Hey all, so I've been watching Tom Cosm's tutorials and he uses the arrangement view and sets all his sounds in different columns, whereas the other way to do it is to use clips.
If i'm trying to build a studio track, what is the best way? to do what cosm does or to use clips in session view?
Need to find a tutorial on how to use clips because I'm completely oblivious lol
session or arrangement view
Re: session or arrangement view
session view is a playground full of fun. but it also can be a time consuming trap.
you can try combining clips and get unusual combinations very fast. and a lot happens by accident.
like coming home from a real playground you look back and ask yourself: what did i do today?
and you know: spent time in the playground and had fun. well, ok...
working in the arrangement is working on results. when you ask yourself: what did i do today?
and you know: you can listen to the stuff you did! had fun and still have the result of it!
until you record what you do in session view it is always a preview of what you could do.
that´s the difference.
you can try combining clips and get unusual combinations very fast. and a lot happens by accident.
like coming home from a real playground you look back and ask yourself: what did i do today?
and you know: spent time in the playground and had fun. well, ok...
working in the arrangement is working on results. when you ask yourself: what did i do today?
and you know: you can listen to the stuff you did! had fun and still have the result of it!
until you record what you do in session view it is always a preview of what you could do.
that´s the difference.
Re: session or arrangement view
As I see it, it is also two different approaches to recording/playing/"writing" music.
Sessionview is - as mentioned - good for improvisation, experimentation with loops or short sequences etc.
I can imagine this is very good for especially stuff like house music, that has alot of static elements in the sense that you have a steady beat or stabs entering the soundscape, all of them sort of short in length. I might be completely wrong though, as I don't exactly do dancemusic.
I've personally more of a songwriter approach to Ableton because I use it both for recording some of my solo garage rock (probably not the best program for more analogue-style rock but w/e) and a bit of electronica. I usually bring in VSTIs that I play manually to give it a "there's a human behind the computer"-feel, and for that Arrangement View is great because you can actually develop a song as it progresses, sort of decide what happens next without having it all stored in different clips placed arbitrarily on the clipboard.
If you however has some stuff you want to use as a backing track for at live situation, I reckon mapping various clips of your music with launcher like the Akai Pad... I think it is also useful for DJ'ing, but I'm not that experienced with it.
In any case, good luck with writing, recording, experiementing etc.!
Sessionview is - as mentioned - good for improvisation, experimentation with loops or short sequences etc.
I can imagine this is very good for especially stuff like house music, that has alot of static elements in the sense that you have a steady beat or stabs entering the soundscape, all of them sort of short in length. I might be completely wrong though, as I don't exactly do dancemusic.
I've personally more of a songwriter approach to Ableton because I use it both for recording some of my solo garage rock (probably not the best program for more analogue-style rock but w/e) and a bit of electronica. I usually bring in VSTIs that I play manually to give it a "there's a human behind the computer"-feel, and for that Arrangement View is great because you can actually develop a song as it progresses, sort of decide what happens next without having it all stored in different clips placed arbitrarily on the clipboard.
If you however has some stuff you want to use as a backing track for at live situation, I reckon mapping various clips of your music with launcher like the Akai Pad... I think it is also useful for DJ'ing, but I'm not that experienced with it.
In any case, good luck with writing, recording, experiementing etc.!