Made in Ableton Live: Rachel K Collier on live looping, organizing Live Sets and more 

woooooo Thanks for having me @ableton :) hope this helps everybody get going with this!!!!!

As an oldhead of 57, I'm a bit slow on the uptake, so I like simple and direct explanations. With my interest in live looping recently been piqued, I've been tooling around for helpful videos. This video is outstanding in its clarity and simplicity. Rachel, you rock. Thanks so much. Keep creating magic!

This was the most dense and useful 17 minutes of knowing things in the whole year

I love how she says “here” in that beautiful Welsh accent!

Side chain compression just clicked for me. I learned how side chaining works a couple months ago but didn't realize how institutional it was to the effect I've been hearing and wondering about for years! That performance was also really cool, it's great to see someone blend all of this analog and digital skill together so organically.

Rachel is my favourite musician discovery of the year. Such a gutsy producer with nasty synth sounds, wicked rhythms and an amazing voice! I found her on Andrew Huang's "4 artists, one synth" video. Rachel you are an inspiration! Evident here is your talent at clear communication. Love your speaking voice too.

Really happy to see Ableton do these insightful collabs with a lot of my favorite musical youtubers! Seeing their workflow is cool because it makes us see there’s different ways to things than the way we usually do them.

That was incredibly well explained and presented. And one of the few times I found a live looping performance musically interesting. Chapeau!

great video for beginners and was also enjoyable from the perspective of an experienced user. always nice to see the way others take on livelooping in ableton. gives me ideas to potentially add into my workflow. nice job

She’s one of the best. Very inspiring what one person is able to accomplish.

This is by far the most comprehensive content you've placed in your channel. Kudos to Rachel for laying it down so simple like this. Thank you! 👍

Thank you so much for your talent and generosity!

I’m not a live looper but learnt lots during this. Thanks.

You're so good at explaining things. This has helped me a lot in my live looping journey. Thank you!

This is the video I have been waiting for from you Rachel! Thank you so much for breaking your process down to the basics so grateful!!!

Awesome! LOVED seeing the process behind the track. Thanks for sharing!

Well thought out rig...minimal and expansive at the same time. Well done Rachel. I especially love that you present in such a modest and humble way...makes you so much more credible. Great soundsmith! Excellent song too!

So cool! It’s not often I enjoy the music in a tutorial just as much as the instruction itself. This was super inspiring!

I first saw this tutorial a year ago, when completely new to Ableton. I appreciate it so much more now, having experimented with some live looping myself. It's such a well-constructed demo, with new concepts introduced with each track. Thank you, Rachel and Ableton, this is valuable learning material.

You video is exactly what I needed. Thank you. You have changed my world girl!!!

The Welsh are well known for their music and this lady is no different. Brilliant.

She´s a killer combination of great vocalist, cool experienced keyboardist, technically oriented and super stylish and elegant. There are not so many people on planet Earth :) Well of inspiration

Phenomenal tutorial and beautiful track. Thank you Ableton and RKC. This was so inspiring!

She is totally brilliant. Loved this, and hope to see a lot more in this series.

Thank you so much Ableton and RKC for this PHENOMENAL tutorial, i cannot wait to commence my journey, this video gave me such a great foundation in understanding things I didnt even know how to research (huge imogen heap and james blake fan) looking forward to supporting RKC as an artist now that ive discovered her :) health and growth to all

This performance made my day! One of the reasons I love Ableton so much: it has the most creative and amazing users in the world.

Thanks for sharing the process.

This is phenomenal, thank you so much!

Thank you so much Rachel, this is helping me A LOT!

The performance is incredible!

this video was perfect, simple and easy to understand process, super talented Rachel and beautiful voice

This is one of the best Ableton Live tutorials I have ever seen. Thank you so much for providing this content. This helps a lot in learning.

Ok straight up 💯.. this Helped me so much I was never really sure how to switch from Boss to Looper’s to Ableton and this is amazing

People with the "Collier" last name are instant music gods lol

This was VERY helpful for me. I’m full of gratitude for this Rachel!

Amazing! I’ve learned more from your short video than tens of hours of trawling ableton on RU-vid, nice work Rachel, simple to understand instructions, but you’ve opened up so much, thank you!

Been using ableton almost the entire time I've been making music and somehow did not realise you could delete stop buttons on clips untill now

This is really dope Rachel!

One of the best Videos ever, I learned so much in these 17 Minutes.

This is the best tutorial I have seen on RU-vid for ableton. Thank you so much. It has helped greatly in getting my rig set up. Love the music too.

Yay for Wales!

Dont get more talented, or Easy to follow. I Grabbed a Pencil and Pad. Welldone Ableton for being smart enough to Find this Lady.

Not only is this very entertaining it is very informative and this is how a tutorial should be done. Love this

That is so beautiful.... I love it! Thank you.

Very cool and very enjoyable! You have a great personality.

Huge fan of the music, this is not only a fantastic track but the production quality of the demo is top notch. Super brave to show people what's behind the Wizard's curtain. My only complaint is that it wasn't a 17-minute version of the song ;)

always incredible -thank you

Thank you Rachel for generously sharing! :)

Ableton is a playground. So much fun.

Really cool insight on how create music, Rachel is cool!

This is absolute gold!

Awesome tips! Thanks Rachel.

she is amazing .. good job Ableton keeping up in puhing more female producers into the scene

Every time I see a video with Rachel K Collier, I walk away convinced that she's a musical genius and that everyone else should just pack it up and go home. I don't even use Ableton. It's just interesting watching insanely talented people work.

Amazing as always Rachel!!

Thank you Rachel and Ableton

You are awesome Rachel.. N apart from being an amazing musician, your a great teacher too.. god bless 😁

I understood lots of things in these 17 minutes than in my 4 years practice.. :D

Lots of useful information. Thank you Rachel.

great tut! definitely one of the besttutorials I've seen on live looping

Ableton live is one of the most flexible daw constructors, it is self-sufficient and functionally straight out of the box, "All in the box", but it would be VERY handy to have the following amenities in Suite: lynier and dynamic option of EQ8 (Must have) Comping, guys, 2020 year. We need it in 10.2 Pitch correction (has even daw which costs 200$, (logi), (cub) stud.one and even FL=D) / ARA2 support MPE support MULTIBAND FX'er (Like in BWS, Stud.one... You can create it in ableton, but it should be native) A native LFO tool. And a much more flexible one than the M4L one that comes with Live Suite. (and indeed it would be useful to add another plugins) Group freeze (would be nice, but not critical) map SOLO button in chain. Group and hide RETURN tracks. (Buses), => no limits on return tracks. Native Loudness meter device. (LUFS, RMS) / integrated LUFS meter in ableton Limiter. Easy and useful. Add a more flexible process of waveshaping with the ability to modulate from the volume level. We want Ableton to be the “Lego constructor” for creating anything else, right up emitting analog sound! full-fledged fullscreen disabling velocity sensitivity in midi keyboards! Thank you very much for your attention! I really hope to see some of the functions in 10.2 p.s www.reddit.com/r/ableton/comments/gj1w8l/ableton_live_102/

Great video Rachel. I cannot believe Ableton requires me to buy a $1000 Push to record fixed length loops. Probably my biggest grouse with Ableton.

Rachel you are amazing! Thanks for sharing your setup.

I love the way you guide us through this, and how calming your demeanor and voice is through it all :-)

Hi Rachel, I found your presentation so calm and well thought out, very well organised. As a total newbie, I'm so grateful to now understand the concepts of what you are doing with each piece of equipment. Thanks for the clear explanation. I realise that I need something even more basic. Can you recommend a course that's for absolute newbies? Many thanks for your time.

Nice job. Details left out: Definitely has an external mixer. Probably 16 channel. Running stereo pairs into the mixer. The Cue out on 7&8 routed to her headphones on the mixer. The mic she is using for presentation is on a separate external mixer channel. Everything that you hear is recorded to an external device, like a mini Tascam or Zoom digital recorder. The PUSH is only used for play/record/undo, though it could do much more. There is one MIDI track, the kick. You could add many more MIDI tracks and play them with PUSH. Also, Looper would be a great addition here.

Thumbs up! Thank you for this beautiful demonstration.

This was great! Rachel has such an awesome energy about her

Rachel is such a treasure!

Thank you so much Rachel Your so clear! Can you tell me how to program the length to to bar if I don't have a midi pad like You? At the 3:40? Thank you!!!

Such a good, clear demonstration. Wow! Appreciate you so much! Plus such a great talent and song too.

Rachel is just amazing She is always inspiring. 🔥👏🏻

Thank you for this. I recently upgraded from an RC-505 into an Ableton/Push2 system and this will help a lot. One question . . . In performance do you have a separate session file for each song?

12:41 - This is WICKED GOOD!

Very informative and one of the, if not the, best looping demonstrations I’ve seen yet! Also a very nice song. Kudos Rachel!

Great tutorial as always, really clear and picked up some good tips. Thanks Rachel

Hello, very nice video! How do you manage to autostop recording without pressing record button again?

Круто!!

That routing for different audio outs is so so simple, I've never thought of using it like that! Thanks for sharing!

This is unbelievable 🤯😮❤️ Amazing performance!

Maybe I missed this but never got how she combines all the outputs into the master to send to Front of House. She has dedicated physical outs for each bus rather than using the master (set to 1/2 out). Is she mixing externally from Ableton? Also the Synth was also set to Out 1/2 - same as master which is confusing. Otherwise nice overview.

Amazing! but i got a question: how set up the clips in every chanel to "record + play" after 1 bar? Its a push´s function or maybe its possible without this? Thanks!

Phenomenal narration and Explanation... precise and crisp , no nonsense ... cannot thank you enough.... still a BIG Thank you !!!

Brilliant tutorial as always from Rachel.

Me watching at 3:29 - "I thought I was pretty well up on digital music recording jargon, but 'golfball and cinnamon stick'... it'll be interesting to learn more about that." Me watching at 3:55 - "Oh."

Shure sm58 sounds like that?

This is just what I needed, thanks Rachel!!♥

Thanks! Rachel explains things so well.

Rachel is proof that you can get so much out of so less. You don't need new gear, and you don't need new plugins.

Hi, how do you get the clip to record for 4 bars, and then continues to play without stopping it?

Love this!!! Listened to the song at least 3 times

Very nice - Great vibe and clear instruction.

Hi Rachel, I've been following you for a long time and I totally admire you. I want to thank your tutorials since they have been a lot of learning for me. I also really admire your musical work. I will love your opinion in my videos since I am just starting with live looping and although I need a lot of practice, publishing live video forces me to improve. *Once again thank you very much for the inspiration. I love you*

hey thanks for that great tutorial :) One question: how do you default your clip length while playing live? the golf ball stops after 2 bars and directly plays back... Is this only possible with Push?

so fresh and so clean

yr amazing; thank you so much!!!!!!!!! awesome performance

she was spotted using a Roland Mc-707 in the wild, Ableton goes "hey girl, here's a Push"

We need fixed length whithout the push

Yasssss!! So inspiring and I love that you share your knowledge, thank you 🙏✨

Absolutely superb video. Incredibly inspiring and so well explained. Thanks so much for this