Weekend Inspiration: Ableton Live Follow Actions, Dummy Clips, Making Snares
Our friend Gustavo Bravetti is back with more Ableton Live tutorials. Looks like good fodder for working on some music making this weekend — especially if you’re not familiar with some of these techniques.
First up: cascading follow actions can break up endless looping repetition by triggering complex patterns. Gustavo throws in some "dummy clips" or "ghost clips" for adding additional automation.
Next, if you followed Gustavo’s bass drum tutorial with Operator and want to follow it up with some snares (and resonance), have a look at this:
More details at Gustavo’s iproducer column.
By the way, to anyone who wanted more "advanced" tutorials (or more beginning, for that matter — it’s all relative) — feel free to send us requests. Now I’m sort of intrigued by synthesizing drums; I’ve been chatting with a couple of our contributors here about Native Instruments’ FM8. The whole beauty of Operator is its simplicity, but maybe we should see if we can make an FM8 kit, as well. (And you’re not restricted to using Ableton’s own instruments in the Live Drum Rack, either.)
If you make stuff this weekend, or find tips of your own, let us know!
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very cool stuff, peter. thanks so much for posting this.
May 10, 2008 @ 7:11 pm
Bjorn Vayner
Here are some better tutorials on Dummy Clips without advertisements scrolling thru the video:
http://www.covops.org/index.php/Tips-and-Tricks/Dummy-Clips-Revisited.html
Which you can find in this section: http://www.covops.org/index.php/Tips-and-Tricks/
- Bjorn
May 11, 2008 @ 4:52 am
jagle
very nice guys thanks.
a FM8 kit would be lovely actually
awh go on give it to us
May 11, 2008 @ 7:17 am
Gustavo Bravetti
ok, a basic FM8 kit on the way…
May 11, 2008 @ 8:04 am
pierre
Great stuf! thankssss by finding all this useful material.
Bjorn videos are good too, just try to be a bite more modest Bjorn :P
See you,
Pierre
May 11, 2008 @ 1:27 pm
Peter Kirn
I don’t think this was specifically a dummy clips tutorial; didn’t mean to imply that — more about cascading follow actions.
But yes, I’m with Pierre — Bjorn’s tutorials are terrific, too, so check out *both*. I’ll also try to get some CDM tutorials going, too. There are plenty of different techniques possible with Ableton… there are often various ways of doing things. :)
May 11, 2008 @ 1:54 pm
michael
If you’re a beginner or you want to get into some of the new features in live 7 I recommend checking out Music Tech Magazine’s Ableton Live “Focus Issue”. It filled some gaps for me, even though most of the info and tips probably could be found elsewhere. On the Interwebs or the in the manual..
May 11, 2008 @ 3:34 pm
Demi B.
i LOVE making drums with operator. it is so simple, yet so intuitive. i have made a lot of really good sounding electro kits with it.
i just got a hold of FM8 and can’t wait to program even more crazy FM drums!!!
May 12, 2008 @ 3:34 pm
contakt
Gustavo, just wanted to write a note that I love your videos. The glitchy, follow action one you did a while back w/ that house loop was very inspiring.
May 13, 2008 @ 12:38 pm
Create Digital Music » Live + FM8 = Drum Kit Love: Free FM8 Drum Kit Download
[...] well or not, I always feel closer to the resulting sounds. (Previously, Gustavo made bass drums and snares with Operator in video tutorials, though I prefer the FM8 sounds he’s done, personally!) [...]
July 24, 2008 @ 1:01 pm
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