Ableton Microtuner - Microtonal Music with Ableton Live

[@Mr.Meowgical]

Excited that microtonality/xenharmony is getting some more awareness. For anyone else delving into this, don't be afraid to go beyond/below 12 notes, such as the 5-note scale he used. Try 15. 19! 31! There are completely different vibes to be found in all of these different tunings; experimentation is rewarded.

[@DespairQuietlyPlease]

I think you're the best ableton teacher out there....such clear and accessible instructions

[@DaveTherrien]

One of the other videos I watched spoke about how guitar players are always adding +1/4 bends to their music which is somewhere right in the middle of two semitones. And we love that kind of bend. Great video as always! Excellent applications!

[@KevinTheCardigan]

I couldn't get it working on my plugin (Omnisphere) but after your set up explanation I figured it out. Thanks a billion

[@mjusick42]

WOW! How did you manage that? I don't have Omnisphere but I have some other MPE compatible plugins and have never been able to get it to work and I'm probably far from the only one with this problem (pitch bend is set correctly...).

[@KevinTheCardigan]

Omnisphere is not an MPE device, so I actually disable the MPE option. It seems most Ableton instruments are MPE. Can you at least get those to function?@@mjusick42

[@GUNNERBASS]

ughhhh. where has this been all my life. damn near wasted 12 years trying to manually accomplish this on some songs, never quite hitting the mark that I wanted. big sub and awesome explanation. thank you m8 🤙🏽

[@NADAKARagaGuitar]

I appreciate this greatly! Even though I intend to utilize it in a more conventional manner, this is something I had been searching for extensively. Surprisingly, it was right there in my Ableton Live !!! I play the guitar using mobile frets, adjusting them approximately 10 cents above or below the tempered scale. Unfortunately, my MIDI could never accurately replicate the pitch of each note. Thankfully, this issue has now been resolved, and the best part is that it works flawlessly, Live, in real-time.

[@brothachris]

You just blew my mind. Thanks so much for these wonderful tutorials. You're a fantastic instructor.

[@theoppositeistrue]

My eyes lit up when you mentioned mapping a knob to the blend parameter. That’s an awesome idea, dude. Can make for some insanely dramatic parts if most of a song is in normal 12edo and then suddenly one chord is wildly out of equal temp. Sick as hell.

[@weidnermusic]

map a LFO to the blend thing :)

[@raphaelshklarek]

This is the coolest device/tutorial I’ve seen in a long time. New worlds await.

[@4v4t4rmusic]

been waiting my entire life for this

[@dh.l7499]

Your teaching style is really good. Joined all of your courses and I’m always impressed, keep doing your thing!

[@coreymumper2208]

THANK YOU FOR DOING A VIDEO ON THIS! MY GOD! SO CONFUSED FOR A MIN! YOUR SERIOUSLY THE BEST.....ergo all CAPS lol

[@CNTRRNDM]

dude! that intro was one of THE best intros I've ever seen on KZbin! needless to say that the rest of the video was awesome as well!

[@bustamante-music]

dude i just wanna say i had watched your videos for a while and didn’t know you were in Papadosio and found out maybe last year. went to Okee and saw you play live, y’all played INSANE, if you guys haven’t seen Papadosio on a big sound system you are seriously missing out! i was fan boying so hard! so cool to see you in your element!!

[@Xirrious]

I'm reverse from you, I've seen papadosio like twenty times or more, at least. Went to their festival too. But I just found this channel, I had no idea Anthony did KZbin stuff. So cool.

[@bustamante-music]

@@Xirrious yeah he's a beast lol

[@lkhdmusic]

Very happy to see this exists. Great work Ableton.

[@youtuberaphaell]

seriously the best video on Ableton i've seen so far

[@josipvulic5471]

do re mi fa "so-love-this-dope" new M4L effect, great lil' instruct vid on this Anthony!!

[@jamma_peach]

Fiiiine I'll get the new Ableton. this is a game changer. Thanks for explaining this so well!

[@MimicusIM]

Thanks for the video! Waiting for the deep dive! Just got into this because I found out about 22 shruti system which can make chords and melodies sound better together than equal temperment. How to do these perfect frequency proportions on each scale?

[@NADAKARagaGuitar]

This is an excellent tutorial, I hope Seed to Stage will not mind me jumping in here. I have been researching and using the Indian Ragas & 22 Shrutis on guitar as best as I can for years... still learning. I would invite anyone interested to see some of my work. kzbin.info/www/bejne/rHfPo3erbJ6qia8

[@FLUFFYCAT_PNW]

Really love your videos, man. Wish I could afford your classes, but it's just outside of what I have going on at the moment. But still, I have really enjoyed your videos. I hope you and yours are well this holiday season. 🙏 Thanks for taking the time and effort to share all of your knowledge with us.

[@grozmusic]

For some reason Microtuner doesn't allow (-) cents of the note C in a 12 pitch scale, only (+). Am I doing something wrong? I'm using it with Wavetable. Any advice would be so appreciated. This video rocks!

[@dasein3317]

I hope microtonal music becomes more popular

[@18Hands]

ZebblerEncanti experience is a great example on how to use this tool to make some really awesome music!

[@Dmyra]

awesome!great explanations. what is the Base frequency about?

[@RainerErhart-z6d]

love your channel. do you have videos on vocal manipulation ?

[@RCAVDH]

Great tutorial, thank you!

[@phrankus2009]

As always. Eh?

[@EmilioPortal]

great video! in my experience with microtuner, i have found that it only works with ableton’s synthesizers like wavetable and operator. microtuner does not work with simpler, nor does it work with vst3 midi instruments. i might be wrong, but this is my experience. please correct me!

[@schlumbum]

First of all, I wanna say thank you for this excellent tutorial, very nice and profound as usual!! So, this one question goes out to everybody: I am aware that there are temperaments to highlight and preserve the character of some musical keys that cannot be experienced in standard tuning.Does anyone know how to achieve this with microtuner? And if so, recommend a musical key and the according scale? Thank you!

[@strangersun7721]

Cool! Was really hoping you were going to cover this one. Thanks so much for the video

[@dimii27]

It's not about mess and detune, but about tones that the equal temperament ignores, but, for example, the Byzantine music uses

[@empresssunbow]

Amazing thank uou for this video!

[@jacquesauberger8926]

Hey thank you I love the way you explain stuffs

[@antoineguilbeault8025]

Perfect device for techno music

[@JA-ou5st]

Really good tutorial, one of the best I’ve seen on this channel 👊

[@DanielMaruniak]

Great and informative dive! Now I’m 🏊‍♂️

[@jolieuke]

I love your videos, they are absolutely great!

[@sebbosebbo9794]

great thx.. when the syth or drummaschine have no option or on Audio its usless ..? damed.. no deep intigrated tuning in Live 11...?

[@THĖ000BØY]

Sauce it up 💯! Bro hard w/ the tutorials, SUBBED

[@JamieSolan]

Will microtuner be able to re tune 3rd party brass library plug ins into Just Intonation rather than the Equal Temperment that they come in by default?

[@kohada64]

This was a beautiful video . Thank you .

[@joebradley_atk]

Incredible! Thanks for the great video/ tutorial

[@magica2z]

Love your videos. Thank you so much.

[@BIONDIEST]

is there any way in Ableton to adjust the Hz of a sound down to .000001 Hz??????????? i need a very precise Hz for an experiment. please let me know if there is any way. thank you!

[@ahmetcangokceer]

11:18 that actually sounded sick imo

[@thlLd]

Friends, what a excellent video!

[@citadelo5ricks]

Have you got this working with any other devices? I tried Falcon and it was not responsive to the microtuner even though I had MPE enabled.

[@marleycarroll]

Excellent!

[@brianwdowling]

Great overview, thanks.

[@Rgdonaire_07]

Excellent tutorial! thanks!

[@cfcreative1]

can you use microtuner on plug in vsts

[@mjusick42]

Has anyone gotten this to work with third-party plugins that support MPE (U-He, Arturia,...)? I tried for a really long time and didn't succeed, neither as a follow nor as a lead...). Unfortunately, even after a long search, I couldn't find any information about this; all tutorials only use Ableton's internal instruments.

[@theboytheycalljonny1]

Great - thank you!

[@willfranke]

I just tried using microtuner, but it looks totally different than in this video. Am I missing something?

[@slapsilla7858]

Do you gotta buy Max for Live to have it? When I download it says My live 11 suite is out of date.

[@crowkangi]

always excellent content!

[@exp42]

13:54 king gizzard vibes

[@SeedtoStage]

One of the best bands to see right now

[@treywillis]

Pretty cool! Thanks man

[@tukoijarrett9155]

Does this work with cv tools

[@hshx1n]

Thanks sooo much

[@weaponizedhoarder4746]

Can this pass over midi to hardware ?

[@zolyos]

Did you find anything ? Apparently its juste for software synth :(

[@ianbeepower8542]

Finally !

[@marcgunn2014]

Is this only available in 11?

[@iamyila]

Cool, but I don't really like this random approach first as advice, I'd go Scala first or perhaps even doing it manually and using your ears, or first exploring one chord, i.e making a major chord correct etc etc, nice video though .

[@lucasnoordhoek]

Woahh, is this built in?? Ive been hacking around to get microtones for years...

[@SeedtoStage]

Is a free max for live device you get from the ableton website

[@lucasnoordhoek]

@@SeedtoStage thanks, working with it now. 60% faster workflow for me

[@mundelator]

Super interesting, thx !

[@jeewonkim3820]

Bravo

[@FFUNK]

I can't find it ?

[@sebastianyip8838]

what's this piece's name, I can't find no more.

[@EROSSmusic]

stu of king gizzard liked this

[@xaviermorel6352]

totaly!

[@DaveDurango]

Do you respond to emails? I have a question for you

[@lordflatworm]

Rad.

[@KilimVeinBeats]

hi man ! love your video, do you know how to get a perfect -6db mix to export before doing the mastering stage of production ? Thanks

[@_LuX_p]

i dunno if maybe a solid grounded template for a more efficiant workflow could be useful for anyone here

[@justjoannec8399]

It looks like this is only in Ableton Live Suite. You forgot to mention that.

[@ned_interrobang]

that scl file sucks. i had to organize them all down to sub folders. no one's trying to scroll through 5k files for a specific tuning.

[@SeedtoStage]

I mean it’s actually really amazing that they have collected so many scales into one place for everyone. Surely we are blessed to live in such times

[@ned_interrobang]

@@SeedtoStage File Organization is key! Subfolders make for easier browsing with this many .scl files!

[@philosyche]

am i the only one that heard the beginning to "the real slim shady" @13:55 ?

[@BenCaesar]

@Ableton owes you a bag

[@slawomirbialecki2275]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/mnvCo6SEbNGhirs colundi sequence-can i generate this in microtuner?

[@VirtualModular]

Was just about to mention Colundi!

[@gorderbust]

You are very good thankyou

[@nomad1517]

Didn't Bitwig have this long before?

[@DoctorDoorknobsForever]

Sadly microtuner is only available to ableton suite users

[@tommyfeinstoff]

👀

[@davidpereira4455]

cmon just sell it for Live 10 already 😢

[@cstev3071]

Check an artist named Sevish out.

[@phrankus2009]

It would be most helpful if you were to clarify which LIVE! version numbers sport this (microtuner) feature. I am not interested in any features beyond LIVE! version 10, so, it would be great to have version support stated "prominently", both, in the description text and during the intro monolog, if you would .. Thank you.

[@eyzatek3666]

Live 11 required unfortunately.

[@MaximusWhyman]

Look on the d@mn website.

[@SeedtoStage]

Fortunately I don’t work for you haha. It’s free content on KZbin bud no one here owes you anything.

[@aarontoalet]

I'm sorry, I'm not hearing any difference.

[@EmilioPortal]

"doesn’t make sense" is a massively subjective, personal, cultural and political stance…

[@VirtualModular]

Interesting, but I think you need to get away from 12 notes for proper microtonal stuff - this just sounds out of tune to me, sorry! Look up the Colundi scales for example. Also, check out Aleksis Perrala or Capsule Network for some decent tracks.

[@SeedtoStage]

There is no "proper" here. Who gets to determine which scales are proper? I believe the word you are meaning to say is traditional, which yes there are many traditional scales available. I get that you feel things are out of tune, but its not any less a "scale" in technical terms no matter how out of tune it is. Anything Ive done with microtuner thus far has started with a generated scale and then ive retuned each individual note until i like it like in the later part of this video. Cheers

[@_ENOC]

You don't get the point of this video. It's not made to guide you towards making music like artists you as an individual happen to like. I can tell you from experience, this video inspires people to experiment with the capabilities of Micro Tuner by giving them a starting point.

[@VirtualModular]

@@_ENOC no, I get it. I just think it would be more interesting to use completely different tuning systems rather than taking the traditional 12 tone system and making it slightly out of tune.

[@_ENOC]

@@VirtualModular I agree but that's Ableton's fault. This guy's video is just a little exhibition on the device.

[@VirtualModular]

@@_ENOC yep I agree too, it's a bit limited and that was my point. Didn't mean to criticise the guy in the video, it was a good overview of what Micro Tuner does!