This Ableton Rack is Basically a Ghost Producer (Advanced Tutorial) 

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This sounds like somthing SpongeBob would cook up

Even Mozart used randomisation in his Dice Music compositions. Aleatoric composition is just another method of composing.

How to glitchhop in 5 simple steps. So cool, thanks for sharing this

A few people have commented that this technique is "lazy" or doesn't count as music composition. I get where they're coming from, but I think they're failing to understand 3 things: 1. In the video above, you're hearing raw material as it comes out of the rack. The bits and pieces I kept and arranged prior to making this tutorial are silenced, it's not supposed to sound like that when you're done editing. 2. I solo'd the drums and rack so you could hear what's going on, but this project had 46 total tracks and wasn't even finished. I used the rack on 3 of them, for ONE section of the arrangement. Nobody makes an entire song out of a single technique, but perhaps the video's title implied that you can, in which case my bad. 3. If you're going to condemn using something like this on 3 tracks out of 46, you should also condemn stuff like hi-hat and shaker loops as well. At which point you're nearing the danger zone of becoming a musical purist who believes you have to make your own kick drums to call yourself a true producer. The point of music is to feel good, make you dance, enhance your life. If you listen to people who overanalyze and try to make it about ego, you're probably missing the whole point.

This is great thinking! Such an easy thing to do but at least me, never crossed my mind. More tips like this are welcome, but film it horizontally next time, please ;)

Man this is such a cool idea. I've always thought changing sounds randomly without intuitive bias gives you sounds and ideas you wouldnt have even come close to. I've often experimented with randomising macros in Ableton audio effect rack but this is a whole new world. Thanks so much and keep up the great content!

Mindblowing Techniq, Dude thats Insane!

love stuff like this. thanks for not dragging out the video to 6 minutes lol

This is so smart and epic. Funny how you can overlook these tricks!!!❤️

Great idea. Gonna be giving this a try for sure.

Genius! I use something similar for melody writing, but I ALWAYS end up editing it. Things like this are honestly fantastic for creating ideas to create a new song from, especially when suffering writers block

This is really clever. Thanks for the tip!

Music composition is really just data entry at this point.

This is an awesome technique! I wish I could save this in a playlist.

Nice :). The sounds remind me of Savant

this is crazy bro

Awesome short man!!

I love ableton bro stuff like this is sick

Great idea

Thanks for your help.

Oh my dear Lord I Gotta try this

Very straightforward without telling a useless story about random crap. Like

This is really cool. I wasn't expecting to get much out of it as a Reaper user but it's actually totally possible to recreate the same technique.

wow this is fun, thanks!

Genius 🙌🏻

Holy fk that's awesome

This has had to be one of the most cryptic user interfaces ever made. They finally found a UI/UX designer in the upcoming ver 12.

living for these tips

You could exponentially increase the number of samples by turning each pad into a 128 sampler :) Click on zone in sampler, drag 128 samples into there, highlight them all and right click and go to “distribute equally.” Then you can use an lfo or macro to change the sample every time it hits on top of the arpeggiator. I’ll gates has a tutorial on it

That's a very good tip, I will cherish it and use it once in a while, thank you c:

This reminds me a bit of that "blackening" form of subtractive synthesis/composition. Don't hesitate trying this with anything and everything!

Very cool!

ty bro, i love u

Damn, I love the creativity of this. DAW science, bitch!

OMG you're gonna win a Grammy for this one!!!😂🎉

One other big thing that he doesn't tell you is to make sure all your samples are in the same key or just that they work together

Amazing useful tip. Subbed!

Fire bro, solid content

This is so good for complextro.

This technique is called complextro. Zedd used it on his song “Spectrum”

someone like this so i can come back and see it again

Thanks

CREATIVE

Cool, now im gonna try it in fl

Awesome

Genius

That is so cool

You can also use follow actions and mess with the start times of each clip and set their modes and record them onto an audio track then slice from there.

This looks Awesome 🤩 I wonder how many times I will have to loop this video to be able to do it haha

Nice video, thanks for sharing

This is me with melodies! Dope tip!

Meanwhile, Logic Pro users simply turn on step sequencer with random chance up 100%. 😗🤣 But this is a great reminder to record stuff like that out to a new track and then cut it up how you like. Super cool technique, so thanks for sharing!

Insane 😂

Creative 😀

you could use 'scale' and 'random' midi effects as well instead of making a midi clip with all those notes

this is so extra but i support it 💯

I’m very grateful for the likes and subs, thanks to every one of you! It inspires me to keep going and make more videos...also, feel free to let me know what topics you’d like to see covered 🧡

Really, really cool, remind me my rack that take the sub note and make it play every note within the same octave no matter what note is playing in any octave, very handfull ^^

people think this is lazy bruh, it's more of a foundation to build your creativity on than a finished product. I can't come up with the track in my head but once i hear it I can tweak stuff

DAAAAAAAAAAMN, THE POSSIBILITIES

Fuckin rad!

BULLYFINGER for the win!

realy useful

A complex electro house technique, you can do it in arrangement mode as well

This is fire. I gotta tap into ableton

Man I’ve only done this with hats and delays! Hell yeah!

This is exactly how I get randomized hat patterns in Cubase.

It feels like it would be easier to just make that clip from scratch.

Easier to use LFO to randomize sample selection, that way you’re able to have more deliberate rhythm. Sampler tho

Cool y’all don’t forget about follow actions in session view too

I figured it out! Yay. Omg, its so cool. I play industrial/IDM so this stuff is the sh*t! Like, you gotta have it! I'm also super new to Ableton so this was a tricky one. lol It literally took me all day (had wrong keys filled on piano roll..) Does this make me a green belt at Ableton?

The real question is what would You do that, it sounds awful lol

Very good thanks :)

Dubstep in ableton live lite 😲

Doesn’t sound like anything I would listen too

> Grab the bits you like and arrange them to taste Do you mean the stuff from the drum rack? Wouldn’t it be the same just to put a bunch of samples into the drum rack and drag stuff in or am I stupid

Insane

bro, I just heard the future and the past due to a youtube shorts error, I thought it was the video but I took it out and put it back and the video was different

Y'all this sounds like a goofy ah beat

Really said "arpaygeator"

This is PEniZ music Tutorial

Is this possible in Reason as well?

That’s a “Whacky ahh” track

I use FL Studio, not really keen to switch. I'm wondering if anyone else knows how to replicate something similar or I'd be happy with a VST plugin

I like 👍🏻

make sure the samples are on the right key for each note... better explained here: v=p51zdW66jHE

why are you getting so much hate for literally making an rng drum rack what the fuck. this is dope lmao

Now it’s time for me to spend 3 hours of my life trying to figure this out on Logic Pro X

You can drop a consolidated audio file in to an instrument rack, slice it it by transients or beat, use an arp to get the randomness. You can have multiple voices per slice also. Pro tip is to play with the transient sensitivity and the go through and fix any shit clips. You can also automatically have the slices put in to a drum rack as well

mfw i use beatstep for fpc and twist random knob(same result, basically the same tecnique)

I use channel cutting even less than I label stuff. Thanks, subscribing for the challenge of translating all this into FL's methods

Shout out to @mrbill for showing this way back. This method is simpler (perhaps more effective!) Will def put it to use. Thanks!

It's not unlimited.. racks can only hold 128 samples. But this is a cool use of a drum rack +arp

How do you write a MIDI clip where every single note is selected over such a massive drum rack without having to copy + paste each line? I couldn't figure it out.

the last step, taking the pieces you like and arranging them. That's called: Order out of chaos.

is this even making music at this point? edit: on second viewing, it's quite clever all the programming you had to do to get this to work. might try to recreate something similar in reaper.

I dig that it sounds like spoonbills tiptoe loudly. Most tutorials are on hyper rave edm and none of the fuuuunk

Do you have to make sure the samples are in the same key for it to sound good?

sounds like clown music though... would be nicer if it actually made sense, musically.