Ableton Live Tutorials: Recording automation

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In this video, the fourteenth in our tutorial series, our expert Liam O'Mullane explains the different automation modes that you need to get your head around to effectively record automation in your Ableton Live sessions.
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@Bricks_shakur 4 жыл бұрын

So helpful and easy to understand 🔥🔥🔥🔥

@MusicTechOfficial 4 жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

@thegodparticleband 3 жыл бұрын

Well done! I’ve been looking for a simple tutorial on ableton automation and most of them are needlessly complicated. This one gets straight to the point and doesn’t add a ton of useless info. Thanks!

@MusicTechOfficial 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks Jeff, feel free to subscribe to the channel for more soon!

@anthonyh4125 3 жыл бұрын

"Simplify Envelope" at 5:03 Best tip I have seen for Ableton automatioin in a long time. Brilliant. Thank you!

@phantom-lab 2 жыл бұрын

Two things I learn't in the first 1 minute and half of watching this! Likes and Subbed.. Thank you.

@HumanBeingWithFeelings 3 жыл бұрын

incredibly helpful for the ones that are starting automating using a midi controler in ableton. Basically all you need to know about it to make it work straight away. Thanks a lot for this.

2 жыл бұрын

i dont produce for 5 years so to get back in the flow its nice to hear again

@BigNovantara 3 жыл бұрын

thanks man, i was confused before. but now im back fresh again. thanks for nice video.

@MusicTechOfficial 3 жыл бұрын

No problem 👍

@noicopajacu4701 3 жыл бұрын

i've alwayes avoided those two buttons and here we are,I learned without any hesistation thanks for great tut.

@griffingibson4389 3 жыл бұрын

You know I’ve had to watch this video about four times over and go back two Working and ableton a bunch to get how to do automation, but i finally got it... four years into production... finally I understand...

@lucamarchese9941 2 жыл бұрын

first 20 sec solved my problem. Thanks!!!!

@krisburton7167 4 жыл бұрын

this video has helped me lots.. Cheers Liam. I'll be using this for my sesh tomorrow

@tomborner3842 2 жыл бұрын

this one of the best tutorials i've ever seen. thanks. on point. no schnick schnack. great.

@xdomm951 2 жыл бұрын

Thankyou! I was doing my head in, you saved me

@corazondecocodrilo 3 жыл бұрын

and here I was automating breakpoint by breakpoint. Amazing tut! 🔥🔥🔥 now my tracks gonna feel more natural/analog

@MusicTechOfficial 3 жыл бұрын

Great to hear!

@mumtazazizi8945 2 жыл бұрын

brilliantly put out and very easy to grasp!

@sergiishust9858 2 жыл бұрын

thank you! I was searching for this! and your video is very helpfull!

@helyee 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for an extremely efficient tutorial! Appreciate it!

@TGMinnieeMee Жыл бұрын

This helped SO much! Thank you!!

@glizzyhendrix 2 жыл бұрын

just what i was looking for !!! thanks

@Ntinkster 3 жыл бұрын

Super informational and very precisely put. Thanks guys!

@MusicTechOfficial 3 жыл бұрын

Our pleasure!

@nuhrunuh6107 3 жыл бұрын

Your so Good in explaining! Keep on

@Lizzardking 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you! You just earned a new suscriber.

@faeghbiparva5470 3 жыл бұрын

Easy and useful tutorial, thx a bunch 🙌🏻

@PizzaSalami 2 жыл бұрын

Realy great, exactly what i needed short and clear thank you soooo much!

@crispykartel 2 жыл бұрын

Incase anyone else has trouble, I spent about 2 hours trying to figure out something i didnt see this video cover. DONT ARM the track youre doing automation on. Correct me if I'm wrong but I kept trying to figure out why it wasnt recording automation, or why it kept recording blank, or why i didnt even hear my track, and finally after all that time, i realized i had to not have my track armed, I only had the automation button clicked on and I hit record.

@superga97 2 жыл бұрын

thank you it's very clear and pleasant to ear you :)

@sipacate 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks Liam, I picked up a few new techniques here.

@MusicTechOfficial 3 жыл бұрын

Fantastic!

@MemeGoblin 3 жыл бұрын

Great video, thanks.

@JustineJones23 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for this helpful video, and i like your track too :D

@MallyMumbles 3 жыл бұрын

Peace, appreciate the lessons. Is that track you play available for download? Its knockin!

@andreasgoteson5717 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks! Is there any way to record automation only to armed tracks in arrangement mode? Say that you add another track where you want to modulate filter envelope with the same slider without overriding the original automation. "Record session automation in" is set to "armed tracks" - but my question is about arrangement view (not session view)

@jubbie8842 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for let me knew and can you tell me the way we converse midi tracks to audio mono tracks?

@jamesclarkemusic9105 3 жыл бұрын

Great video, thank you so much.

@philipalexander8715 Жыл бұрын

When the red dot is activated with automation.. I suddenly can't change the volume past a certain threshold? And it turns automation off.. I don't understand that issue..

@nikotortilla6550 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for this video dude!!!👽👍

@evansox8137 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for the tutorial! I'm struggling to figure out how to map a midi cc such as expression? It doesn't have a knob or anything so how to you map midi ccs that aren't already assigned somewhere?

@mateolopez6956 4 жыл бұрын

Yes bro perfect video thanks for the info

@MusicTechOfficial 4 жыл бұрын

No problem 👍Subscribe for more every week!

@beat8974 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much!

@contraspower6302 2 жыл бұрын

Very helpful 🙏🔥🔥

@ruahproduction1739 3 жыл бұрын

Does this work the same for audio tracks.

@ComfortWithinNoise Жыл бұрын

Can you export automation lines? I am exporting stems to be mixed and in my production, I have a few bpm automation. Like myself the mixing engineer like to keep everything locked in place in the session. He Uses DP which has that option. If Ableton doesn't have that option, what would be the best solution?

@Rozhdestvo 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

@calcastbandido 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much

@Mancheguache 3 жыл бұрын

great little vid - thanks feller

@MusicTechOfficial 3 жыл бұрын

You're most welcome, Steve. If you like this one, we've got a whole playlist with Liam explaining how Ableton Live works. New tutorials every Wednesday, so please do subscribe if you want more. Here's that playlist, too: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/p6yIfKmY39vRc30.html

@TerryMinorJr 3 жыл бұрын

GREAT help, I just subscribed!

@MusicTechOfficial 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks Terry! Let us know if there are other topics you'd like us to cover :)

@TerryMinorJr 3 жыл бұрын

@@MusicTechOfficial you’re welcome. And actually there is something I’d like to suggest, I’d love to see a very thorough video in MACROS in Ableton Live. Have a great day!

@TerryMinorJr 3 жыл бұрын

*on

@vabstract 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for the tips !! Very useful!

@MusicTechOfficial 3 жыл бұрын

You're so welcome!

@bobwrotenstien315 4 жыл бұрын

In arrangement view can you record the automation lanes while recording the midi notes? When I do that the lanes are not recorded (but the midi CC changes are saved somewhere)

@MusicTechOfficial 4 жыл бұрын

Hey Bob, when you're recording, all activity will be recorded, including played MIDI notes and automation, as long as you have 'Automation Arm' enabled. This is located in the transport bar at the top of the window. Let us know if this doesn't solve it, we're happy to help!

@louislafontaine5984 4 ай бұрын

How can I have an external MIDI mapping automation not erased at each loop pass in the session view? I have activated the + sign but the only way I found to prevent it is to erase the MIDI mapping assignation.

@osamabeskales2187 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for your efforts

@MusicTechOfficial 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for your support. We're publishing new videos weekly, so make sure you subscribe for the latest tutorials :)

@evernighty3091 Жыл бұрын

Many thanks

@regulocastromusic 3 жыл бұрын

Great! Simple and to the point.I have a question: How can I record say, filter automation on an audio track? Thanks

@henrikhollander2154 3 жыл бұрын

I had the same question, but it don´t seems to be possible.

@calblac4786 3 жыл бұрын

Anybody had issues with recording automation to a group? When I record a part with automation to a group it doesn’t actually end up recording the automation. Anybody know how to do that?

@VanHash777 3 жыл бұрын

very helpful thanks !

@MusicTechOfficial 3 жыл бұрын

Glad it helped!

@TheFetteEnte 3 жыл бұрын

thx bro

@gwenmaze 4 жыл бұрын

thx a lot )))

@Ninjjadog 3 жыл бұрын

Hey, did you used to be a teacher at Leeds? I think I came to your class years ago....

@erik6737 3 жыл бұрын

Hey there, is there any way to record automation over audio tracks as well? This method seems to only work for MIDI since the MIDI overdub button doesn't enable overdub for nothing but MIDI. Therefore when I'm trying to record automation over audio clips it deletes everything old.

@Mancheguache 3 жыл бұрын

You have to do it with the looping 'thing' - I'm new to this tech side, I heard it in one of vids that came up

@wannabealauch 3 жыл бұрын

Just found out how it works, you have to arm automation, but do not arm the clip for recording, just press global recording at the top, now it should record your automation

@lenny_Videos 4 жыл бұрын

Thanx for the great tutorial! Can I also re-edit the recorded automation in a later part of the track? (keeping the old recorded automation in the beginning of my track + adding the new recorded automation in a later part in the same track + same control) Cause if I try to do that now, then it gets grey and automation gets enabled for this control + the re-enable automation ''orange'' arrow lights up.

@MusicTechOfficial 4 жыл бұрын

Hey Lennart. If you edit a parameter within Ableton Live, the automation for that parameter within your track is temporarily disabled until you hit the "Back to Arrangement" button in the top right hand corner of the arrangement window. To record automation later in the track, you need to hit the record button in the top transport bar and make the changes as the track is playing. This should leave your automation in place earlier on in the track, as well as recording the changes in the later part of the track. Does this answer your question? Let us know if not, we're more than happy to help :) Thanks

@lenny_Videos 4 жыл бұрын

@@MusicTechOfficial Thanx a lot this 100% answers my question :-) Thanx for taking the time to reply! greetz Lenny

@MusicTechOfficial 4 жыл бұрын

@@lenny_Videos No problem! Make sure you subscribe on KZfaq for more Ableton tutorials every week. Plus, take a look at our magazine for more tutorial content!