Audio Effects On Audio Clips

christopherjohn · Post by **christopherjohn** » Fri Jan 25, 2008 5:55 pm

Hi,
I am new to production and Ableton Live so please bear with me. I am currently trying to add an audio effect to a clip within a track in the Arrangement View. However that clip is not constantly used on that track (it is split up). Is there a way to only assign an audio effect to one specific clip in a track?

I hope this make sense.

Thanks,

Daim · Post by **Daim** » Fri Jan 25, 2008 6:46 pm

in samplitude u can assign effects to objects, in live u can't

laird · Post by **laird** » Fri Jan 25, 2008 7:33 pm

...unless you read the section in the manual on "Automation", in which it is very easy to assign effects to certain clips and not others.

Daim · Post by **Daim** » Fri Jan 25, 2008 9:15 pm

that's just workarrounds.. it would be even faster to create a new track and copy the clips to it

laird · Post by **laird** » Fri Jan 25, 2008 9:37 pm

assuming you were using no other effects,yes. Otherwsie you'd have to duplicate all the shared effect instances, which for non-Live plugins increases CPU load. As well as the visual annoyance of having 2X as many tracks as necessary.

Both ways work, you can call one a workaround and the other way the right way... either way you either double your tracks and effects, or you draw in a single value in the clip envelope window.

Bottom line, though, you told this guy you can't do it in Live, and now he has two different ways to do what he wants.

geo · Post by **geo** » Sat Jan 26, 2008 1:41 pm

...and a third and maybe cleaner way is to send the output of the effected clip to another track, record the clip with the effect, then get the resulting clip back to the previous track deleting the track created before.

pip · Post by **pip** » Wed Jan 30, 2008 3:37 am

laird mentioned it first, but i'll spell it out here:

In arrangement view, place all the necessary clips on your track.
Now, add the effect you want to the track; for example, an "EQ Three" (For a midrange cut or something. You're creative.)

Directly under your track name in arrangement view ("1 Audio" maybe) you'll see a combo box called the Device Chooser (probably says "None" by default). Select the name of your effect from here, in my case I choose "EQ Three".

Below the Device Chooser box is the Control Chooser. Now that you've selected the device, select the control! In this case we'll use "Device On" to toggle your EQ Three on and off for individual clips.

You'll notice a thick [envelope] line has been drawn all across your track. Turn on "Draw Mode" (Ctrl-B on PC) and reshape this line to be "on" or high over the clips you want to be affected, and "off" or low for the clips that you don't want to be affected.

Holy crap, this is the only time in a sentence that "affected" and "effected" are both syntactically acceptable!!!

Instead of drawing with the draw tool, you can double-click points on the line with the arrow tool to add nodes, which you can then drag around to your heart's content.

Hope that works for you! Let me know if anything needs to be clarified.

Warning; this might not be the perfect solution for things like reverb, where turning the effect on or off instantly will add a sudden cut. You can cheat a little by drawing a volume envelope instead of an on/off envelope, for example. For that you should read the automation chapter

longjohns · Post by **longjohns** » Wed Jan 30, 2008 4:08 am

any way you don't like = "workaround"

Audio Effects On Audio Clips

Audio Effects On Audio Clips

Automation: