Over the last couple of days, I’ve been discussing the use of a Sounds Project – a single location that contains all of your sounds be they presets or samples. The trick to having a usable Sounds Project is to understand that you don’t need a large number of sounds. instead, you need to have […]
GETTING AROUND ARRANGEMENTS
Often its the simple things that make me happy. Today, its a lovely little use for the arrow keys. Live makes navigating the Arrangement View a lot like navigating the words in a text document. Once you’ve placed the cursor in the timeline, you can move back and forth one grid line at a time […]
COLLECT FILES ON EXPORT
OK, so now that I’ve discussed the concept behind my Sounds Project, I’ll take you through some of the critical steps to get it set up right. First, create a Project folder. Right-click in one of the file browsers, and you’ll see the Create Project command to get things started. Next, create a few basic […]
THE SOUNDS PROJECT
Since I spent the last couple of days talking about creating a hand-claps Instrument Rack, I thought I’d tell you a little bit about how I go about saving this sort of instrument as a preset. You may recall that I recently spent some time talking about effect presets and how I store them in […]
SLOPPIER CLAPS
So, once I start messing around with intentionally making things sloppy or uneven I find that it’s something I can play around with forever and keep discovering things. Here are a couple of other tricks to keep things loose in the clap track. A little bit of random panning in a few of the clap […]
SLOPPY CLAPS
Since we’ve been discussing some issues related to Simpler and velocity, I thought I’d show you a rack I made for a remix I’m working on. There’s a section of this track where we need a really loose sounding hand clap section. At the moment, it’s not practical for me to get a room full […]
SENSITIVE SAMPLES
Today I’m going to write a little about Simpler, Live’s basic sample playback device. In particular, I’m going to clear up one common area of confusion: how to make sample playback velocity sensitive (so the harder you hit a drum pad or keyboard key, the louder the sample gets), and how to set this as […]
WHAT ABOUT MIDI?
So, i thought I was done talking about exporting stems, but someone emailed in a question that’s worth addressing: What about MIDI? Generally speaking, when we’re talking about creating stems or archiving a project, we’re talking about creating audio files. After all, part of the reason we do this is to avoid having to have […]
STEMS: WHY BOTHER?
So why bother printing stems? There are a bunch of reasons to be familiar with the simple techniques described in the last couple of tips. Some of them may not apply to you, one of them applies to everyone. Mixing and Remixing. If you ever have to mix your stuff in a different sequencer, you’ll […]
PRINT STEMS, OLDSKOOL
As I mentioned in the last tip, there are some cases where printing stems the automatic way doesn’t cut it and you’ve got to take a more manual approach. Cases include: You didn’t group or submix tracks in the set You did group or submix, but you need a stem to include more than one […]
