How To Get Started In Ableton Live As A Guitar Player

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[@kriolinuskrio2573]

This is absolutely the holy grail of someone who does music part time and doesnt have the time for proper sound production sessions you sir are awesome!

[@troytippawangmusicstudio9291]

This was awesome! Perfect for me, starting to record my bass in Ableton. Thank you so much.

[@pepe6666]

thanks man i really needed this video. ya hit the nail on the head with what i needed for a day 1 video as a guitarist looking at ableton. spot on!

[@Dubble_Bubble40]

This was great! I definitely look forward to more videos like this.

[@CBDM777]

the best Ableton video I have ever seen. Learned so much! TY

[@jordanmattievisuals]

Thanks man. Very helpful tutorial. Listening to you speak is easy and enjoyable - well done!

[@deemitchell4603]

Dude, this vid was exactly what I needed at the precise time I needed! Thank you so much. I'm gonna look to see what else you have, particularly on Ableton, as your other stuff could also be beneficial to me. So... subscribing it is then..... :-)

[@l3yfajamz]

Thank you dude this is really helpful and I will be looking forward to seeing more to this series. new sub here 🤘🇬🇧

[@OptimusCreatus]

Very grateful for the upload, awesome video!

[@StealthParrot]

This was extremely helpful, I am attempting my first guitar recording with Ableton Live 11 Lite which came with my Focusrite Scarlet 2i2. Thank you!

[@drawingwithsound8022]

I wish I’ve found this sooner! I just been stumbling my way through with tries and errors up to this point lol. This is great, Thank you!

[@waltimo]

Loved it! Now we can get straight to recording with my 15y daughter playing her guitar ❤ Thanks! Would like to see more Ableton content but right now this was exactly what we needed.

[@ianfreddy3804]

Thank you. Very helpful. Very much appreciated

[@RememberTheRegs]

Great intro video and came in useful for coming back to Ableton after a long break :D

[@AlexxHO]

Thank you. Just started to use Ableton 11 recently and this video was really usefull

[@shortbus]

Thanks Chad, I really appreciate the time you spent doing this.

[@JennyGavinWear]

Awesome, thank you. Such a big help.

[@tonyfdesign]

Great stuff!! Thank you.

[@groundedfitness2685]

Thanks man this was very helpful.

[@mohammadamjadi641]

Awesome Sir, i wish you continue doing it with more tutorial for guitar players

[@MusicGuitar724]

Thanks for this. Really help me

[@billa6348]

Loved your Helix tutorials and your natural, easy-to-follow, no nonsense, to-the-point, near-exhaustive and guitar focused instruction makes Ableton Live (a program I've used for a couple of years) more accessible. You mentioned MIDI. I use my MorningStar MC8 midi controller as a foot controller for Ableton's keyboard commands and it works beautifully. It keeps things simple. I am on the verge of replacing my physical looping pedal (and other pedals) with Ableton. I can't let perceived "purity of musicianship" interfere with my creativity. Anyway, you have a gift. Thank you. Addendum: The looping demo at 12:00 is a jaw-dropping game changer for those who struggle to get their loops in sync with a physical pedal. OMG!

[@angelmmorales4643]

Thank you Mr. Huskey. I'm a beginner with Ableton Live.

[@ConnorLow-qf2pk]

This video was exactly what I was looking for

[@carldonovan9781]

Brilliant!!! thank you

[@mrc0ff33]

Long time guitarist and first time DAW user... this stuff gold! Glad I found this video because I was lost!

[@jussymucky]

Nice one brother, this will definitely help 😎

[@bethesdafalcoyamaoka5483]

This was the most helpful ableton 11 video I have seen! Thank you! Any chance we can get a tutorial of how to add/compose drums to tracks?

[@nathanwatch]

Great video. Thanks!

[@garycrowley121]

Great video!

[@CharlieDugard]

very helpful, thank you

[@dougmartens340]

Thank you for this tutorial. I've often wondered how a solo guitarist might employ some of the live performance features like launching clips using a controller for speed and efficiency.

[@bobdimartino6738]

thanks man i learned more in 20 minutes than i did in 4 days messing with it thanks make more please

[@dpjohnson999]

This has been really helpful. New to Ableton so this is so useful. A video on how to import in drum loops would be great.

[@memmlo]

THANK YOU! For making this for musicians that actually play instruments and not just for electronic music. Some doesn't seem to understand the diffirent struggle it can get you. I really find this helpful. I've had ableton for a few years, as you i got it with my interface but never really learned. This is helpful! I'd like to know how to properly hook up guitars and so on... Seems like i get a miss-sound or something. What's the best way to get nice sound? Mine sounds muffled or so... Maybe the answer is in already existing videos, will check your work! Anyhow, thanks again!

[@johnhoare876]

super useful, thanks

[@hijones2968]

This is helpful, as a cello player (acoustic and electric), hard to find less techie videos

[@swindass]

very nice presentation

[@Timroxss]

Thanks bud, just what i need to learn this thing, looking forward for more lessons!

[@JohnWylieRjw]

That was perfect

[@KYuhas]

Thanks for sharing. Any videos on using the amp simulator, cabinets, and effects to create great guitar sounds/tone?

[@cybercab]

Thank you.

[@jimmeymcgee2840]

I love ableton so glad I’m not a pro tool user but yes make a series because I need it bad thanks👍

[@wallsmelt]

🤘thank u sir u anserd my question👊

[@TheStreetest]

Great insight.. I just finished producing 2 tracks. I told myself . Time to bust out my guitar 🎸. Was thinking just to run an audio channel, set a return/ send to an onboard effect and manipulate the signal 🎸

[@adamzd6182]

thanks Chad!

[@vpitts728]

Thank you so much for this video! I could never figure how to keep the metronome on when Abelton started to record. I feel like a fool. I really hope you continue the series. I don't think my looper worked the same way as yours did in the video. My start and stops were greyed out. I wonder if this feature is not available in Abelton Lite?

[@samwallis8318]

Please make some more ableton content - I’m fairly new but not completely green to it. That said I found your video extremely helpful and easy to follow so thankyou. Maybe a follow up video for some more technical recording tips. Or maybe some mixing tips would be great.

[@ShawnWilkieMusic]

Awesome! Nice and straight-forward.. And a Guitar Player to boot! lol

[@TheMack]

Very nice video! I'm a basic user of Apple Logic Pro and I find it very intuitive. I have installed Live 11 Lite and is curious to see if it can compete with Logic. I like the look of Ableton Live and the minimalist flat style, but it seems like it's mostly made for MIDI and electronic music. Or so I thought =) I only record real life guitar and bass so this was a very helpful video. I would love to see you do videos on how to do fade ins/outs, create markers, change volume for a track and separate clips, how to export a song to MP3, use third-party plugins such as amp sims etc. My main goal when creating songs, is to just get down to recording with as little fuss as possible. Can the Ableton Live workflow provide that? Thanks!

[@cwokevin]

Thanks!

[@ChadHuskey]

Thank you!!

[@TannerByTheSea]

Dang, brother.. i’ve been using Ableton here as my dedicated DAW since about 2015.. I was a Cubase before that anti-ProTools.. I’m sure you remember the proxy wars… And I know this sounds lame… But I’m in the studio today working… And I’ve never punched in! I just start another track… That like was such an epiphany today! And I’m die hard, Ableton! So thank you for the help dude! That was really cool starting my day to watch the video that was it very useful tool that I’m going to incorporate! I mean, I know Ableton I knew everything you were saying, but that really took me for a ride… When you punched in,/ it was like oh shit this car flies?😜 right on brother keep it up!

[@bidyutkarmakarBarbil]

Hi Chad! Great video. Could you please do basic video on background noise removal in AL11?

[@7guitarras326]

Hi Chad, can you make a video about a general idea for mixing guitars (clean, crunch, lead, etc) on ableton? That would be very helpful. Thank you in advance!

[@Zeisslermusic]

Cool, i use ableton like you. I am not good at playing guitar, but its fun anyway. 🇩🇰

[@WayneDillon-tc4fz]

Hey Chad. This video was great and super helpful. I’m setting up a very small home studio and went with Ableton as it came free with my UA Volt interface. I also purchased the Akai APC Key 25 as a midi keyboard. I’m looking to record classic rock kind of stuff and use midi mostly for bass and drums. If you could do some videos on how to add midi instruments and which ones sound best they would be super helpful. Would like to create a full rick band sound using only my guitars and the rest via midi. Great video and super helpful. Keep them coming please! You got a like and subscribe out of me. Have a great day.

[@shanezwack187]

I appreciate your video - thanks. I was trying to read the headstock, but couldn't - what guitar is that?

[@ChadHuskey]

Glad you liked the video! The guitar is a line 6 Variax jtv69. I swapped the stock neck for a warmoth neck with stainless steel frets.

[@seacrabby]

Great video Chad. So many tutorials go too fast and try to cram WAY too much into a session. Your pace is just right. One question…I use Windows and a ASIO driver does not show up as an option. Also, Ableton says that ASIO4all does not work well with Focusrite 2i2 (my interface). Any suggestions?

[@ChadHuskey]

Glad you liked the video! My first suggestion would be to make sure that you have installed the focusrite drivers and rebooted your computer. At that point you should see it as an option in ableton. Select asio in the first drop down for drivers, then the bottom drop down should show the focusrite.

[@rickguzman8989]

Im a a drummer and this is just wow...goteem

[@adannia5460]

This helps and I thank you for sharing this information. I'm not an electric guitar player , how would you go about using acoustic guitars without pick ups? Thank you

[@ChadHuskey]

Glad the video was helpful. For acoustic guitars it's a similar process only you need to use a microphone on the guitar instead of plugging it in. Just plug the mic into your audio interface and in ableton select that input as your source on the track you're recording to.

[@captainbmo6629]

Hey Chad! How does it compare to Logic Pro? Have you used it before?

[@KlammeKarlo]

Can you please explain in detail how to have session-view on one screen and arrangement view on another screen. Thx for a great video.

[@ChadHuskey]

Thanks! In the view menu click on Second Window. This will add the second window so you can have one on each screen.

[@anthonyjohnston1618]

would have been nice to include a section for plug ins, still trying to get my plug ins to work lol

[@DoverDanny]

It helps and thank you, but what about for non plugged in acoustic guitars. Do you have a video for non electric recording.

[@ChadHuskey]

Basically you would just need to run a microphone into your audio interface and do it that way. Just select the input from your audio interface for the Ableton track and you're good to go.

[@l3yfajamz]

I have a question if you’ve got the time. say I record 30 minutes of guitar playing through my boss me-80, just flipping through the presets and getting creative, how would I then cut the bits I like be it a riff, lick,chorus etc… and put them in files to use and work on later when I find use for them. I only had Ableton and my Scarlett Solo a week, and although I can play guitar I’m having a hard time with the software as I’m computer illiterate 😂, I’ve already watched this vid about ten times and i still need to keep coming back lol. Thank you 🇬🇧🤘

[@ChadHuskey]

Glad you're enjoying the video! There are a couple of ways to achieve what you are wanting to do. If you want to export the sections to wav files use the loop bracket to mark the beginning and end of the section you want to export. You can also click and drag to select the section you want to export then right click and choose "loop selection" to mark it. Then go to file>export and that should do the trick. Note if you do the loop selection option it will turn on the loop function, which will be highlighted in yellow at the top to the right of the play/stop/record buttons. You will need to click that to turn the looping off. Another option is that if you want to drag the clips into the session view to have them as clips that can be triggered from there simply follow the same procedure, but after the clip is selected instead of exporting click and drag the audio and while holding down the mouse button hit the tab key to switch over to the session view. Then you can drop the audio into any of the clip spots and it will be available there to play on its own. This would be handy if you had a riff that was a verse section and a riff that was a chorus section. You could drag them over as clips into the session view then trigger them on the fly if you wanted to experiment with them that way. Let me know if this helps. Cheers

[@anthonymichael3029]

How does one do amp models or drum machines on your recordings?

[@JohnPaul-me2pd]

I can't even figure out how to get my guitar sound or plug ins to show up ? Very frustrated and curious if there are video skype tutorials?

[@danfrankum6233]

I understand you are using with Helix. Are you also using Native & how? Thanks, Dan

[@ChadHuskey]

I am using Native, and I use it as a VST plug in inside of Ableton. Typically what I'll do is when I'm recording guitars with Helix I'll also record the dry guitar onto a separate track. I use Helix as the audio interface when I'm doing this so that it's easy to accomplish this. The dry signal is on USB7 from Helix. So that way after the fact I can go in and add Helix Native to it and tweak the tones if I need to. Also I've used it on other instruments if I want to put certain effects on those as well.

[@trancemusik2006]

how are you getting the audio from the guitar to your computer?

[@matiascba85]

Chad, thanks for the video. Anyways, I have the same audio interface as you (Zoom L-8), and I can't make it work with Ableton. No matter how I configure it, Ableton records only what is coming from the master, including the click and other arrangements. It's quite frustrating. Do you have any ideas? I've already configured the settings in Preferences to match yours, but still, it's not working.

[@ChadHuskey]

The only thing I'd say is to make sure the right inputs are selected on the individual tracks. You configure the global settings, but when you go to the individual channels is where you set specific inputs. One thing that isn't immediately obvious is that the stereo pair 1/2 is the main output of the L8. So if you wanted to use the first two channels as a stereo input you'd actually select 3/4 as your input source on the channel in ableton. Same thing with the mono channels. Input 3 should be channel 1 on the zoom, input 4 would be channel 2 on the zoom, etc. I found this initially confusing as I think the numbers should directly correlate to the numbers on the zoom, but that's not how they set it up.

[@matiascba85]

@@ChadHuskey Oh man, you saved my life!!! I've invested so much time into this. "Input 3 should correspond to channel 1 on the Zoom, and input 4 would correspond to channel 2 on the Zoom, etc." This was the solution. Thanks a million, buddy. I was just about to uninstall everything and give another DAW a shot.

[@Ray_Wood_1984]

🤘😃 🙇‍♂️💓🍀🎶

[@carlovelasco6343]

why solo over a rhtym track or a second track not syncing on the first track

[@TheAlbumsThatMadeMe]

I'm really struggling with getting Plug In effects while I'm live playing, relying on playing with no effects and applying them afterward. Any recommendations?

[@ChadHuskey]

If you want to hear the plug ins while you're playing make sure to turn on monitoring on the channel you're playing your guitar through. Depending on your audio interface and the processing power of your computer will determine if you can get the latency low enough to play without a noticeable delay. If you can get your latency down to 10 milliseconds or below it should be pretty unnoticeable.

[@TheMack]

I was sooooo enjoying my first practical steps in Ableton Live, it's really intuitive to use. Unfortunately I have found a deal breaker. That is the "loop bracket" that is used for punch-ins. The smallest size is 1/4 note (one beat) and it can't be any smaller. That's fine for EDM music, but as a guitarist I need to be able to do high precision punch-ins. There are some very clunky workarounds that's not even worth considering. Have you found a reasonable way around this? Otherwise I'm afraid it's back to logic Pro again... 😔

[@ChadHuskey]

I'm not in front of ableton at the moment, but if you zoom in you should be able to set it to much smaller intervals than 1/4 I think. I'd have to test to be sure, but try zooming way in and see if that resolves it. Going from memory so I reserve the right to be wrong on this one 😉

[@TheMack]

@@ChadHuskey Thanks for the answer. No go on that one unfortunately. I just tried zooming way way in, set the Adaptive Grid to "narrowest" and Fixed Grid to "off". This sure results in the ability to expand the loop bracket in finer and smaller steps, all good. But in the other direction it still won't go any smaller than 1/4 note. So annoying...

[@DuncanEduardo]

​@@TheMack just punch in with slightly longer audio then? Why restrict to tiny section?

[@TheMack]

@@DuncanEduardo Thanks, I have moved on to Reaper, found a good workflow in that.

[@TheTaterCowgirls]

I am completely new to recording. I just bought a focusrite scarlett 2i2 and it came with the Ableton software. Now I am a bass player and want to record my bass playing. Maybe that's a stupid question but how do i get the mpeg track from my computer into Ableton in order to match/mix it with my recorded bass playing? Otherwise I only have the bass recorded but not the song I am covering. I can't find anyone on youtube explaining that part. Am I the only one not getting it? LOL I am no hi tech gal, learning by doing.

[@ChadHuskey]

Very cool that you're getting into recording :) If I'm reading this right you want to bring backing tracks into Ableton then record your bass parts over them. You'll need to get the file(s) into .wav format. There should be free online converters that can change the mpeg file to .wave. You'll just need to google and find one to use. From there you can just drag and drop the file into a track on Ableton and you should be good to go.

[@TheTaterCowgirls]

@@ChadHuskeyThanks so much! After I formatted the mpeg into wave would I have to use a midi or audio track to drop it in? It's not a virtual instrument like in midi but also not really a recording in audio. You are talking to a complete hi tech idiot here LOL.

[@ChadHuskey]

Essentially a wav file is a piece of audio, so you'll drop it into an audio track. The more you work with recording the more you'll get comfortable with these things 🙂

[@TheTaterCowgirls]

@@ChadHuskey wow thx for the ultrafast response. That really helps. Now I have to go practice bass to get a good recording down.

[@JohnnyApp1eseed]

my computer isnt hearing my guitar and i followed everything.. wanting to pull my hair out rn lol its weird cuz its showing movment in the tiny bar but its not recording anything update: i didnt arm the track lol so i got it

[@markbooth140]

Can you have the two views simultaneously if you’re on a laptop and an external monitor? If so how?

[@ChadHuskey]

You absolutely can. Just go to the view menu and click on second window. I'm not sitting in front of ableton at the moment, but I belive it's in the view menu. Then you can drag the second window to your other monitor.

[@jerryhill8281]

Why not record in the arrangement view? Like set a loop in the arrangement, and then play it until you like it.

[@ChadHuskey]

I usually record in the arrangement view if I'm going to record in the more traditional method. For example if I know the song structure I'll usually just record on the timeline in arrangement view. I record in session view if it's going to be more things that are loop-based and chopped up. But most of the time I'm in arrangement view. In version 12 that's coming out this year you can put the mixer and arrangement view together. Once that happens I'll use session view less. I tend to use ableton as more of a traditional daw these days. But it's still really cool for being able to experiment and do fun stuff with. Which is what got me into ableton nearly 20 years ago. Just typing that out makes me feel old 😂

[@rickguzman8989]

Duuude

[@scottstroot]

I appreciate what you've done with this video, but ... "If you're brand new to Ableton..." you don't know yet how the interface even works. A "How to Get Started" tutorial needs to start with those very basic, navigational "how to drive this thing" instructions. I don't know what a "bracket" is or how to operate them, I don't know how to change the start points on playback, all stuff you take for granted in this video and zip through so fast I had to rewind over and over to follow your mouse points. Way too many basics left out to consider this a "how to get started" tutorial. I need to keep searching.

[@Davidroylee]

Horrible teaching

[@austonsmith536]

I can't stand the metronome/click track culture infestation that has necrophiled Rock's cadaver. Nowadays nothing of mine thats perfectly in time makes past the pre-mastering stage. I blame this on the obsession of Live Jimi and Bob Dylan sets I ended up falling into and never quite escaping entirely when it pertains to musical tastes/arranging. And ableton live plugins have offset options, humanization, and various other ways to steer clear from that mundane techno-pop culture of keeping everything in perfect timing... Having action in the downbeat and triplet fills are essential rhythmic syncopative fundamentals. If not... Its just 50 year old rinse and repeat poppycock that has put Rock'n'roll in a blood eagle and SkullfukD its corpse so much it'd make Ed Gein wince in disgust...