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Ableton Tutorial – Using Ableton As An Instrument – Setting Up Drum Racks For Live Performance.

Posted: February 8th, 2010 | Author: al_clark7 | Filed under: Drums | Tags: , , , , , , , | 9 Comments »
Ableton Tutorial – Using Ableton As An Instrument – Setting Up Drum Racks For Live Performance.

Welcome Back. More of the great content you have come to expect.

One of my main aims is to get people using Ableton Live like an INSTRUMENT so you get good at performing your tracks live.

There are ways of working and setting up effects so you can really get involved in the mix of your track. This is also true of how you “perform” your drums. Once you get good at producing your tracks this way, you naturally become talented at DJ’ing using the program. You start to  apply production effects to entire tracks and live remix them etc.

This 3 part video series shows how I approach making beats using Ableton Live.  I’m not going to be showing how to construct a beat though. I’m going to show you what to do with your drum loop after you have created.

Have you ever wondered how the beats in some tracks have  so much variation? It is hard to imagine how they have been programmed. Well this is the answer.

People are performing amazing effects live over a drumloop.

This sounds amazing with just a single bar loop but even more impressive when you do a 16 bar or longer with some variations in it. There aren’t any limits to this really.

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Cheers

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9 Comments on “Ableton Tutorial – Using Ableton As An Instrument – Setting Up Drum Racks For Live Performance.”

  1. 1 DAVE said at 11:15 pm on February 26th, 2010:

    Your tutorials rock. I kinda got confused too during the swing explanation but the rest of the video is so good it doesn’t even matter. I like the more advanced content of your videos compared to many others out there.

  2. 2 al_clark7 said at 1:02 pm on February 27th, 2010:

    Thanks mate!

  3. 3 nathan said at 2:04 pm on April 7th, 2010:

    how would you get a heavy sub bass from using 808′s in simpler? I try to figure it out and I cant seem to get a good enough heavy bass. My style is minimal/ techno/ house.. please help me..

  4. 4 nathan said at 2:04 pm on April 7th, 2010:

    how would you get a heavy sub bass from using 808\’s in simpler? I try to figure it out and I cant seem to get a good enough heavy bass. My style is minimal/ techno/ house.. please help me..

  5. 5 MoogDude said at 1:08 am on April 30th, 2010:

    Love these vids for someone new to ableton i find these very informative and inspirational keep up the good work and thanks.

  6. 6 zackari said at 3:59 am on May 6th, 2010:

    these tutes r amazing brother.
    thanks heaps.

  7. 7 al_clark7 said at 11:25 am on May 8th, 2010:

    Cheers folks, there will be more coming soon! :D

  8. 8 NEWTOTHIS said at 5:49 pm on May 16th, 2010:

    hI, i HAVE BEEN USING LIVE FOR A COUPPLE OF MONTHS NOW, (LIVE 6) .. i WAS ENJOYINGPLAYING AROUND WITH MY INSTRUMENT RACK N EFFECT RACKS ETC ….. i CAN NO LONGER FIND THEM!! I GO TO IMPULSE N THERE SEEMS TO BE NOTHING IN IT?? IM HOPINGTHIS IS AN EASY FIXED PROBLEM AND IM, JUST BEING A BIT BLONDE … ANY SUGGESTIONS?? … NEWTOTHIS

  9. 9 Kamran Safdar said at 6:45 am on August 7th, 2010:

    I learned alot for these vdos. Thnx


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