Mad Zach Push 1 Performance Walkthrough

Mad Zach shares his strategies for playing with the 64 pad layout, tweaking individual sounds, and some useful production tips for getting punchy drums - all on the basis of the free 64 Pad Lab Pack.
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[@elcapitan6126]

Well done Zach! Your talent and ability to communicate this stuff so well is very inspirational

[@Ableton]

Ableton Live 9.2 is out now. This free update brings improvements and new features to Live and Push and is available for immediate download for all owners of Live9. You can now use all 64 Push pads to play drums, and to help you jump right in we’re releasing a new, free Pack. Made by Mad Zach, it features 5 Racks of drums, percussion, loops, and one-shots. Watch the walkthrough video below for an introduction. Click here for all the details and the free Pack: ableton.com/blog/live-9-2-out-now/

[@gear4musicguitars]

Can't wait to give it a try :D

[@haroldferez6720]

Thanx Ableton for being a cornerstone

[@BrianCosgrove]

Thank you Ableton. Firmware update for Push too.

[@djvar94]

Now please guys for Ableton Live 10 please do sooooo many improvements for the piano roll please you need to make it way better!!!

[@isaacjones8682]

I agree please hurry up with Ableton 10. We need bigger improvements. Especially to the piano roll

[@DomZeal]

Such a cool dude, thanks for the techniques and tips.

[@gokyori]

Really impressed with the comfort level, with so many things going on. The 2 has come a long way for allowing that.

[@subidoo1330]

Mad Zach honestly a fan of your 'presto' and creative pad-tapping! and the clearly explained insights are helping me A LOT with my way through my own stuff. Respekttt!!

[@ThomasMYoutube]

Awesome! Been waiting for this video for a long time... Really loved it; great job guys.

[@Austinabletontutoronline]

This is a great video Mad Zach's Musiago 1 hand finger drum technique really open the door for me. Also really opens the door for a 64 pad performance because the other hand can play other parts of the song while one hand plays the drums.

[@liammars8215]

Amazing. Thank you Ableton and Zach!

[@TheOlavarria49]

Sir, you have the gift of teaching...very elegant and instructive video...thank you...

[@ProjectGagarineBand]

Great video. Very useful tips.

[@JP.Alonso]

Thanks a lot for all those great tips !!

[@navigatingmadness180]

Nice!! Please more Push tutorial/tip videos like this!

[@hiphophorse]

well smart. thanks a lot Abes and Zach

[@azagedon]

Great video. Most of the techniques Mad Zach is talking about could be used on any pad like a Novation Launchpad, all down to mapping as Ableton is crazy flexible. How he makes the most of a 1 shot is fantastic, the vinyl scratch sound is so simple but crazy good!

[@Ableton]

Indeed, the pack can be played on a Novation Launchpad's Note mode in a pretty similar fashion. However, most Launchpads do not feature velocity for additional expression -except the Pro model.

[@paperlessmovement]

Wow, very nice tips there!! Thanks!

[@Ma8tthew]

Great tips! Thanks guys!

[@gmacnev]

Thank you ableton!!!! That's amazing!

[@joelhayes5759]

You're a very good communicator. I'm not sure if you have more tutorial type videos, but if you do, I will watch them.

[@bob1081]

Awesome vid, thanks guys

[@TheRealWinsletFan]

Great tips. Thank you.

[@MarctheDarc]

Nice walkthrough, pretty clever with the sidechain buss. 9.2 is very nice, several very worthwhile updates and additions, nice work Ableton!

[@djvar94]

I agree but they still need to improve so so so so so much the piano roll yet.....

[@eliassalaz151]

loving this.thankyou

[@astonhinds499]

Love that beat at the beginning.

[@LyroLife]

Such amazing 64 pad kits make it even more worth buying

[@mklztr4542]

i love this guy so much

[@lividmusic1921]

yup. This is what I was looking for.

[@Temporalmixproductions]

About damn time! When I Live upgraded to 9.1.10, I was so pissed off that it wasn't 9.2 yet!

[@shukranisherard7152]

Mad Zach= very talented + generous. Yeah, man!

[@donydony112]

Thanks Ableton and thanks +Mad Zach

[@SwitchMultiMedia]

Buy Mad Zach's packs they are so RAD!!! I got some over a year ago and I still jam out on them. Great finger drum practice.. On 9.5 they even better.

[@StuartwasDrinkell]

Mad Zach you rock dude

[@anthonyparks505]

The ghost bus technique completely blew my mind...I had been struggling with how sidechaining could work in a performance for months

[@RockstahRolln]

This is MAD (pun intended)! Brilliant!

[@regmonmusic]

Excellent!

[@MarkoKacanski]

Great stuff. Thank you, I'll try it in music streams at my channel cheers!

[@svatyvoj]

Nice Mad Zach thanks you and Ableton team for great work. And hope your itchy trigger fingers will be pushing Push for a long time ;)

[@ndrandyvincent390]

I love it!

[@bunnymmm4224]

Thank you!

[@jsonslim]

I have never seen cooler than this

[@maxouprodigy]

I'm sure Mad Zach could handle a 256 pad controller ^^ nice performance, nice explanations!

[@zucchiniclan9930]

Mad Zach is da bomb on Ableton Push!

[@zeepster]

Mad Zach Great pack. Can i also ask what microphone you are using in the video?

[@haukesteinbachmusic]

Nice!:) thank you!:))

[@thecyberben]

Great vid thx! Please tell me what kind of Mac you are using in it?

[@calebjohnson2795]

this dude is hella talented

[@yusefrincon8118]

mad zach is awesome. I've noticed his trademark is finger drumming, could he however do a video explaining some of the other ways of producing/playing that a tool like ableton push could make possible for the user?

[@rnoip]

GreAt StufF. Thx Man.

[@joshbnet]

His use of the side chaining with the ghost bus is a great idea for a drum rack, but when he demo'd the implementation with the compressor it seemed that he was sending all of the drum pads through the compressor. I didn't catch any sounds not going through the compressor when he played. Am I correct? Otherwise this was an amazing video! Thank you!

[@smith1896]

I have always wanted to go the ableton live and push route, but I have been learning through FL Studio because to me it is so much more for beginners than Ableton and Logic, I have an ableton live intro that came with my audio interface, I swear it is like alien language.. I quickly realized that I couldn't just simply drag and drop a sound, I literally had to bounce between session view and arrangement looking around for what I would call the "playlist tab".. I know I will eventually have to switch due also to school. Seems like FL Studio is not used in many colleges

[@neilsjmcmahon]

nice - great video. Is that an Ableton hoodie? Where did u gt it? cant see on Ableton any more

[@JustinWoo]

Kickass!

[@wapangjamirofficial]

soooo coollll mad>>>

[@GemExperience]

Cheers man :O

[@AETHER3000]

Mad Zach 's still rocking the place with his weird fingaz

[@dudemandudebro938]

muscle memory? have they updated the 1 for that yet or what about the 2? thanks for the video btw. I'm finally going back to ableton... since the beginning..

[@sairbashir9784]

can you guys make a vid on sample slicing and building a drum rack all on the same 16 pad drum rack like an mpc type.

[@jonprosise7162]

Thanks

[@leigh6870]

cool....like it...:)

[@Herbao69]

I wish I was your friend! hahahaha. : ). Cheers from Brasil

[@iamhated1292]

The 64PadLab apparently has some issues now (I'm on 9.7 btw) I've been playing with the kits (Awesome work MadZach!) but have noticed one thing, the ghost bus seems broken (it's not adding effect) and creates spikes my CPU meter. It was the samples that were assigned to the ghost bus creating the spikes, so I deleted the bus and at least the CPU isn't freaking out.

[@zodiac909]

Like a boss.

[@PaulLennar]

thks mad!

[@milhouse777]

Mad Zach is the boss

[@altovoltage7665]

Is the pack still available? Just saved enough to get that Akai designed Push 1 yo.

[@NedRush]

Mad Zach Nice hoodie.

[@Ericstlaurent]

Yes!

[@Dj1nfernotv]

Can you make a video on how to make a 64 button sound pack.

[@Beatamins]

Hi, do you know in step sequencer push one how to move in wich bar you are inside the loop?

[@Dj1nfernotv]

Can you send me the link on how to make each button it’s separate instrument...

[@ModernKnightly]

What kind of mic headset are you using to record your vocal audio?

[@evilbobz123]

Any news on when Live 10 is coming out?

[@helicopter_traffic]

It’s out now

[@StaticAndStatured]

How are you getting such clean sound ? Are you using speakers or what ?

[@CaptainPhilosophical]

I dont see where you can put the LFO on the BP filter in Live 9.7.2 for that scratch sound. Did that feature get removed?

[@CaptainPhilosophical]

I figured it out. I didn't see the 4 different parameters the LFO can control. I increased the filter amount and I am good. : )

[@user82938]

Mad Zach seems p chill.

[@isaaczurita5495]

What do I have to download to make my launchpad work?

[@theebaddchild7336]

The answer is probably here but, can you use the sound packs on the Novation Pro Pad? I'm a beginner trying to make amazing music. Please let me know if I can.

[@Ableton]

Yes, the Novation Launchpad Pro features a similar 64-pad drum kit layout on its Note mode.

[@alemusicgirl]

why u cannot change the color of each pads or make the drum sound in one colour the bass sounds another and pads o chords another??

[@marsy_mcmarsface]

MAD ZACH IN DA HOUSE

[@PilferMusic]

So... I noticed sysex was sent to my PUSH controller... does that mean you're going finally include SYSEX in LIVE? SOON?

[@HORRORBOISHA]

I can't find the filter he uses to make the scratch noise. Any help?

[@lokotesh2787]

eres un crack

[@tihkal]

mad zach is the fuckin man!!

[@grayjax]

where can i get that sweatshirt!?

[@SEV3NZH]

a mpc studio can do the same on abelton ?

[@jbanuel0s]

can you play 16 and 32 bit sounds on this pad or what? I'm looking to do the music for my friends game hes making and I'm curious.

[@Ableton]

Jimmy Banuelos You a can fill a Drum Rack with any supported audio files indeed: wav, aiff, mp3, ogg...

[@goodnightosaka]

Hey guys. I have a problem. Whenever I open Ableton it gets stuck on "Initializing audio inputs and outputs". What should I do?

[@Ableton]

B/@(K0UT This sounds like an issue with the audio driver. In any case, contact our Support team to let us help you www.ableton.com/en/help/contact-support/

[@danielloewengrube]

very good teaching, but I don't understand, why you don't work with different colours on your push.... wouldn't it be easier?

[@slanggemz2419]

i think hes using the push 1 which only has a small color set the push 2 is the one with multi color leds

[@xxxPGxxx]

hello everyone...just bought ABLETON PUSH 1 ...and i have REASON 11...i cannot get the TRANSPORT to connect from REtouch software... question is...how the hell do you connect the TRANSPORT to reason...when i do it both ways or which ever way it goes...no communication whatsoever can someone send me a video for PC (NOT MAC) on how to do this...FEB 2020

[@kojoamissah]

It sounds like the limited display is a Mad Zack "trade secret" only? As a neophyte, I would like to request step by step of this activity. I suspect that a step by step could give most of us who are just learning Push to get a better understanding of Push's capabilities. This video shows everything already loaded not the step by step. Some of us could use that format to learning and development. That's my opinion and I could be wrong. Just curious if time permitted, we could be tutored with the step by step video. Thank you.

[@robertsyrett1992]

When he is talking about sidechaining, can someone explain that?

[@anthonyparks505]

Sidechaining is when the input level of one signal (or 'track' in ableton) is used to affect the behavior of another track. It is most often used with compressors. For example, a bass guitar could be sidechained using the kick drum as it's input to lower the volume of the bass guitar automatically (for a short period of time) whenever the kick drum comes in.

[@Herbao69]

My man!!! Thank you very much!

[@marcogerber]

Hive Zurich spotted!

[@auralponic.]

Mad Zach is a genius. We are not worthy of these soundpacks

[@PoboyMusic]

The ghost side chain makes my CPU Spike and I get some crackles. Deleting it stops that but I don't want to delete

[@auralponic.]

You might need to increase your buffer size & make sure "Reduced Latency When Monitoring" is checked.

[@PoboyMusic]

@@auralponic. buffer size didn't work but I will try reduced latency thing tomorrow thanks. I did do a work around by putting all the drums in a group and using the group to trigger side chain instead

[@nightman6668]

i would totally get a push 2 if i didnt have to spend an additional 600 for Ableton software too..

[@Ableton]

Every Push comes with a copy of Live 9 Intro to get started.

[@mateoconk]

He built a DAW in the drum rack.

[@andyziko5607]

ABLETON WHEN YOU ALREADY give us ability to change colors on pads?

[@cude123545]

That is this bike?

[@EliteZockerWorld]

How big is the Input lag?

[@bjpemail]

The only time you have input lag is if you add it. Instantaneous dependant on the sample.

[@spoxyn]

He said "I can get little funky" but I think he meant: I can get a little dirty bird.

[@NoNameJohnson-wc4pm]

Welp, time to break out the MPD