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  • sounds nothing like seth green you noobs ...lol

  • @bregowald wow... you're an ignorant piece of shit

  • @Bregowald

    What do you use?

  • dude sounds a bit pretentious

  • I never liked making each section into clips or scenes. I like my songs to be one fluid progression. plus it helps cut down on all the clutter of having myriad clips and such.

  • I use FL Studio in conjunction with Sony Vegas, but I'm gonna give this a try.

  • call me ignorant but i don't see how this is much more beneficial over plain ol fl studio.

  • @smittsteve04 Because FL Studio is limited in comparison to what programs like Live, Reason, or Logic can do and FL's VST's are low quality. FL is to these programs as Smooth Jazz is to Miles Davis.

  • @R0bSc0tt

    it what ways is fl studio limited? it can import every vst you would use on live or logic, and reason has great built in pluggins but your cant import any 3rd party pluggins (that's a huge deal-breaker for me)

  • at 0:40 it sounds like words right before a drop

  • @5graffer not every song has a drop

  • dude I like your tutorials you don't preach like djvespers, LOL, who just got a life coach to pretensiously tell us all how to be spiritual and enlightened HAHA ,he appears to be preaching to teenie boppers. Your vid are to the point without pretense.

  • After searching through countless Ableton vids, yours was by far (so far) the most well explained for beginners trying to bridge the gap. Other tutorials always seem to skim over the most important basic feature...the relationship between Session & Arrangement view and how to navigate between them. Also, an overview of clips & scenes. Thanks for helping connect the dots.

  • im using ableton lin last 10 months. now im pro with this. i can do everything i want. there is almost no problem. most of my friends using logic fl and other stuff they always complain about their DAW. i found out ableton was the easiest one. i used to use fl 6. so i didn't learn anything from fl at all. when you go to ableton's arrangement view, you will see your whole idea when you just open that shit up! its very fast and easy to put your idea right away into your project in ableton.... A+++

  • how do you get new instruments into ableton live 8?

  • I'm currently using FL9.

    But I'm trying to switch to a more professional program such as Ableton.

    Unfortunately I don't know what the fuck I'm doing.

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  • @314chan you don't want to over complicate your work. I can keep simple patterns and small loops in an organized fashion and still get the song down.

  • Fl Studios 10...Easier...Better...more popular...perfect for Windows music making.

  • @jocopa3 hahaha quite the contrary i'm in the process of switching from fl10 to live. when the project gets large i find working with fl10 a total mess. to each his own though!

  • Ableton Live isnt that good.

  • To jest to ! :))

  • Great tutorial man. Thanks! 

  • yeah , ableton SUX......so complicated.....some damn programmers created this..... learn from MAC......

  • for an audio engineer one would expect the audio quality to be better - the audio quality is TERRIBLE!!!!!

  • Nice Video

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  • You sound just like Chris Griffin.

  • @JNPhoenix hahaha he does

  • @JNPhoenix the 28 year old version

  • @JNPhoenix HAHA YOU MADE A FAMILY GUY REFERENCE "gives thumbs up"

  • @JNPhoenix ROFLFLLFLFLFLFLLFLFFFLFLFLLFLF­LMAO!

  • My progressive ableton track

    youtube.com/watch?v=FyQtSi9qfq­U

  • what about when you have like 70 tracks? how do you manage that in ableton?

  • not a fan of ableton.. just saying .. i think its one of those love or hate programs ..

  • @guitarsalert When i got the lite version with a keyboard i opened it up and thought wtf is this shit. Im into rock music so i thought it was gay. Then i started using it and its really good once you get into all the effects and metering and analyzers. You can run audio units from other apps like logic pro. Its pretty good just takes a bit to get the hang of., better than protools thats for sure.

  • its the old demosong of live 4

  • Thank You Ruta47!! I've been trying to understand the sequence / song breakdown as it works in Ableton and after watching your video I believe I have it!! cheers!!

  • Is it pratical to use Ableton; albeit, I can't save ?

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  • In this video Family Guy's Chris Griffin makes music

  • can i use my pakcs that i use in fl studio

  • Powerfully simple... my ass

  • Check out my uploads. Its all Drum N Bass and Hip-Hop made in Ableton x

  • I have live 8, reason 5, sonar 8.5 and logic 9.

    They are all superb but for me live was the most intuitive. I was able to jump straight in there and make music. I also find live the best for creativity.

    For me though, studying how to use them all and delving deeper into the programs is half of the fun and I'm constantly surprised at the power of all of them.

  • Wish the first professional audio program I learned wasn't Pro Tools.

  • very confused. im used to reason

  • i feel like this is to much but in sure time i will kill it !

  • I wish I could dowload this to my brain,, Ableton is by far more aesthetically pleasing than most other daws, I want to use Record with Ableton, but now I have to relearn another daw,.. what's the studio advantages as opposed to live.?

  • @tintala I have been using Reason Record for a few months now and I think it's great. If you already have your head around Ableton, record should be a breeze. You can use Rewire to link the 2 (Ableton as the host/Record as the slave). It makes for a truly powerful combo.

  • to all the high school dropouts who are having thier brains "melted"...... bro, this the most simplest and aesthetically pleasing music program out, i used it since middle school, grow up and educate yourself on how to use it before you complain, sorry you wernt born with ableton pre-programmed in your brain, or more obviously a computer in your house

  • @SkaterSlashGamer I wouldn't hate too much, I think they don't have much experience in this type of shit. I don't have this program yet, but I get the picture for the most part.; but I've been doing this type of stuff for awhile. And some of this shit can be confusing. However, the more you're working with it and experiment the easier it should come. And especially if it comes wIth some help/or troubleshooting advice.

  • @reyjll haha yeah exactly, i was just in a bad mood anyway n was too blunt, but anyone that wants to learn it, just get it n follow the tutorials, youll be straight in a week more or less

  • @reyjll What you said. I have the version that comes with the launchpad and find it extremely difficult to do anything. The tutorials don't seem to help much. Thinking of dumping it for something else.

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  • hello, hope you can help me, how do i input in a clip, a note from the bottom of my keyboard, then join the note with another note at the top of the keyboard, creatting a siren effect please? PS. i only use midi

  • @skywalkmangeforce To make a siren effect (in the style of techno) make an 8 bar note on your clip then press the clip envelope button (thats the little "E" button in the clips down left corner) then click the "Pitch Bend" button and automate the red line to go from all the way down left corner to all the way up right corner. I think you can alternatively do this just with your keyboard by holding down the note and using the keyboards mod wheel.

  • My biggest gripe is that everything is on the wrong side of the screen. It's just hard for me being a mac use and all...

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  • Deadmau5 uses Ableton

  • @hydrolisk1792 how do you know?

  • @05CAR7AN15 He helped program it back in the day.

  • Does Battery 3 work with Ableton. 

  • Ok, I found a possible conclusion to my thoughts. I just might like Ableton after all. Creating clips caught my attention and is a feature that other DAW's do not offer. I'm not a proficient keyboard player so creating a complete keyboard arrangement in clips is a nice feature. So, now that you have all your clips ready to record in the arrangement view, you're suppose to click each clip individualy in the order of the arrangement, that's difficult with a lot of clips. Can u just clik one time?

  • @stratcries yes there is a master that plays one row, hope that answered youre question.

  • I don't know, it seems to me every song in every tutorial sounds the same. The drums sound cheesy like a pencil tapping on a desktop. I've yet to hear any punch in any instrument, it all just sounds so damn cheesy cheap. If your creation ends up sounding just like another person's creation, what's the point. Maybe it's just the crapy DJ or Hip-Hop sound that makes it sound so boring. I'm not sold yet. I've messed with Cubase and Presonus and the instruments are more professional sounding. Ahh.

  • @stratcries I used to feel the same way, It felt like every sound was something I would hear in an elevator or something made on fruity loops. I have a buddy who uses ableton all the time, and I was blown away with what he does. He makes dubstep/house music and his sounds are very bassy and very thick. Ableton does have potential, it just takes a little bit of work. Figuring out where everything on ableton is, is a hard task but I've definitely heard professional songs done on this program

  • @stratcries Mat Zo and Marcus Schossow use ableton live, that says it all .. outstanding program ! ..

  • THANKS, This helped me a lot.

  • my man that is a mean beat, very tight and well done

    thanks for the tutorial

  • its the future

  • does anybody have live lite 7 working on windows 7? it says runtime error when I try to run it... I really need some help, please. It's a Line6 version that i got with the Line6 ux-2.

  • i just bought ableton live 8 suite and .... dude i tell you my brain is smokin O_O

  • is it just me or does this guy sound like the actor josh lucas?

  • it's easy as hell it only have two screens TWO 

  • taaass pendeeehjooo k mmda es esaaa

  • complicate

    

  • he sounds like the son of peter out of family guy

  • this guy sounds like hes gay

  • abelton sucks! long live FL Studio!

  • @kennykensworth haha thank you, someone else who agrees that fl studio cant be touched

  • are you all retarded that is not tom hanks

  • @Obopolis you very are stupid...get you it ?

  • this sounds like the guy from totallysketch

  • Is that really Tom Hanks narrating? lol

  • Look also at my channel to hear music i made

    with ableton :)

  • great video...... thanks so much :)

  • Good explanation. Now I just need to get the software and start using it.

  • check out my page for remixes done on live

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  • made an own minimal track with ableton =) would be great if you would watch it and tell me what you think about it! (My New Ableton Live! Project 2.0 )

  • what is better? reason, fl, or ableton live??

  • @YOUNGBLOODBEATS i think ableton is the most versatile. but reason has some more advanced features, and fl has its own benefits. You really cant go wrong with any one of those. Take a look at producers who make the same genre that you want to produce, and that will help decide. At the end of the day, it doesn't really matter which one you use. I'd also recommend Cubase if you can get it. Personally, I can see my self getting Cubase in the near future.

  • @Deph11s thanks.. I have Fl9 it is ok as far as possibilities and the plug-ins for it.. im new to reason 4.. i may try ableton wen i buy the mpd26

  • my brain is melting trying to figure it all out...aagghhh

  • dude stick with it. learning is hard . but when you do have it learned you can get your music down very very fast . that for me after all this time is practically a miracle. i know you didnt ask for this speech but i love live :)

  • Does it really get easier with practice?

    I come from using a 8 track tape recorder so if you imagine how strange this is for me.

    I just don't 'get' the whole (scenes) thing where you record bits of music then trigger them into a final recording. Im used to sitting there with an instrument for like 3 to 7 min and recording from start to finish.

    Does ableton sync up say a live guitar with a live drum pad recording?

  • @solarwinter86 solar its like making little clips and then joining it all up together by firing them off in sequence (its really really cool check it out). The upshot here is if you have lots of different ideas for different parts of the tune you have them all there in front of you and you can try them all out to see whats best. Its sounds a bit mad but im serious its genious.

  • @solarwinter86 its really simple.. ok you can either A. record dif clips (drum loops...bass lines...lead loops..one shot samples..etc then you trigge rthem on the fly while recording in real time (After you have made all the parts. or B. simply go the arrangement page...pick an audio track..set the inputs to your inst inputs (if using actual inst) and press rec and start recording. So you have two ways of getting your music down.

  • @mynus303 The clips are fun because yu have ALL of your parts there ready to trigger in real time you can basically "jam" with all of your clips.... or you can do it old school and record track by track.(like an old 8 track) understand? if not ask me ive been using logic reason live and pro tools for over 10 years peace

  • @gofman69 lol

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  • Mackie style interface , whole different kettle of fish..Pain in the ass and im familiar with the high end software..

  • I think its geared more towards Djs and rappers.Where as Im more old school style..

  • It really was like trying to get blood (or rather beats! lol) out of a stone.

  • Me too. I'm so sick of people saying how intuitive and easy it is to use. It's just not.

  • @vanzahn I think when people say that, they mean its simple compared to other production programmes.

  • @vanzahn I really don't know what your background is, but compared to a lot of the pro software I've used, this is ,. by far, the most intuitive apps for me anyway. Especially once I tied it to my maudio axiam. Once I had my tracks set, hooked to the keyboard, it was like it didn't exist.

  • @spacer77 i hear comments very much like yours all the time concerning Live and how user friendly it is, but compared to other audio apps i'm familiar with (including hundreds of hours with studio Logic, Fruity Loops Pro, Cakewalk and cuebase) i found it to be utterly unyielding and inflexible. It's bizarre that most feedback concerning this program seems to reflect the opposite of my experience. It's pretty gutting cos i found every stage of it's implementation & use to be an utter nightmare.

  • Van, I'm with you all the way. It's a struggle to do the simplest things on ableton. I want to like it, but I just don't. The workflow is so silly and counter productive.

  • Live is anything but simple....

  • weak song, boring tutorial

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  • Yeah, sure you made that song.

  • @SyvSto yeah, Its way too crap to actually have been made by him. =P

  • @SyvSto Uh, I'm sure he did. It's not hard at all to make music with Live.

  • REally nicee!

  • If interested...I made this song with Ableton, search for:

    "The Inituition - Suddenly She Opens Her Eyes"

  • I just got Live 6 lite for Christmas. I have NO IDEA how to creat a MIDI track. Are there any tutorials out here for a total newbie? I just have a new MIDI keyboard and the software came in the box. Looking to make it work. Thanks

  • dude i took a class in college with one of the worlds' best ableton users as my teachers and ill tell you...its a complicated program for the fact that there are infinite possibilities...but what i will tell you is that you can go online and look up the hot keys and external gear syncing online. knowing the hot keys will help you amazingly much

  • @WynGator check out youtube and search ableton and you can find the Ableton live page on youtube which has a bunch of tutorials that will give you the basics and you can go from there. the basics are pretty straight forward. anything beyond that is up to your imagination

  • wtf O_o !

  • I find this program pretty unintuitive, it bugs me,

  • im thinking about buying ableton but i dont know what i need for it e.g mixers, keyboards can someone help please?:)

  • lOlz im asking the same question ..ill send yu abelton live 8 dont buy it .. wel figure this oUt together when yu get info let me know and when i get some info ill let yu know .. ima add yu as friend

  • i can help you out there. i have an akai mpk 25 and an akai apc 40. you can use any midi controller. i just prefer akai cuz their pretty rugged. i use my mpk 25 to create the clips and the apc 40 to arrange them into a song. check out some tutorials and you'll see what i mean. i could use a copy of ableton though. i only have a trial version. hope this helps give me a shout if you want. be glad to answer any other questions

  • thanks :)

  • let me know how to sent it to you its pretty big in size

  • no its ok man i already bought it but thanks anbyway:)

  • Novation 25SL MkII

  • Its pretty good on its own as a stand alone to be honest, but I use Analogue Factory Experience and Massive as my main plug-ins...

    check out my songs on my channel

  • hi i have the abelton live free trial.. on my mac

    but no instruments come up? what do ido how i get there pleas help

    THANKS

  • lol bro u got to buy it .. try the ableton 6 le its great for starters.

  • RTFM

  • buy full version

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  • lawl. You gon' get busted.

  • In the upper left corner, there is a folder called "Live Device Browser" click it :)

  • Thats some serious Fuckin Elevator music you made for the demo mate Hahaha. Cool tutorial though, I got some good tips and ideas out of this. Thanks. Cheers, IC.

  • ableton looks like it could have alot of potential.. i just hate the look of the arrangement screens.. makes it confusing as hell to follow or understand.

  • @akarc24 it quickly makes sense, trust me i was the same way before i started working with it, then after about a week it makes it even easier than that on like reason or fl.

  • @akarc24 This is an old Ableton. The new one looks a lot, lot better.

  • good clipping..

  • Who says other people made the music? It could be your own loops, created through a midi keyboard for example using the vast array of instruments that ableton includes or a VST instrument for example.

  • Yeah, he is just using the preset audio samples. But you can mostly record your own audio samples into this, or even osulate your own sound from one of the synths. I make all my music from Ableton, only using my own sounds and samples

  • How does Ableton differ from MAGIX music maker software?

  • Ableton's better

  • okay but in what way?

    examples?

  • well it's top rated. more artists use it than anything else. umm.... yeah.

    i think the only other music software that compares to ableton's awesomeness is reason.

    but yeah. everyone just thinks it's better and people just use it more.

  • reason's just a big vst really though

  • reason does not support vst's. so reason is good with the sounds it has, but if you want to add your own vsts...go with something else.

  • and obviously logic pro. but thats only if youtr a mac user, which i'm not, but credit given logic is amazing.

  • hmmm yeah logic/cubase/pro tools are powerful but for me at least the fact that live contains everything you need and its not hidden or clumsy means that its alot better for making music.

    Recording artists or for bigger things logic all the way :D

  • ableton is used by proffesionals

  • ableton is better in making music then just radom loops behind other mixing its and its better 4 life use you got more effect its better in a way to make full songs and its way and way easyer :D enough exsamples ??

  • Yes, it does look more sophisticated than 'music maker' but does it have voice or text to speech in male and female voices to create lyrics?

  • Who the hell uses that for lyrics? :o

  • some one who can't sing :)

  • this guy kinda sounds like Charles Trippy.

  • ableton live is actually really easy to use. Its click, drag instrument, double click a slot for a new clip. Its great!

    I like it better with logic. It works hell of a lot better on pc, butgotta love the macs.

  • if you dont like ableton live, you have not learned how to use it. simple as that. learn it, and learn it WELL. you will fuckin love it.

  • sweet thanks, i got live 6 a few weeks ago i havent installed it yet, cuz i thought it might of been a weak program but now im excited. would native instruments work on here??

  • yea i was wondering the same, if like my microkorg's presets would work on it

  • yea mate native instruments would work a treat with ableton. looking to get komplete 5 myself. pretty pricey though but definatly worth it

  • well said. That applies to everything though, if you don't know how to use it of course you'll think it sucks. I don't use Ableton because it's way confusing. I'm a FL User hehe

  • Beat production wise is Live just as good as Reason??

  • what?