My Top 10 Tips After 10 Years In Ableton (these changed everything for me) 

I'm a newbie, I was using Reaper as it's brilliant but so many of the tutorials in certain genres were done in Ableton and so I downloaded the trial version last week and wow, it's so cool how it works, the way you can put patterns together and see the song and arrange it like Lego music, I hope that it changes my life in a similar way, I would like just to get one tune on a playlist, anything after that is just a bonus, thanks for you video I'll check out some more and have a great day! ;D

@@nicolasnicolas3889 I think that’s a great goal to have Nicolas. I hope you stick with it and you’re able to make music that you’re proud of and that you look forward to showing other people!

Hello is it possible to get the audio from a original xbox to come thur this Ableton Live program so I could record the sound from the xbox

Can artist contact you for mix and mastering?

I'm not really doing that work anymore, so I can focus more on videos!@@thelibrary4493

Wow I'm so happy to hear that! Thankk you

This endorsement compelled a complete listen … starting now

Tip 2!! (How does anyone finish this in one sitting … limit the master and master the mix (summation not a direct quote ) thanks)

@@gbtennant that’s a great way to summarize it!

These are probaply the best tips and tricks out there for people who are working professional or want to. Thank you Subbed

wow that's incredible!

Damn, this just inspired me

awe Mark i LOVE U TOOO!@!!!

YO, MARK! Huge fan here!!! You’ve deeply inspired me to begin producing the music (for Jesus OFC!) I’ve been singing in my head for years! How DOPE to come across the guy that produced music for you!

Oh nice I didn't know about that second one. I also STILL don't know what gain staging is LOL but I'll have to do some research. I'm over here getting schooled.

@@CompleteProducer Gain staging just means adjusting the input levels on each track to be the same value (e.g. -12 or -6 dB peak) so you establish a common ground before touching the faders. In Ableton, you can use the stock utility plugin for that or you can adjust the gain of audio clips. If you play live synths, you can adjust the synth's volume knob as well. Just make sure all peaks are about the same value. Once all that is done, you start balancing track volumes using the faders. That way, each track has some headroom and fader adjustments become more predictable as their positions actually represent the mix. Ideally, you can then add effects that add gain (e.g. distortion plugins) and create buses, etc. without having to worry about clipping at any stage. All in all, it makes your mix sound as clean (i.e. transparent) as it can be.

Sample offset in the envelope/ automation layer in the clip view. It is badass with beat warp you can literally manipulate the wave in time. Change an audio file like it’s MIDI, also if you name a section a tempo name followed by BPM it will change to that bpm automatically. I dig the video! Been using live since 4

Happy to hear that (:

Woo! I love to hear that

wow thank you so much! and congrats!

absolutely!

Glad you enjoyed it!

Thanks so much !

And also, it is important to let producers, especially those in the beginner phase, know that they should be really careful with multi-band compressing as it can turn into a habit to just slap plugins like OTT on everything, expecting it to sound good. OTT is a powerful plugin, but really you should only use it if it's necessary (unless it is your artistic vision of course)

way to go Dean, application is a must!

that's true! other people have been commenting the same thing and it's something i have yet to dive into but I'm curious about implementing into my workflow. thanks for the suggestion!

The free TAL reverb plugin has separate dry and wet sliders. Super easy to use

@@CompleteProducer Can't you put an audio effect rack on a return track? Also, I've found the other thing to look into tweaking on OTT is the Amount knob. Also also, thanks for making this!

Do this all the time if I want to pre-mix before I hit my master sends, especially with room reverb and subtle widening effects.

Wow I’m so happy to hear that! Thank you!

that's great to hear!

Woah, I haven't gotten into that stuff yet. There's always more to learn (: Thanks for subscribing!

Same, lol! I had a folder on my desktop with like 200 sessions in it.

Thank you! peepeepoopoo hahah

I can wait to put these tips in effect! Always looking to improve my mix.

Woah kold what are you doing here???

happy to help! (:

facts 🔥

wow that's a long time! and thank you!

I will definitely keep this in mind moving forward. I appreciate the feedback! I’m going to have more in depth videos in the future too, so stay tuned!

Great video and looking forward to more in the future 👍 thanks

wow i love to head that, keep it up!

this is really encouraging to read, thanks so much!

Yeah that’s a great tip!

Wow sounds like you’re on the right track! Keep it up!

Manners. Ya ever heard of it?

@@deedubya1267 who gives a fuck about manners lmfao, what do you expect me to say, "can you give tips that aren't basic common fucking sense... *Please*??" Get real.

@@superlynx98 lmao u alright there buddy? theres better uses of your time and energy i promise :) go make some music bub

These are the tips I use regularly and have helped me the most. As with most tools in the arts, it’s more about who’s using the tools than the tools themselves. I’ll have more advanced videos in the future though if you want to dive deeper so stay tuned.

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@@CompleteProducer OTT is a preset that uses multiband compression and expansion to achieve a constant level across the 3 bands that it divides the frequency spectrum into, helping you to raise the RMS level of a sound close to the maximum it can be. Those grey areas that you “like to click on” are the expansion ratio and threshold settings. You are not making the compressor “not hold on for too long” you are basically turning the expansion off by turning its ratio down to nothing. The expansion RAISES the level of the frequencies of the selected band when they go BELOW its threshold while the compressor LOWERS the level of the frequencies of the selected band when they go ABOVE its threshold. (Expansion is the left side brackets and compression is the right side brackets.) So the goal is to raise when it’s too low and lower when it’s too high, eventually resulting in the level of that band being stuck between two points they can’t move below or above. See that black space in between those “brackets” in the middle section ? That’s the sweet spot where the level of that band should be at to trigger both the expansion and the compression. You can move the threshold of both the expansion and compression, actually you HAVE to move the threshold of the expansion and compression in order for OTT to work how it was intended to work. When you drag the compression “brackets” to the right to “turn the mids and highs up”, you are raising the threshold of the compressor, resulting in less compression letting more of the mids and highs through. The change in gain that makes your mids and highs go up, is the output levels that have been raised (+10,3db for the highs and + 5,7db for the mids) to compensate for the volume you’re suppose to lose DUE to the compression. So what you’re basically doing here buddy, isn’t “chef’s kiss” but you’re kinda ruining the preset. Your main issue is that your level going INTO OTT is way above what it was designed to take. This is just basic gain staging really. You need the lower the level of the sound going into OTT so the mid band actually is BETWEEN the expansion and compression bracket and then adapt the threshold of the the expansion and compression of the two other bands. This is why it sounded “weird” when you put it on in the first place. So yeah, you’re compressing the mids somewhat because of how loud you’re running into it, but really I can promise you and everyone reading this, that the results you’re getting are a coincidence at best, and that you don’t know how to use OTT.

​@@aerov2484 Sounds like you should be the one making tutorials in that case 🤣

@@CompleteProducer Sure. Let's make a Zoom call on your channel and I'll explain what OTT actually does :-)

@@aerov2484 eeeesh

happy to hear that Spencer!

You bet!

wow that's a wonderful compliment, thank you!

Wow thanks so much for this comment! Happy to help (:

Thank you for that. I’ll do my best!

Glad you enjoyed them

thank you! merry Christmas!

you're off to a great start, keep going!

Happy to hear that, More on the way!

thank you for subscribing!

a lot of these were thing that seemed obvious in retrospect but took me a while to learn. happy to help!

thank you!

No problem!

wow thank you!

congratulations! i hope you fall in love with making music

thank you! and thanks youtube for helping get my videos to the right people haha

thanks!