Ableton Live Masterclass for Worship Leaders

[@claritymn]

1:09 Who is this video for? 3:44. Jake's "Origin Story" 9:34 Seven Steps for Using Ableton Live in Worship 9:41 Step 1 "Gear and Software" 18:27 Step 2: Keeping stuff organized 21:42 Step 3: Creating Individual Song Projects 25:40 Step 4: Building Weekly Setlist Project 34:05 Step 5: Program Control and Flexibility 36:55 Step 6: Assigning Outputs (Audio and MIDI) 38:14 Step 7: Lead Worship (footage from services) 43:16 Quick Overview of 7 Steps 46:45 Promo for Worship Leader School

[@njiuma]

at 13:30 it's great to see that you're working with The Beatles for Worship at your church... 😀

[@noobmaster1231]

Can you do a tutorial on how to set up these automations? It would be really helpful.. thanks

[@mikezotomusic6729]

I've been waiting for you to make an ableton masterclass for such a long time, i feel blessed!!.. thank u thank u... blessings from P.R. 🇵🇷🇵🇷🌊💗

[@Churchfront]

Thanks for watching!

[@josephh9479]

Hello Can you do a quick video on, jumping around ( chorus, verse, bridge, chorus) flawlessly? Like if you finish the song, then the worship leader spontaneously decides to sing the bridge again and you want to use the tracks. It would be great!!!! Thanks!!!!

[@dvazquez22]

Joseph H yesssssss please that’s the biggest question I have too! My Pastor has always been against using these different softwares for our church congregations, but after all of this chaos going on we’ve been forced to go live which in my opinion I was excited because finally we are up to date with these cool features!

[@jojothe2nd607]

David Vazquez I agree!!!!!! I’ve played with ableton, but this question has always stuck with me!!!! Thanks for your support!!

[@stephenevans2518]

@@jojothe2nd607 If you use arrangement view like this example, then you could put in markers for the start of each section and then map the important ones to a controller of some sort. Would probably work quite well if you had a controller with a grid of buttons like a launchpad or similar and used each column of buttons for the different main sections and then a row for each song. Most people who jump around between songs as far as I can tell use session view though. Ian McIntosh from Jesus Culture has a course on it which I think is pay as you feel at the moment which explains how to set it up using session view.

[@jojothe2nd607]

Stephen Evans hey!!! Thanks Stephen!!! I appreciate your great response!!! I’ll have to watch that video by Jesus Culture!!! THANKS BRO!!!!!

[@stephenevans2518]

@@jojothe2nd607 No problem! I started typing out a summary of how to set up session view but it quickly becomes a bit of an essay lol!

[@Soccernz007]

Behringer basic in ear works fine!!! I recently heard Darlene Zschech describe the 'thing' we stand on at the front of the church .... the "platform". She encourages not calling it a 'stage'. Stages age are for performance. Platform is to be seen so Zacchaeus doesn't have to climb up a tree. It sounds silly to differentiate, but really helpful to change the culture away from performing.

[@tonywarre5629]

Hi Jake, I am a Pastor we are getting ready to launch in 3 weeks. We purchased Ableton Live 10 and ProPresenter 6 I need with laying down our beginning part of service . Like starting the countdown slide, bumper video slide, & Welcome video.

[@ThirdBaptistChurchofChicago]

The transition at 31:00 got me, Made me go all the way back to the beginning like OMG, how did we get here again lol. We on our way!

[@IAintNoPianoPlayer]

You are honestly the best. Thank you Jesus for this channel.

[@Churchfront]

Thank you!

[@IAintNoPianoPlayer]

@@Churchfront Hey Jake, do you know if you can run Propresenter on a PC and link it to a Mac running Ableton?

[@rhondaperrymusic]

Thank you so much for this video. I'm more clear after watching your video. Do you know the best place where I can get backing tracks from?

[@bethelchristiancenter_tx]

so insightful! Our church's worship experience just moved into the next level!!

[@Churchfront]

Awesome!

[@miltonescalante551]

Wow this is an amazing video, you have explained very well and in detail this very important subject for church musicians and for those of us who work doing live shows. Thanks a lot.

[@davidpeterson5316]

Hey Jake, I was really excited when I saw this. We’ve been using ableton for years and use it in the session view but we learned just enough how to make it work without ever improving it. I think your method would be a huge benefit to us! I will say watching this video, I kept waiting for the how to’s for each step. Every time I thought you would go there, it was on to the next step of what you could do. Any chance of a part 2 of this coming out that is more how to focused? Some things that would benefit me watching is bringing those song templates in to a set list. What are your steps for that? Since you use ableton in arrangement mode how do you set your midi to fire song 1, then 2 and so on? That’s something really easy to do in session view but a little less intuitive in arrangement view. What’s your process for creating midi cues and writing those in to a song? I noticed the labeling at the top of your timeline from song to song, how did you create that? I guess if there were time for you to screen record creating a set list from start to finish one week that would be amazing! Hope this doesn’t come across as griping, because this is great content! I could just personally use a little bit more how to with these steps to wrap my brain around them! Thanks for all you do.

[@sundaynyanabo2777]

Wow....Jake, frankly, you've been one of the benefits COVID 19 brought to me.....You've made me think of Excellence, investing on right gears and softwares.....one of the questions I have is, why didn't your ad pop on my screen years ago? I immediately subscribed to your channel after drawing some inspiration...I'm yet to begin this journey of ABLETON 10 LIVE..I know it's going to be a blessing to our church and to me at the end... Thank you and God bless you, wife and Twins..

[@renodigitalservice]

Man!!!! Thank you for this Support! It's A lot of help 'cause I just Barely Started dealing with Ableton Live Suite!

[@JeffHendricks]

I appreciate all the work you're putting in to helping out us worship leaders! Even though the current standard is Ableton Live, I think there are plenty of other options that should be able to do the same functions, like Bitwig Studio. The problem I'm running into is that 99% of the information for performance DAW software (documentation/tutorials) is for recording, or EDM performance. I really wish software companies would have more resources on how to use their products in a performance/backing track setting. I'm studying your workflow, and want to eventually try to do the same things with Bitwig, because it runs in Linux (which is what I use). There is *no* info on how to do this, so I'm resorting to watching Ableton stuff and trying to cross-apply it.

[@ShemDangmei]

It’s a good overview especially on Ableton Live. Please show how its actually done in ableton live. Which should be in fact the most important content of video looking at the title of video.

[@shuntaimusic]

Awesome. Thanks.

[@churchsoundtips6940]

Awesome tutorial. Been a big fan of Ableton live for a few years now. Currently using for our Youth Ministry.

[@Churchfront]

thank you!

[@noobmaster1231]

I was about to ask you to make a full tutorial on this.. and Bam.. you post it... Thanks a lot 🔥

[@bward27]

Thanks for taking the time to share your knowledge and workflow!

[@Churchfront]

glad i can help!

[@jeremyryannoel]

I hope to join WLS, however I was asked to answer additional questions while the date times were limited at the time. Definitely hoping to try again soon since I recently started using Ableton, and looking to getting the most out of it!

[@DeSantis5]

Thank you, Jake! (for serving the body of Christ this way) I for one am blessed by what you are sharing. :)

[@Churchfront]

Thanks Bobby!

[@BobJones-bh9qz]

This is amazing, the amount of information is absolutely crazy, I can’t believe it’s free 🔥🙌

[@carlgavet1564]

Great tutorial for someone who's considering AL. Thanks for sharing Jake.

[@Derek-ii3ok]

Awesome video Jake, really helpful. I'm working at a really small church with little to no budget (around 50 people), I have managed to implement in ear monitoring and we are currently implementing pads and looking to introduce a Click Track soon. We are currently using OpenLP for lyrics and OBS for livestreaming as they are both free opensource programs that do the job effectively. It may be a struggle to introduce Ableton Live for automation (£250 for standard) as well as getting a seat licence for ProPresenter (approx £280). On top of that I would have to introduce a mac system to effectively run both (2 base model M1 Mac minis £699 each). So I am looking at £2000+ upgrade to a system that doesn't even have a digital sound desk yet (Allen & Heath PA20-CP) (also Zero budget). I honestly really think that Ableton Live paired with automation for Lyrics is the best way forward, but I may have to accomplish it by taking it one very small step at a time (over the course of a few years).

[@stautbertfernandes]

just few words ...... thanks for the video as im starting my journey in ableton and a new level in worship this video is very informative

[@bleckybob]

I used to have lights go out and change during songs but then I had a lot of people come to me and say they were extremely distracting. So I got rid of that and just kept a static lighting scene through the songs and one with the lights up when the pastor comes up to speak.

[@joro7656]

Do have a video tutorial on actually doing the process for a song? Writing the midi cues and such...

[@patrickarobinson]

Awesome video, Jake! Thanks for sharing great content that's helping worship leaders everywhere! I tell anyone that asks me how to get started with Ableton Live to check you out!

[@Churchfront]

Thanks Patrick! Really appreciate the support

[@rhondaperrymusic]

Also, you said you get the song mp3 through I tunes. Where can I get the mp3 instrumentals?

[@EmmuEmmanuel]

Jake, can you share all the lighting hardware you use to run with ableton? like the lights, the connecting wires etc?

[@Churchfront]

All the gear is in the toolkits - www.churchfront.co/ableton-toolkit www.churchfront.co/worship-toolkit

[@johnemberger812]

you've got me sold on Ableton Live - started using this for my church several months ago, got the churchfront pads as well. I like arrangement view the way you present it and that's how I've been using it. My question is, how do you deal with a group of songs with different time signatures. This has been a pain for me. It does not seem automatic that time signatures paste in. I could have a set with mostly 4/4 but one 6/8 or even a few songs that go between 3/4 and 4/4 for a few measures at a time (It Is Well or Death Was Arrested if my memory is working) Jake - How do you deal with these time signature changes being pulled into your set-list?

[@theworshipheartbeat9395]

Yes this!! Going from 4/4 to 6/8 is not possible - as it seems. Jake, HELP!! I've got a set this weekend, with 3 4/4 songs, and 1 6/8. Show us your ways, por favor.

[@jamesmharvey]

Great video. Thanks for the training. Any chance you could share some of your templates?

[@Churchfront]

Glad you enjoyed it James! All my templates are available for members of Worship Leader Leader School

[@wetotallygotthis7719]

This is amazing and priceless!! Thank you!!

[@mariosalsedo7993]

Yes I need all the help I can get lol but hungry too learn

[@scoiny]

Hey Jake, Love this video, VERY helpful and I've watched it MANY times. However, I must keep missing your instruction on how to cue up loops for pads in between songs. What am I missing and where can I find it. Thanks!

[@dmmusicstudios7413]

Same here. He says that he uses a MIDI clip to jump back to the loop marker but I can't figure out how to make a MIDI clip do that in Ableton.

[@therealbill45]

Awesome!! Can’t wait to delve into Abelton.

[@sketchfujitah2760]

This is what I would like our worship team to go into

[@audiosolutions201]

All respect to you man. Love your videos and your heart. This video is more of an overview not masterclass. Noticed 38 mins in

[@musictheorycorner992]

Could you do a "versus" of ProProsenter and Proclaim? We use Proclaim, but I am interested to see why you say ProPresenter is better.

[@Kyleparkerwe]

Does anyone know a tutorial on building out your tracks and saving song sessions?

[@michaelmobley2555]

This was really helpful! Why don't you use groups for songs/production cues?

[@Churchfront]

I don't like groups because of the extra time it takes to expand or collapse them

[@degratest1]

Great content! Thanks so much for taking out the time to do this. Extremely helpful!

[@aaronmcgeisey1404]

Thank you so much for this! Help us out so much!

[@maxkay8847]

Thank you for this in depth video. How can i get the ableton template, so i do not have to type and recolor the tracks manually?

[@TayloredImpression]

Hey! Quick question, what is your yearly church budget for tracks?

[@henryzhang6512]

Thank you so much Jake this video is really helpful. I was just wondering, what does all the text beneath the song titles say on the lyrics screen?

[@Churchfront]

Its the copyright info you are suppose to display on the first slide of songs

[@henryzhang6512]

@@Churchfront Where do you find this info? I tried looking for it and can't find anything

[@michaelbrewer1472]

@@henryzhang6512 check out us.ccli.com/manual/

[@CrazyRandomDOGO]

You subscribed to pewdiepie????? Nice. Also I love your videos, they help me alot with learning how to lead worship. I am not a worship leader but my worship leader is pushing me to use ableton in multiple ways. I was the one on your live stream who said, "Is 15 too young to lead worship?" Thank you for all your videos!

[@Churchfront]

Thanks for watching! haha i just subbed to pewdie pie. I was holding out till the 11th hour. Now he needs all the help he can get

[@rickyzortman8897]

The church I'm a part of is fully PC and also the band I'm in uses PC for our Ableton use. Do you have a lighting software recommendation that is PC accessible or have anyone that can recommend one?

[@draylinyoungmusic]

Hey so quick question!! Could i use the prime app through dante virtual sound card??

[@pmagazzu]

Yes, we do just that. Up to 32 channels.

[@raymondstringz]

Any idea on how to get cues??

[@quinlanpayne3445]

It would be amazing if prime made a software where you could control light and lyric automation while keeping the simple user freindly design I would pay top dollar for that

[@Churchfront]

Yeah, I know they are working on it. My biggest concern is how they can make it possible with user-design/workflow.

[@LANDOYT]

This comment aged very well lol . Both multitracks & loop community’s apps can do MIDI out now

[@JasonGraystone]

Out of interest, why don’t you just use the mixer as the audio interface and cut out the middle-man interface?

[@user-05494]

Jake, Thanks for great video, you are my best resource I got. and I need little help here and hope you can get me some direction to look up. I might say my case is unusual for other worship leaders. I serve church that has multiple congregation, so not only Americans but also we have Koreans, Hispanics, and Africans who use french typically. So, we have non-english worship songs on our playlist which typically does not supported by multi-track website. which software like ableton, prime, and etc would be the best for customizing and adding own track for non-english songs? Thanks

[@Jack-vc8id]

Hey Jake! Great vid! Question: how to set new tempo for song/part in arrangement view? Thx in advance!

[@joshchapel2802]

could you (or anyone) possibly recommend a particular midi module for IMAC running pro presenter? Much love thanks!

[@ericdurante9066]

Hey Jake! Thanks for this video! Been a long time Ableton user and I'll never go back. I notice in your "pads sections" you have a midi clip that loops back to your "loop" locator. Can you explain how you set that up? I feel limited with just the one loop bracket. Thanks!

[@Churchfront]

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[@ericdurante9066]

AWESOME! THANK YOU!

[@kennethmantero2851]

i just have one question. how do I get the songs from nultitracks.com do i purchase credits, rent the songs, like what membership do i get

[@thecultwatcher3429]

Great video & thank you for sharing all your insight. Very helpful indeed ❤️

[@Churchfront]

Glad I can help!

[@davspro]

Hey Jake great video. The section about the tech booth person triggering ableton with a key to start a video or lighting transition do they have a separate Abelton program on there computer or are they triggering a session from the drummers computer running the stems? That part was a little confusing. I love the power in doing that, just trying to see where the automation takes place.

[@Churchfront]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/rZWtmIp_Zregock Check out this video!

[@johnalter5264]

Hi Jake... Thank you for this video. Do you think Novation Launch Pad can replace Optimus? Yes... With Optimus you are possible to control your track with you foot. But as a keyboard player It is possible for me to just trigger track with my hand.

[@Churchfront]

Yeah, you can use any midi controller you'd like! I definitely recommend the novation launch pad if you are a keys player and want to trigger things with your hands.

[@ame6961]

Wow🔥 this is amazing! God bless you brother 🙏 I learnt so much from this video 😁

[@joehenthompson2023]

Hi Jake. Thank you for your resources and advice. I know that Ableton Live is a powerful software and daunting at the same time! Where to start? Thanks for the direction. Much appreciated

[@Diamond88keyz]

Praise God

[@hugocorrea6984]

Thanks, your video helps a lot here. Whay dont you pass the audio from Ableton via Dante?

[@kolbyatkins2588]

for those still wondering how the midi clip is looping at 30:04, here are two videos that clear everything up kzbin.info/www/bejne/g5y6i2eoqbesmLM kzbin.info/www/bejne/emS1ZKitpMmInNk

[@miltonbobe6274]

Can you accomplish the same thing with the lite version of Ableton??

[@DanielRamirez-pq9ev]

Awesome video! One question though! On the light key website it has a choice to buy license! Is it necessary to buy the license? And if so, which license would you recommend??

[@Churchfront]

You need the license for enough dmx channels I went with the 512 at $99/year

[@DanielRamirez-pq9ev]

Churchfront with Jake Gosselin Awesome! Helps a lot! I have another question, would I have enroll in the school to receive help and guidance on how to get up and running on just the lighting? Because that’s the only thing that I don’t really know much on!

[@unfinishedworship3173]

Can't you just run the computer to the X32 using a USB cable rather than an interface? I am doing that now and it allows me to send multiple outputs to the FOH so they can mix the pads and ambient sounds real-time. If there's a reason to go through the interface instead could you educate me on what we need to change?

[@robin_miller_music]

Can you explain the Tempo Track pls

[@LMHop]

Thanks Jake! How do you create and put markers into the Markers track?

[@nehemiahrogers2146]

thank you so much for sharing!!!

[@coslac22]

Can you link Ableton computer to an M32 via USB for multitrack stems?

[@stephenevans2518]

yep

[@tarranwooden1163]

In Ableton, if you decide not to do a part to a song can you delete that section?

[@stephenevans2518]

You can yes! Although this is where using session view is easier as you can have the sections as scenes (which appear as a row) and then you just get rid of that scene (row)(or stick it at the end of the song and not use it)

[@jambo072]

Hi Jake. Awesome video. How many licences of Ableton do you use for the 3 laptops running it (yours, keys and lyric & lighting)? Is it just one because they are all working at the same time or is it one for each laptop? Thanks

[@johnp428]

Amazing content as always! But how do I insert the click tracks? Are you importing a .Wav/Mp3 of the ableton click or are you using the click directly from Ableton. If its the second one, i can't seem to figure out how to hear it through the P.A system.

[@Churchfront]

I use Ableton's built in click

[@brandondurbin9550]

What are using to convert your Apple Music tunes to MP3 for tracks in Ableton?

[@roamlikekane]

So the video feed and light design is part of the Ableton eco-system?

[@boechsner]

If you're using multitracks rental service and you build up a song but then don't use it for a while because you're renting other tracks do you have to rebuild it when you want to use it again?

[@georgewilliams2511]

Quick question, can you explain how to set your midi clips to loop back to your locators? Thanks!

[@seo3476]

Thank you so much. From Korea

[@mariosalsedo7993]

I am drummer. But thay kinda put me over find tracks Nd sometimes run tracks I what to learn more abt this stuff and make loops and sounds one day

[@markmarlow6715]

How do you add Ableton on the media computer (session view one) so it controls the Ableton computer on stage? I love this idea and want to implement, however, I am a novice.

[@nathandaniel5509]

Really helpful video, thanks jake :). Running into problems with ableton 11 suite, and a good spec laptop (windows). Ableton is slow and doesn't respond at easy tasks. Is downgrading from 11 to 10 a good solution? Greetings, Nathan

[@eggnogninja0]

Thanks, this is super helpful!

[@Churchfront]

glad i can help!

[@kennethmantero2851]

21:50 building songs

[@briandiamond]

What if the band gets off and you have to kill the click. Do you lose your lyric and lighting cues?

[@LMHop]

I have the same question!

[@romualdkinimo1004]

thank you for this video......can people outside USA can apply for worship leaders school?

[@nationalparamedic]

Is it possible to run Sunday Keys while also running the service in arrangement view on the same computer?

[@josephhaimerl6114]

Would pro presenter be able to operate on the same MacBook as Ableton?

[@wilcandou]

Awesome!!!!

[@cooley2379]

Hi Jake, do you have an ableton template that you can share?

[@HENDRIX154]

We are a up and coming small church I don’t play any instrument as a worship leader I play off of my iPad and sing from background music I find how can this work with me?

[@coreynichols1296]

Do you control any slides or videos from ProPresenter? I know sometimes between songs and transitions, we may have slides or announcements videos or anything else. Is the Looptimus and Abelton able to handle those programs?

[@Churchfront]

Yeah we manually control announcements and sermon

[@Alminox]

Will MiDi control only work over WiFi? I prefer to only run cabled networks for critical systems as WiFi is constant source of problems

[@rejecrowster2150]

This was really helpful

[@Saroj12370]

Great stuff! Thanks a lot.

[@keithbusby1572]

What’s the 4 channel interface you use? Or would any type interface work or is it something specific?

[@kornjackwillie3030]

Does this tutorial only apply to worship music?