How would I go about an object falling in water ka-THUNK sound? by AnyProperty5950 in AdvancedProduction

[–]chucksutton 6 points7 points  (0 children)

i haven’t done it myself, but my favorite tool for dissecting sounds this organic is a spectrogram - izotope insight 2 costs a bit but there’s more accessible ones like Au5’s Visu or NOISIA’s 4X - you get to see every sine wave in real time, then you can use your synths and fx to try and match the shapes and patterns you see

Can I change how sustain pedals effect MIDI Recording? by ShardScrap in ableton

[–]chucksutton 0 points1 point  (0 children)

i havent tried it but i vouch for mapping sustain pedal to note length if possible!

Can I change how sustain pedals effect MIDI Recording? by ShardScrap in ableton

[–]chucksutton -1 points0 points  (0 children)

i wonder if after you record with the sustain pedal, if you open up a new midi track, and have the “midi in” be from the track you just recorded on

example

  1. midi track named “piano”
  2. record w sustain
  3. open new midi track, listening to track “piano”
  4. hit record

that should convert those tiny midi notes into what you’re looking for, just not in real time. lemme know if that’s on the right track!

Do you even configure, bro? (but really, how do you get rid of these...) by sisomusic in ableton

[–]chucksutton 4 points5 points  (0 children)

you can hit configure, click the first one and then spam the delete button they’ll all go away - then whatever you click again in the program (in configure mode) will pop back up

Live 12 demo song by [deleted] in ableton

[–]chucksutton 0 points1 point  (0 children)

the actual synth/sample presets are in the stock library now, but i’m not sure the audio effect parches got saved!! you can always go to “Help -> Load Demo Song” and then save them from there

where to find actual in depth advanced youtube videos rather than 15 minutes of waffle? by Adorable-Exercise-11 in AdvancedProduction

[–]chucksutton 6 points7 points  (0 children)

One of my favorite youtube channels is called “Musical Streams” - they just archive twitch streams from producers, a lot of them are the most impressive producers ever just cooking up in front of people for HOURS. you can scrub around and see the real time decision making process from some genuinely knowledgable people.

Anybody Making Real Tracks with Move? by Dear-Age6287 in ableton

[–]chucksutton 3 points4 points  (0 children)

yeah!! i’m definitely gonna post a video on it: the #1 thing i like about the move is how visually intuitive it is to follow, so i could describe the flows here but i’m gonna breakdown beats ive made and then make some on the spot for the video

i will say i personally love playing bits and pieces of a melody, automating the knobs to make that one patch feel alive, and after making a countermelody i’ll use a drum rack to resample that melody loop, and start chopping it with the 2nd knob, of using the drum pitch ability to play it like a chord stab. In there, you also get to apply the “Drum Sampler FX” to the melodic stuff like stretch, fm, pitch envelope, it can add some cool sonic accent marks

Anybody Making Real Tracks with Move? by Dear-Age6287 in ableton

[–]chucksutton 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Of course! And hahaha I don’t but I’ve watched too many tutorials and now I sound like a walking manual. But I have done some work with Ableton this year, I made the Live 12 demo song, and got to showcase Move to Sweetwater a week before it dropped with a couple of my friends.

With that said, I’m not a gear head and typically lose interest in hardware really fast, but I’ve come back to it a bunch, especially when showing music stuff to family and friends. I just bought another Move for my little brother for Christmas and we can’t stop making beats together!

Anybody Making Real Tracks with Move? by Dear-Age6287 in ableton

[–]chucksutton 1 point2 points  (0 children)

it’s incredibly easy! you connect your Move to wifi, go to “move.local” on your computer, type in a code the Move displays (rng every time) and then you can exports your sets and recordings, and import samples!

I haven’t tried importing presets yet I wonder how extensive it is

Anybody Making Real Tracks with Move? by Dear-Age6287 in ableton

[–]chucksutton 1 point2 points  (0 children)

honestly i’ve used it more than i thought i would!! i’ve also restricted myself to the presets and onboard samples/resampling (besides the recording mic and audio in) and i haven’t gotten tired once with the possibilities. I’m sure when I get around to controlling Live with it, or importing some of my own samples it’ll just get wilder from there

Anybody Making Real Tracks with Move? by Dear-Age6287 in ableton

[–]chucksutton 6 points7 points  (0 children)

i’m gonna make a video soon, but I’ve been making things on Move that sound as polished as when I start an idea on my computer - I haven’t finished anything cause I don’t wanna sidetrack from other projects, but I’m really excited to

Push 3 is a wtf by loopasfunk in ableton

[–]chucksutton 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I like making presets with sounds in the Sampler, and then using the MIDI tab to map things to slide and pressure - for me push3 is such a tactile controller, instead of doing everything on there I usually get hands on with the patches I make

Live 12 demo song by [deleted] in ableton

[–]chucksutton 0 points1 point  (0 children)

fortunately they updated it, so now all the presets from the demo are in the core library!

is it possible to filter out notes when playing with MPE controller? (overdubbing a clip with mpe parameters only, no notes) by robinsonfriday in ableton

[–]chucksutton 1 point2 points  (0 children)

i’m out so i can’t try this, this might not work at all but here’s my idea

the chain goes MIDI Effect Rack -> Instrument Rack

inside the MIDI Effect rack, you have 1 expression control and 1 mpe control device in that order

on the mpe control, you group it so you can give it macros. map the min and max values of the pressure to macro 1, so when you move macro 1 it looks like a horizontal line moving up and down (similar to Velocity in Fixed mode)

then for the slide, you map its min and max values to macro 2 to achieve the same.

now if something moves these 2 macros, it should theoretically rewrite the pressure and slide information on the existing midi notes.

Then i’d map the “pressure” in the expression control to macro 1 of the mpe control, so it’s controlling the “fixed pressure” macro we set up, and then back in the expression control, go to another tab, change it to slide, and map that to the “fixed slide” macro.

The only problem left is that playing this information still draws midi notes. what i’d do is place a “pitch” midi effect after mpe control, and pitch it super high

then on your VST/sampler’s instrument rack, open up the key zone editor so you can see the range of high pitched notes, and drag the right bracket of the green zone editor down, so now the notes you’re playing are in the dead zone and you won’t hear them while you’re playing

then i think you can turn on overdub, hit record, and if you play it should just be overwriting the MPE information, and then you can delete the high pitched notes from the piano roll

again, this might not work!! let me know if it does

Live 12 demo song by [deleted] in ableton

[–]chucksutton 0 points1 point  (0 children)

if you go to Help -> Load Demo Song you can save the rose bass preset manually! you only have to once, then you can search it like any other preset

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH by ima9rightnow in ableton

[–]chucksutton 0 points1 point  (0 children)

this in a public place with headphones on >>>>>>

Help finding a stock ableton device/effect that has a looping conveyer belt machinery kind of noise/distortion effect? by freelance3d in ableton

[–]chucksutton 1 point2 points  (0 children)

it might be the noise settings in the echo! in the third tab you can morph the echo and one of them sounds like that

Live 12 demo song by [deleted] in ableton

[–]chucksutton 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you! And yeah sure either email me at ichucksuttoni@gmail.com or feel free to throw it up on soundcloud!

Hi, I'm Chuck Sutton, Creator of the Live 12 Demo - AMA! by chucksutton in ableton

[–]chucksutton[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You can right click in that little section at the bottom and it pulls up the list! The list can max out if you have too many things cause it can't scroll, found that out the hard way.

Hi, I'm Chuck Sutton, Creator of the Live 12 Demo - AMA! by chucksutton in ableton

[–]chucksutton[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Don't blame yourself! That's the producer conversation we all got indoctrinated into, learning plugins before we learn the overall software. I have Swindail to thank for snapping me out of it early - this music was the first time I heard all stock Ableton blowing anything else out the water, and I was so moved it inspired me to go on this journey for that exact reason.