Welcome to the fam 🔥

Started using Ableton only because the tutorials I was watching were using Ableton too. After 8 years of using it, I still haven't even scratched the surface of what it's capable of, because I've stopped exploring further. Thanks for making me see it as a wondrous "toy" again 😄😄

Man, you've learnt so much already in this short space of time. Another inciteful video. DOPE 🔥🔥👌🏾

This is an amazing reaction video. Thank you for posting this. It is brutally honest and refreshing to see.

It’s so fun to watch people enjoy the tools you use on a day to day! Seeing you get the same joy that I got when I first opened it up is the reason I try to get my friends to try different gear, daw, methods. Hopefully you stick around in Ableton lol

In Ableton I like to make my own synths. Not with Max4Live, but rather combining sounds/synths into one. Let's say you want a synth where you can play 3 different kind of sounds at once (eg.: lead, bass and something else in the middle to fill out the space). You can easily make those 3 sounds in the default Operator, Meld, Wavetable synths or any other VST plugin you want. Once you made the first sound, you can actually group itself, and you can add the two next synth instances below. Once I'm done with the sounds, I usually add some post processing and effects, which I then map to macros (you can add as many you'd like!) and hide all the elements. At the end I'm basically left with a great sounding box of parameters without seeing all the other technical stuff! Also once you set up something like this, you can randomize the macros with the "r" button on the top (this also works with drums/sounds inside Drum Rack) so you have endless possibilities. Hope this was interesting and that you will try it out :)

My absolute favourite feature in Ableton is the fact that once I hit A for automation (same as Logic which is helpful), I can hit any parameter inside my plugin or effect and automatically it shows up in the automation lane! It's SO intuitive!!!

Some fun things that I like about/to do in Live: 1. Set an LFO to random and map it to all kinds of different stuff. One really cool one is to map it to the arpeggiator "Type," which will create all sorts of generative-sounding stuff (which you can then resample and pick and choose your favorite bits). 2. Of course, the External Instrument is fun to use with external synths. People have also created synth controllers in Max4Live for a lot of popular synths, so you can automate the knob-twiddling. Sometimes getting the recorded audio to line up correctly can be challenging, though. 3. Just the simplicity of the mixer, - which isn't trying to emulate a hardware mixing console - is great, compared to PT. The way you can just drag and drop tracks into groups, etc., is so intuitive. 4. All of the stock instruments and devices are pretty stellar. I love that they have their own design language so that plugins are easy-to-approach, vs. the skeuomorphic mess of other DAWs.

bro im super glad i found you. your excitement is everything to me. im a studio one guy but love creating in bitwig studio and ableton live. ive been recently trying cubase but naw. cubase is kool but Live 12 is where it is especially after recent update to 12.1 OMG!! It was fun watching you go thru each device testing your sound

I was on Logic for 15 years. I got on Ableton about 2 years ago and it has been the biggest positive changes in my workflow since I can remember. I am constantly blown away by the capabilities of this DAW. Honestly, the session view is what really convinced me. Getting parts down on the fly and mixing and matching phrases and adding fills etc. for arrangements using clips/scenes has been a game changer. Then when I started learning the endless power of Abletons racks it was like a revelation to me.

Love the excitement! I moved from Reason to Ableton years ago and felt the same as you... still feel so pumped every time I open the app up[ (Daily!)

In Logic you can create 'favourite' folders and categorise them. So you can access the plugins you want quickly there too. Just found out the other day :D

Glad you're on the A-Train I literally dropped what you said in this video during a presentation where I introduced Ableton to some students: "You can do everything with anything in Ableton." It actually feels like a philosophical statement. ^_^

FANTASTIC VIDEO, will strart Ableton this week. Also ordering the push, excited!!!

Man, I felt the same way when I switched to Ableton Live 9 around 2015 (I think). I cane from Cakewalk Sonar and jumped ship when it became apparent Gibson who owned Cakewalk at that time were not gonna support it anymore. After making the switch, it just blew my mind - the workflow is better than anything I had tried before. Oh, and I purchased it with Push, and its been incredible. Ive had Push 2 and now 3 standalone, which is an absolute beast haha. There's NOTHING else on the market that can compare to Ableton. You are right - its just FUN, and despite insane flexibility and power, it feels like playing with some magical toy. I can't get enough!!! Great video man, I already checked a few of your videos - I've subscribed, I like your vibe and attitude! Keep up the good work man!

wowzers , this really catched me haha thanks for the video, i felt the same as you when i switched and i will never go back been using live for 11 years now

you said the keyword....MODULAR, cause that is exactly the feeling i had when i started using it, that combined with a push and everything is laid out on the knobs, crazy, making an audio track into a melody midi track or harmony or even drum track ,experimentation is around the corner then, i use live for 10 years or something and i still find new ways to do things.

Hi Alex, I'm a new subscriber, as of this video. I totally relate with you! I'm somewhat new to Ableton as well, but I'm using it as more of an instrument than a DAW. I have Maschine, Ableton and 3 analog synths synced together as separated instruments with mono feeds to Pro Tools. I realize this is a month old & I'm late to the party, but keep making more Ableton videos. I like how you went through it but didn't sit on each point for too long, the flow was good! Cheers from Vegas.

The midi generation and manipulation is amazing. Interfaces brilliantly and easily with external gear also.

there's an effects chain and a drum rack you can use. i think you can use the drum rack as a sampler. i haven't tried it but it should be doable. also you can map almost anything to your keyboard, or to your midi controller. you don't have to go into the settings, mess around, figure out how to create a shortcut, use a key combination that doesn't already exist. you can just press the key or midi map button at the top of the daw, click on something on the screen, click on a button on your keyboard or midi controller, click the key or midi map button to disable that mode. and for the rest of that session, you can use whatever button you pressed to toggle or control that parameter that you selected. almost anything can be mapped.

Great video. You should really explore the Session view as well. The workflow of arranging clips and pairing them up like working with Lego bricks is such a massive game changer on the creative writing stage for me.

Been an Ableton user and supporter for over 15 years now. You'll never go back! Congrats and welcome to the fam!

In really like Ableton, the clip view it’s so useful, and I love the simplicity of how the effects are shown alongside the arrangement. The only thing my brain struggles with it the horizontal fx chain. The FL format of a vertical stack of FX on the mixer just makes more sense to me. Maybe I will revisit it again on the future. I do wish they used a similar model to FL of pay once rather than having to pay for further upgrades, but a minor point.

Just ran across this video and your channel. I will subscribe and look into more of your content. I love your attitude and your energy about music creation. I feel the same way just playing around in Ableton Live and for sometime now I have been wondering about picking up Logic and giving it a go. So far I have resisted as I can't say that I lack anything for music creation within Live -- just curious about Logic and will, still, probably try it out. But in relation to what you asked. I have gotten pleasing results with the Arpeggiator. For one example, I loaded a grand piano (one six-note chord) and placed the Arpeggiator before that and the Random generator before the Arp. I chose "Diverge" for style and played with the Random settings until I got something I liked. Next I added the Autofilter, the Delay and the Reverb and played with those until I was satisfied. Then I added an LFO to modulate various parameters. Lots of fun and in the end a very usable musical result. Don't want to go on too long here, but just to add, besides building Max For Live devices there are lots of incredible free and for-purchase devices out there already. Check out Max For Live devices that are already included in Ableton Live Suite for a start. Since you mentioned the "modular" feel of Ableton eventually check out something like Kit by Fors. They make great Max devices but at a cost. All the best.

Jippi!!🎉 you actually liked Ableton!!! That’s really great to hear!!! I knew you would like it Now you should buy the m4l tool BIP (bounce in place) and Clip gain to get some more tools to make things easier! And also session cleaner and auto track colour! Hope these tools helps!

I tried to get into Ableton many times. It didn't make sense to me. Been a Logic user since 1996 and i can't seem to break away from it. It just makes so much sense to me as a songwriter. I guess if you're more into just making beats and weird sounds then you'd be attracted to Ableton but as a musician who plays actual instruments I find Logic to be unbeatable.

Dope video and welcome to the Ableton fam. Consider this: Ableton has trouble delay compensating within efffect chains. So let's say you have Pro L2 in your chain, introducing latency (shown in the bottom left as ms), if you put a kickstart/shaperbox/lfo tool/tremolator or anything like that after it, the timing will be off. But once you know, you can work around it with midi triggers.

You got me. I subscribed and looking to buy Ableton. I feel you on how it makes you feel like a kid again just toying around. The MPC is fun likewise but in the hardware sense.

The time stretch engine in Ableton is completely nuts!!!...I love it. I can for sure show you some features that will make your head spinn. I am a logic user since 1998 and still are. But i only use it for Mixing.

I used Logic 9 for a while. Was very frustrated with the workflow. I decided just for the hell of it to install a Ableton Live Lite that had come bundled with an audio interface. I worked on that for about 5 minutes and decided to switch DAWS. Eventually got the full version. Been using Live for 10 years now.

I couldn't tell if you were doing this or not, but you can open folders with the right arrow key and close them with the left arrow key. So basically, when you get to the last drum sample, press left arrow to close the folder you are in, press down to the next folder, then press right arrow key and keep browsing.

also around 3:30 i see how your working with it. you may prefer how it is now. but if you want you can right click on the saturation knob plugin for example or somewhere in the browser background of plugins and right click and uncheck group by creator if you prefer all your saturation plugins being in a list for example when you hit saturation.

Great video Bro! I've been using Ableton since version 5 and there's definitely a way that you can save cpu power. And that's by freezing/and or flattening the tracks

Expresion control lets you map (or randomize) any parameter to velocity, Aftertouch, modwheel, etc. Performer, in version 12 lets you create macros across different tracks. Those are the greatest hits for me

And you're still in the arrangement view. For me coming from Cubase and before that Cakewalk and some exposure to Pro Tools the workflow of the Clip View was a seismic shift in how I approached recording and production. Ableton could just do so many things that I had been wishing I could do but didn't know how to - at least on my hobbyist budget. Welcome to the adventure. It is a DAW which seems to have been made for musicians and creators rather than studio techs.

my favorite feature of ableton is the automation hands down it's soooooo simple to modulate parameters in plugins and more often than not ableton labels them correctly, I've been using ableton since 2015 and haven't regretted switching from FL all those years ago, ableton has a funny way of making complex tasks easy and more doable, I find it's like an extension of my body at this point now that I have the shortcuts burned into my brain. I feel like, while ableton isn't the best looking DAW it's not there for looks, it's there to help you get stuff done and I love it cause it doesn't get in my way in the same way that a DAW like Logic or FL Studio would. However, I gotta say I'm not trying to drag these other daws down, at the end of the day it doesn't matter what DAW you use so long as you can do what you want to do in it. The tools don't matter, the DAW is just a means to an end. But I'm glad you gave ableton a fair shot.

You can freeze individual tracks to free up cpu processing power. At the bottom right corner of the Mixer area, toggle Show Performance Impact by clicking the button marked "C." This will show you the CPU usage for each track

I felt the same way when I switched to bitwig (from fl studio) It's really cool seeing your excitement man, it's just fun!

Hopped on at Ver 9! Every record since then has been done in Ableton! I love that program!

Just came to ableton from Studio One and it is like going from a Model-T to a Ferrari. I LOVE it!

Another dope thing about the browser is how when testing your samples in real time as the project plays its automatically warped to the project tempo...so for eg where I make the most of that is a go through drumloops as the project plays and it plays it in sync with project as I scroll through them with the arrow keys...soon as I here one I like then into the project it goes

One Giant Modular synth.. that is it, thats why i love it. and it has a Giant Grove box with Session View. except for bitwig i think this is the only DAW that is really made by the people who Want to use it. it just makes So Much Sense, only people that Love something can do that. We need to demand as much from more products.

Ableton really shines when you start building your own Instrument and Effect racks. By utilizing the chain selector, you can crossfade between different instruments/effects or just use it as a simple selector between different groups. If you need some inspiration for what you can do, Ned Rush, Virtual Riot and Au5 are good sources for really technical stuff that you can do. Perhaps not your main genre they produce but nevertheless, great sources of information and inspiration!

I was here mentally in 2017-18, and moved my production to ableton. Still love logic Pro for recording.. Thats the work flow.. make the beat.. mix it in logic/pro-tools.. done.

I'd share a little convenient thing. If you're not really using session view with it's clip launching - just drag all the track volume faders up, so that it looks more like a mixing view.

...do you have the auditioning mode button activated in the Logic Loop Browser? It should be in the bottom-left corner, like so. First it's disabled, but if clicked on once to enable, it should turn green.

Ableton Live is amazing bro! When I started making beats with it I kinda completely stopped making beats in logic. The interface was kind of off putting at first but when it clicks with u it's over lol. I love that they make hardware too with the Ableton Push which I also love. I don't even really use Logic for vocals anymore because I find UAD Luna is just way better for anything audio related too. You gotta try Luna as well for recording and mixing its amazing. Ive been saying for a longtime that logic needs a massive upgrade to its audio engine bro.

I’ve been using logic for 10+ years. There are so many issues i feel Apple are just not addressing like the browser. Half of my samples don’t even playback because they are too ‘short’ or start too early for logic to process so I have to use the finder to browse presets sometimes. I have the M3 Max 16 core Mac Pro with 2Tb so all my samples and sounds are stored locally - but I still run into issues and buffering and clipping when one of the processing cores peak. For some reason, they only allow us to use some of the cores for logic. They need to unlock the full potential of the computer! 😀

Switched to live when my fl studio crashed and I couldn't recover my project. Live just recovers everything after a crash ,which is rare, and you just continue from where you left off.

I love how Logic is still called 'Logic'. Some of the workflow is the most unintuitive activity you're ever likely to do on a DAW. A long-term Logic user, I grudgingly attended a Live demo/tutorial at my uni. I was making beats before the end of the session, and within 6 month's of that I'd released 3 albums. It's not just for electonica stuff, either; i'm currently using it for orchestral composition for TV/film. Live is awesome. It could do with a default RTZ, and zooming is a bit quirky, but otherwise I have no issue with it. Great vid, by the way - sub'd. I often try and ween my students away from Logic onto Live. This vid will really help with that, so thank you!

Ableton is a great DAW, really amazing. The look of it is the only thing that I don't love about it. All Abletons Racks is where it is at for me. The Audio Effect Rack (for parallel FX/processing) and Drum Rack (so many possibilities within it, it's nuts), the Instrument Rack for multi layer instruments (also nuts).

You need to get yourself a Novation Launchpad or one of the Akai APC's and use it to control Ableton's session view, serious serious creative fun! 👌

I went to Abelton from Logic Pro 4 years ago… I haven’t been back🤷🏾‍♂️.. for creatives (imo) Abelton fun man.. Good Stuff!!! U get it

i love how ableton lets you rip grooves, and rip melodies and chords into midi 😍

Wow. I feel you on the browser. I just check my browser in reason 12 and i can move just as fast. Reason 13 has an even faster browser. Speed = More fun to a producer

Full screen piano roll = Command + Option + E

I love jumping between Logic, Ableton, Maschine and MPC....but when it is time to get work done I am never more productive than when I am using Ableton. I've even learned how to track vocals in Live 12 to the point where I don't find myself ever having to leave unless I am looking for a different experience.

Cool video, thank you. How easy is it to switch work flow and tool knowledge from logic to Ableton? I’ve only got 3 years in Logic and not sure my brain can handle learning new tools and DAW layout.

Dude u gotta try Ableton live with the Push!!! Wld love to see what u do with it. They r rlly easy to get ur hands on a secondhand one as well but the latest version is at 3rd generation I think!

Just purchased LOGIC PRO 11.0.1, the browser file sound lag issues that you mention in the video are not present, time for an update?

You gotta try the LFO device and Shaper device, game changers

Yes. And Cubase’s Media Bay is so fast with thousands of thousands samples too. I have to say, this is the best flexible sample content browser I've ever seen. Wish I had this in Ableton and Logic. :(

haha I feel the same way as you with logic, its just not as fun but I have it mastered. I usually use Ableton as my sample library folder and scroll though sounds there and just import them to logic, but I I might give it a go to make some ideas there and then import them to logic for mixing

I really want to try out Ableton, but I’ve never had any experience of it at all. I use Logic myself. Is it an easy enough transition? I record a lot of Bass / Guitar, and use hardware synths and Maschine + Komplete Kontrol as well as working strictly within the Daw. Ableton seems like it integrates better with hardware as well as just being a wicked Daw.

What I really struggle with: I love the Logic Instruments. There are endless Synths, keyboards, strings, etc. I‘ve never found the same quality in Ableton. What is your experience?

As a Mac user, I started making beats with Ableton Live, but for some reason, But I see alot of people using FL studios and it seems if you want a certain sound, you can't get in AL but in FL. Is this true?

You can change your theme to a dark one. Once you do it's hard to go back to original. Also try Echo as a delay option too, it is a something.

Maaaan saaaame..never looked back🎉7 yeaars now

Ableton is the best DAW for creation out there! Great video but this just scratches the surface of what Ableton can do! The great thing about it is no 2 people will use it the same! Just an amazing program! 👊🏾👊🏾

You mentioned how you would mix in Logic and make beat in Live, same concept here. I got stagnated in Studio One when it comes to "out of the box" creative vibes. So for me it's mixing in S1 hands down but Live 12 for the beat making. Yes indeed.

I've struggled to use Ableton, I've tried, spent a lot of money on it and gone on classes to learn it. But whilst it makes sense as such to use I can't translate its workflow to the music I make. It's mainly around the behaviour of the mixer, sends, busses. Every track seems to be a linear string of source + FX so you have loads of tracks. I'd always have sends to common FX and automate those bus tracks. I know all of this is possible with Ableton but all the tutorials, such as this one where it talks about how amazing it is never look at the bits of the DAW that are the bits that I'd want to look at. It's just 'this send adds a bit of reverb', cool, that's not what I'd be using them for. I think the main issue is that when you decide on a DAW one upon a time and learn it, you become comfortable and know where everything is, key combinations, how to achieve the thing you're after without thinking about the UI, you just do it. Then you decide to use a different one and suddenly you're learning the controls all over again, nothing is in the same place or behaves the same so it gets in the way of extracting the music from one's head into sound.

Yeah huge creative playground. Love Bitwig and Reason too. In fact I own all DAWs because they force me to work differently in good ways. LUNA, Logic, FL, Studio One, Cubase, PT, Gadget, Maschine FUN Tools

Check out the Euclidean sequencer in Ableton

lol this is weird to me because never before have I ever considered changing from Logic. But I SWEAR YOU HAVE ME WANTING TO LEARN ABLETON RIGHT NOW AND I JUST WOKE UP!!!!

I hate the look of Ableton but the workflow is second to none and its stock sounds are great. The fact that the EQ, dynamics and effects are open and visible on each track massively speeds things up and the range of effects is staggering. I’m an M1 Mac user and Logic runs well albeit with its quirky glitches. Sadly, I’ve had many problems with Ableton which seems to crash regularly and I often have to go hunting for a track in Finder because Ableton has lost the link to it (my most stable platform is Reason). Good luck with your journey and I look forward to hearing the results.

I went from Garageband (using built in loops like a clown), to Reason (felt like a different language), to Logic (which felt cumbersome), then once I took the time to Learn Ableton, it all clicked, and all the other DAWs made sense after that aswell.

Doing Parallel stuff in a FX Rack on the same track is probably my favourite.

The browser in Logic is the thing that makes me go ballistic! So many updates and i still can’t monitor a loop properly together with the master loop that i work on. So frustrating 😢

Abletons CPU meter isn't showing total CPU usage they have a explanation on the website but its long, something to do with resources to process blocks of audio or something

Thank you. Someone finally speaks

as an ableton user who abandoned Logic Pro 6 years ago... this brought back fond memories of exploring this DAW for the first time

I switched to Ableton during the covid lockdowns after 15+ years Logic. I haven't touched Logic anymore since and I am way more productive.

Don't sleep on the envelope follower device. Also creative extensions is a must have ableton pack for me.

I’m a logic user and just started producing house but thinking to switch to Ableton.. I’m just unsure because I like the mixing and mastering features in Logic. On top of that learning a new daw! Was it easy to learn for you?

the best features are its audio warping. drop a song samp on a track. then drop another on a second track and its perfectly tempo synced

I am wondering, +70% CPU? What Mac do you have? I never get to 70...

Thank you

I think that Ableton caters to a certain demographic of genres of music.. Not sure if a Country Rock musician or Jazz muso would use it… but maybe I’m wrong Are you using an external HD to operate Ableton ?

You should give Bitwig a try too. It is arguably a bit less feature rich due to being younger than Ableton, but it is functionally very similar. Bitwig also does modulation/automation/and audio editing better than any other DAW out there imo. I use them both and would say Ableton has a bit more to offer in terms of traditional DAW functionality and native effects, but find Bitwig to be even more creatively fulfilling than Ableton and if I am going for a non-linear approach, it is the one I reach for more often now

YES!!! I’ve been saying for a while that Ableton + Max is like a modular synth. Completely agree

Yeah man. I've been in Logic Pro for over 5 years and hated Ableton. Tried Ableton lite hated it so much. After awhile I kept watching tutorials and most were in Ableton and that's when I started to really see their plugins and finally realized I should just get it because it seems if you want to make electronic music then you need Ableton or FL Studio. I got Ableton last October in time to get the free update to 12. Now I'm sitting here wondering why I didn't just get Ableton from the beginning. It's Ableton's workflow that makes it so superior too, everything makes sense. If you're out to make electronic music working with samples and midi then Ableton is the best way to go. Logic just isn't that great for midi even though they're practically similar in so many ways. Not to mention Max for live devices and the fact that you can get into making your own plugins is the sprinkles and cherry on top. I absolutely LOVE Ableton Live. I call it Ableton even though it's actually called Live.

ableton and FL are dancing all over logic for production right now

I have no problem in the browser in logic, I just hit the down/up arrow and immediately hear the the sound.

People like to say that they prefer Ableton because it has better workflow, better creative plugins, better browser etc. But I don't believe it's any of those reasons why people enjoy it so much. There is something almost magical about Ableton or perhaps how the audio engine processes sound and timing. You can suck at making music and somehow, no matter what you throw at Ableton, the results are musically convincing. In some way, the melodies sound better, the beats groove almost effortlessly. Imo, It's the most forgiving DAW for those who lack musical talent. After many years of using both logic and Ableton, I cannot figure out what it is. In logic, you gotta work much harder to get something going that sounds good. I'm a happy logic user, but if I ever wanted to impress someone with a quick beat, I'd most definitely fire up Ableton. German voodoo.

Live looping is also amazing in ableton, give it a try!

Thanks for sharing bro !! Spot on analysis... I downloaded the trial and was blow away just by the way the algorithms sounded. I like the simplicity of Logic Pro sounds but it sounds weird and honky and to make matters worse, it sounds more weird the longer you work and your groove dies the time you are ready to master your track. Logic Pro 11 is better but it still has bugs in CoreAudio. In all fairness, I am still on intel... Maybe they have fixed the issues with the M chip architect... I am going to spend some time learning Live and other DAW's, I am done with Logic LOL. I hear that Studio One and Cubase smoke Logic Pro, have you tried them?

id love to see what you think about mixing in Luna vs logic. Luna sounds so good and just feels so much better for mixing imo.

Hell yea I watch if you make Ableton vids

I am on Studio One but have been considering Ableton for a little as Studio One has grown a touch stale... Would you recommend Ableton over Studi One?

I just couldn't agree more with the things you say about Logic.