Ableton Live REsource

VST Plug-Ins in Ableton Live tutorial

2009-02-05T15:00:00.000-08:00

want to hook up your vst plugins with Ableton Live? Check out this tutorial that breaks down the process with some nice pictures and simple explanation.

http://sonictransfer.com/using-vst-plug-ins-in-ableton-live.shtml

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Ableton Sampler Tutorial

2009-02-05T14:06:00.000-08:00

This Ableton Live Sampler tutorial will show you the ins and outs of using the Sampler in Ableton to help get you up to speed on its basic usage along with some useful tips.

The Sampler lets you bring in audio samples from many formats and then tweak these sounds in a multitude of new ways. First what you want to do is drag in a multisample file into Sampler where it says "drop sample here". Once you do that open the Live Device Browser and look under the Sampler folder. There should now be an import folder with your multisample inside it. Double click this and it will load into Sampler.

Now you should see the sample waveform and be able to play it with your keyboard or midi device. If you look in the Zone tab of Sampler you can see how each of the samples is laid out across the keyboard. The Pitch/Osc tab contains all your normal adjustments like attack, sustain, release, ect.. If you're not familiar with these terms do a google search because they are fundamental in audio synthesis. I plan on getting some more in depth posts up about these soon, so check back.

The Filter tab will let you put an audio filter on the samples as well as let you drop in an effect. Modulation gives you 3 LFOs so you can vibrato, tremolo, or other such cool audio effects. Try engaging LFO 1, turning the filter bar up, and tweaking around with the other controls to experiment and see what effect it has on your audio sample.

Here's a great video tutorial that will explain more on how to use Ableton Live Sampler.

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Ableton Live: Impulse Tutorial

2007-08-10T13:56:00.000-07:00

Good day and welcome to Ableton Live REsource this tutorial will break down the basics of using the impulse instrument module in your Ableton music projects. Tips and tricks on how to set it up, get sound from it, load it up with custom samples and more.

Start up Ableton and load Impulse into a MIDI slot. Now I like to think of Impulse as an 8 channel sample player. If you look at the top of the Impulse window you will see 8 squares, these are where you can stick in any samples you would like and trigger them with either a MIDI keyboard, MIDI pads such as
Korg PadKontrol
or
M-Audio Trigger Finger
, or even just use your regular old computer keyboard (keys ASDFGHJK) although without velocity sensitivity. Make sure to arm whatever track you put Impulse into by pressing that tracks record button, this allows you to input MIDI to that channel.

Now you can go ahead and record clips with impulse using any of the included acoustic or electric kits supplied with Ableton Live, but you can also add your own custom samples very easily into each slot in Impulse. All you have to do is browse to whereve you store samples on your computer and simply drag and drop them right into whichever of the 8 Impulse sample slots you like. This allows you to build your own custom drum kits or really any kind of sample you would ever want for easy triggering in Ableton. Here's a free sample pack I made up real quick that you can experiment with if you don't already have any samples of your own.

SAMPLE PACK right click it and "Save Target/Link as..." to your computer. It's a Zip file so you'll have to unzip the folder to use the samples. Try 7-zip from download.com if you don't have a Zip utility as it's free.

Download the samples, browse to them on your computer and then drag and drop them directly into Impulse. Of course you could also do this with Simpler or Sampler too, but Impulse lets you load more than one sample at a time which is good for building complete kits of samples. After you have your kit set up you can tweak each individual sample with the controls, such as volume, Pan, Transpose, filter, time stretch, ect.. Whne you finally get it all set up how you like click the little disk icon in the top left of Impulse and you can save your custom kit in Ableton Live's device browser for esay recall anytime.

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Ableton Live Overview

2007-08-02T11:38:00.000-07:00

Ableton Live is loop-based audio sequencer software for Mac and Windows produced by Ableton. Unlike other software based sequencer programs, Live is designed around the notion of being as much a real-time instrument better suited for live performances and equally as a tool for composing and arranging. Ableton Live 6 is the newest major release of Live, and was released in September 2006.

Features

Many of Ableton Live's unique features stems from being developed for easy use in live performance. The interface is more stream-lined than most other audio sequencers and clearly designed for use on a single screen. Some of the interface are hidden and shown based on easy access buttons which may be clicked to show or hide a certain segment (e.g. to hide the instrument/effect list or to show or hide the help box). Futhermore, since the performance aspect of Live's design, all of the processing is done in real-time, rather than rendering effects after record and play back as is typical in many sequencers and sample editors. No pop up messages or dialogs anywhere in Ableton Live, beside an options dialog consisting of five tabs. The freeze feature introduced in version 4 allows for some pre-rendering of effects and synths to reduce processor load and when you deep-freeze version 6 lets you manipulate the effect parameters on pre-rendered tracks and clips.

Views

The two views which are central to Ableton Live – the session view and the arrangement view. The session is mainly used to organize and trigger portions of sounds called clips. These clips may be arranged into scenes than triggered as a complete audio unit. For example, a vocal, percussion, and piano track might comprise a single scene. When moving on to another portion of the composition – a new scene – some or all of those parts might differ and could be triggered in parallel. In Ableton Live 6, there is also the addition of "racks" which allow the user to easily group instruments and effects.

Another view is the arrangement view, which is used for recording tracks from the session view and further manipulating their arrangement and effects. Anyone familiar with traditional software sequencer interfaces will find this view basically similar to other programs.

Clips may either be an audio sample or MIDI (triggering one of Live's built in instruments, third party VSTs instruments or external hardware). Live comes standard with three instruments – Impulse, Operator and Simpler.

Instruments

Impulse is a more or less traditional drum sequencing instrument which allows for defining a percussion kit of up to eight individual sounds or samples. When the drum kit is defined these samples can be arranged into groups of measures using a piano-roll interface. Many options are available for pre-processing these sounds such as basic equalization, attack, delay, pitch shift, etc.

Simpler is a basic easy to use sampling instrument. Based on working with a single sample, applying processing & effects, and then arranging it in a piano roll interface. tThe samples are pitch shifted to the selected pitch, instead of each notes representing different samples as in Impulse.

Operator is designed for synthesizing sounds via a wide range of controls; it can be bought separately in addition to Ableton Live. Operator implements FM synthesis string variation of four FM operators.

Sampler is the latest add-on product, which is really an extension of the Simpler.It features multisample support for 3rd party sound and sample libraries such as SoundFont, as well as ability to use wavetable and granular synthesis.

Envelopes

Most of the parameters in Live are controllable by envelopes which may be free-drawn either on clips or in the arrangement itself.Basically these equal what would be a knob or dial on an effect in a traditional audio mixer or processing rack and can actually be mapped for use with knobs a MIDIcontroller. These then will be used in every performance of that clip or with the arrangement so that they vary at different points in the play-back of a project. An obvious example for using this is with volume or track panning automation, but these can also be implemented in Ableton Live to adjust certain values like the root note of a resonator or the reverb time or echo amount for a delay FX.

Effects

Most of the effects are all your standard effects used in the digital signal processing universe which have been adapted to fit Live's interface. They are however fairly obviously tailored for the target audience of Live –VJs, DJs, and electronic musicians– rather than, say, post processing a guitar players set-up.

The audio effects included with Ableton Live 6 are:

Auto Filter
Auto Pan
Beat Repeat
Chorus
Compressor I
Compressor II
Dynamic Tube
EQ Eight
EQ Three
Erosion
Filter Delay

Flanger
Gate
Grain Delay
Phaser
Ping Pong Delay
Saturator
Simple Delay
Redux
Resonators
Reverb
Utility

Also many MIDI-only effects including arpeggiator, chord, pitch, random, scale, and velocity. In the newer versions of Live it is possible to use VST and Audio Unit (AU) effects.

Working with audio clips

Ableton Live's Time Warp feature can be used correct or adjust beat positions in each sample. For example, a drum beat that fell 370 ms after the center of a measure may be slid over so that will be played back precisely at the midpoint. These warp markers when set to a specific point in the sample, also provide arbitrary points in the sample that can be marked to positions in the measure.

Including all the instruments mentioned above, Live can also work with samples. Live has a beat analysis feature for the samples to find their meter, number of bars and the number of beats per minute. This allows Live to adjust these sounds and samples to fit into loops that are synced to the project's global tempo.

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Ableton Live REsource

2007-08-02T10:25:00.000-07:00

Welcome to the Ableton Live REsource. Here you will learn about Ableton Live music software--including: samples, sounds, generators, beats, plugins, demo, soundpacks, audio recording, packs, songs, vst, instruments, VSti, DXi, downloads, sound packs, beat maker, drum machine, full version, beat making, drum kits, guide, rap, rapper, hip hop, techno, drum and bass, create, pro, video, audio, music, production, producer, edition, forum, help, instructions, files, buy fruity loops, instrumentals, Ableton DJ, reggaeton, freeware, download, and more. Also, discover tips, tricks, manual, and tutorials on how to use and get the most from Ableton Live 7, 6.0, 6, 5.0, 5, 4.0, 4, 3.5, 3, programs. Free Ableton Live Lite help. Ableton for dummies. Make your own music. Synch up with Cakewalk, Sonar, Fruity Loops, FL Studio, Cubase, Magix, VST, Pro Tools, Reason, Acid Pro, Cool Edit Pro, Sonic Foundry, Albeton, Abletone, samples, drums, Music Creator, Audacity, DJ software, beat machines, Virtual Studio, free downloads samples torrents serial ,sampler, music/audio/video creation software and all other online internet computer music systems.