All About Ableton’s Wavetable – The Matrix (Part 4)
All About Ableton’s Wavetable – The Matrix (Part 4) We continue our series of All About Ableton’s new Wavetable synthesizer. Today we’re covering the the Matrix! Come back Thursday for part 5! Part 1 – Oscillators Part 2 – Filters Part 3 – Envelopes Part 4 – The Matrix
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All About Ableton’s Wavetable – Envelopes (Part 3)
All About Ableton’s Wavetable – Envelopes (Part 3) We continue our series of All About Ableton’s new Wavetable synthesizer. Today we’re covering the the Amp Envelope. Come back next week for part 4! Part 1 – Oscillators Part 2 – Filters Part 3 – Envelopes
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Student Questions – Looping in the Drum Rack (Tutorial)
Student Questions – Looping in the Drum Rack It was never simple to loop in the Drum Rack. One of our student asked how to do it so we came up with a few options. Check out the video below. Have any specific questions you would like to get a customize tutorial on? Submit your questions HERE. Do you have any Drum Racks tricks to share? put them in the comments
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All About Ableton’s Wavetable – Filters (Part 2)
All About Ableton’s Wavetable – Filters (Part 2) We continue our series of All About Ableton’s new Wavetable synthesizer. Today we’re covering the 2 built-in filters. Come back Thursday for part 3! Part 1 – Oscillators Part 2 – Filters
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New Tutorial Series All About Ableton’s Wavetable!!
New Tutorial Series All About Ableton’s Wavetable!! We’re very excited to announce a new tutorial series about Ableton’s new synth – Wavetable! We fell in love with the synth the moment we got our hands on it using Ableton Live 10 beta. It’s an intuitive, powerful and fun to use synth. Come packed with many different types of Wavetables, Modulation and Expression possibilities. Our first video gives and overview of the synth and go in-depth with the Oscillators and Sub Oscillator. Check back next week for the second part where we cover the filters.
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Work Smarter and Faster – How to Use Speed in Your Workflow and Get Organized
Work Smarter and Faster – How to Use Speed in Your Workflow and Get Organized We all have that one track that we’ve spent what feels like a lifetime on. It’s that piece that we work at consistently but can never seem to get it totally finished. Often times the reason is simple – we’ve probably just heard it too many times. Speed is the best way to conquer this type of hurdle but being faster isn’t always a straightforward and easy thing to do. One thing I’m sure that will help anybody pursuing a career in music (and really any career for that matter) is incredibly basic and usually underutilized – Organization. Read below to get some great tips on how to organize your projects and workflow a little bit better. By following this checklist and organizing yourself you’ll be sure to see some improvement in the speed at which …
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5 Velocity Techniques + Velocity MIDI Effect Cheat Sheet (Free Download)
5 Velocity Techniques + Velocity MIDI Effect Cheat Sheet we continue with our Ableton Effects cheat sheet series. Check out the previous cheat sheets and techniques by CLICKING HERE. The entire collection is available to Beat Lab students and alumni. The Velocity MIDI effect can change incoming MIDI notes velocity in all sorts of ways. Set velocity to full with ease, randomize velocity, change your MIDI controller sensitivity or even practice hitting your drum pads hard enough. Scroll down to the bottom to download the free cheat sheet. Full Velocity Put mode to Fixed. Change Out Hi to desired output Velocity Randomize Velocity Turn up the Random knob (Up to 64 randomization) Change MIDI Control Sensitivity Adjust Drive and Compand to your liking Velocity Build Put Mode to Fixed, automated Out Hi Practice Hitting the Pads Hard Enough Put Mode to Gate, Set Lowest to desired level of difficultly. Great …
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Beat Lab Instant Sampler (Free Download)
Beat Lab Instant Sampler We’ve got a very special gift for you today. An instant sampler!!!!! This thing is so much fun, simply set up your mic (or built-in mic) record, and start playing! it’s that simple. Check out the video for an in-depth tutorial about all the features and then scroll down to the bottom of the page to grab your free copy. Requirements Ableton Suite 10 Installation Copy to User Library/Presets/Instruments/Max Instruments Setup Input – Setup the incoming channel to your mic or built-in mic Threshold – Sets the volume threshold for the input audio start/end detection. After a recording is finished, the beginning and end points of the recorded sample will be cropped to the first recorded sample that crosses above the set input volume threshold. This threshold also applies to any dropped samples! G – When enabled, recording starts when input signal crosses a …
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