10 Ableton Tips Tricks I Wish I'd Learnt Earlier

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As music producers I think we're always learning new techniques but today I thought I'd bring you 10 Ableton tips tricks that I really wish I'd know earlier! These are simple tricks, options and settings that just make your life easier and they'd have been really handy to know when I was first starting out with Ableton.
00:00 - Intro
00:25 - A is for Automation
01:13 - Exporting Stems
02:07 - Ableton Packs
03:37 - EQ Eight
04:14 - Sidechaining Auto Filter
06:14 - Mono Bass
07:42 - Zoom/Scale
09:00 - Save Your Eyes
10:06 - Be gone overview!
10:36 - Setting Presets
12:02 - Copy to Siblings
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@tongchop2170 Жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing your tips. The biggest one for me that took almost two years before I started using it is Collect All and Save. Sharing projects has never been simpler.

@Epp638 10 ай бұрын

Great reminder to keep the lowend of the bass in mono

@CeruleanAscent 3 жыл бұрын

Been using Ableton every day for a year now - there's some gold in this short video. Liked and subscribed. Thank you. 😁👍

@DirtySecretz 3 жыл бұрын

I've been using it for years and still finding stuff lol

@CeruleanAscent 3 жыл бұрын

@@DirtySecretz it's an incredible tool. As soon as I started using it I was converted. So many infinite possibilities...so many very straightforward things to overlook 🤣🤣🤣 - keep up the good work amigo 👍

@lateralshiftmusic Жыл бұрын

The sidechaining one is really cool I had no idea you could do that with non compressor plugins!

@kd4379 3 жыл бұрын

I've seen, read, heard many different individuals providing tips, tricks, tutorials etc and I must say that you consistently provide clear, concise and easy to follow information that does not leave out the little details that many individuals gloss over because they may feel that it is common knowledge or in the manual. I appreciate you taking the time to share your knowledge and experience. I know it is hard work to edit all of clips to provide this content. Thank you. As a side note: Thinking about how people gloss over the details reminded me of some mechanic shows on TV many years ago where they would start a project then after the commercial the engine or whatever they were building was complete and they stated "there you have it!" And you like wait! Whoa! What about showing me the process so that my questions are answered! Haha but I digress. Thank you again. I look forward to your future content.

@DirtySecretz 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you! A lot of people say I talk too much but I’d rather give more information than not enough because you never know what level people watching are at 😊

@JoshSource 2 жыл бұрын

14 minutes and 16 seconds of pure 🤯🤯🤯

@hywelmaslen6840 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much - especially the export tip!

@themattschulz3984 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much ... very valuable stuff

@darrenhirst9900 2 жыл бұрын

This is Top Gear for music. Brilliant.

@pedromanafaia 3 жыл бұрын

Loved it thank you!

@thecraiginator 3 жыл бұрын

Great tips, thanks!

@CHdz 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for this tips! I didn't know some of them

@djbonne1 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks friend, the autofilter side chain is great

@xdomm951 Жыл бұрын

Wowzers! Such simple awesome tips, nice one mate

@peacefulpigeon7254 2 жыл бұрын

Brilliant thanks!

@mariakotyza3432 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you

@MosDev__ 3 жыл бұрын

sick intro footage, also loving your recent tipps, learnt few new things !

@fabriceoze 3 жыл бұрын

Thank You Richie !

@trishnavmixing4779 Жыл бұрын

I have been using ableton for 2 months and I already know these, thought it would be more rare

@DJURI 2 жыл бұрын

Another good one Dirty Secretz, thank you

@AdrianGeorges Жыл бұрын

Very cool Information well explained. Good work and useful.

@skitrowproductionz3286 Жыл бұрын

Great tips.

@AngeloBetrulas Жыл бұрын

Thanks, excellent video. Exactly the type of experienced knowledge us beginners find vital.

@hendrajames1 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for this video. Just started using Ableton a year. This is really good. Cheers :)

@ildafons Жыл бұрын

Liked and subscribed right away...

@AMMixes15 2 жыл бұрын

Great Tips video

@Nucrise 3 жыл бұрын

Good tips. This overview bar that I always drag down by accident that is over! Thanks.

@mrcozzo 3 жыл бұрын

very good tips ! thanks ;-)

@evelic 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you.

@tingod2007 3 жыл бұрын

Best tutorials online, also watching you on Sonic Academy, thank you

@DirtySecretz 3 жыл бұрын

You’re welcome, glad you enjoyed them!

@piercethebrii 2 жыл бұрын

thanks for these!! idk why you don't have more subscribers, your videos are great, v useful :) i hope you continue making content ♥

@dotsunmoon Жыл бұрын

I saw the first one and was like I know these! Nope! Thanks!

@forsale313 3 жыл бұрын

THANKS

@thecalver 3 жыл бұрын

Top Tips Ritchie - some gold dust there ! The stems, colour setting snd drum rack sibling changes had no idea . great stuff. PS am enjoying your SonicAcademy big room house course ;)

@DirtySecretz 3 жыл бұрын

Awesome glad you’re liking it!

@rx456 3 жыл бұрын

for autodilter you need to change it to highpass for it to work with a kick

@marioochoa Жыл бұрын

Great video keep it up! What is that stand you are using for the Elektrons?

@DirtySecretz Жыл бұрын

Thanks! I think it was a random Ebay find, I don't think it was made specifically for Elektron stuff (I'm using it for my AS-1 & NI keyboard at the moment)

@gusbonani Жыл бұрын

1:25 Still exporting the stems "solo" is the best way as it also exports them with their effects sends. And it is, in my opinion, the best way to process them. Exporting with Ableton the individual stems, it is faster but it exports each send channel as a separate channel with all the effects wet all mixed. for example all the sounds affected by a reverb at the same time in a single channel, impossible to compress or process correctly. Maybe there is another way to achieve the same thing and that is not exporting in "solo" channel by channel

@slingshot_uk Жыл бұрын

I do it by selecting (NOT Soloing) my grouped tracks... CTRL/CMD + Left-click on each Group Track header... then, in the export window Track Render drop down, choose 'Selected Tracks Only'. Then I start a new project, import my stems, drag in the Return Tracks from the old project and re-apply the send levels. Or you can repeat the process but on each of the Group outputs, choose 'Sends Only' before selecting and exporting (also possible to export the Sends Only in the Track Render drop down). Then you'd end up with your dry stems (with any inserted group fx processing) and separate send fx stems. Also, you can select any combination of individual tracks, grouped tracks and nested grouped tracks.

@Gem-Ex 2 жыл бұрын

Knew most but not all tips. Cheers :)

@chrispysaid Жыл бұрын

Hey nice mic, looks a lot like mine

@tdav15 3 жыл бұрын

Hi, what does oversampling do when enabled on the EQ8?

@DirtySecretz 3 жыл бұрын

Basically it’s like a ‘high quality’ setting for the EQ, however it does then use more CPU

@tdav15 3 жыл бұрын

@@DirtySecretz okay nice one thank you.

@LUAS2100 2 жыл бұрын

Nice video man Id on the song in the intro??

@DirtySecretz 2 жыл бұрын

It’s a track I have in the works for a new alias that I’m launching later this year

@mimipie 2 жыл бұрын

6:30

@sleepisoptional Жыл бұрын

tip #2 - just set up stems in your mix template and record em in one pass. make duplicate tracks of your groups, put em into record mode, muted, input only mode. should be part of any template

@DirtySecretz Жыл бұрын

Good tip, yes this is something I put into my template earlier this year

@slingshot_uk Жыл бұрын

Or just select (NOT Solo) the stems (Grouped tracks) you want to export (CTRL/CMD + left click on each grouped track header) and then choose 'Selected tracks only' in the Render Track drop down menu of the export window.... no need to waste time and extra CPU/RAM resources by realtime recording duplicates of what's already available to export. Render any Send fx separately in order to still be able to mix their levels later on, or drag your stems + return tracks (saved in your old project and accesible through the browser) into a new project and re-apply send levels... that way you can still tweak any send fx settings you want. This works with any combination of individual tracks, grouped tracks and even nested grouped tracks (Groups within Groups).

@jon1979roma 2 жыл бұрын

How do you add an effect on all tracks without dragging it in individually? Thank you

@DirtySecretz 2 жыл бұрын

There isn't really a way to do that, although you could group the tracks you want and then apply the effect to the group or if it's all tracks, the master.

@slingshot_uk Жыл бұрын

@@DirtySecretz adding an insert effect on grouped tracks is not the same as adding an insert effect on individual tracks e.g. If you were to add a compressor with the same settings to 5 individual tracks, those compressors would work as expected. However, if you grouped those 5 tracks and inserted a compressor on the group, you're gonna get very different results. As mentioned in the video... this is where saving effect presets helps a lot. If you find you're wanting to add the same basic effects chains to each track (i.e. EQ>Compressor>Saturator or whatever) then you can group the effects and save as an Effect Rack, with lots of benefits for setting up custom macro controls. Or, if you find that you're always setting up a track with exactly the same effects chains, you can set it up once and then Right-click on the track header > Save as default Audio/Midi track. Then every time you add an audio or midi track, it will insert your default one. You can reset your default track by inserting a new one, deleting the effects and re-saving as the default.

@shapeshifter8986 3 жыл бұрын

M is the shortcut to turn off midi keyboard

@slingshot_uk Жыл бұрын

@Dirty Secretz... Great video! I've added a few replies on comments below, not wishing to dis what you had said in response, but just to say there were other ways or simpler methods etc. One tip I didn't know... hit A for automation on/off! :D