Ableton Live Tutorial - Turn Any Sound Into a Pad!

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Please note: I had this video on Youtube for a long time but I replaced it with this version because I wanted to clean up the editing a bit. This was the first tutorial I ever did, so the sound and delivery are definitely not representative of my more recent free tutorials as well as the ones I sell at my site. Regardless, I chose to keep the video up because the previous version has gotten a lot of positive feedback and people seemed to be learning from it.

Here's the description:
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In this video, I take the sound of my thumb moving around on the microphone (shure sm57) and turn it into an atmospheric pad sound.

The most important step in this process was scanning through the recorded sound and setting the loop points in such a way that the source sound became more interesting. After that, things like filters, envelopes, FM, etc. can be applied to really give it life. All manner of found sounds contain individual waveforms that are far more exotic and complex than the basic waves found in synthesizers. Sometimes this is desirable, sometimes it is not. I will continually revisit this theme in my future videos.

Category:

Howto & Style

Tags:

• ableton live
• sampler
• found-sound
• microphone
• pad
• ambient
• experimental
• abstract
• sound-design
• video tutorial
• nickstutorials