Collision: The Most Underrated Synth In Ableton Live 11

In this Ableton Live 11 tutorial, we will be taking a look at the Collision synthesizer. This is a fantastic physical modeling synth that can make a wide variety of different sounds that I feel often gets overlooked.
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[@ElectronicMusicTips]

I completely forgot about this synth. Thanks for the reminder and great post!

[@lostsynapse]

Thank you a lot for the video! It's very helpful! searched openai for the bleed setting and as per Chat GPT: In the context of Ableton Collision, "Bleed" is a parameter that allows you to control the amount of cross-talk between the different resonators in the instrument. It simulates the real-world behavior of mallets or bows striking multiple strings or bars simultaneously, causing them to vibrate and interact with each other. By adjusting the Bleed parameter, you can create more or less interaction between the different resonators, which can lead to interesting and complex harmonic content. It can also be used to achieve more realistic and natural-sounding performances, as real-world mallet and string instruments often exhibit bleed and crosstalk between different components

[@WalkinonSunshyne]

That’s actually pretty clear. ChatGPT to the rescues huh.

[@MadNoisy]

yay, thanks 🤘🤘

[@creativesoundlab]

Really nice video!

[@ruukaoz]

Wow! live 11 really polished Collision up

[@midnightmoron332]

about the bleed setting : abletons Corpus effect has the same setting (cuz its basically almost the same as collision, except it uses whatever isntrument you apply it to as the excitator). try putting corpus on any random instrument, cranking it to wet all the way and messing with the bleed setting. might help give anyone whos curious an idea of what it does. the difference is very audible there. might be cuz of the difference between the sound of the mallet and the sound of whatever you put corpus on. corpus is older than collision so maybe they just left it in when they made collision despite it not making much of an impact inside collision.

[@robhendricks7059]

Super useful tutorial. Thanks so much!

[@davidbyourplanb]

Wow! Thank you for this incredibly detailed deep dive into collision! Very inspiring

[@ys621]

Really thorough. Thanks.

[@mvandell]

Very nice video brother 🙏 thanks! I love Collision.. such a fun sound generator ♥️

[@WalkinonSunshyne]

Dope explanation. Very clear. Cheers.

[@billf1748]

Great run through. thanks

[@tdtrecordsmusic]

Liking caz deep dives are cool

[@semsmeb9745]

Very informative im definitely trying out the collision

[@hristuppiteitinu]

thank you so much, perfect overview

[@sean_wave]

nice vid. I'll definitely try to implement collision in my productions

[@FunkyELF]

Awesome video... I'll check it out next time I fire up Ableton

[@lassefrost6198]

You can use collision with other synths or sounds. Thats where bleed really comes in handy. I often use it to fix high or low frequencies in a sound and blend in the harmonics from collision with bleed.

[@marcleysen1816]

Great video. On a great instrument.

[@tq2769]

so effin coooool!

[@weedmaps8375]

thanks purge👍

[@adikoopa1183]

New subscriber I look forward to diving through your channel

[@avationmusic]

Reminds me a bit of the red oscillators from the Plaits module. I've been looking for something like that as a VST Synth, who knew it was under my nose the whole time😅

[@atdubya]

And like Elements, for sure :)

[@hallocine]

All Ableton synths are great. You could only use stock synths and composing great song actually. Specially with the addition of the Wavetable.

[@olgagrigoryants7320]

Thanks

[@maromi944]

you are blocking the window 😍

[@thelinguistshow]

This was great. One question: Where can I find the 'glide' function?

[@adirsab]

Collision is sick.

[@darrend7386]

cheers i knew it was something good just didnt know how to use it

[@B0K1T0]

13:20 Why the torture to leave it at "high" 🙉

[@alsoeris]

Totally forgot it existed

[@DespaceMan]

Note if you have LITE you don't any of these goodies, only thing you get is Instrument & Drum rack, but don't worry you can get free vst plugins that do the same or sometimes better.

[@ChristopherFryman]

Do you have any specific recommendations?

[@Kevhuman]

As from 11.3 all versions have the drift synth

[@ProSkylarHD]

do u need suite or is this in standard

[@jacobskovsbllknudsen5908]

It's a fine synth... Except for when it barfs and screams at you with a +24dB peak out of nowhere.

[@ghoom]

exciters*

[@fraxyl]

ex-cite-or not ex-cite-tite-or ;)