Ableton Live is a Modular Synth

[@RISEmtn]

As someone who loves diving deeper into Ableton's stock synths and effects, your tutorials are so helpful man, thanks for doing what you do!

[@randyyoung5919]

Now back to a true modular enviroment....Bitwigs grid.

[@SeedtoStage]

1:45 - Expanding Modulation in Ableton Devices 3:00 - Max Envelope Device 3:41 - Mapping Envelope Parameters 5:05 - Limiting envelope ranges 5:29 - Envelope Multimap 7:07 - Max LFO Device 7:28 - Amplitude Modulation 8:10 - Modulating Modulators 9:55 - Beat Repeat LFO Multimap 12:52 - Decay Rate with LFO 14:20 - LFO Modes 15:01 - Capture Sounds for Composition

[@intheburrows]

I believe if you put this into the description KZbin will add the timestamps into the video play head/bar (at least on desktop)

[@alpygtr5302]

@@intheburrows exactly, i hope he and everyone will use this feature

[@wrong1029]

My god. Where have you been the last three years? I've been looking so long for some practical Ableton sound design tutorials, and yours are presented so well. It's super inspiring to see Ableton in such a different way than what I'm used to

[@ryjoho2002]

16:35 "I might explore this even deeper if people are really interested in this" Please do, we are.

[@Skiamakhos]

Love this kind of thing. There're too many tutorials on Ableton where they go straight into some expensive 3rd party plugins rather than use the stuff that's there already. I want to know all about Operator, Wavetable, Simpler, Sampler, Tension and Impulse - and things like Drum Buss and the built-in filters, eqs and reverbs before I start shelling out for anything else.

[@mrnelsonius5631]

I’m fairly new to Ableton and I agree. I’m shocked at how deep and wide the included tools are. I came into Ableton like it’s a standard DAW, arranging and editing audio, but it operates almost like a modular sampler. The simple and consistent interface belies the underlying complexity and power of its tools. I keep finding new stuff where I’m like “oh wow I didn’t need a 3rd party plugin for that”

[@BrianFunkMusic]

Really nice demonstration of this! I'll be showing my students!

[@lillepott]

Really wish Ableton got an UI upgrade to lean in to this modular approach a bit more. Make it possible to expand the instrument pane so I could see more than just the width of my screen at one time. Make the mappings from envelope and lfo visual, like a patch cable style or maybe a master modulation matrix and you're basically approaching something like VCV rack

[@randyyoung5919]

Its called Bitwig.

[@Joiner113]

When rack 2.0 comes out, we won't need any of this stuff in Ableton because we'll just be able to do it in rack within Ableton.

[@altseason_musik]

11:11 this is veeery creative

[@catalogue0]

One trick that I like to use is to assign an lfo to operator’s algorithm mode, very powerful stuff, you should try it !

[@sebastiandorrington6195]

This was very insightful! I migrated from FL Studio to Ableton this year and videos like these show me how easy Ableton makes being creative is! 10/10

[@artamidae9254]

Excellent video man, I am finishing my final year of a degree using Ableton as my principle DAW, found your channel this week and am truly blown away. Thanks for all your work, can’t wait to see more on this topic.

[@MichaelVictory]

I’m just rounding on my second month of a three month trial for 11 suite. It solved so many of the headaches I had with Maschine and Reason I put everything up for sale and am about to have everything centered around ableton, the novation launchpad pro 3 and the apc40 mk2. Your tutorials are excellent. Thanks.

[@TheSilentCartgraph3r]

Im surprised at how few people modulate LFO rates with other LFOs

[@AlchemicalAudio]

My Ensoniq ESQ allows for this and I use it all the time

[@imageofsin]

try using an lfo to modulate the intensity of another lfo by using a vca

[@MrBEnIbb]

Use two LFOs from wich the frequencys are modulated by another two LFOs ;)

[@MrBEnIbb]

@1234 abcd And than finally you have this weird modular Synth Noise that sounds like shit :D

[@johnc1867]

I went down the modulation rabbit whole year's ago haha. Sometime I'll find something I made back then and it makes me laugh. What I will say is that can make my own sounds in my vst plugins so it was worth the it in the long run

[@parboilrice]

Really enjoyed this. Hoping to see more of it.

[@JohnnyWalkerArt]

The smartest people make those around them smart. You do that with each tutorial. Thank you.

[@unoaotroa]

At 7:33 and 7:48 you're actually talking about frequency modulation, which happens at higher speeds. Amplitude modulation is at lower speeds and sounds like a tremolo effect.

[@hanshanshansans]

Not quite correct! Amplitude modulation affects the volume (amplitude) of a signal, whereas frequency modulation deals with pitch (measured in frequency). The speed at which either is happening has nothing to do with what is being modulated. In fact, in different instances either could even be called a tremolo. In production, tremolo is a technique of AM, whereas on the guitar, a tremolo bar is used for FM.

[@CounternoiseMusic]

Great presentation with a good mix of being prepared and still experimenting live. Really captured me. Thanks a lot!

[@bedtimeread]

Hey bro, sorry for writing again, I got my curious mode going and I decided to do a fun test that I think you'll enjoy.. I took serum and chose a random wavetable.. i took a sampler and tried to use the same wave table from serum.. it was kinf of easy to figure out how to match both in sound at the start... a couple of LFOs in I was spending longer and longer to try to recreate the sound in sampler... but it was super fun. Make an "Live Serum Chain" and see how it works.. thanks again!

[@FuZZbaLLbee]

Also doing this with the Hydrasynth, which had 5 envelopes and 5 lfo’s to map.

[@aidandibble6415]

the effect of the envelope around 5:00 makes it sound a lot like the synth/siren sound in Tame Impala's song Powerlines! Good trick to have in the arsenal.

[@SIQN-]

Looking forward to your full course stuff. You’re one of my favorites to watch here (and I watch a lot) as I learn the most from you. Just wanted to say thanks.

[@sebbosebbo9794]

great explaining .. the outgreyed not relativ modulation is a problem ...Bitwig handle this so cool..

[@Legonatic]

Best Ableton videos on youtube

[@peterkerkelov]

Love these type of videos and would be great to see you getting deeper. Thank you for the quality contents!

[@bedtimeread]

Thanks so much for this, spent so much time playing with serum and phaseplant that I start to run out of ideas, meanwhile live itself has endless possibilities..

[@neonvoid]

i wish i could just keep dropping LFO & Envelop devices from the Push2 *AND* assign them to ANY macros/parameters ON the PUSH2, without a keyboard/mouse The push2 is incredible, but the freely assignable LFOs are really missing.

[@ItsWesSmithYo]

2023, realizing this as I started messing with Modular plugs lol thanks for run down

[@ShantanuSudame]

This is so helpful! Big thanks man.

[@lavenderllamamusic]

the modulated hi-hat with beat repeat effecting the pitch reminded me of Daft Punk's Alive 2007, during "Oh Yeah", before Technologic comes in. Although I'm sure they were using their JazzMutant Lemurs to achieve that effect

[@silmearendil]

You just solved a problem I had in Ableton, thank you!!

[@schmellmafeet]

You could also use an envelope on the drums to trigger a mod for the synth

[@tolfpeck]

Please continue this is amazing!

[@ampedpcr]

Your channel is great, thanks!

[@kosounds6625]

Thanks for all the effort you put into these tutorials mate. I have been jamming out with suite trying to squeeze out as much value as I can with the stock instruments and effects and your channel is invaluable. Keep on doing what you do!

[@bobtronic73]

this is so cool. i was exactly looking for something like this. wanted to modulate Analog's LFOs by another LFO to speed up filter modulation over time. thanks a lot!

[@RA2Music]

Yes, I would love for you to go deeper with this. I hadn’t thought about using the synths and various plugins in this way. Really innovative, thanks.

[@adamwinchell6822]

Very awesome stuff--I followed along in my own session and got some great results. Would definitely like to see more on this topic--great work!

[@Zer0Spinn]

I started using ableton a few months ago and I haven't made any music yet (kind of) cause I'm just playing with live's stock plug-ins and stuff like this. I LOVE this DAW. This the first video of yours I watch btw, but count me as a new sub.

[@bauhnguefyische667]

I'm so used to doing LFO's to LFO's it just seems normal for me. I never wind up with the sound I wanted in the first place . there's so many sounds you can get lost in and I follow that lead. I've had Ableton Live 10 a few months now, and with a little digging I can get what I was looking for. It's pretty awesome to just fiddle with on a Push 2 or desk full of hardware.

[@NexxuSix]

This is very interesting! And, you are just scratching the surface of the possibilities. Thank you for the video =)

[@zsteinkamp]

Great info, thanks. And good going polishing your delivery.

[@adwind3055]

Very inspiring explanation. Have to try this immediately

[@WHYZMAN_]

Ayy my guy another blessed tutorial. Been messing around with this a little already actually but this has given much inspiration!

[@Erik_Torstensson]

Your Ableton videos are amazing! Looking forward to see more..

[@janbrzezinski6558]

Man this is fantastic, you're really opening me to the possibilities with the M4L. Do more!

[@Pomatski93]

oh man you can even use it for vsts and stuff, thank you sir!

[@goodpal7444]

This tutorial was soooooo many needed things. Thx!

[@razvanmatt]

Another great tutorial, as always. Thanks for sharing the knowledge, man! Cheers!

[@dvak_dj]

I really enjoyed this video! Great Job!

[@forwardmemory5940]

Excellent. Great ideas here. Well done, you have another subscriber!

[@43sad3efs]

this is so good! any chance you could try and make idioteque by radiohead, the drums especially on this? would be a great tutorial video

[@NicholasStein]

I recently have been watching a lot of VCV videos and trying to use a EuroRack in Ableton. I had the idea that Ableton and Max could do a lot of the stuff that happens in VCV directly. Of course there is OSCiLLOT Modular System. But this video was an eye opener. I would like to see more of this type of video.

[@fakshen1973]

I do hope Ableton dives a little deeper into their own modulation. Also, what sets hardware modular apart is audio rate modulation as well as complexity having no impact on performance for most modules (non CPU driven).

[@jcnunez695]

This is a very interesting work flow I don’t ever use session view but this is a great way to introduce some randomness and happy accidents into composition writing so I’m definitely going to try this out!

[@pk3776]

What an eye opener, thank you 🙏

[@bvrbvs]

I'm in! Looking forward to the course. Please do include mixing specific tricks with stock plugins like your videos (mono video was awesome)

[@JamesRamboPearce]

Love generative stuff, need to do more and this is prime inspiration!

[@Taylor-op8tv]

This was dope. Thanks!

[@ldf060497]

AWESOME! Thanks!

[@weedyliver]

Uncontested smartest person on the internet. 🤯

[@Fuxhoernchen]

Thanks, this was fun to watch! As a beginner I am sometimes most interested in "where is he clicking to do what he says?" but somethimes I have trouble following your mouse (black on dark colors) --> Could you maybe increase the contrast of your mouse with regard to the ableton colors? Just an idea...

[@minorminor4345]

Another sick tutorial! Just keep going! Would be awesome something with vocals though!

[@kosmikmusa]

Nice one. Thank you.

[@antoineguilbeault8025]

GO DEEPER

[@c2running]

Hey S2S I can't wait to get Ableton 10 You lite my fire COOOL...Peace

[@johnnyk1080]

Keep at this! Would love get a mod synth at some point but I'm new to the world and this is a great way to learn before I take the financial leap

[@derekholland3328]

awesome tutorial.

[@DaddaPsy]

Love the little laugh you make at 16:22, it's like "hehe! fuck yeah this is dope!"

[@irishmossdubwise]

Remember to deactivate lfo before collect all/save. I learned the hard way. It keeps modulating parameters after save and crashes.

[@SeedtoStage]

Mine doesnt crash from LFO, BUT i am a strong advocate for recording super complex max patches to audio before closing out a session

[@irishmossdubwise]

@@SeedtoStage I'm definitely not the only one. A second after saving it changes prompting another save. Reopen it's moving before samples finish. Boom.

[@homunduruk2530]

I also like to use envelope follower and for a lot, but they are so CPU intensive.

[@Jimbo386000]

This is so cool!

[@DavidCoffinshirtguy]

Yes, definitely-MORE! MORE!

[@englewoodmusic]

WOO!! IMA THRO DEPTHZ ANISSSS!!

[@asapatheist]

I love this feature in max. They need to change the name of this feature. I could give you 10 reasons why, but the #1 reason is when searching for max for live devices online that are "mappable" a search query has no means of separating this feature (inner-app mapping) from devices designed with midi controller mapping in mind (as a surprising amount of max objects are not in fact mappable).

[@pawesulewski4030]

Excellent! Thanks :)

[@boymatmat]

Wow love this very nice LOTS THANKS

[@eferg16]

Ve must go vahn deepah!

[@foljs5858]

It's indeed a modular synth when it comes to LFOs and other such controls, but not as flexible for passing audio streams around arbitrarily

[@bobtronic73]

I think the only problem here is since it's only modulating the interface you don't get per-voice modulation for poly synths.

[@MoreThanSilence]

There are Max 4 Live plugins that emulate that kind of stuff. But I would also be curious to see if it is possible to use an LFO or envelope to generate random notes. I dont't think it is possible.

[@PaulRichards78]

Amazing, thanks

[@mju135]

I've been saying this for a while. I don't understand the Bitwig hype - Max for Live enables the same things like Bitwig's "Modulators" and "The Grid" and has been around for many years. Bitwig just has a more polished workflow around modular.

[@rhyskt]

I honestly wish there was a way to expand abletons effects chain into a full screen window sometimes though, just for a better view of everything and what's modulating what. Aside from that (and the loop length for audio tracks feature being only available on Push 2), I'm really happy with Ableton.

[@mischiefner]

Well Max devices were sketchy sometimes, and having possibility to use modular workflow inside a DAW without something like Max I find pretty hype worthy. Also Ableton Live Suite cost 600€ and bitwig studio only 379€. So yes I get the hype.

[@bboymac84]

Is upgrading from standard to suite cheaper?

[@iofzayahernandez8248]

Anthony, Please help me get a stream using obs and soundflower. And get the metronome in my headphones and master audio in headphones only. you have helped me so much. I truly thank you.

[@citadelo5ricks]

No doubt! When they do "DAW shootouts" it makes no sense, Live is kind've an ok DAW, not great, but it is an unparalleled sound development platform.

[@casicadaminuto1]

The problem with Ableton is its linearity. I'd like to imagine what would be the smart way to modulate master tempo/sequencer direction, so that the the music would be more "free flowing" than the grid tells you to.

[@airfixx_8952]

There's all sorts of crazy sequencers available via M4L. Basically, if you can imagine it then the chances are that some boffin out there has had a similar idea too.

[@madastrota]

I'm curious how much of this example is specific to Max versus how much can be applied in just the standard version. I'm still really new to this so I'm a ways off from making that additional investment.

[@lokologico]

Reason was this since version 1, and still is.

[@LeonTrimble]

how patronising is the animation of the clicking bell?

[@eotobanana]

@16:34 - yes

[@AT-eh2eo]

Where can one get those M4L Modules????

[@thomas_rellum]

Ableton forever 🖤

[@EekItsYouRS]

Are there any ways to create an LFO envelope in Ableton similar to Serum? Where its much more editable - or any free plugins?

[@LesterBrunt]

The only thing Live really lacks is more complex LFO timing. 8 bars is nothing. LFO modulator can go up to 32 but even that is pretty basic when the tempo gets faster. I don’t understand why you can’t just put in whatever you want, should be a very simple formula to calculate the exact herz. Like why can’t I have a LFO that has a frequency of 30.25 bars? Also wavetable lfo’s seem like a no brainer to me.

[@chrisw1462]

Thanks for the video - I can't afford a modular synth, either money-wise or space-wise. BTW, @7:47 - It's Frequency Modulation, not Amplitude modulation.

[@pignalugo5643]

Very intersting content ! But in my live 10 when I clic on map button, it doesn't flashing. So i can't map anything, do you know why ? Thx for your answer

[@jamesbrooks1367]

where do you get that envelope plugin I can't find it on the website

[@VNDM-MUSIC]

Yes!

[@joeymorangarza]

the only thing I hate about ableton is the vast unexplored potentiality and the logistical impossibility of being able to fully explore it all. that is, until you come across videos like these which not only inspires and motivates, but reduces the time spent learning

[@bavingeter423]

That sounds more like a you problem

[@dorsia6938]

Hey man, how would you compare the useability of Ableton oposed to Bitwig for this kinda stuff?

[@rhyskt]

Signed up to be notified! Do you have an estimated deadline for your first bit of content? I've learned so much from you already, I can't wait to see what else you have in store! Stay awesome dude!

[@SeedtoStage]

Difficult to say. I'm presently working on the Songwriting and Composition course and that will likely take about 100 hours or so to shoot and edit! What I'm struggling with right now is whether or not to release them as they come out or shoot them all and release them as a batch so users can either get one of them or all 5 at a discounted rate. This is the most time consuming and cerebral thing I've ever done. But i think the end result will be amazing.

[@rhyskt]

@@SeedtoStage hell yeah dude. I think doing the lot and then uploading them is the way to go, but that just my opinion. I'm sure they'll be great either way.