Berlin School | Follow Actions in Live | Generative Hooks

[@maltas22]

You explain very wel and with patience, good job!

[@synthseeker]

Thanks! I hope it helped!

[@tigerwolf8338]

For me, as a programmer, this is the best I've seen in a long time. Your videos are an inspiration!

[@synthseeker]

Thanks! Did you know I teach programmers for a living? :) See you around!

[@nickthane]

Great video. Dabbled with random/generative stuff over the years in Ableton and always been disappointed that stuff ends up not being 'hooky' enough and sort of giving up, It never occurred to me to use Looper like that to fix that problem. Genius.

[@synthseeker]

As they say…”repetition legitimizes”. :)

[@iqnill]

This is such great video, 3rd watching, still finding little gems. Thank you.

[@synthseeker]

I’m glad you find it that way. Share your creations!

[@jmcqmusic]

Great idea! Even as you were explaining how it all works I was thinking of mods to try out. Having some kind of repetition makes all the difference. Really appreciate you letting us download the set. Thanks!

[@synthseeker]

Not a problem. Enjoy!

[@synthseeker]

One simple mod - on the looper device, click the "reverse" button. ;)

[@jmcqmusic]

That's a good one, I was experimenting with that but couldn't figure out a way to randomize it. Now I'm using the Splendosa plugin in the high voice as it's got a reverse option that can be turned on or off at the clip envelope level. A little reverse goes a long way. Also trying a Harmonic minor scale in the high voice. Next thing is creating a 'sparse' scene and a 'dense' scene that can be launched for a buildup or for the intro or outro. @@synthseeker

[@synthseeker]

Carry on!

[@dr.syntheo9489]

Just came across this video, searching for Berlin School. Thanks so much !!

[@synthseeker]

If you want Berlin School techniques…here’s an instructional playlist. :) I hope it helps! kzbin.info/aero/PL9JoRsVz2sY-kyFxwRb-uSIzkYyxRF3NU

[@dr.syntheo9489]

@@synthseeker Yep, I already found the list of video's, will go through the all.

[@tillorrly1128]

Thank you so much, that's amazing.

[@synthseeker]

Thank you!

[@kenb7540]

Excellent !

[@synthseeker]

Party on dude. ;)

[@alessandrogolinelli3185]

Un po complesso effettivamente 😂 ma molto chiara la spiegazione e il procedimento. Grazie della tua disponibilità, semplicità e simpatia 🙏❤️

[@synthseeker]

Grazie per aver fatto musica, continua!

[@alessandrogolinelli3185]

@@synthseeker Amo e Adoro.. TD album Logos ❤️ e con Te riesco a capire meglio il senso di questo Piacere. Ho un sogno di riprodurre sequenza parte Red a 18.15 Dell album 🙏

[@rayderrich]

This is close to genius, I can not thank you enough for sharing the nerdness, love it!

[@synthseeker]

I’m curious what people will extend it into. :)

[@rayderrich]

@@synthseeker That Looper by itself is already a marvel inside the DAW, let alone the automated switching between recording and playing back, just love that idea. Not sure what I could do with it yet but it makes me realize again how much is already possible inside Live.

[@chriscopeman8820]

@@synthseeker I have lots of ideas. I'll let you know when I do some.

[@synthseeker]

Sounds good. ;)

[@jamies9083]

So awesome, can’t wait to try this tomorrow

[@synthseeker]

Have fun!

[@StarMaze]

Learnt something again today, thanks Luke!

[@synthseeker]

Glad to hear it! Have fun with it and thank you!

[@synkrotron]

thanks, Luke 🙂👍

[@synthseeker]

Sure thing Andy.

[@all1nz]

Impressive technique this. I make very different music but this will still work for me. Thank you

[@synthseeker]

Music is universal :) have fun!

[@amado7760]

Really nice Synth Seeker !

[@synthseeker]

Trying to share the love of synth-nerdery with the world. lol...thanks!

[@edinmesic8015]

amazing! Thank you!

[@synthseeker]

No problem.

[@Denis-hg9jw]

Thanks a lot !

[@synthseeker]

You are welcome!

[@StefanSchlott]

Generative music meets Berlin School style... scratches two itches at the same time 😁 I like it! Could also make a great seed for new ideas (let it run and record the generated midi, rip the especially pleasing parts out and process them manually)...

[@synthseeker]

Have you seen my music making diary? That’s almost exactly what I do, but not so generative and more “noodly” these days. ;)

[@H-4-D3423]

Hey Luke!!! Came for P5 in the Series, and got a cool generative session!! Nice one!! Shame I'll be buying Logic Pro when I get my computer and software, which are the last yet expensive bits I need. Interesting/entertaining content as always ;)

[@synthseeker]

Sounds good - P5 is coming...patience!

[@H-4-D3423]

@@synthseeker lol

[@TheGhostchaser8]

Amazing. Will this kind of technique work in other programs? I guess it would have to have the same capabilities.

[@synthseeker]

I try to be a generalist in the majority of videos but this one is pretty Ableton Live specific. It may be possible but generality was not my goal for this particular video. Sorry!

[@alm5966]

This sounds fantastic and right up my alley in terms of ambient and evolving. I've only just got Live 11 Intro, is this technique possible in that version?

[@synthseeker]

I don’t know but it’s easy to check, create a midi clip and in its inspector look for the follow actions button. If you can activate it then yes, it will work! I think it will, but I don’t have live intro.

[@alm5966]

​@@synthseekerI checked it out and it will work in Intro just fine. There are follow actions and Intro has Looper so all is good to go! That's a great tutorial and just the sort of thing I've been looking for. Thanks!

[@keschgelb]

This sounds absolutely amazing. I wish i could understand the technique (but it's not your fault!). I am working with (old) Logic 9 Pro and i fear that this DAW anyway doesn't offer such looper tools. But you inspired me to get more in detail with some functions like the arpeggiator. There is so much to discover!

[@synthseeker]

I do provide a playlist of many ways to do Berlin school that don’t require specific hardware or software, take a peek! Thanks for visiting! kzbin.info/aero/PL9JoRsVz2sY-kyFxwRb-uSIzkYyxRF3NU&si=glJJ4Jk_o5Qkc1ur

[@Xanaduum]

Could possibly get ableton live lite for free and switch between the two DAWs until you get up to speed with ableton. That's what I'm doing anyway. Seems like Live is really good for automation.

[@ulfschoneberg6452]

Thanks again for that nice and helpful lecture! I had an issue with my freshly bought live 11 intro version, apparently the glue compressor is not part of the packet. There is most probable a far better way to address that problem, but I just deleted the xml-block mentioning the compressor from the als-file, then ableton stopped complaining.

[@synthseeker]

Thanks! Does the set open but complains or does it refuse to open using Live Intro?

[@ulfschoneberg6452]

@@synthseeker The set opens but ableton then complains about 'this copy of live is not licenced' although mine is

[@synthseeker]

@ulfschoneberg6452 if you can see the devices on each track, try to find where the placeholder for the glue compressor is and select/delete it. That may stop the complaints. I apologize I do not have a “lite/intro” version of live to test with. :(

[@ReductioAdAbsurdum1]

As a Reaper user, I've been envious of Session mode - Reaper doesn't have it. I've been eyeing Bitwig, but can't bring myself to start using Ableton yet. This was helpful and informative, thanks

[@synthseeker]

Tools are very personal…I understand completely.

[@Romenet310]

Today is my first day watching this. The scary part is I completely understood it. 😂

[@synthseeker]

I’m not surprised, you seem to be a smart guy!

[@Romenet310]

@@synthseeker it’s taken me 2 years to get the absolute basics down! In the beginning I could not grasp the simple concept of what midi notes are. Lol

[@synthseeker]

@Romenet310 steady progress then :)

[@ModuSpaSm]

We all need a mother.

[@synthseeker]

Mother-32 or was I talking about my parents again in this one?

[@ModuSpaSm]

@@synthseeker 👪

[@H-4-D3423]

I think you should definitely consider using a form of this to create a project track, that you could then tweak the final music into an additional track for the new album Luke. With enough change and variety it would be an awesome long ambient moment. I could imagine it as a final track to play-out the album... :) As a fellow geek, can Ableton also have a series of clips that only contain different speech samples - and trigger them in a similar way?

[@synthseeker]

Yes I will, and yes you can.

[@H-4-D3423]

@@synthseeker :)

[@Xanaduum]

Hi Luke, will this work on Live Lite? Just beginning to learn Ableton after many years of Audacity.

[@synthseeker]

I'm not sure about "lite" - there are three official tiers of live (intro, standard and suite) and the "lite" edition is a weird offshoot that comes included with a lot of hardware partners. The comparison between the three tiers (found here: www.ableton.com/en/live/compare-editions/) DOES say that all editions have the looper device (which you need for this technique)...but I'm not sure about "lite". You'll need to check the manual for two things: follow actions and the looper device. :)

[@Xanaduum]

@@synthseeker will try it out, it might have to spring for the into version soon, this feature would be really useful.

[@Xanaduum]

so it does work in Lite if you load the file, however it doesn't allow you to save changes, so good for practice. @@synthseeker

[@iqnill]

How does the LOOPER ignore the Random device?

[@synthseeker]

The row of devices is like a pipeline, because the looper comes after the random device, during recording it records randomized output, but on playback - because the looper is downstream - it just plays back what it recorded, unaffected by the random. :) If you use live 11, you can download and take apart the set (link in the description.)

[@iqnill]

@@synthseeker Cool, thank you for the answer. I'm a Live "baby" - week 2 of use, coming from Bitwig I still find Live quite confusing.

[@synthseeker]

I understand. Bitwig is an excellent tool as well. Why the change?

[@iqnill]

@@synthseeker I dare say Bitwig is amazing when it comes for unlimited modulators built into every device, plus the 2 grid environments are killers! Live feels so dated... Not a change, but I need to work on a few projects based on Live and Push 3, hence the fast, deep dive.

[@synthseeker]

Gotcha. Have fun learning!

[@JoeJohnston-taskboy]

AI WILL TAKE ALL OF OUR MUSICIANS' JOBS

[@synthseeker]

*snerk*!

[@aeon136]

Too bad U can't do THAT in Studio One!😐

[@synthseeker]

But Studio One can surely do its own forms of magic!