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Sub & sidechaining techniques for Ableton Live 8 part 1- key and timing

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Uploaded by on Jan 4, 2010

These tutorials are for Ableton Live 8 but the techniques can be replicated in most modern sequencers

They are also donationware so please donate something if you have found this video to be of some educational value.

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Part 1: Key and timing

will teach you:

- how to detect the key of a kick drum
- how to create a sub bass line in the same key
- overall side chaining for the sub bass
- specialist tips for the Ableton Live compressor when used for external side chaining

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  • Thank you for all of your tutorials!!!!!! They are in-depth and the most helpful I have come across thus far. When my employment situation improves, I will certainly donate because IT IS WORTH EVERY POUND!

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  • @rinotah "insight"...you said "deep inside". Lol.."deep...inside", but too no time to laugh about it now.

  • @zawmbees As best as I can explain it...sidechaining is telling the program to recognize the peaks or hits of a kick or whatever you choose to sidechain, so that another parameter of a different instrument can be altered by that peaking. In this instance, the kick's peaks are sidechained so that a steady sub-bass can be played in the background & it's volume will decrease as soon as the kick hits. This way, the sub-bass & kick don't drown eachother out in the mix.

  • I still don't get what sidechaining does...

  • Absolutely beautiful tutorial... LOVE how you get into detail about every parameter!

  • cheers mate, very useful tutorial, my kicks always seemed to clash with my basslines, now i know why ;-)

    quick question, i presume that the auto filter is used only to allow you to match the kick and sub bass frequencies?? and therefore is deleted after this is achieved? otherwise it completely screws my kick drum to sound nothing like the way it was (and how i wanted it to sound!) before.

    thanks again

  • Nice tutorial! What headphones r u using mate? Cheers

  • very helpfull

    Peace

  • the first video with deep inside and competent presentation 2 this matter - congratulation! +

    THANX

  • Great video!

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