Download it now. thinkspace.ac.uk/signup/ableton-orchestral-template FREE Ableton Live BBC Discover Template, including groups and stems PLUS Guy's demo from the video.

It is possible to bounce to audio in Ableton, there are actually two ways to do that, either you freeze then flatten the track and it will be audio, or you freeze the track and drag the frozen clip to an audio track and voila you have a bounced audio track ;) If you go with the first route you duplicate your midi than freeze and flatten duplicated track to retain your instrument track. Shortcut for turning off the pencil is "B" key on the keyboard.

YESSS FINALLY A VIDEO WITH ABLETON!!!!

Shortcuts you should use: Command + Option + E = Full screen piano roll W = Zoom width of selection or part H = Zoom height of selection or part Piano Roll quantize and grid settings ⌘ (ctrl) + 1 - narrows the grid ⌘ (ctrl) + 2 - widens the grid ⌘ (ctrl) + 3 - enables triplets ⌘ (ctrl) + 4 - turns off the grid

Mr Michelmore, your videos have taught me so much. It is my wish to someday meet you and get a photo clicked with you, possibly chill with you at your local pub. I'm from India, so I don't know when or how it will happen, but much respect to you. You are as skilled as they come.

Hey Guy! Great video as always. I am rather new to all of this and I have invested in Ableton. I am glad to see you show a "how to" video using this DAW. The new Ableton 12 solves the bounce to audio bit and should please many out there who have wanted this included. It also addresses many of its predecessors short comings in midi editing. You are a very inspiring individual and wish I had your energy. This is from a ol hilly Billy from North Carolina mountains who loves music in all its forms and particularly enjoy orchestral hybrid. Thank you for you hard work producing these helpful videos.

Thank you for demonstrating how to compose in your style with Ableton. It was probably a good exercise in brain plasticity. I chose to use Ableton 10 years ago when it came with a piece of hardware. Not knowing anything about DAWs, I just bought the full version and really haven't regretted it. I'm just amazed at the power and versatility of all these DAWs.

AWESOME content as always Mr. Michelmore! Whishing I'll be able to be able to jump into thinkspace some day! Thanks for taking the time for sharing your amazing expertise!

Entertaining, informative and humorous as ever, Guy. Thanks for brightening my morning! 😬🙏 I’m very much looking forward to you applying your skills to Studio One v6 DAW. I’ve been dabbling with it since v2 and thought it looked promising. Now with v6.5 it’s seriously come of age and I’d love to see you take a deep dive in.

Guy, the first DAW I ever learned to use is Ableton Live. I am so happy to see you using it!

Hi Guy, entertaining video as always. I haven’t seen anyone else mention this, but when you recorded the MIDI around the loop you were not overwriting the previous MIDI (as you did discover) but were actually creating a new take, which would have shown up in a new take lane if you had the take lanes visible for the track. MIDI takes and comping in Ableton is really quite flexible and well worth investigating for people who are playing in MIDI performances live (although it has more uses than just that).

Glad to see you experimenting in AL!!! Hope to see more in this world!!! I’m learning AL a lil bit!!!

My first time watching oneof your videos. Recommended from a friend. Love how you did this with a sense of fun! I've been working in Spitfire's BBC Orchestra for a while now. Found some good tips here so thank you!

Yay!! Never thought I'd see the day. More Guy + Ableton please!

Hi Guy, Great vid as usual. Just a quick tip which I think will help you while recording midi in Abelton, Press the + button at the top after the record button and it will not over record when it loops.

Ableton user here for over a decade. Freeze .... (dont flatten) Click alt and drag froze track onto audio track - immediate bounce in audio and keep the midi too. I then hit zero 0 to deactivate my frozen midi (now its for edits if I need later and saves cpu) as quick as bounce in place tbh Press B to toggle off pen tool in piano roll to get rid of your wee renegade notes :)

THANK YOU!! I have had an Ableton license for a while, and I use it all the time for live synth playing. But I normally compose in Pro Tools, and the timeline view was so opaque to me in Live that I just put it away in disgust every time I get started. This video of yours may get me over the hump--which would be great, because I quite like the synthesis in Ableton, and my scoring style tends to be hybrid. Much appreciation to you, Guy.

not many good tutorials for orchestral production in Ableton but this is one of the best I'v seen. I have my own convoluted system with this kind of production but I think I am going to try your template. I only recently installed the free content from spitfire audio and open it in NI komplete. Been inspired recently listening to alot of game sound design and scoring.

Wowzer Thanks for taking the time Guy such a time saving template...great sounds in linked Spitfire pack excl woodwinds which I swapped out for Spitfire Studio Woodwinds..oboe and bassoon were a bit naff. Really helpful thanks and equally edutaining as always 😊

This video is like a Xmas present to me ! waiting for ages for a similar video !!!!

That was AWESOME to watch.

Thanks for explaining Stems and stereo stuff !!

You are amazing!! your energy make it so cool to be part of your journey! thanks for inspiration for new artist

omg!!! thank you so much!! that's completely amazing 🤩

Love the channeling, just was wondering yesterday… bout kinda some classics tunes, Sir 🌠❤🫶🏼

Thanks Guy, this is perfect for me!

What a treat to find you working with Ableton Live 11. I avoided Ableton for years, not really sure why. The first time I used it I was hooked. Years later I still only know a small percentage of everything that this DAW is capable off! Thank you for another great video Guy!

Just what I was looking for!

I've always dabbled with both doing orchestral covers of songs and Ableton but neither of them enough from start to finish so this was a great little tutorial for me. This year is the year to actually finish a project in it XD Also I loved the chemistry between both intructors, very entertaining

This video made me feel much less bad about my failure to get to grips with Ableton and more generally failing to make time for music. I never liked machines imitating conventional instruments but I have come to accept, as always, that it's what everybody else wants, so just let it go. I cannot deny that in its rush to provide perfect limitations of instruments and ensembles, the musical instrument manufacturers have brought me the mechanism to make an inexhaustible palette of sound. More relevant for me personally in this clip is that these ideas about arrangement are universal (don't bring everything in at the beginning, simple harmonic variation etc.) and therefore of direct use to me. Thank you.

Thank you Guy, such a great help!

Great video thanks Guy :)

Thank you so so much !!

I love watching Guy talking with Guy.. ps would love to see you make orchestral music in 8 tracks especially useful for Ableton Lite users who have an 8 track limitation..

Happy Christmas to you Guy.

Thanks Guy. You know I worked on Ableton from 2010 to 2013, until I got Logic. Although I don’t use now, I do have a free copy I got from Focusrite. I just love the mixing interface of Live. It’s the best of anything I’ve ever seen. In fact the 2nd composition I’ve done, well, after buying my 1st laptop, using Live. It was a pleasure to watch this one & how nice to notice how well they developed their foundational aspects of the DAW, FWIW. I think I do have the track somewhere around on my old external hard drive. Btw, this is funny but have you ever noticed(this is the 2nd time I am seeing this)that if the viewer doesn’t look directly at the Mercedes icon or is it Yamaha icon on your back glass door, looks like the demon’s face from The Exorcist? You know the scene where Ellen Burstyn comes home, opens the door, comes in & finds out the lights flashing on & off & you see the demon’s face in between. Very nice to see this video. Also, when I saw Live showing the cpu usage of 6% and fluctuating to 20% at times, I thought may be is it possible for you to do a video on Ram usage and how effectively can it be optimized etc… Vivasswan SriHarsha

Guy surprises us all disses Cubase for the love of Live and Logic!

your fun to watch. thanks

Guy você é muito legal! Adoro seus vídeos!

I always learn something, no matter which DAW is used. I must say that Ableton looks a very capable one.

Hi Guy, Great to see you using Live 11 and as others have said, would love to see more. Another way to turn midi to audio is right click the clip select Freeze track then flatten and taa daa the midi has been turned into audio. Hope that helps. Rgds Gary

I'm very impressed if you picked up Ableton in a week. Well done! 🎉 Would you recommend reverb groups per family or per stage location, e.g. instruments in the back row get more reverb than those nearest the audience?

I score to picture in Ableton Live! (Mainly childrens tv). Great to see you having a go. I do a similar thing with 'the harp trick' except i just drag the midi notes up/down to the correct place from C. I picked up a some useful tips watching, thanks Guy.

When in Ableton, just set up an Audio track and choose its input as RESAMPLE, it will auto record from the master channel (Dirty Bounce).

I was hoping to see Ableton Suite's orchestral library used >_> I think I'll try and mix them with BBC and see how it goes :D Thanks for sharing! I opened and saved this in Bitwig :) Which means I can also convert it to Studio One via the .dawproject format >_>

Hey Guy! Thanks for this! Here’s a tip for you. The “freeze” function in Ableton is the “bounce” feature. There’s no shortcut for it, but if you right click the track you want to bounce to audio, then select freeze track and then repeat that step and select “flatten” then your midi track will become audio. That being said the midi track will no longer be there so the way you set it up will keep the midi and have the audio so well done.

I’m a hobbyist ‘producer’ using Cubase Artist 13 but I also have an Ableton Live 12 Standard licence to mess about with. I love Cubase but it‘s strange how I’ve become enamoured with Ableton and its workflow when I predominantly really dislike (not wanting to use the word ‘hate’) the different genres of music it was initially designed for (basically anything you can hear at Tomorrowland) 😊

Oh, and B for the pencil tool (like "Brush"?), and cmd+alt+E to switch the piano roll fullscreen.

Thank you! More DAW specific videos like this, please!

We need more ableton videos

Please do more orchestral stuff in Ableton! :))))

Hey Guy, it's ace to see you using my DAW, thank you so much :)

I use to use Emagic Logic Audio when at school, loved it and was so simple... I wish I could start making music again but Ableton/Cubase looks very intimidating and expensive. 100% me 19:48 22:25 - Batman

Yes!

Perfect timing - just finished my move from live to Cubase! 😂

Very refreshing to see Ableton used. I’m genuinely surprised that composers hasn’t tapped into the potential of macros and snapshots that can be dragged and dropped into a template where only Return tracks can be the starting point. I do think that with Live 12’s new features it should be even more straightforward as a DAW that composers could embrace.

Thank you for the video. I'm sure there's a way to bounce in place a MIDI track (or many) in Live with a key shortcut without having to solo it and recording it to the master bus. Any major DAWs can do that and I can't imagine you couldn't do that in Ableton too. 😄 But well I don't know Live and I think you're brave to switch from DAWs to anothers, personnaly (after decades from C-Lab Creator>Notator>Emagic Logic>Logic Pro...) I couldn't.

oh, it would be VERY interesting to see you tackle FL Studio...😊

I love abletons relative simplicity and intuitiveness.

"B" keyboard shortcut for the draw tool 😉

Hi Guy, thanks for your awesome video. I downloaded the template, but I don't seem to get into my Ableton Live 11. I can not find how to install in into Ableton, and it does nothing by itself I guess. I did put the template in various folders, but it never shows up in Albeton for me. What went wrong? Please, some advice would be great.

Regarding the pencil thing at @20:39; use the 'b' key on the keyboard to toggle write mode on and off.

I wrote orchestral music in Reaper :)

thank you from an Ableton user.

15:33 . I’ve been trying to figure this part out. Turning midi track into audio. Can anyone explain to me how do I get the “stereo” to work like in the video please? Where to find it and so on. Thank you in advance!

I bought ableton and I love it. But used cubase since atari 520 st days. So cubase always for me. Want to focus more on the music than the daw

I have only the Lite version, just 8 tracks. Challenging but not impossible to create something orchestral-ish. But it’s time to get a proper version.

Would this work for the updated Spitfire Symphony Orchestra?

Honestly, I think Ableton is years behind Cubase for midi. Also, Cubase rules when you need macros and solid workflow enhancements. For me, Ableton is really good for electro musics, and for sketching ideas, for live setup, or small projects. I went from Cubase to Ableton because I needed simplicity. If I was doing cinematic projects I would have stayed with Cubase.

omg i cant stop looking at the window behind you. the reflection looks like a scream ripoff is standing there and watching you 👻 I love bbc discovery, i had to wait 2 weeks to get a link when i got it :D I love using violin tremolo as a short. it has a different sound than the spiccato.

Great and inspiring content as always! Do you have any videos that show how to underscore dialogue between two characters that are sad and try to lift each other up? I can't seem to find many videos about underscoring to dialogue in certain moods. :)

B key to switch between cursor and pencil tool ;-)

cool

The Template link is broken.

Im patiently waiting for guy to do fl studio😶🔥

dont quite see why all the routing all over the place then to audio tracks. what benefit?

I just found that Bitwig is even better than Ableton, you can create a container with 4 different instruments in it and moving slowly between all of them. how cool is that! For example you can start to play in Sul Tasto and slowly go to Tremolos...everything on one track with super easy workflow.

thank you from ableton user

Guy I have a question for you, since I have followed you for quite some time, and you always answer my difficulties in the videos. This problem has been killing me for quite some time with Ableton, and I wonder if you might know how to fix it, because I have spent many hours trying to figure it out, but I can't; In Ableton Live (I use that DAW to compose orchestral music). I cannot figure out how to apply my Midi-Controller's / midi-fader's / dynamics or expression change-recording, together with the actual notes being played on my keyboard. It does picks up the midi-fader-changes (e.g. expression / dynamics in BBCSO), when I record and play it on my piano (I have control over the expression and such, when I record - no issue there), but when the recording is over, it hasn't been applied and locked to the thing that I played and recorded on the keyboard. I am certain that the fader-changes in expression and dynamics has been recorded (since I can see that visually in ableton, in the recorded midi-clip, when I enlarge it), but it's like the recording follows my fader-changes even after the recording. Do you know, or anybody know, how to fix this, if it even is possible to fix?, because it is really irritating, when you try to create the music in your head, but there is a roadblock in the way.

Guy, freeze midi track, select region and just drag it to an audio track below and you got the audio track

Do some Reaper!

A good advice for you all, is to read the ENTIRE Ableton Live manual and do the in-program tutorials before use. You can do it in 3-5 days. It will pay of immensly and you will get full bang for your bucks. I've always read the manual like that for things I buy, and I will continue to do so.

wow

Great video but dident touch on automation. I just bought the BBCSO Core but discovered that all my recorded changes in expression and dynamics gets hidden in the clip in ableton. How can anyone work with that? Do you have any method to get the expression and dynamics changes to record as automations in arrangement view?

Does it support negative offret to compensate for orchestral sounds "lag". Fl Studio does not and it's so frustrating. Please reply. I've searched for the answer since summer. 🙏

EXCELLENT! I challenge you to be able to do it in FL STUDIO (Just like Alex Moukala)

it makes me want to ask a question (I am still at the very beginning of the video, maybe the answer is inside). I am on my path to become a soundtrack composer one day, and I am using Ableton precisely, because of habit, it's what I use for more than 10 years now. Is it a good idea to let Ableton go for Cubase for example ? is Cubase better for OST composition ? or any DAW whatever, it does the job ?

Any plans to do Reaper?

One other mild critique of the template is that Ableton users tend to use VST's instead of AU for their plugins, and don't load the AU stuff by default. Means the template won't load without enabling it. It's a nice and tidy template though, worth relinking the VST's I think. Thanks Guy.

Mind if i ask why Ableton? (I'm using it for non-orchestral stuff too, just curious)

There was me thinking you were going to drop a tech house tune 😂

Bouncing to audio in Ableton is quite easy.. just create a new audio track. Right click on the lane you want to bounce to audio, click freeze, and ctrl + drag to the new audio lane. voila!

Waiting for the day REAPER gets some attention from Guy

The Wizard of DAWs 😁

Is that Howard Shore on the 'phone?😁

But i might switch to cubase specifically for filmscoring just because guy always using cubase

how can u be so harp gliss guy

To bounce to audio, right click the track, freeze track, right click again, flatten track.

We can GROUP IN ABLETON?!?!

Ableton is really great for making any kind of music, the only thumbs down is its video work once the project gets heavier it keeps crashing.