Beginner

[ronald82]

Can anyone help me with some very basic Ableton Live Lite 10 stuff?? Maybe I could send the ALS file or something? Thanks.

[jestermgee]

Start here:
https://www.ableton.com/en/live/learn-live/

Then progress to here for your nightly bedtime novel:
https://www.ableton.com/en/manual/welcome-to-live/

[ronald82]

Thank you!
So I figured out my initials questions. Now I'm struggling with BPM and creating a loop. I need to set the proper BPM, correct? How would I determine the value? I have no clue.

Thanks!

[jestermgee]

As above, then practice, experiment and learn...

BPM is beats per minute. I learned by doing what nurses do with your pulse..... count and watch a clock tho with technology today and google you can find much better ways

[yur2die4]

When you say ‘set correct bpm’, that can kind of be an ambiguous statement.

If you’re making a loop by loading instruments and drawing in notes, then you can do that in a midi clip. And then you can Change the bpm however you please. If you’d like to maintain a certain bpm in your mind before you start, there actually is a FUN way to attempt that, assuming you don’t have Latency issues.

You can use an input device like a music keyboard, rhythm pads, or maybe even the QWERTY keyboard set to trigger music notes in Live. You can ‘practice’ the idea you have on that device. Just keep practicing the feel and the timing without hitting Play.

When you’re at a point where the last thing you attempted sounded pretty close, you can hit the ‘Capture’ button in Live. From there, Live will approximate the tempo and make a clip of what you’ve been practicing most recently, and you can start from there.

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If you’re using audio, that might be a different case. But this is also an area where Ableton Live excels and has many tools available. You can either record yourself while hearing a click track, and play back the audio to ‘hopefully’ get it to the right tempo, or

If you are intending to use Already existing audio, then ‘Warping’ comes into play. What that does is, you will take an audio clip and tell Live what the Original bpm of the audio clip is. Once Live knows the original bpm, and where the beats in the clip hit (warp markers might help), you can play the clip as a Loop that is SYNCed to the master metronome. Then no matter what tempo you set Live to, the audio clip will always stay in time.

[ronald82]

Thank you both!

I'm just using an MIDI Keyboard to make music.
So I ended up using https://www.justinguitar.com/tap-tempo-bpm-tool
Worked out.

But thank you for the extra info! That might come in handy later!

[yur2die4]

Definitely play with the Capture feature. Works like magic !