Creating A Shepard's Tone Using Ableton Live Part 1

[urahara02001]

5:15 shift up does the same thing

[88res]

skip to 4:07

[2020lenny]

you lost me after 2 minutes BORING BORING BORING!

[kn0btwister]

good tutorial however I think I have the newer version of Operator and I can't seem to find the function on how to set up the pitch octave 12 semitones so sine wave plays through 220hz to 440hz - any help ?

[AireePotter]

geeee he is just trying to help! :(

[rdev68]

Tom, shift+ up or down arrow moves 1 octave

[djlemonhead504]

wtf just get to the point

[TheGioification]

01:13 omg... I'm a geek now... awsome

[gregtro]

good tutorial but jesus talking about dragging it on, could of easily been done in 1minute not 10

[EMDIEMEI]

amazing!!

[forealzman]

an octave is actually 13 semitones because you count the first note. a, a#, b, c, c#, d, d#, e, f, f#, g, g#, a = 13

[Fremglerk]

Then your first interval would effectively be zero, or a unison, rather than a half step. It sounds as if you might be confusing scale degrees with harmonic intervals.

[forealzman]

@Fremglerk No...there are 13 semitones in an octave. Its just you count the first and last note in a scale. So a and a. In ableton its just that 0 is like 1 and 12 is like 13.

[Fremglerk]

@forealzman Not according to the teachers who taught me theory in high school and college, and not according to reference materials I've seen online. Go to Wikipedia and look up "Octave," as YouTube wouldn't let me post the URL.

[forealzman]

@Fremglerk if you count the entire octave there are 13. Go to your piano and start on a c and end on a c.

[forealzman]

@Fremglerk if you count the entire octave there are 13. Go to your piano and start on a c and end on a c.



[Bossasaurus510]

@forealzman That is entirely incorrect. There are 12 semi-tones in an octave no question. The "13th" you claim is just the first semi-tone of the next octave. Why would you even argue that?

[1337Elite2]

@forealzman You high nigga?

[forealzman]

@1337Elite2 Obviously if you are playing a chromatic octave, or any octave, its an octave when you start on one note and end on another...do I have to spell it out asshole?

[1337Elite2]

@forealzman Just because you choose to define an octave as 13 semitones, doesn't make it the universal definition. Get over it.

[JessAtlas]

@forealzman You're wrong. There are 12 semitones in an octave, or 13 piano keys.

[jamesmelling2]

@forealzman erm, what kind of a piano are you looking at? there are 12 semitones in an octave. no question. a semitone is the "gap" between the notes, not the notes themselves.

[forealzman]

@jamesmelling2 idk man, my piano has a b# and a c, i thought thats what they all are like. I guess not...

[jamesmelling2]

@forealzman well.... that's kinda awkward. maybe you should get it checked out dude!

[Shamukh]

You're right. I -am- a geek.

[pengam2006]

there's nothing quick about this run down...

[4improv]

shift+up helps out with those "simitones" ;)

good vid, thanks

[jorbarteam169]

Thanks dude! Interesting theory!

[shaququ]

you talk too much

[sk8rokklive29]

how do you get a tone onto ableton live in the first place? do i need a controller?

[deejaysoulution]

nice

[lamfkelly]

you said the same thing a thousand times you idiot

[CollectiveSin]

@digimaton: No one likes a smart ass.

[CollectiveSin]

@digimaton I'm quite aware of what an "interval" is. This video was uploaded to teach people who want to learn how to use sequencing programs, not to be grammatically picked apart by the likes of you. And just so you know, being described as "pedantic" is not a good thing. More so when it's a word you use to describe yourself.

[hoakyman]

Hey. just so you know, can you press Shift + Up or down arrow to move a note an octave instead of pressing up or down 12 times. Cool tutorial.

[RedRoomNW]

Great tip. Thnx

[guillermo0209]

hey men, this is awesome, i was wondering if you could help me applying this to white noise sound,

[innercombustion]

you're the man tom. everytime I look up something you make a video for it haha.

[veglcube]

it's Shepherd sound ...

[lesscunning]

great tutorial.

[nednednerb]

Thanks, this is neat

I randomly created a operator patch that had 60 second decays following this principle, going up in 4 oscillators from very low up quite high, but not by octave quite. something got lower too harmonically. sweet FX it is to bend audio

[YuraB]

how did u get the spectrum to show up in the arrangement view?

[djbistronica]

nice vid ,,cant you just pop all the notes in one track? sound cool if you do it with a pad sound

and open the filter 2

[nednednerb]

basically. I did it or close to in one operator patch

[VstCafe]

great tutorial. never heard about Shepard's Tone effect before - now i know something about it :)

i must admit that you just fit well as a hmm teacher. you have nice, not annoying voice, so watching your tutorials is a pleasure

[nitecam]

check out john selway - total departure ;-)

[veglcube]

lol :D enjoy

[cmc59]

do u need to use operator? i have done this but the only problem i ran into is changing the limit of the automation. i cant get it to bend up more than a 5th. any advice besides purchasing operator?

[b3fr33]

nice one tom, found out bout these a year ago myself.. have implemented into a couple of tracks..am still workin at doing something REAL impressive with one :)~

[freeloopsdotcomdotau]

fush un chups. churs fer tha choice vudio, bro.

[AppA]

Cool so it's called a Shepard's Tone :p

I believe it has been used many times in acid-oriented electronic music ( Ekeaze - Spinning Wheel @ Astral Tek 13, Magda - 48 Hour Crack In Your Bass @ MINUS 35 etc.)

Also thanks for this nice tutorial!