Ableton Automation Hacks YOU NEED TO KNOW!

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6 ай бұрын

Automations make boring tracks come to life 🔥. These Ableton Live hacks will let you do this way easier and faster.
❗️In this tutorial I'm using Ableton Live 12 but the tricks I show you can be done with older versions as well!
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@NACHECHAN 6 ай бұрын

you just changed my life with simplify envelope 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

@Zdrewe 6 ай бұрын

Hahaha I know, that’s the simplest but the most useful trick I learned about 😂

@iszlu 4 ай бұрын

I was thinking the same thing haha

@locksh 6 ай бұрын

Mind blown completely. I sometimes feel like I should go through all the basics for like 2 months straight before attempting anything else. Ableton never ceases to surprise me.

@Zdrewe 6 ай бұрын

Believe or not but after using Live for 6+ years I also discover a few things here and there at least once a month 😂. The version I used here is 12 beta and honestly I barely scratched the surface of things they added

@High.on.Life_DnB 4 ай бұрын

@locksh I feel exactly the same way haha, I already wasted my free 2 months by doing this haha, but I rather learn these tricks first before I get serious

@mrr5835 4 ай бұрын

OMG ive never noticed the "simplify envelope" in the menu. Life saver!

@fooyong 2 ай бұрын

Best automation tutorial ever made!! Nice work dude

@Zdrewe 2 ай бұрын

Thanks! 🙏 glad you like it!

@thedvcor 19 күн бұрын

You really should got more views! Your videeos are amazing!

@bobtronic73 4 ай бұрын

Just what I was looking for. Thx for sharing 🙏

@giedriusnakas5795 6 ай бұрын

amazing, thank you!!!

@danjers77 Ай бұрын

Awesome stuff!

@Zdrewe Ай бұрын

Thanks a lot 🙏

@KillaaTofu 6 ай бұрын

super informative.

@khkx450 4 ай бұрын

Best Ableton Videos by far!

@Zdrewe 4 ай бұрын

Thanks a lot dude 🙏

@mathiasruckert3681 4 ай бұрын

very cool. Thats what im lookin for. Thanks man

@Zdrewe 4 ай бұрын

Glad I could help 🙏

@ingfull1490 6 ай бұрын

its good to see you again bro

@Zdrewe 6 ай бұрын

Means a world man 🙏 it was a wild ride with my short form content this year but 2024 is all about KZfaq gems 😉

@huntingghosts 2 ай бұрын

I recently started using live again after working with Bitwig for the last years. and while a love the design of Ableton as well as the stock plugins, the arranger and the audio and midi-editing always seemed much less intuitive to me than the way Bitwig handles things. Your tips are absolute gold to get up to speed in live. Good luck with your channel!

@huntingghosts 2 ай бұрын

By the way man, I nearly missed your videos because of the clickbaity titles and screenshots. I know its hard to find the favor of the almighty algorithm-god but maybe the sweet spot is a bit toned down. Anyway, godspeed to you

@Zdrewe 2 ай бұрын

I feel like I might need to look up Bitwig and see what’s so cool about it. I always felt like it’s a twin brother of Live. Thanks man 🙏

@huntingghosts 2 ай бұрын

@@Zdrewe A lot of things make much more intuitive sense in Bitwig, to me switching some years ago was really a breath of fresh air, and the modulation options and the grid are insane. But I still find it easier to create good and professional sounding music fast in Ableton. And the color theme of Bitwig is still unattractive to my eyes.

@joramletlora8079 6 ай бұрын

Thanks dude!!

@Zdrewe 6 ай бұрын

No worries man! Glad you enjoyed the vid 🙏

@elretsof1606 4 ай бұрын

Brilliant

@Ivan-Zile 6 ай бұрын

Thanks for sharing, great video.

@Zdrewe 6 ай бұрын

You’re most welcome Ivan! Glad you enjoyed the vid 🙏

@telli6931 6 ай бұрын

Thank you so much

@Zdrewe 6 ай бұрын

You're most welcome! 🫡

@candleman7393 6 ай бұрын

Great tutorial pal, if you want to record automations you can also disarm the track recording

@Zdrewe 6 ай бұрын

Thanks! That’s actually a good one but funny thing is that you can easily disarm track recoding but auto arm selected tracks needs a script (or Push) 😂

@Qzkaaa 3 ай бұрын

Great stuff! Thanks! Could you please tell how to start recording from specific point (e.g. from position of the marker)? At mine it always starts at the beggining ot the project.

@ThemisGeorgoudis 4 ай бұрын

Great video! Thanks!

@Zdrewe 4 ай бұрын

Glad you like it 🙏

@louloup4246 6 ай бұрын

Good !

@lucwall4336 4 ай бұрын

love this guy underrated youtuber fr

@Zdrewe 4 ай бұрын

Would not call myself a KZfaqr since I’m just starting out but really really appreciate that 🙏🙏

@geortz__ 6 ай бұрын

Let’s go🔥😎

@Zdrewe 6 ай бұрын

Can always count on you bro 🤝 (even when I’m clearly offending FL Studio 😂)

@abincshaji7533 6 ай бұрын

Really great video brother, But FL's automation clips aren't ugly as you think, it's so freakin powerful than the ableton's one. U can get so many control over the curves values and also it has a tons of features. I use Ableton Live, Reaper, Cubase & FL Studio but I really like the FL for automation, you can warp the shape from audio, link multiple parameters to same automation clips, you can invert it too. Also there's a lot of articulation tools for manipulating automation. And where have you been in these days?

@Zdrewe 6 ай бұрын

Hahaha honestly bro, it’s just my “inside joke”. I started my production journey with Fruity Loops 7 and been a heavy FL user till 2013. I just don’t like the way how automation clips look in FL 😂. Truth is that you can do pretty much the same in every single DAW, it’s just more or less hidden and accessible. I was posting 3 times a week on IG Reels since my last video here dropped but I decided to finally focus on KZfaq in 2024 and beyond 😉

@ZMGBass 4 ай бұрын

4:40 mapping the filter cutoff to the macro knob would surely be more efficient than duplicating the automation land

@FrankowwYT 4 ай бұрын

Exactly what I was looking for. New Level Opened 😅

@Zdrewe 4 ай бұрын

Glad to hear that! Automations are the key 💎

@JSewellBeats 6 ай бұрын

Welcome back sir

@Zdrewe 6 ай бұрын

The Eagle has landed 🫡 thanks for going though my Ableton Live gibberish J 😅

@ELEKTROGOWK 6 ай бұрын

Groundbreaking!!

@snarlyofficial2423 6 ай бұрын

I see you’ve used this trick and a lot of other people do too but holding ALT and dragging on a modulation gives it a smooth curve as well 🙂

@Zdrewe 6 ай бұрын

Totally forgot to mention that, as well as the fact that you can just press B and draw automation line as fancy and smooth as you want. Thanks for your comment! 🙏

@indonesianraveculture 6 ай бұрын

nice

@Zdrewe 6 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching my man! 🙏🙏

@BassBunnyMusic Ай бұрын

Thank you for the video. Why Are FL automation Clips Bad?

@vivektyagi6848 4 ай бұрын

Now that’s 12 talking 🎉

@Kartaonthemusic 6 ай бұрын

always giving gems 💎💎 welcome back to YT bro

@Zdrewe 6 ай бұрын

Good to see you here as well bro! Thanks for watching 🙏🙏

@HeartWerk 6 ай бұрын

Holy shit. I had to just open Ableton and get my mind blown

@Zdrewe 6 ай бұрын

Our good guy Ableton has a lot of gems under the hood 😎

@kahlaarabbani2907 Ай бұрын

in FL studio you can select the type of automation you want instead of drawing it (like a wave shape), can you do that in ableton? and also how do you link different MIDI patterns say a chord and bass to use the same automation clip?

@Zdrewe Ай бұрын

As I showed in the video, once you right click you can also add predefined curves (shapes). To answer the 2nd question - you don’t need to link anything. Simply copy and paste automation from chords to bass, even for different parameters and effects (I think i also showed this in the video)

@chedeezybeats 6 ай бұрын

What serum skin is that?

@Zdrewe 6 ай бұрын

Look for “Feed Me Serum Skin” 😉

@jaredalvarez890 4 ай бұрын

I do not know what the shortcut is to make the automation lines appear

@Zdrewe 4 ай бұрын

Just click A on your keyboard (but make sure that MIDI to computer keyboard is turned off)

@jaredalvarez890 4 ай бұрын

@@Zdrewe thanks yeah every time I clicked A, it would just play my midi piano

@timtimch1884 6 ай бұрын

Hey. Could you tell me what kind of beautiful skin you used in serum? :)

@Zdrewe 6 ай бұрын

Look for Feed Me Serum Skin 😉

@timtimch1884 6 ай бұрын

@@ZdreweOk, thanks :)

@tamalitogirl 6 ай бұрын

Why 3 midi channels with the same chords, tho? Are they an octave higher or downer?

@Zdrewe 6 ай бұрын

Exactly, plus those are different sounds layered together. Layering like that can be done with Instrument rack with one MIDI signal although I prefer working with separate tracks

@relative_vie 6 ай бұрын

hack but no shaper box..

@Zdrewe 6 ай бұрын

No worries, for a volume automation like that you can use other plugins like LFO tool or even stock Autopan

@cucciolo182 2 ай бұрын

im just waiting to Ableton come with AI tools

@railpressureflip 6 ай бұрын

Nice tutorial. Look up how UI / UX works, maybe you'll realize why Ableton's UX is trash, which ultimately makes using Ableton's automation a pain to use. (I use Ableton primarily also. Don't care how long you've used FL studio.)

@Zdrewe 6 ай бұрын

I’m not qualified enough to dig into UI things but after working in FL, Cubase, Studio One and finally Live I find our DAW the most flexible and fun to use when it comes to automation. Me referring to “ugly automation clips” is actually pure stylistic and workflow choice. Pretty sure there are some hacks and tricks to make it prettier as well as some other DAWs that work more efficiently to someone.