKeyboardist 4 года назад

Thanks! Glad you enjoyed!

@korrectthechief1200 3 года назад

This is very helpful

@LiveKeyboardist 3 года назад

Happy to help!

@Cezi7 Год назад

Thank you.

@toulahmusic6416 3 года назад

Thank you!

@LiveKeyboardist 3 года назад

Happy you found this helpful!

@zabdielgarcia5052 3 года назад

Nice video! I should stop looking for third party plugins, and start using Ableton stock ones!

@ViewerBot300 3 года назад

Super Dope!

@LiveKeyboardist 3 года назад

Glad you enjoyed! Thanks for commenting!

@colourfrag 4 года назад

great video. just shows how much you can turn bland sounds into really interesting ones! also, i think you would benefit hugely from a pop filter on your microphone

@LiveKeyboardist 4 года назад

Glad you enjoyed! Just received a pop filter in the mail today!

@colourfrag 4 года назад

LiveKeyboardist nice!

@dmyralightwork5881 2 года назад

sick. great sound. stock plugins ftw

@SabareshSundher 3 года назад

This is an awesome tutorial , thank you so much ❤️

@LiveKeyboardist 3 года назад

My pleasure! Glad you enjoyed!

@LiveKeyboardist 3 года назад

My pleasure! Glad you enjoyed!

@TylerKaihara Год назад

pro tip: get a POP filter for your mic

@Yadiali Год назад

Damn that worked like a charm lol

@alizulkifalahmed9315 4 года назад

Great stuff, man! Can you make a detailed video on how to setup Ableton Live for playing live with a band, patches and all? I just can't seem to make sense of it!

@LiveKeyboardist 4 года назад

Glad you enjoyed! This video has been requested a few times. It will be out in in a few weeks! Keep an eye out for it.

@user-je9uh9sz7t 3 года назад

Jesus, this is great!

@LiveKeyboardist 3 года назад

Glad you found this helpful!

@leaveitorsinkit242 3 года назад

Honestly... as long it's inspiring to play, it should be fine. I always have to tweak things in the context of the mix!

@davedery06 Год назад

Wow

@rutwickgangurde3247 3 года назад

Hey, thanks for the tutorial! I was wondering if you could help me mix bass guitar with this Grand Piano? No matter how much I try, my bass guitar just drowns badly with this piano.

@aleksandargolubovic7381 2 месяца назад

Can i connect an electric piano to the focusrite scarlett solo "instrument input" and use the "grand piano sample" from ableton program? Thanks.

@thetylersherman 3 года назад

Hmm. This definitely brought some life to it, so a great starting point. It's a little oversaturated IMO, as it gets a bit fuzzy when you lay into it. I'm struggling to figure out how to get it to sound dynamic while emphasizing clarity and "airiness". It's possible that the sampled audio doesn't have enough natural harmonics to reach the clarity I'm trying to achieve though...

@LiveKeyboardist 3 года назад

You could pull back a bit in the saturation. At the end of the day, this is mostly upgrading a medium sample. That being said, I am curious if you end with a result you like. Definitely let me know what you come up with.

@blakehandson2790 2 года назад

Randomize the velocity. It’s akin to humanizing piano roll notes in logic. **if you haven’t tried it out already! 🙂

@blakehandson2790 2 года назад

to add, no human can hit a note at the same precise velocity which is how ableton defaults each note (100 velocity) so it has no contrast which equals not sounding realistic. hope it helps!

@thetylersherman 2 года назад

@@blakehandson2790 Definitely worth a shot. I think I should do that more often now that Ableton makes it super easy to randomize in increasingly large but specified increments.

@deleon9k805 11 месяцев назад

@@blakehandson2790 all ableton instruments should by default be velocity sensitive (mapped to volume) if your midi keyboard/controller has it :)

@akunresmi4012 2 года назад

Hi, I have a midi controller without sustain socket, can you give me solution so that i can play sustained piano in Abbleton live session?

@cplroebuck22 Год назад

what the fuck dude im just pressing buttons on my gaming keyboard and this shit sounds beautiful as fuck bro

@unclejohnthezef 3 года назад

Wonderful! But your description doesn’t mention what computer you’re using (mbp?) I’m using a very good dell 1540, and if I play more than 2 notes together on grand piano cpu goes 70-90%. What could I be doing wrong?

@LiveKeyboardist 3 года назад

Thanks for reaching out. I am using a MBP with 16 gigs of ram. Windows machines are a bit out of my element. Do you have an issue playing the grand piano sound before you add the audio FX?

@davidalimusic 2 года назад

Can you setup piano v2 plugin on ableton ?

@robob3ar Год назад

is this info dated? I recently did buy the ableton suite and the grand piano comes with all of that you mention, I think it's sounds pretty awesome.. coupled with the push 2 controler it's sounds so intricate and expressive.. I actually hated any piano synths until I tried this.. only problem I have is that I'd like the sustain to not be infinite so it cuts of on it's own after a few seconds.. it just never stops.. ok I like to keep the sustain on all the time it's fun :)

@usta028 9 месяцев назад

Yea Live suite has some great pianos, I think he used these tricks on the piano that come with Ableton Live intro and standard

@carlobasemusic9671 2 года назад

QUESTION: Why don't I have as many folders in audio effects? I don't even have the Spectrum

@21sav20 8 месяцев назад

Do u have the standard Edition

@HeavenlyBridegroomMusic Год назад

is this a midi track or audio?

@denniss67 3 года назад

Why are this not default presets in Ableton Live - I want to play the piano not waste my time in something I have absolute no idea of what is. So many controls. Am I using the wrong software? Else good work.

@LiveKeyboardist 3 года назад

Dennis, you are asking the right questions here. As far as if you’re using the right software, I think the software you choose to use at the end of the day is just personal preference. If you like able to workflow, I would stick around and just fill out your sound library with third-party instruments overtime. As far as presets go, if you’re looking for a great piano sound you can’t go wrong with any of the native instruments VST sounds. There are of course other options, I really like the grandeur. Also worth looking into addictive keys or keyscape. If you switch to another DAW some things will be better and some things will be worse.

@woodyoulove-reynaldguibone6890 3 года назад

Hi. What do you call this piano patch? Because I just followed this tutorial and made it part of my collection and I want to name it.. Thanks...

@LiveKeyboardist 3 года назад

Wow. Thanks for letting me know Reynald. That feels like such an honor. At home I call it improved stock piano, but if you want to call it LiveKeyboardist piano that would make me so happy. Glad you found this useful.

@woodyoulove-reynaldguibone6890 3 года назад

@@LiveKeyboardist Oh yeah. I think I prefer to name it LiveKeyboarist piano. Thank you so much!

@jtoobacc18239 2 года назад

How do you save all the effects altogether and have the presets ready?

@rosettag7292 2 года назад

right corner you can save the group as a preset

@jtoobacc18239 2 года назад

@@rosettag7292 Thank you

@erickmorfin1420 3 года назад

Man! Can’t find a video anywhere upon how so set up a sustain pedal connected to the keyboard that is midi controlling ableton. LIKE DOES ANYONE USE SUSTAIN PEDALS MUCH?

@LiveKeyboardist 3 года назад

Hey Eric. I feel your frustration. Are you trying to use a midi pedal to control actual sustain on a piano patch, or would you like to map it to something else? I think the reason there aren’t a lot of tutorials explaining this is because by default sistine petals will control the sustain on your piano. If you can provide me a little bit more detail about what you’re trying to do, I’m confident I can help you figure that out

@erickmorfin1420 3 года назад

@@LiveKeyboardist Hey thanks for responding! I found out the problem. So I just wanted to use Ableton's stock piano patch to play and record piano. My setup was a keyboard with its sustain pedal connected to the computer via USB midi. WHAT HAPPEND WAS I WASN'T GETTING ANY SUSTAIN BECAUSE I WAS PRESSING THE SUSTAIN PEDAL BEFORE HITTING RECORD. Because of that, Ableton was reversing the polarity of the pedal. SO MY PROBLEM WAS THAT I WAS EITHER SWITCHING THE POLARITY OF THE PEDAL OR I WAS JUST DISABLING IT SOMEHOW. ??? I works fine now that I got that rule down. HEY THANKS FOR YOUR REPLY MAN. Because you seemed really helpful I subscribed upon reading your reply to me earlier. ;)

@LiveKeyboardist 3 года назад

Hey Erick. Thanks for keeping me posted with your progress. Really happy to have you as a subscriber, and glad to here you worked out the sustain pedal problem.

@david8252 2 года назад

Nothing you can do to make me like the Ableton Piano sound xD lol

@jdssurf Год назад

hm, i dont have a spectrum in lite i guess

@lmtrackrunner 3 года назад

!!!

@Convexhull210 3 года назад

Can this work in the lite version of Abelton?

@LiveKeyboardist 3 года назад

Hey Matt! Yes. You will need to swap EQ 8 for EQ 3 (or another EQ) and use the regular compressor instead of glue compressor.

@alejo5007 3 года назад

Tokyo Dawn Labs has both an EQ and a compressor if you need them (both great and free). Also, remember that Ableton Lite version doesn't have a saturator (idk where you can find one tho). Btw, while the final result of this video is better than the raw piano, i'd not say it's great (no ofense to the creator of the video. I think he did a great job but the stock piano is pretty bad), so don't worry if you can't replicate this. If you need a good free piano, you could grab Piano1 (that's the name of the plugin) or the lite edition of the Production Voices' Grand Piano. Both are compatible with the Ableton Lite version, as well with othes DAW's

@Convexhull210 3 года назад

@@LiveKeyboardist Awesome thank you!

@Convexhull210 3 года назад

@@alejo5007 Thanks for the other sound modules. I actually have Addictive Keys as well but I use Ableton 10 lite because it came with my Novation. I will definitely check out the Production Voices as that looks interesting.

@felixwinter3173 3 года назад

So none of these are in the Lite version, am I right?

@LiveKeyboardist 3 года назад

Unfortunately, that is correct. That being said you can find free VST‘s on the Internet that will do similar things to the built-in sounds

@hxtzymusic 3 года назад

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@user-qv4qt1jz3b Год назад

My Ableton 11 doesnt have this devices in stock...

@leaveitorsinkit242 3 года назад

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@MiguelPelugo 7 месяцев назад

THE chaining of eqalizers and duplication of saturator made me feel really unconfortable. I think the sound got worse from your process. The only thing that is getting improved by each step of nonsense you're doing is the way you play samples of music to test the sound, they're becoming more elaborate and tricking your brain into thinking the sound got better. Just play one note without any emphasis for the a/b comparison and focus on the timbrical changes to notice you're just sprypainting a shit and adding digital clipping cracks between devices in the chain, maybe notice the cracks from your voice in the microphone too. The piano rack is already provided with coloring tools that are basically the same you used but already set up and tuned for the case, maybe you can get a better result by further tuning some parameters in the rack devs instead of wasting cpu like that outside of it 👌✌

@user-gl5lz1kh9f 6 месяцев назад

Pretty common to chain eqs but I’m not sure about saturators. Anyway the sound of the piano got better so whatever how you do it the results are there