Ableton Tutorial: Collect all & save with freezing tracks to send your set

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Learn how to use the collect all and save function, freeze tracks, and use the Dropbox service to send your set to a collaboration partner. Vespers, Certified Ableton Trainer, Vancouver, BC, Canada. http://www.vespers.ca http://www.facebook.com/vesperspage http://www.twitter.com/djvespers http://www.soundcloud.com/vespers

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[RoboticusMusic]

I'm confused as to what the standard protocol is for freezing your files to send audio out for mastering. Mostly what to do about send channels. How do you make everything play nice?

[DJVespers]

@RoboticusMusic Hey mate. You don't need to do this for mastering. For mastering you just send out a single stereo render of the master bus. The only reason to do this is to send your tune to someone else for collab or mixdown. Cheers!

[DJVespers]

@RoboticusMusic Hey mate. What you're talking about is not mastering. Mastering is only done on a "master" out. Any work done on an individual track/stem/bus level is called mixdown, or possibly component mastering. I highly recommend that you do your own mixdowns. If you don't feel they're good enough, get some coaching. Doing mixdowns is an essential skill of any producer. You can't freeze return tracks.

[mrsquidge007]

does this work with live 7? iv collected and saved all and had the option of which files to save but once saved i dont find the little folder with all the samples etc inside it? iv looked every where on my mac????

[DJVespers]

@mrsquidge007 Hmmm. Not sure. It's been so long since I've used Live 7. Contact tech support and I'm sure they can help ya. All the best!

[SitchkoIgor]

Thanks

[chicagogrooves]

Very well done, and nicely demonstrated- thanks !

[jeremyfonseca7]

@DoctorIncredible Thanks for your reply! If i do that im gonna have a parallel compression which is not something that i want all the time. Abelton sometimes can be really stubborn..ughhh! Besides im having all sorts of issues with live being really flaky with my waves plugins.. so i have to resort to using Logic Pro now.

[DoctorIncredible]

i think the solution here is to run things to bus channels. e.g., run your kicks into a bus channel and apply the compressor to the BUS channel, not the source audio (sampler, impulse, instrument, etc). this will allow you to freeze the audio but still apply the compressor (to the frozen audio which is going to a bus channel)

confirm @DJVespers ?

BUSSING is a very very useful tool anyway which I have learned from other tuts... helps to organize things and makes mixdown simpler too.

[DoctorIncredible]

@daydream1nc i think the solution here is to run things to bus channels. e.g., run your kicks into a bus channel and apply the compressor to the BUS channel, not the source audio (sampler, impulse, instrument, etc). this will allow you to freeze the audio but still apply the compressor (to the frozen audio which is going to a bus channel)

confirm @DJVespers ?

[TheFishWalking]

@daydream1nc record it real time! ;)

[ScissorHand26]

I liked the little bit of geek rage at the beginning lol.

"lazy bastards watching sports when they could be creating music"

[wrathallll]

Hello, can i save a set on my friends pc and export it to ableton on my mac???

[jeremus1979]

Best tuts on the tube...hands down. This guy is bleeding-edge no Bullshit. Excellent, jumping on mailing list for sure. Only thing is managing freeze files and referencing them back to a project is a bit of a bitch, but i'm sure will be worked out in Live 9. Logic deletes the freeze files automatically, but flatten is so winning. ;)