Just doing what I can for the community! Thanks for checking out the video!

I have to say, I have been using Ableton since version 8 and I think I got so used to some of it's user unfriendly bits that I didn't even put much thought into it and had figured out my own workarounds. I am glad I ran into this video specially for the LES feature. Thanks!

Yo these are legit GREAT tips man! Really appreciate it

Bruh..didnt expect this video to deliver. Nicely done. Gonna add these to my workflow👌

Been working in Ableton for a long time and these tips are truly life changing! Just wanna point out that single and multiple audio track fading can be done in stock Ableton with the command CTRL + ALT + F, not quite sure what that would be on Mac

I might be a real nerd, cos I thought all of these were common sense. Haha Couple of tips: 1. There is a shortcut for fades: opt + cmd + F 2. You can actually map keys commands in ableton without using keyboard maestro: go to Mac prefs > keyboard > shortcuts > applications > add ableton to it and then type in any command from dropdown file dropdown menus EXACTLY as it is written and you can have key commands for everything 3. Keyboard maestro, you can automate a bunch of processes with it that would usually take ages, I made macros on it to pretty much replicate the Cubase render vst commands: one key command to render the midi track to audio but carry over the audio effects, like if I don’t want print the compressors and EQs yet. Obviously all these things aren’t as smooth as having it all inbuilt, but it’s cool that ableton is so maleable to different use cases.

Firstly, phenomenal video, the tips you gave were great, thank you! I just wanted to point out that in the audio clip's window itself, you are able to automate pitch changes by clicking on the envelopes tab and selecting transposition. Now I'm well aware that something like melodyne can do so much more to really hone in on cent pitch values, but just wanted to point this ableton feature because with some creativity, it often yields surprisingly good results for pitch shifting.

All of these tips are so helpful. Thank you so much!

Man! Mind blowing stuff! Thank you! More crazy tips like this would be a bless ;)

As a Cubase + Ableton user, Cubase has most of these features built in. Note pad, record arm by selection, device slots, and obviously you can program any key commands easily without any external stuff. Ableton has its own strengths too of course

Great video bro, helped a lot!

Bonkers helpful, man. Thank you so much!

Thanks dude for the info it has helped me a lot. Good luck.

LES is absolutely awesome. I use it to organize my plug-ins the way that is meaningful to me - which has helped my creativity massively . The other tips are excellent, thank you

Great great great tutorial!! Very valuable info!

Truly amazing stuff, thank you so much!

Great tips ! 🙌🏾🙏🏾

Good video man! Subscribed!

Excellent suggested tools and tricks!

Epic video mate! Thankyou so much

Been so frustrated every time I click something in Ableton 11, and I know it does way more than I am [currently] tapping into. Your video gives so many great tips!

Thanks so much! Subbed! 🔥

Bro……. You are a G . Thank you so much for this video , this is gona be a game changer for me . I can t thank you enough!

Incredible video! Thanks

Fantastic tips. Thank you. Truly.

This video should have way more views! Thanks for sharing, man 🙌

This was so dope. Thank you!

Subbed best video I've watched on time saving

Superuseful. All the best in creation!

Thank you! Some really great and helpful suggestions here. Just subscribed ;)

The enable arm on selection thing is gold.

These were so helpful, hope you will do a part 2 to this video some day

@14:00 in case you havent found out yet: There are macro-keyboards specially designed to do what this maestro software does, but without interfering with your normal keyboard. I have a 4x4 (16key) macro keyboard with all kinds of Ableton shortcuts. It's quite cheap, ranging from 20 to 40 Euros.

Great info! Thank you !

With the last tip, you could get a programmable keyboard and then make the button combos more complex so that when you type in a normal fashion, it's not detected because you create a distinction between typing C (when your naming something) while having a command key typed out as CCCCCC etc.

Thanks for exposing me to LES!

Dude, this is such a great video, I can't believe you're giveing away all this great knowledge and the videos only got 3 views. You deserve more bro!

Best video about ableton so far!!!!!🎉🎉🎉

Appreciate all the tips! Thanks, Post Malone

LES is amazing. I am hoping Ableton will someday integrate this natively but it works really well as is. Been using it for a few years now and I would miss it in my workflow if I stopped using it.

Bro , this is awsome

The last tip is dope. It’s worth mentioning that Mac has an in-built feature of assigning any shortcut to any option available in the menus of a program. It’s in the max settings.

Bro!!!! Blessed for the tutorial. Big...big info.

Thanks, very handy stuff .

Great video, for the problems with keyboard maestro, I haven't used it myself but it looks like the action "Pause Until" could solve that. Another way to go about this is a second keyboard with all of your macros, which can be super nice but desks get cluttered enough as it is as producers

Thank you my dude

Wtfffff I needed this video ages ago!

Thank you for this video

Great video!

Good tips dude

outstanding! thank you

Tremendous tips in this video. I will use every single one. Outstanding brother thank you. Man, I always wished Ableton had an audio editor like Reason's because Reason has a great one and I dont like using Melodyne as a plugin so this is amazing.

Incredible video thank you brother 🤟🏻🤟🏻

you the man bro

Enjoyed your video. I also had the same issue with creating hot keys or mapping certain features. A while back I came across a video where one producer had opted to use a gaming mouse for working with Ableton. Obviously there are many different styles on the market with different configurations of mapable buttons. I currently have a gaming mouse with 16 buttons that I can program to perform tasks with a simple click of my mouth where my fingers naturally rest. As well as button sequencing or chording as they call it. Like when I'm editing vocals and need to delete all of the space in between vocals kind of like gating, instead of left click hold and drag across a section you want to delete then let go of the button then right click then select delete or hit delete on the keyboard, by way of button chording I can left click drag and select the section I want to delete while still holding the left mouse button I simply tap the right mouse button and it deletes it. Super Time saver. I will say however I think 16 buttons is a bit much, but you can also map different things to these buttons such as your overall computer volume or by pressing one of the buttons it will launch Ableton, or open your email and a bunch of different things. I find it to be a lot easier than having to take my hand off the mouse to do a keyboard shortcut when I can simply move my finger do a different button on the mouse. It's basically like a program in your hand. Side note is that programming the buttons can often times be confusing or at least was for me but after you get used to button programming it's a great tool for audio production. Keep in mind also that you can program a regular mouses buttons as well. Download the program "xmouse button control". It's free and like I said it will work with a regular mouse as well. The button chording formula that I did for the feature where while holding left click you tap right click and it deletes which I have affectionately named #leftclickdelete is my own formula. Which believe me took me in excess of 2 days to figure out how to make it happen. I couldn't find anything detailing how to get the same effect, therefore it was a whole bunch of trial. But now that I have it I absolutely absolutely love it! Let me know if you need the formula. I really should do a video on that.. anyway thanks again. I've been working with Ableton for 18 years and with music in general for 23 years. A couple of those tips I was aware of, but there was definitely useful information there. Good job I'll share your link hopefully you get more views... P.S. I was happy to see the part about the option text file. It reminded me about how to change how tracks are armed cuz I do how Ableton defaults it. And it's such a waste of time to have to select arm tracks

Dude, bro, sir,: thanks you! Great info!

don’t know about you, but my ableton is already the GOAT daw😳

such a good video!

Wow ! Thanks for sharing !!!

this was pretty neat. thanks

That Arm with selection option is perfect to use ableton live as a looper audio!

I am your thousandth subscriber

Hey man thanks for sharing these cool tips. Do you know if there is a way to you VCA faders like in logic on ableton ?

KING

I’ve been using Ableton for some years now, and all 5 of ur tips were new to me. Unfortunately if that Keyboard Maestro is only for Mac then I guess I’m out of luck there being on windows. Awesome content tho, earned a sub from me. ^^

wait a minute that LES menu is something i absolutely need

Great stuff 👍

For keyboard maestro, just add a modifier to your hotkey, like ctrl, or shift, or alt, or whatever you don't use otherwise instead of just the plain letter

super, thank you

Integrating Melodyne with Ableton is a real game changer. This makes itself on the same playing field as Logic!

Thx man that was super helpful! You can get a logitech g13 or similar side keyboard and program all your shortcuts in there. Very ergonomic and you can get around your "c" problem by programming complex shortcuts to a single button.

I always wanted to kind of know what that sample editing option was for. I thought it was an add-on that you had to purchased from Ableton I didn't think it allowed third party and Im also a melodyne guy that was gold man thank you. 💪🏼🔥🙏🏻

Does anyone have any recommendations for a windows version of key maestro

I like that audio editing tab hot key. Does it still allow you to do it with the automation enabled??

Mind blown! The first one is so a painful - A live changer! Also the option thing probably could dig out some gems, for the recording switch was so annoying when not using MIDI controller

LES sounds great, it looks similar to FXConsole in After Effects. I use that plugin all the time, its a massvie time saver.

"Live enhancement suite, it will change your live" that is the best unintentional pun I have ever heard.

Is there something to make the fader icons more look like bigger faders too?

I can't find the edit button at all after selecting melodyne in my sample editor browser

Killer video! Great content Mr James! I got a question!! I tried using Melodyne on sample editor but it doesn't seem to replace the audio back once edited. Is there a step I'm missing or something?

Is there a way you could use maestro and have like a master key that turns all your custom macros on or off?

something like a "midi maestro" should be cool, would add more cool stuff to do with launchpad, Great video! greetings from Chile!

thx a lot fam

Thanks!

Broooo the Melodyne sample editor trick is a GAME CHANGER for saving time. 10:55 for anyone who's curious.

Thanks so much for these! I would just add that I installed LES and loved it until updating my OS and now it's not really functional. I think there are some ways to figure it out, but it takes a minute, which I haven't had.

There is a pitch editor in ableton. Not as good as melodyne, but exists built in. Also get karabiner. Create a hyperkey and map a mouse click to your left control button. Press control option shift with holding capslock down.

hi, how should I do to not overlap the music? It often happens to me that when I create a song on ableton and post it on social media, I hear the overlap between kick and hitthat percussion, while I hear it in my speakers and it sounds good. will it be a matter of poor quality on social media? Thank you and good day.

great tips

And by the way, cmd + opt + f dose the fade command in Ableton I use it all the time

Super cool man. I just can't edit melodyne on the sample window, the *Edit button appears gray, and I have succesfully enabled the app in preferences

my mac m1 big sur doeasn't let me run it. its blocked by my system in some way. i enable "allow" on everything on my disk in system and security

Holy shit #1!! ⭐️😎🙏

I tried choosing an application to open with Sample Editor, and none of them work right. Now I just want to get the sample editor setting to go back to how it was, meaning not linked to an application. Can you please tell me how to do that? I can only browse for another application. Thanks!

Does it still work on ableton 11 monterrey on m1 macs?

I cant seem to work out how to use LES on windows or find the documentation, is there any ? :)

Wow, Melodyne as sample editor! I'll have to give that a wirl :)

I just got myself a M2max macbook working on macOSVentura, was wondering if LES will work on my MacBook or not, it seems like a very useful feature to have.

dude whaaat? thx for this!

How did you set up your LES sub categories? I've been trying to do it more like how you have it. mine is like this for example: EQ, DYNAMICS, COLOR, SPATIAL, etc. with plugins inside those but I wanted to put those categories in a main category so it would be like: Plugin type: EQ, DYNAMICS, etc. with those folders then containing the plugins, you seem to have yours pretty much like this at least with how you did your config. I've never been able to get it to work. if you have any videos or any suggestions greatly appreciate it.