Best tutorials EVER!

[gibson_ewok]

Ha! Classic.

[#1thelark]

Excellent new stuff, thank you!

Mr. Bill - Ableton tutorial 18: How to play live (Part 1)
Mr. Bill - Ableton tutorial 19: How to play live (Part 2)
Mr. Bill - Ableton Tutorial 20: Create a melody from 1 MIDI note
Mr. Bill - Ableton Tutorial 21: Natural comb filtering

[gibson_ewok]

Cheers!

[barbarism]

Yeah, thanks Mr. Bill. This is great stuff. Went through them all yesterday. About time someone made some fast and technical tutorials. Don't listen to the haters. Learned a lot.

I'd really like to see someone make some multi-track tutorials for vocals and guitars in Live. Not so much the recording, but tracking/stacking and processing. Layering 6 vocal tracks and processing each one in subtle ways using various tricks to get distinctive sounds.

You know, another thing I'd really like to see is a complete video series which compares the built in Live plug-ins to external plug-ins. Done by a professional, someone who works with this stuff daily. I know it's highly subjective at times but... As an amateur, it's really tough to know why you're not getting the sound or how much time/money you're wasting trying unnecessary plug-ins.

Example: Compression. This is what the Live compressor does in all of it's modes, this is where it really starts to break down. Let me show you... Listen how when you push it to this level using this source it cracks. Or listen how it sounds clinical here. Now, listen, same everything, swapping out with the X compressor by Y co, see how that's solved? Ok, now here is a way to get really close to this sound. Make an effects rack, drop in a saturator, a compressor, put it on Z mode, now add this as well, and see, A B test, see how close they are?

[evon]

I learnt most if not all of this from the "Tips & Tricks" section..sorry.

[casiblake]

Some of us prefer a visual and audio aid, rather than just to read these things. So thanks to Mr. Bill for taking MORE time out for making MORE excellent tutorials.

[anybody human]

Yeah I really like these tutorials also. Thanks to the OP for pointing them out, I've gotten a lot out of them the last couple months. Keep up the good work Mr. Bill and thanks a lot!

[gibson_ewok]

Yeah, thanks Mr. Bill. This is great stuff. Went through them all yesterday. About time someone made some fast and technical tutorials. Don't listen to the haters. Learned a lot.

I'd really like to see someone make some multi-track tutorials for vocals and guitars in Live. Not so much the recording, but tracking/stacking and processing. Layering 6 vocal tracks and processing each one in subtle ways using various tricks to get distinctive sounds.

You know, another thing I'd really like to see is a complete video series which compares the built in Live plug-ins to external plug-ins. Done by a professional, someone who works with this stuff daily. I know it's highly subjective at times but... As an amateur, it's really tough to know why you're not getting the sound or how much time/money you're wasting trying unnecessary plug-ins.

Example: Compression. This is what the Live compressor does in all of it's modes, this is where it really starts to break down. Let me show you... Listen how when you push it to this level using this source it cracks. Or listen how it sounds clinical here. Now, listen, same everything, swapping out with the X compressor by Y co, see how that's solved? Ok, now here is a way to get really close to this sound. Make an effects rack, drop in a saturator, a compressor, put it on Z mode, now add this as well, and see, A B test, see how close they are?

Yeah I have actually been doing a mini series on the ableton devices through the hardcore section of my website. However I can't compare it with professional (expensive:P) plugins at the moment because I simply cannot afford them. Although I have put this up for some time now http://mrbillstunes.com/chipinzebra2.php Basically it's a page where you can all help chip in to buy me Zebra 2 and then I can show you how to use it Also I can compare it to features in Ableton contextualising it for Live users.

As for the multi track files. Yeah I have a few of them. I might pull them out and do a mini series on processing "band style" music in the future

Cheers,
Bill.