Mr. Bill - Ableton Tutorial 48: Granulisation And The Placeholder

[@K100music]

On another note if you hold alt while dragging the arrow in the sample selection in moves the audio around as if the place holder was there.

[@Gluttonforpeace]

Mind went from blown to fucked. I need a band-aid.

[@jona8659]

May god generously reward you for sharing this, my brother in christ

[@clementpimentmusic]

Wow just 6 min of Mr. Bill's tutorial worth hours of others. Thanks much mate.

[@ioncrops]

Damn, tune in this totu is from 2014 and it sounds as fresh as 2020, you're a genius sir, much respect

[@Slynk]

great tutorial dude. that placeholder tip is super handy.

[@johncase6291]

Mr. Bill, I’m just now finding your tuts and I gotta say thank you man! literally every tutorial I’ve watched has been so helpful, hope you’re doing well, cheers!

[@vincecimo]

Thanks man. I discovered your music first and was very stoked that you are sharing your techniques! Keep music moving forward!!

[@Longwalkshortdock]

I love that you freely offer this killer advice to other producers. I find these incredibly useful and inspiring. Thanks very much. I really dug this one.

[@THISISSIDIUS]

Even though the placeholder was unnecessary, the whole toolbox in dropbox is such a simple but great idea. Loads of artists probably do that already, but I never even thought about it :P Every single one of your tutorials are so valuable, fast and quick and straight to the point. Amazing stuff.

[@ETN-Music]

Bill, you can hold the Alt key to scroll around the sample, no need for the placeholder :) .

[@MrBillsTunes]

Yeah, a few people have told me this since putting this tutorial up. I didn't know about it (I'm stupid). Thank you! :D

[@nanakizzz]

Thanks for that comment i just saved hours and hours of my life :D Awesome tutorial too !

[@alexkay6995]

+Eitan Gezer DAMN, that is a game changer!

[@penja1646]

DUDE THE PLACEHOLDER IS SO BRILLIANT ...why didnt I think of that

[@PatrickSugarfix]

Thank you so much! That file scrubbing problem has been driving me insane for ages, but this solves the whole problem. Big ups!

[@entzijams]

Thanks Mr. Bill. Your tutorials are the bestest!

[@crescendoapre9705]

Man .. this special 48th trick of yours is one of the best i've seen on youtube !!! great work !!! keep sharing please ;-)

[@1koolkat1]

Keep the knowledge coming Mr Bill! 🔊

[@ahrenfullstop]

awesome short tutorial, and some very good tips

[@lukelabeat]

fantastic tutorial mr bill !

[@tysonification]

One of the best tips I've seen

[@nonstopdemo]

Fantastically creative and useful tutorials

[@Aktunes47]

this is brilliant, as usual. you probably don't need a placeholder/silence track for this type of workflow. what I do is just duplicate the little piece I'm working on and press '0' to deactivate the duplicate, and then scrub (as long as there's any clip after the one your scrubbing through, it won't redraw the clip longer). another fun fact: you can scrub through audio samples with warped audio without the need for a placeholder as long as 'loop' is enabled in the sample settings. toolbox++ mr bill++

[@K100music]

Absolutely perfect for intros!

[@Blure]

Indeed

[@ian3079]

If you don't wanna use that placeholder thing, if you just turn looping on you can scrub through the sample with the start flag without changing the clip length ;)

[@luciaterenzi9445]

[@chillguy2758]

Still pure gold

[@marcusmazza2255]

Amazing Tip! Thank you mucho grandee! Always excited when you put out another tutorial tip.

[@LesterBrunt1983]

You are my new hero!

[@RUGImusic]

Awesome tutorial !

[@pranavmayekar7628]

I wanted to learn this technique so badly,you pretty much hear these in porter robinson and mat zo productions..Thanks a lot Bill!!

[@VasBaev]

dude this made my day thanks yet again Mr Bill!

[@sionnachs_workshop]

MIND = BLOWN

[@DylanGalletly]

Hey mate, love your tuts, just a wee note that you might not have considered - you can fix that MASTER latency by using the Drive Error Compensation in settings. Keep up the good work.

[@Round1MusicOfficial]

Nice I had no idea about the placeholder thanks!

[@NickEntourage]

Your Tricks are great, and most of them are super interesting, but will you make a video about making such great stabs and synths?

[@trialsofwar6823]

wow mr. bill thank you for this video

[@williamchisholm3562]

beautiful man

[@alexkay6995]

i usually do is instead of using a placeholder sample, i just quickly duplicate and disable the clip i'm working with using key commands. (ctrl+d, then "0" on windows) though i must admit that i first started using the placeholder technique after watching one of your live streams.

[@aren6]

ultra neat, dude

[@Gorflaxsack]

Great tut homey.

[@KirillTitov]

I'm always looking for excuse to resample some part of track using unusual warp engines :) Especially useful in like neurofunk stuff. And that's what makes Ableton different from other DAWs. But still plugin delay compensation is horrible in Live... #everybodydies Thanks for the tutorial though :)

[@nnnnico]

if ableton developers added pdc i would be SOO HAPPY!

[@KirillTitov]

Nicolas Pasqualis you may be slightly happy now, they've added (kinda) pdc in 9.2 :)

[@nnnnico]

Kirill Titov i know dude ^^ it was definitely a great day when i got the news

[@whosansel]

bill you are genius

[@drtyslzy]

Ansel That's Mr. Bill to you...

[@wolvead]

Awesome trick! thank you. but I didn't get what is the place holder exactly is!

[@anthonyjmeyo]

best tutorial ever!

[@user-ie3xz2vy5z]

best tutorial ever! thanks man

[@lukehuels770]

Hey, from around 3:20, what is happening to make those selections blank ? I.e. what is that function called and what is the key command for it?

[@Blure]

Nice tutorial man, learned a couple of things! :)

[@rux_ton]

What song of yours is this? I really like it, man.

[@shimidubz]

The Enabler & The Enabled

[@marsden6825]

great, thanks!

[@wehateyourlife7987]

Hell ya dude! I though I was like the only person on KZbin who does that!!!!

[@CharlesK441]

Awesome

[@peamarte]

Super Bill!!

[@nnnnico]

The placeholder is not really needed, you can just press "alt"

[@WebangDubstep]

Very sick!

[@claytonkimbro5916]

love you!

[@ncshuriken]

I wish Ableton was better at clean timestretching. I mean I love making glitchy rythmic sounds by going crazy with samples on 'Beat' warping/stretching mode, but for clean timestretching, I rarely get results I like. Things always sound weird & distorted. I've heard some really good LOOOOONG timestretching tricks (in released tracks). Is there any way to do this in Live (the closest I can think is by cleverly cutting & reversing sample sections, but that'd only work with certain types of sounds IMO) or would I have to use another program to get clean stretching results?

[@RenbeOfficial]

ncshuriken complex warp mode is your best bet within ableton, outside of ableton there's a program called paulstretch that's capable of hours worth of time stretching at a smooth level ^^

[@ncshuriken]

Thanks I'll check out PaulStretch!

[@tezal]

nice one bill

[@psygmamusic7251]

How did you silence all the tracks you selected all fast?

[@snagoons]

wish I had your workflow :| great tut as always

[@manifatzigula]

amazing tip Thanks so much! :)

[@jilbertdavtian7242]

thanks dad

[@dankesthours182]

powerful

[@eiermann1952]

nice !

nice! thx!

[@Martin-vj7zx]

Gold :)

[@TheHauntedSockdrawer]

cool tutorial =)

[@hardboiled2000]

nice

[@nederlantstom4585]

game changer stuff

[@TOMCHANTVFX]

kewl !

[@Rhekluse]

ah brilliant

[@seipslix]

this is fucking amazing! :O ;)

[@UndermoonWax]

My god!

[@nryn777]

nice. hi from 2022

[@lonelykid7691]

wow now this is going to be an Ableton 10 feature 4 years later lol

[@JWhitty]

whats the hotkey for deactivating clips?

[@goczangabor24]

0

[@crittercel]

were you the one that made a veil of maya remix? bland details, i know.

[@MrBillsTunes]

I was, yes.

[@crittercel]

Mr. Bill it was sick.

[@perryscoon]

I just learned like 18 things.

[@kozihoppy]

Buenísimo. I've been just looking for a -manual- way to glitch up my sounds without having to use any of those "auto glitch in a click" plugins. This is creative stuff.

[@Potatoenfuego]

interesting

[@chaddeibler-hunt3610]

:)

[@chaddeibler-hunt3610]

Thanks so much for the placeholder tip! That's great!

[@wurnotantmlb]

I'm thinking if we don't need an statue of your body and face, one in each capital all over the world....

[@louismarcell]

z.Thx ..One