by Scott Kildall
I'm designing a set of weekly Ableton experiments to better learn tricks and techniques, and specifically explore different facets of the program.
There is so much here to learn, and while the program is easy to use, it is also complex.
I pretty much only use Session View, for various reasons.
Most of my Ableton Live Sessions use a mix channel, for recording wave files and MIDI.
Inside each week folder, there is a specific ReadMe.md file for the different files in there. My documentation is a bit scattershot, so I'm doing my best!
https://learningsynths.ableton.com/
Wow, these are sure powerful. At first, I thought it was simple beats, but what I've come to realize is that because Ableton is modular, you can add effects, instrument racks, chains, and all sort of goodies to it. Even with my week or so of learning, and following the tutorials, I feel like there is so much for me to learn.
The MIDI Fighter Twister is a fun tool, where you can map the buttons to each of the 16 default drum pads, and then the encoders can change the effects of specific parameters.
Amp instrument
https://www.ableton.com/en/manual/managing-files-and-sets/
MIDI Clips, what are they?
A/B + Sends
Mixdowns
**Clips **
Use a Follow Action Master - press button to launch all of them
Use filter sweeps instead of sine waves for Purple Bacteria
Look at Shamaic Portal project
Protokol: free tool that lets you check out MIDI messages, link here:
one instrument
then various audio effects / MIDI effects
various knobs in the instrument rack can be mapped to different filters
Total Effects on a track Chains let you do parallel Series will do the effects