Working method in Ableton

[RDR]

How do you manipulate yours..

you first - we can play doctors and nurses...

[FILTERZ]

I only use live basically to fire loops off , i have it all going through my 32- 8 mackie through a motu 828 , i also send clock to my 303 , elektron drum machine and effects boxes . If i want to fack with a sound i do it on the desk . All my loops for the live set are taken from sx as this is what i use to write and program my tunes.

[FILTERZ]

oh and with a mouse

[RDR]

I use live as a master device. It plays all the loops i create in either fruity or play in live from my k-station.

I use the O1x as a mackie controller and the internal processing and the FX...

I create by approaching it like a DJ mix, I write a track of around 6 parts, then take two of the parts and they form part of the next track, i wrote the next four parts match that.

I will occasionally drop in a full production track (i may need a pee halfway through... :lol: )

Anyone else care to comment

[viagratek]

i have to pee now too :lol:

[lau]

I've got two ways of working with it... ( creating tracks that is.. I never used it for playing live..)

method one is just creating my main loop in the vertical screen .. than record about 4 bars of it into the horizontal screen... ( or longer if there are any loops that are longer)..

after that I build up my track..... I always add some new channels to it with new sounds....

Method two is creating the entire track in the vertical screen.. than record it all to the horizontal screen and work it out there ..

This goes much faster but I prefer the first method coz it requires my concentration more... so most of the times the tracks turn out to be much better....

actually now I think about it .. I should never use method 2 again

anyways... thats pretty much it...

[RDR]

actually now I think about it .. I should never use method 2 again

anyways... thats pretty much it...

:lol:

Thats made me laugh hard man...

I have those horrible thought processes sometimes, you know those "Oh, bollocks now ive said it outloud it sounds shite... back to the ****ing drawing board"

[FIK]

I usually start off in session view, creating loops and sounds. I work this out untill I've got my basic structure. After that I switch to arrange view to write the track. When using it 'live', I simply take the loops from session view and bounce them in my 'live-set'.
If I stay working in session view I seem to get stuck. Automating in arrangement view is far more easy than in session, alltough I do automate clips in my 'live-act', cause otherwise it sounds to loopy.
The past few days I've been working with some hardware attached to it and I must say it works perfect.

[FILTERZ]

I also use a lot of midi clips and these seem to stayin in time perfectly well with the audio

[djshiva]

i either start out messing about with some random loops just to find some textural oddities, or start out with the impulse and load some drum bits in and go at it.

i set up my impulse with each channel run to its own audio channel for more tweakability, and then use the keyboard trigger function to trigger drum sounds and have a bit of fun.

[auditory hallucinations]

I use mine as a glorified external midi sequencer, slaved to the clock signal from the TR909

So I write drum parts and stuff with the 909 sequencer, and have Live trigger chords and leads in the external sound modules. Because Live is only sending midi data and has no audio or vsts in it, it works like a charm and uses minimal cpu

Another cool thing from this method is that I can load percussion / bass / fx into my sampler and trigger this from the 909...when the pattern sounds cool, i dump the midi into Live and have it play the sampler back - this lets me do detailed velocity & automation which the 909 can't do, plus it frees up the 909 sequencer to write a new pattern with.

The other good thing is that it means you sequence with Live in tandem with the 909, which only has a two digit display...so it gives you much more of a visual reference (could be considered a bad thing tho' too, depends how old school you are!)

It's taken me ages to work out how to fuse hardware and software into some kinda workable harmony...but this feels like the best workflow so far

[Ritzi Lee]

I made a standard template in Ableton for production use only.
It contains all the midi channels ajusted with the right in / output settings on my midi interface to all the hardware. I even have different midi channels for automation use purposes for my external mixing desk and Akai MFC42 filter.

I also added a couple of midi channels for simplar and impulse, and some audio tracks for fu-cking up some weird sample / sounds.


So it's really easy to work with everytime Ã* want to create a new track.
The template will be loaded automatically at startup.

[RDR]

I made a standard template in Ableton for production use only.
It contains all the midi channels ajusted with the right in / output settings on my midi interface to all the hardware. I even have different midi channels for automation use purposes for my external mixing desk and Akai MFC42 filter.

I also added a couple of midi channels for simplar and impulse, and some audio tracks for fu-cking up some weird sample / sounds.


So it's really easy to work with everytime Ã* want to create a new track.
The template will be loaded automatically at startup.

Excellent working method there chief... templates are ace...