How to Make Better Beats with Ableton

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For a more in depth learning experience Check out my free Ableton Workshop distilling my top Ableton tips in one video: seedtostage.com/workshop/
MY MUSIC:
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00:00 - Intro
1:05 - Velocity Automation
2:49 - Groove Settings
4:06 - Going Off Grid
4:53 - Variation and Chance
7:27 - Parallel Compression
9:05 - Ambience and Reverb
12:36 - Extracting Chains
13:40 - Internal Side Chaining
15:46 - Bus Saturation
19:13 - Random Panning
20:19 - Envelope MIDI
Here are 11 tactics for creating exciting, intriguing, and original beats.

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@4ktraveltours 2 жыл бұрын

SEED TO STAGE= GOAT

@vilmfilm Жыл бұрын

No? SEED TO STAGE= SEED TO STAGE learn division and basic addition please

@jimprovmusic 2 жыл бұрын

This is simply one of the best step-by-step tutorials on harnessing the power and flexibility of ABLETON. I am truly inspired and will be watching this video again, and again.

@randymiles7023 2 жыл бұрын

lots of good stuff here - I love the tip about extracting a chain... I never realized that was there!

@djdazza2796 2 жыл бұрын

As always I love watching your tutorials, especially as your a stock only plugins man,helps so much!! Cheers.

@nusphere 2 жыл бұрын

I liked the the minimal robotic sound you started with personally

@Devland105 2 жыл бұрын

I mean yeah, i feel like a lot of this is pick your poison, just a lot of stuff you could use but not necessarily all at once

@jcnunez695 2 жыл бұрын

Love how you actually explain what the knobs you are dialing in are actually doing, I had no idea what the knobs on the post and pre fx's of the saturator actually did until today. Thank you!

@AndrewEldridge 2 жыл бұрын

Such a great video. This has so many great tips for basic drum processing, too.

@Mildly_Unsuccessful_Individual 2 жыл бұрын

This is exactly what I've been wanting to figure out. I've just learned by trial and error all this time.. Thanks for your work on this channel, man.

@spooqs 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for another great video, Anthony! I've been jumping through a lot of unnecessary hoops not knowing about that random panning setting.

@jendall 2 жыл бұрын

I always leave your videos with so much more knowledge than what’s in the video title. Your videos are fantastic, keep them coming!

@ReeceH46 2 жыл бұрын

Learned so much from this, thank you!! A similar video on synths and leads would be great if possible.

@jamesmutan1 2 жыл бұрын

This is great! thanks for sharing, it's great to keep it simple, but yet so full of interesting variations. Also, a great way to use only stock ableton, no need to go out buying vst's you never really use fully.

@remyvegamedia 10 ай бұрын

"That's just not gonna do," at 0:46. That's all I needed to hear. I'm along for the ride. That's this video's version of "get in loser, we're gonna make better beats."

@x-entric1899 2 жыл бұрын

Every time you upload i get better as a musician, thank you Anthony ♥️

@thekjvsanitybiblestudybroa5972 2 жыл бұрын

When the time comes I'll be buying all your courses. Great man.

@NeroBerg 2 жыл бұрын

Great art, these effects make my drums much more alive. Thanks

@daily23 2 жыл бұрын

Always enjoying your vids

@mikemcbride8625 2 жыл бұрын

Great job as always!

@druca 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you, I learn so much from these!

@noiszif 2 жыл бұрын

Very interesting and helpful video bro! Thank you so much for sharing ❤️‍🔥

@JohnyG14 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you again, Anthony... awesome lesson. Having a hard time deciding which course to purchase. Also wanted to ask if you would do another electric guitar signal / sound design lesson with a focus on neo-soul / Tom Misch vibes. If not, Im gonna try to get Echo Locations to make content going over his signal chain!

@syndikateofficial 2 жыл бұрын

+1 for tom misch styled stuff

@johnnywalker3025 2 жыл бұрын

Amazing. Really good techniques!!! thank you

@eferg16 2 жыл бұрын

Such a great channel and teacher

@adrienneknauerharpist Жыл бұрын

Great video with useful tips. Thank you!

@lmclrain 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the video. The timestamps were really helpful

@ArgyTV 2 жыл бұрын

great vid, learnt a lot from this. Nice one!

@3lackwoodmusic 2 жыл бұрын

You're amazing dude thank you

@bharathj63 2 жыл бұрын

Mans a legend! You're a legend mate!

@Voyyyedge97 8 ай бұрын

amazing man, thank you so much!

@gustavost86 2 жыл бұрын

Awesome video, thanks for that!

@nicomarquesto5729 Жыл бұрын

Thank you very much. Very inspiring indeed! I really hope live electronics become mainstream on day!

@skullkid112 2 жыл бұрын

Best ableton tutorials out here

@orfious 2 жыл бұрын

Great video.. I learnt a lot. Thank you 🙏

@bitspacemusic 2 жыл бұрын

Glue compressor has a quirk in that it changes the threshold if you change the ratio. I've seen people preview the ratios so many times without adjusting threshold.

@loicvalenti 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you once more for a wonderful video

@michaelkeller227 Жыл бұрын

very helpful my dude

@tokadiambo8301 2 жыл бұрын

thx for everything you are the best

@antoineguilbeault8025 2 жыл бұрын

top quality stuff !

@SayajinKanak 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you master sensei

@leonardogzm 2 жыл бұрын

Excelent video !

@uweschnitzler9551 2 жыл бұрын

wow, this is really helpful !

@AlPlatino Жыл бұрын

Man you are a good teacher.

@wes_the_scifi_guy 2 жыл бұрын

Damn you are the unsung hero. See you at summer camp

@Fabermorrow 2 жыл бұрын

amazing!!

@mikeexits 2 жыл бұрын

I don't know if they changed it for version 11, but in my copy of Ableton Live 10 on Windows, changing velocity by dragging your mouse on the notes is done with Alt + Click/drag. Ctrl + Click/drag creates a duplicate set of whatever notes you have highlighted.

@antoniostramaglia1316 2 жыл бұрын

woow. thx so mouch for this tutorial

@smokypaige4857 2 жыл бұрын

DOPE. THANKS

@kelpygp2297 Жыл бұрын

Great video, my dad got me into ableton and it's tough to try make some modern beats, but I'm learning slowly. I mostly have trouble getting a drum beat to flow and build upon my synth loops if you get what I mean.

@b00ts4ndc4ts 5 ай бұрын

I used to spend some time making midi drums to use just to pop in and then would come back and tweak them late. I would make straight loops and also breaks but with slight changes to make it sound interesting but would make them fit better after I had laid down what I wanted. Just having a day a week on drums made me much better at programming drums and because I save the session to save time setting up would save me loads of time to get into it. Listening to good drummer's in your free time, made me realise that less is more and variation is your friend. But if I could say one thing that really switched it on for me, that would be 'Syncopation'

@kelpygp2297 5 ай бұрын

@@b00ts4ndc4ts stopped a while ago but recently started thinking about ableton again, appreciate the advice

@gigamaxextra 10 ай бұрын

Top shelf content very stealable 🔥🐯🍒♥️

@AlexandreSoma 2 жыл бұрын

GREAT!!!

@5amsound Жыл бұрын

Liking mostly for the pun but will come back and watch asap

@jeremiascerqueira7933 Жыл бұрын

EXTREMALLY GOODDDDD BEYOND GOOD

@Freakhealer 2 жыл бұрын

do you ever work with generative music? last year i downloaded an Ableton pack w midi plugins specific for that but lately i dont have much time for it, still once in a while i watch some prod videos and yours are on the top. if you do like that i would love to see your approach to generative music

@Freakhealer 2 жыл бұрын

btw "probability" was the name of the pack its for max 4 live, had to check x)

@cloudbeats4301 Жыл бұрын

Trank you❤

@composer2510 2 жыл бұрын

You were wondering why, on saturator, by dialing depth down it raises up volume and by dialing up it smooths volume. It makes sense actually. When you rise, over saturates those bands then pushes their level down as it hits the (soft) saturation threshold. When you dial down, it attenuates saturation, but considering that the drive knob is likely quite up, it raises up the sheer volume on those bands This is what I guess indeed...

@elkeism 2 жыл бұрын

one feature that helps is slight changes in pitch which you can do in battery: not sure about ableton

@Homework-asmr Жыл бұрын

Every good beet deserves a good turnip;)

@d77droid 2 жыл бұрын

Do you use reverbs on every track to put ambience or throw everything onto a return channel with a reverb? What would be the difference?

@mikeexits 2 жыл бұрын

The question this video has me asking myself is, how have I been using Ableton Live for 7 years without ever touching the groove pool or taking time to understand how it works? Maybe because I got a bit too settled into the workflow of FL Studio and Logic 9/X in my first year of making music, and have been slowly drip-feeding myself Ableton's exclusive features. I really need to read the manual hahaha

@generic5284 2 жыл бұрын

Hey man, I got a nice Granulator 2 tip for you.....I call it " Continuous granulation " ....basically I've found a way to feed a constant stream of audio into Granulator 2 .....check it out man .

@mikeexits 2 жыл бұрын

@@generic5284 Thanks. I didn't even mention Granulator here so I'm pleasantly surprised as I just recently started trying it out for the first time. I'm guessing it's on your channel since you didn't provide a link.

@andreschmid3795 Жыл бұрын

are these drum samples in one of your sample packs? thanks!

@allanckny 2 жыл бұрын

hi Anthony, I'm just got into music production and considering buying your course on mixing and mastering. And I found that it offer 40% off educational discount for ableton. Will I get the discount if I buy the course? If that does I'll definitely get the course. thx for your work!

@vankavstanka321 Жыл бұрын

omg that's crazy

@b00ts4ndc4ts 5 ай бұрын

I followed this lesson and used what I had learnt no one of my new tracks and EVERYONE who heard it asked me who was playing the drums? I said my new mate called Mid Dee.

@lunarguava Жыл бұрын

So I stopped using drum rack for mixing purposes so I can EQ each individual sound. How do you do that when it's all together like this? Or would you just group everything and put the effect buss on the group to get around that? Cus I like the groove trick alot.

@SeedtoStage Жыл бұрын

Each cell in drum rack that contains a sound is a discrete audio channel. Just drop an EQ or any effect on the cell you want to process and BOOM

@lunarguava Жыл бұрын

@@SeedtoStage WoaaaH Game Changer I'm back into drum rack baby! LOL Stoked to see you at the Big Dirty with Marvel Years dood it's gonna be tite. :)

@Filomen7 Жыл бұрын

@@SeedtoStage I was looking for this comment, because I dont really understand one thing. Why did you extract your kick drum chains from drumrack to separate track to just group it all back together with other drums.. to get the exact same result as original drum rack.?? am I missing something?

@Himlajchan Жыл бұрын

"Extract chain" Holy cow!

@anatolyice 2 жыл бұрын

Cool tutorial and I like analog feel you add to the drums, but imo i think you pick a bit wrong samples for demonstration. this digital clicks, which are maybe parts of the samples, or created because of the layering, destroys the groove. And as an advice, try not to dial in dry/wet 9like you did with reverb), but do opposite, go to maximum amounts and then dial back from them, thats much precise way to find a sweet spot imo. cheers

@Filomen7 Жыл бұрын

probably just a thing of a taste. I really like to start at 0% too, not 100%. and I doubt it can be more precise, that just doesn't make sense to me..

@psychotronicsquirtgun 2 жыл бұрын

Anthony, I bought your first courses, and I'm interested in the sound design, but according to the end of the course I should be getting a discount. The link either isn't there or doesn't work for the discount. I don't know how else to get in touch with you either. Thanks.

@SeedtoStage 2 жыл бұрын

Yo thank you SO MUCH for bringing this to my attention. The teachable links were broken on the final pages. They are fixed now. Enjoy!

@daily23 2 жыл бұрын

Actually thinking about getting your course too!

@spooqs 2 жыл бұрын

Do it.

@austinnemorin8729 2 жыл бұрын

How'd you get envelope midi?

@kaiquesfalsinoficial Жыл бұрын

What to do if I dont quite hear some of the differences when he applies the effects? I can hear them when they're exaggerated, but for example when he changed the order of the glue compression, I got nothing. Anyone help?

@Filomen7 Жыл бұрын

train your ear, keep trying stuff like this for yourself and learn to hear the difference! other thing is on what equipment were you listening to this??

@juwonnnnn 2 жыл бұрын

👍

@MyPruha 2 жыл бұрын

whoever can suggest courses where they can teach how to make music like on the HATE channel? all that is on KZfaq is not at all about that. acquired several courses there, too, teach how to play music from the last century