Deconstructing Beats with Ableton Live [english] (by Zettt)

Use Legato function in Live to make cool beats.
How to:
- Make a clip
- Make variations of this one. (as many as you can)
- Set Quantization to none and turn on legato for these clips
- Have fun!

Category:

Howto & Style

Tags:

• ableton
• live
• zettt
• audio
• howto
• tutorial
• music
• decon

[Musiccalculater]

interesting methods here.

very cool , that trick has sum major potental .

question ........ and dont look at me like im a noob ,,, how do u automate the transpose knob !?!?!?!?!?!?!!?

[Zettt1981]

Go to clip automation and select transpose there...

[MargerineEclipse]

Only thing I can't do is the play it in reverse because I'm using ableton 5 though :/

[Zettt1981]

You could use an external sample editor and reverse your sample there, save it as a new file and import it back into live...

[Licktheunderside]

your videos help me greatly, looking forward to seeing more ! thanks !

[Zettt1981]

In the future - give me time ;)

in the last few weeks i got so much work to do. *argh*

But ... thanks!

[csselement]

Rad. Thanks for doing a translated version.

[djspark972]

Legato is the answer... Thank you very much !

[djshaun08]

Thanks for the sharing this wonderful technique!! Pretty helpful for those who use Ableton for Live performances or for dj'ing

[zappa242]

Great tips! Thanx :)

[Pikkiomania]

really useful! thank you!! :))

[SetantaCovenant]

Sheer genius!  Thanks much for translating. :)

[skelta63]

thanks mate

[blackfrancis33]

Of all the ableton live tutorials i have seen, that is by far the most usefull. Thank you