The Little List of Tips and Tricks

Share your favorite Ableton Live tips, tricks, and techniques.
Machinate
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Post by Machinate » Mon Oct 16, 2006 10:27 am

I like this graph a whole lot more. I know I've recommended it before on this forum, but here it is again, in all its glory:

http://www.autosoft.com.hk/article/newu ... ote_no.jpg
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DeadlyKungFu
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Post by DeadlyKungFu » Fri Oct 20, 2006 4:40 am

mattsonic wrote:Here are two tutorials that will improve your bass composition skills. The first analyzes Daft Punk's Around The World to demonstrate 6 fundamental concepts. The second tutorial teaches you how to use vibrato for more interesting synthesizer sounds. Examples from Daft Punk, Jamiroquai, and Grandmaster Flash are provided.

Click here to read the tutorial on 6 Bass Sequencing Tricks From Daft Punk.

Click here to read the tutorial on How To Use Vibrato In Electronic Music Production

Happy Producing!

Matt Sonic

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Post by hoffman2k » Fri Oct 20, 2006 7:48 am

DeadlyKungFu wrote:
mattsonic wrote:Here are two tutorials that will improve your bass composition skills. The first analyzes Daft Punk's Around The World to demonstrate 6 fundamental concepts. The second tutorial teaches you how to use vibrato for more interesting synthesizer sounds. Examples from Daft Punk, Jamiroquai, and Grandmaster Flash are provided.

Click here to read the tutorial on 6 Bass Sequencing Tricks From Daft Punk.

Click here to read the tutorial on How To Use Vibrato In Electronic Music Production

Happy Producing!

Matt Sonic
Yeah yeah. I'll add a production section over the weekend ;)

DeadlyKungFu
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Post by DeadlyKungFu » Fri Oct 20, 2006 8:07 pm

sweetjesus wrote:Here's an update to djsyncro's Autohotkey script which allows you to use your numeric keypad to have full control of the master tempo.

http://www.noisefix.com/live/Live_5_Bro ... +v0.07.zip

Numeric Pad + will increase tempo by 1 bpm
Numeric Pad - will decrease tempo by 1 bpm
Numeric Pad * will increase tempo by 0.1 bpm
Numeric Pad / will decrease tempo by 0.1 bpm

Notebook guys, you may need to turn your "num lock" on to make this work.

Cheers,
SJ

so much good stuff, partly I put stuff here so that when I get some 'free time' I can go back here, download and czech diz shit owt!

DeadlyKungFu
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Post by DeadlyKungFu » Mon Oct 23, 2006 6:25 am

A note from Gregor Klinke on the file arrangement changes in Live 6.
Johnisfaster wrote:
that should be in a sticky

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Post by tricil » Mon Oct 23, 2006 6:49 am

might i be so bold to suggest my supatrigga crossfade trick?

which, of course works with livecut, glitch, beat repeat, etc.

i see a lot of people using it (logickal, phat conductor, etc)

here's the link:

http://www.ableton.com/forum/viewtopic. ... ve+learned
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Post by DeadlyKungFu » Sat Oct 28, 2006 1:41 am


cjyetman
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Single-knob DJM-800 style filters without MidiOx

Post by cjyetman » Mon Dec 11, 2006 7:05 pm

originally from this thread...
http://www.ableton.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=53660

effect.adg

it was a bit tedious to create, though copy/paste and multi-selection just about halved the time.

the concept of this rack could be applied to many problems. i'm curious what other people might come up with. it also provides a solution to two shortcomings in ableton live.... that you cannot define a curve, that is... midi controls can only effect a particular parameter in a linear way, not, for example, in an logistic or exponential curve... and that you can't listen to a particular range of midi messages for a particular control and ignore the rest. i think that we should petition for both of these features in a future update or version of ableton live.
1. the ability to define the range of midi signals that are listened to for a particular control
2. the ability to define the curve which it effects the control

i'd also like to see what anyone else can come up with as far as emulating effects built in to other common hardware, and if anyone knows of a way to find specific parameters of those effects so that we could accurately emulate them. in this particular rack, i simply stepped up the frequency setting 2 notches for each step(one notch being the smallest draggable increment live allows) so that it increased linearly across the entire potential range. it would be interesting if in the manual, or some other source of information, it defined the specific parameters of the effects so that we could more accurately reproduce it..... or come up with an even more pleasing result. for instance, with the rack i made, the hi-pass side has little audible effect until the knob is almost at 3 o'clock. on the lo-pass side, the effect is audible almost immediately, which means the overall feel of the button is somewhat unbalanced. any thoughts on how to set the rate of change to get the most pleasing result?

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Post by Tone Deft » Fri Dec 15, 2006 3:02 am

jasinski's collected racks from users, organised and stuff...

http://www.ableton.com/forum/viewtopic. ... 674#395674
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Post by oldbetseysatan » Sun Dec 31, 2006 12:56 pm

Not sure if it's already included but here's a great tutorial on saving presets from 'onslaught'

http://neotericnoise.com/tutorials/impu ... orial.html

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Post by Tone Deft » Thu Jan 18, 2007 6:17 pm

Nice list of sites to upload your music to share:
http://www.ableton.com/forum/viewtopic. ... highlight=
4am wrote:got this list on another board... hope it helps

* ShinyFeet - www.shinyfeet.com (Unlimited)
* FileUpYours - www.fileupyours.com (Unlimited)
* SendThisFile - www.sendthisfile.com/info.jsp (2GB)
* DataPickup - www.datapickup.com/ (1.5GB)
* FileFront - http://freespace.filefront.com/1 (1GB)
* FileFactory - www.filefactory.com (500 Mb)
* Free-Webster - www.free-webster.com/index.php?action=enter (600MB)
* SpreadIt - www.spread-it.com (500MB)
* BigUpload - www.bigupload.com (300MB)
* UpDownloadServer - www.updownloadserver.com/ (250MB)
* ShareBigFile - www.sharebigfile.com/ (250MB)
* BonPoo - http://app02.bonpoo.com/ (250MB)
* Updownload - http://dl2.updownloadserver.de/ (250 MB)
* Rarhost - http://www.rarhost.com/ (200MB, rar files only)
* UploadStore - www.uploadstore.com/ (100MB)
* Dropload - www.dropload.com (100MB)
* Megaupload - www.megaupload.com (100MB)
* SaveFile - www.savefile.com/filehost/ (60MB)
* RapidShare - www.rapidshare.de (50MB)
* UploadHut - www.uploadhut.com/ (50MB)
* Turbo Upload - www.turboupload.com (50MB)
* QuickFile - http://srv9.qfile.de/operator.php?s...fer&sysf=upload (50MB)
* ShareFiles - www.sharefiles.ru (50MB)
* GigaShare - www.gigashare.com/index.php (50MB)
* StorageFun - www.storagefun.com/ (50MB)
* Ripway - www.ripway.com/ (30MB)
* 30MB - www.30mb.com (30MB)
* SwiftDesk - www.swiftdesk.com/ (30MB)
* UltraShare - www.ultrashare.net/ (30MB)
* UploadTemple - www.uploadtemple.com/ (30MB)
* Sendmefile - www.sendmefile.com (30MB)
* Upload2 - www.upload2.net/ (25MB)
* MyFileStash - www.myfilestash.com/ (25MB)
* MyTempDir - www.mytempdir.com/ (25MB)
* WebFile - www.webfile.ru (20MB)
* FileUploadManager - www.da_insane.boo.pl/d/upload/index.php (10MB)
* FileCabi - www.filecabi.net/ (10MB)
* Filesupload - www.filesupload.com (10MB)
* Megashares - http://www.megashares.com
* Zupload - http://www.zupload.net
* Quickdump - http://www.quickdump.com
* Streamload - http://www.streamload.com
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dango
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Post by dango » Sun Feb 04, 2007 6:54 am


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Post by ToneDunce » Tue Feb 13, 2007 11:01 pm

Superb service for upping tracks/test clips (even includes built in flash player):

http://www.divshare.com/upload

Alxzndr
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Post by Alxzndr » Fri Feb 16, 2007 2:47 pm

Hello! Been trawling this place whilst learning ableton this last week - excellent resource!

Just thought I'd add my two scottish pennies and say I just worked out dragging clips in the arrangement view to the session view selector moves them in there. 99.9% redundant to most of you, but hey!

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Post by burns » Sun Feb 18, 2007 3:22 pm

Ooops, the link : "- Sidechain compression tutorial (Live) " is dead.....

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