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[@Dubsteppah]

When you guys first open Live 12, don't close the demo track, instead save the presets on the demo track, there's some goodies on there that aren't in 12 natively. Happy producing!

[@lowendcandy]

Fire! Great tip was wondering about that

[@skyboundzoo]

The demo is incredible - Chuck the producer is an ableton wizard - worth picking that demo apart for some super neat tricks

[@Dubsteppah]

@@skyboundzoois that the person who made the demo track? I'm not knowledgeable about the makers behind Live, that is awesome to know. Really glad I found your channel, you have a nice community here, good vibes and attitudes. Much love from Montana.

[@Loneranger670]

The demo is always available as a project and so are the presets, no need to save them.

[@drewnorth3816]

Yeah I was quite surprised with the demo. I thought it sounded pretty amazing.

[@unnecessary-roughness3303]

Dude! great idea on the shortcut for freeze and flatten. and thank you for showing that copy max path AMAZING

[@lowendcandy]

Yo! Thanks for watching. Ya im stoked on that one too haha

[@drewlarmusic]

idk why my keyboard shortcut isnt working on my mac :( thanks for the vid tho!

[@battledj2933]

in piano roll instead of cut to the grid you can also join midi notes with (windows) ctrl+J, i wish that they also map "back" and "forward" in the browser to the back and forward of the mouse (like for example, explorer or internet browser) instead of clicking like a monkey on the arrows 😛

[@gabrielvelea5785]

awesome tips! thanks so much for the tutorial

[@lowendcandy]

Thanks for watching

[@steviebeats12]

This is fire bro. TY 🙌🙌

[@lowendcandy]

For sure!

[@rrigs8075]

great stuff! - very useful cheers

[@lowendcandy]

Thanks for watching!

[@manorofanimals]

Yoooo I also could not for the life of me figure out the new shortcut to hide the lower menu. Mad appreciate the knowledge and subscribed !

[@lowendcandy]

Haha dude they got me with that one too. Glad I could help thanks for watching!

[@jeremyformerlyknownastoken8218]

What is the shortcut dont wanna watch the whole vid

[@zericew]

haha I been using the beta for a while now and freezing and flattening tracks with that new 1 click solution a bunch and didnt even realize it was a new feature. I used to do the freeze, then flatten. I had somehow convinced myself that the one-click option button had always been there

[@lowendcandy]

Lol yes historically there has been max for live devices for it but it is new! Love it.

[@octanovanta90]

nice

[@user-bo8ex4ji7n]

I don't have those options for Group at the bottom of midi "play all, play one, group" - how did you get those?

[@lowendcandy]

You have to change the settings on the bottom left. You will see a couple words - click on that

[@BartWronsk]

Nice! Do you know of a way of getting "freeze and flatten" shortcut on Windows?

[@lowendcandy]

I dont hah sorry i know nothing about PCs. if you figure it out let me know though!

[@mcgritty8842]

It’s 2 clicks homie. Right click, then left click.

[@vjmcgovern]

@@mcgritty8842He asked about keyboard shortcuts. Not mouse clicks.

[@SCabriales]

Cmd+Option+G, Cmd+Option+B, Cmd+Option+O Still Work

[@lowendcandy]

Good to know! Thanks

[@nectariosm]

They could allow Cmd+Opt+B to do the Freeze and Flatten Track but no, we need two shortcuts for the browser and no shortcut. for Freeze and Flatten...

[@SCabriales]

@@nectariosm Shortcuts in ableton are a mess I agree, the shortcut for activating the return channels is something very important in my workflow and now I have to do it manually because they changed it to the mixer view, a view I don't use. Fortunately there is a way in Mac to create custom shortcuts inside multiple software, the only downside I've seen so far is you can't delete existing shortcuts, so replacing them is not an option.

[@nectariosm]

@@SCabriales I don't use the new mixer either. I got 2 screens because I use Ableton. But it is very odd to see 2 shortcuts do the same thing, especially in Ableton Live that has such a limited shortcut functionality.

[@vin3421]

Can you not set full-screen midi editor to a single hotkey?? Its my most used quick command and I have to press command+alt+E which is kinda bs. Also they should put a Return Track button back. My other most used quick command… now buried in menus

[@lowendcandy]

I agree. Ill look into this although I do think you can change these quick keys and remap stuff!

[@SwimnBird]

Is it “Freeze and Flatten” or “Freeze and Flatten Track”? Because I’m the menu it’s different from what you typed in the menu. (I can’t get it to work but could make the ‘Collect All and Save’ (Cmd Shift A) work. Edit* Had to upgrade to IOS Sonoma and it worked perfectly.

[@lowendcandy]

Freeze and flatten track - may have typed it wrong since i was re-doing it. sorry!

[@meru_lpz]

Is there a way to add a shortcut to do two things? I'd like to first Duplicate Track, and then Freeze and Flatten, cuz i never want to lose my original rack, just in case

[@lowendcandy]

In that case I would CMND D (duplicate) and then use your freeze and flatten quick command. You can also check out a max for live plugin called BIP

[@nectariosm]

@3:30 is this a specific MacOS thing? Because it ain't working on my M1 running MacOS 11.7.6 Also, anyone knows why it takes so long to Freeze a track as the projects get bigger? I also use Reaper and the equivalent Freeze and Flatten (Bounce in Place) is so fast regardless if the project is small or big.

[@raphaelshklarek]

Super cool knowledge! Unfortunately the key command for freeze and flatten doesn't work.

[@lowendcandy]

You know what since posting this I have had intermittent luck with it as well. I know som M4L developers - im going to see what they can do as far as a quick key for it ill keep you guys posted.

[@lowendcandy]

Yo I wanted to let you know, I reached out to a M4L developer and it turns out it works more consistently if the quick command is shorter. Mine is now command \ and it works every time.

[@Alckemy]

It sucks that freeze and flatten eats the whole track. It doesn’t solve the problem of having to dupe the track if you want to keep getting variations of the original. It’s never going to happen but bounce in place or flatten to new track would be ideal. Thankfully rolling sampler solves all those problems! They still need to add the ability to edit multiple clips at once. It’s kind of silly you have can only do one at a time.

[@clayxaviermusic]

Yo love the video man! Just wanted to give some constructive feedback & say the sped up effect on your voice is more distracting than helpful. You got some great tips in here, you don't need to rush em! Take your time and let us hear you

[@lowendcandy]

Thanks for the feedback! Although it actually is not sped up haha.

[@B1ggz13]

@@lowendcandyis it a stereo mic? Your voice is phasing

[@lowendcandy]

@@B1ggz13 I actually got to the root of the problem - my software was switching from mono to dual mono. Should not be an issue moving forward - thanks for the heads up!

[@TheColdHarshTruth]

Nice! Thanks! Liked! Subbed! Shared! Greetings from Scotland! Cheers! 🤍🌀🙏🏽🤘🏽🍻🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@user-mw1ku6cm4p]

If you can? Can you do something in depth on ghost notes?

[@lowendcandy]

Say less! Ill make sure to incorporate that soon

[@sebbosebbo9794]

infos about the M4l devices for the enhancement of working with controllers would be awesome.. Bitwig f.e.have had added a lot of cool funtionality per intern device, per scripts and on a global set scale too and all that help al lot to manage how controller interact with the set and the diff. pieces in it. But Life had no good vanilla system and tools to do so , but maybe Live 12 change it..what do you thing..??! p.s. from 3rd party creator comes stuff but its hidden and overlooked and often exist problems how no good showcases, bad manuals with explaining bad social media content and no test version... Specially interesting would be a studio performancesetup for synth controll and real live performance cases.. F.e. looper style performance are rising up , Life performance in general is a big thing we all know famous live performer i a ll kind of styles and formats.. So,..what have LiVe to offer now in the full Vanilla version and bings to the table in V12.. thx....keep up.....

[@lowendcandy]

for sure im going to take a deeper live into M4L in the future. I keep hearing great things about Bitwig ill have to check it out.

[@intheblink]

But is it dope?

[@lowendcandy]

The finest 🙌

[@slpwrm]

super

[@MARAASIM]

great video but dont use comb filter on your voice next time lol

[@lowendcandy]

😂 thats my software switching to dual stereo - sorted that problem out. Comb filter haha

[@hearmenow909]

I bet you still can't preview a loop/sample and keep the loop playing whilst adjusting the preview volume. I could never understand why Ableton would overlook such a simple thing. The sample preview needs improving, it needs to continue playing whilst you change the preview volume, it needs a VST lane, so EQ can be applied whilst previewing, so you can cut the bass out of samples for example. It also needs to have the name of the sample under the preview waveform, so you know which sample was playing if you accidentally click off somewhere else. A button next to the sample preview waveform to let you find it in the library would also be useful. If Ableton implemented these basic things that should be there already it would be near perfect.

[@lowendcandy]

Actually check out ableton performance pack - I think what you are describing might be in there. Was going through it last night

[@hearmenow909]

@@lowendcandy I'll check it, cheers.

[@frank_bee]

first half of the vid sounds like you re talking through an empty kitchen towel tube into the mic

[@lowendcandy]

Lol ya bro my recording software was trippin out on me. Shouldnt be an issue moving foward

[@iamdoomedmusic]

But why are u sitting in a Bathroom? :D Keep up the good work.

[@cXrisp]

Oh, in the bathroom does explains it. I thought he was using two paper cups connected by a string to record the vocals.

[@lowendcandy]

Lol bro my recording software hates me - it gets better 😂

[@cXrisp]

Haha! It's not that bad. Thanks for the vid BTW!@@lowendcandy

[@lowendcandy]

@@cXrisp Thanks for watching 🙌

[@Karpo1]

Flattening the track after freeze always took just a second, whereas freezing it can take even minutes with some big project. The thing they should’ve done is bounce in place, where you can actually select the part you wanna freeze and flatten. Imo this is no improvement to what we already had whatsoever.

[@lowendcandy]

I personally find the freeze and flatten button practical, however they have a M4L device called BIP that can do this that may be more consistent with what you are looking for!

[@Mindofkavi]

freeze and flatten not working!

[@lowendcandy]

Really? The quick key or just selecting it from the menu?

[@Mindofkavi]

@@lowendcandy the shortcut!

[@bfreitas456]

but I don't use mac os... would be cool if you had also provided windows shortcuts

[@lowendcandy]

Ya I would like to unfortunately theres no way to verify they work since I dont have a PC. Maybe in the futue. Thanks for watching tho!

[@xom.]

Dudes recording inside of a pipe

[@iithax01]

Me with Ableton lite 11 😢

[@lowendcandy]

Haha upgrade is worth it brother. Remember, if youre any kind of student you can get 40% off AND they give you a license that can be used on two computers.

[@iithax01]

@@lowendcandy definitely working on that investment for sure

[@BasSine_Studio]

Bit of phase combing on the VO there… whoops

[@BasSine_Studio]

That aside I enjoyed the tips here. Shame I’m windows and the shortcut stuff didn’t apply

[@lowendcandy]

Ya my recording software hates me lol cant figure out why it does that randomly. Thanks for watching

[@BasSine_Studio]

@@lowendcandy I hope you manage to figure it out!

[@lowendcandy]

Thanks!@@BasSine_Studio

[@olafsigursons]

Nice, I have to pay 400$ for a functionnality that should have been there a long time ago. Another cash grab by Ableton. It's all they know how to do.

[@DM43685]

This video was just too quick for me, he ran through this at the speed of light....I'm new to Ableton and it didn't help....

[@lowendcandy]

If you're new to ableton I actually have a complete tutorial on my channel of how to use ableton start to finish geared towards those new in Ableton - this video was more so for previous users of 11 who were already familiar with the software. Hope that helps!