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Hey guys, I'm a bit of a noob here, I browse, but never post. I've been making a few tutorial videos on techniques in Ableton that fall outside of the realm of "Basic 101" tutorials, but are catered more towards inspiring creativity. I love how open-ended Live is, and though I've been using it for years, I'm still finding cool little tricks, different ways of doing things and such. In these videos I try and share these tricks and provide an alternate way of working that you may not have thought of. Anyway, I've been posting these videos on a few different forums where I'm a little more active, but the other day I thought "god damn, why am I not sharing on the ABLETON forum?". So alas, here you go! Subscribe on youtube and/or check out my website to stay up to date on all my content if you enjoy what you see! Thanks!

Creating Vintage Sounds In Ableton

Glitch Using Ableton's Arpeggiator

Slice n' Dice In Ableton - Part 1: Slice To Midi

Slice n' Dice In Ableton - Part 2: Sampler KeyZones

Slice n' Dice In Ableton - Part 3: Chop Your Audio Directly

Stretch Notes 1 of 2: Tuplets and Polyrhythms in Ableton

Stretch Notes 2 of 2: Reverse Audio Without Flipping Your Melody

How To Make Your Own Acapellas

Max4Live RNOCC - Random Note-On CC Gen

Great tutorials, tnx a lot for sharing

Wow, the two videos on Note Stretching are excellent, thanks so much!

+1.

...Part 3 of your chop shop is how I tend to do it as well. So quick and easy!
That being said: the FX track you added underneath was a new idea for me! great stuff!! Will use this a lot!!!

First off, cool! Second, I liked that track you wrote for the video for stretch part 2. Interesting idea as it had me thinking that if I wrote something as an intro song to do this as the outro of the same song! I am sure others have probably done similar somewhere but it's a cool idea none the less, thanks for the interesting video.

Mike

I'm having trouble understanding something about your stretch notes part 2 video. I understand that you can flip the whole melody over to the negative side so it plays backwards. That part was new to me. But then you show how to freeze, flatten and reverse as if that were the end goal of the whole tutorial. That makes me wonder why you'd bother flipping the melody over to the negative side at all.

It is the end goal of the tutorial.
That's so the original melody stays intact but has the reverse tail of the sound. The best way to hear it is to put the original sound and the end result of that technique together. Reversing audio includes reversing time.

Record yourself saying "spaghetti" and reverse it. You don't hear "spaghetti"
Now say "eet-eh-gups" and reverse it; it sounds like "spaghetti" but...different.
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Great find btw, Ryan. I like the style and advancement level of the tutorials. Hope you make lots more!