All About MIDI Tools In Ableton Live (In 15 min)

In this requested video I create a demo using Ableton Live's MIDI tools, whilst explaining them in detail. So you don't only learn how to use the tools, but through practical examples you can get some inspiration so you can start using them straight away. All this in under 15 min. I cover both Transformation and generative tools, and show how you can use your custom MIDI tools as well.
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Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:31 Overview
00:46 Stack (Generative MIDI Tool)
03:38 How I publish my music (The video sponsor)
04:05 Strum (Transformation MIDI Tool)
04:41 Recombine (Transformation MIDI Tool)
05:40 Shape (Generative MIDI Tool)
06:22 Arpeggiator (Transformation MIDI Tool)
07:26 Ornament (Transformation MIDI Tool)
08:39 Seed (Generative MIDI Tool)
09:51 Connect (Transformation MIDI Tool)
11:46 Rhythym (Generative MIDI Tool)
12:39 Time Warp (Transformation MIDI Tool)
13:33 Quantize (Transformation MIDI Tool)
14:15 Extra Tip: Using M4L MIDI Tools
14:55 Final Demo made using the MIDI tools

[@LNADoesAudioStuff]

Continue learning Ableton Live & Push from my online courses: www.lnamusic.com/programs Get -10% with the code: STARTCREATING10

[@benjaminb5516]

Hey just want to thank you for all the work you did ! It's really helpful ❤❤

[@LNADoesAudioStuff]

You're so welcome!

[@eaabr9595]

Greetings from Puerto Rico...! Thanks so much...! Excelent videos...!

[@LNADoesAudioStuff]

Thanks for watching!

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Liina✨🙏🏼✨

[@Tenly_UK]

OH amazing!! Thanks for free video! and hi from Ukraine!!!

[@LNADoesAudioStuff]

HI back! And glad you liked it!

[@tutorialesdemerenguesconluis]

Thank you Alina for all your Materials in every Video. You are Excellent and Intelligent. I am learning a lot with you. I bought your Ableton 40 Lessons and I enjoy your Teaching! God bless you! Ahhh and today you are Gorgeous with your Hair Cut!❤❤❤ Greetings from Germany. Luis Fernandez

[@alimantado373]

Nice to have an explanation of the built in Midi tools in one place. 👍👍

[@LNADoesAudioStuff]

😊

[@davidbyourplanb]

Very helpful (as always)

[@LNADoesAudioStuff]

Happy to help! 😊

[@schmohawk777]

This is the best tutorial I’ve seen on the new midi tools, thanks LNA ❤

[@LNADoesAudioStuff]

Glad it was helpful!

[@mustardcat5555]

This is so helpful!

[@LNADoesAudioStuff]

Glad it was helpful!

[@bobbyrinehart1299]

This is gold!

[@user-qp5be2hq2i]

love your videos LNA listening classic trance now the real music Liebe a song from 98

[@signaltouch7413]

I love your videos

[@LNADoesAudioStuff]

Thanks! :)

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Need to chase Mark Towers for your contact details again doh!!

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I love you❤❤❤

[@fritsvanzanten3573]

Hi, I addressed my issue several times in the comments, at least I tried to, and, like I taught my team members, as long as you can't articulate your problem there won't be a solution (strictly I always said When you can define your problem exactly often you have written the answer). So I try again: with no DAW around I can fiddle/noodle around on a guitar and come up with a riff. I can then record the riff in an audio track. To keep the original feel I ignore the BPM, so the metronome is off. Similarly I might cut a piece of audio from a youtube video, or from whatever. I may record some funny sound, say a child singing a funny rhythmic sentence, or a bird singing in a tree. So I end up with a 'clip' totally unrelated to the bars and tempo in my DAW. Now I need to put those around my clip, instead of the other way around. To make things complicated the riff in my clip may start on the 3th or the 3-a-th count of the bar. How now to 'fit' my clip in my track, adjusting my BPM to my riff, and how to organize my bars count-wise (the riff starting half way the bar and continuing in the next). Almost all instructional videos I see neatly take whole bars and a BPM as a starting point, as well things starting on the first count, on the 1. In a way this might an invitation to rather mechanical music. I have imported vinyl tracks from the seventies with unsteady/varying BPM and practiced with warping and I recently discovered stretching, But when things work out it generally is sheer luck or coincidence in a process of trial and errror and I can't reproduce the workflow. In a previous comment I tried to post a link with an example, but youtube immediately removes that. Thanks in advance.

[@fritsvanzanten3573]

OK, solved it, by watching many videos. 1) For starters, to be clear: most warp videos/the common practice is to adapt the samples to a given BPM. I wanted to do it the other around, base my track on the beat of my sample (which is a more profound issue than it seems, isn't it more organic to take your inspiration to determine the groove/BPM?). 2) It was unfathomably frustrating that when you try to find the beat of your sample, following common practice the tempo of the sample changes along when you try to tap tempo, or adjust the project BPM: they will never match, it's a dog/cat chasing it own tail. 3) so one video showed the solution: put you sample not in arrangement view in a track, but in session view. You can change the project tempo/tap tempo without changing the tempo of the sample. Since the sample won't be ultimately steady, you only can get a (close) approximation, but the warping you can start with now is rather detailed and will cause less distortion etc. Now I can focus on the warp modes ☺ 4) Some smart people will remark you can play your sample and tap tempo in two separate apps/programs, say your DAW and Audacity/Foobar etc. But I think that should not be necessary. We don't live in mediaval times, do we? 5) By now I these replies should be below 'warping' videos, but those are already 'old' in publication dates, and this was a request for a new video, and I preferred to stay in the present. Also, given your more philosophical accents these days I think this one fits that mood, since this is about preserving, staying close to inspiration by maintaining the tempo of your spark of inspiration instead of forcing it into the most common BPMs. And, of course, the video started with the question what we'd like to see. I might add that in my two entries for the 12-day challenges this issue made me loose a lot of time, for it made me have to work off-grid, because self-recorded samples/sounds (my washing machine and a guitar riff on youtube) were the inspiration and starting point of my track.

[@chrisliddiard725]

Are all these tools available in the Push 3?

[@delight8888]

Where have you been Lana…..?..😊

[@LNADoesAudioStuff]

still here! Posting about once a month nowadays 😊

[@300687p]

hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi ! back

[@LNADoesAudioStuff]

👋

[@blue.sunset]

2:50 Nobody expects a good Master if the Mix isn't good. These Instant Master programs are not miraculous.

[@LNADoesAudioStuff]

I understand your point. But I do think it’s awesome for people who don’t know where to even start with mastering or they have limited finances

[@LNADoesAudioStuff]

Or actually also, pretty decent tool for more experienced producers as well who need faster workflow for demos or tracks.

[@alimantado373]

@@LNADoesAudioStuff Hes pissed that he learnt all this stuff without help. I was the same and gave up on Ableton. With this knowledge you give me I will fire it up again.