My Hardware to DAW Workflow // Arranging House Music in Ableton Live

[@Sypher474]

There are so many layers of skills required to do this whole music thing. Migrating my work from being trapped in hardware land over to a DAW for finishing is one of my last hills to climb. Cheers for the insight - I know how to complete all of the individual actions you took, but putting all those skills together in the right order to achieve a goal in a somewhat efficient manner just hasn't clicked for me yet. Watching the process is very helpful, kinda distills the workflow possibilities into something manageable. Option paralysis is real!

[@kp8923]

Well spoken Sypher

[@MaxSonicUA]

Your series of "complete track from scratch" is a pure gold. Waiting for more!

[@MrNitecreature]

Never boring Ricky, I could listen to this for two hours!

[@livefromtheglampad]

2 hours and one minute!

[@michael999michael999]

Thankyou @ricky tinez. So useful for a beginner like me (who indulged in a Peak and Ableton) to be able to see your workflow. Appreciate the time you took to film and edit that for us. Legend

[@_adelac]

So happy i discovered this channel

[@reflexivmusic]

Ricky, I hope you know that you could never ever bore me in any way whatsoever.... 🥺

[@VIRALBEATS360]

You have inspired me so much with these sessions! Been eyeballing a PEAK for a minute, and even entered into the contest, recently. Love the messy room analogy. Nicely done!

[@UncleAge4avs]

Great video. In my humble opinion you are the best on KZbin at this type of video. Normal pace walkthrough showing workflow. You don’t get enough accolades for your contributions. Thank you!

[@Wolfbabypuppylove]

Ricky is like chill synth ASMR

[@dracul74]

Great video. I went full dawless for a few years. These days I am trying to do all the creative outside of the daw and using the daw just for mixing. Doesn’t always work out, but I find the restrictions actually make me more creative and focused. I am sure in 6 months I’ll be doing something different, lol.

[@WesleyNyle]

This was a great video showing how to sample, use your Novation gear, and compose. I loved this!

[@vonehrenheim]

Thanks for sharing your process Ricky! This is great! Really dig the vibe and inspiration! ❤️

[@chasepe5762]

Thanks for making really high quality instructional videos

[@InitialDL84]

Awesome video, catching up to all of them from the past couple of months. I still haven't made the move to Ableton, I just love FL Studio too much 😅 I have been incorporating my Korg Minilogue XD into my workflow and I love it

[@hereticalaudio]

Going DAWless was a workflow game-changer for me and I have since made all my tracks inside the Digitakt. However, I still master ITB. Good video as always Ricky.

[@DanChippendaleMusic]

Kudos to you. I just don't know how anyone can stay calm like you zooming around a DAW UI like that especially on a laptop screen that size. You make it look too easy. That looks like work to me, I'll stick with my DAWless a bit longer 🤣

[@Radhinio]

Always so inspiring. Thank you Ricky 🙏

[@edwin-zone]

"From Whack to Track" 😂 Great vid!

[@kyleguyettemusic]

Thanks for sharing your process! I want to get back into Ableton

[@Dekkie61]

Love this video; this type of minimal production process is what I'd aspire to, hope that a lot more practice will help get out of months long going back and forth between arranging, mixing and sketching. But YT, djeez, tone it down with the ads...

[@NineTo5Golf]

Always love these videos, but on a non-music related note, I am VERY glad you decided to go back to 24 fps for your videos 😂

[@robsinHL]

Jesus this couldn’t have been more timely for me. Integrating MPC into my hardware, contemplating playing the DAW overlap and integration…

[@venn_diagramm]

exactly the video I needed SMH tysm u

[@RickyTinez]

Hell yea thanks for watching Alejandro!

[@Decoy303]

Novation Peak is a Beast! Rep your set Ricky T!

[@iancain6647]

Thanks Ricky you're always good for an inspiring video. If you weren't making good tunes nobody would care about what you had to say.

[@landonh3535]

Such a great video man. I basically do it the same way with a lot of the same gear, so this is awesome to see. One thing (you may have done this off camera when you recorded again) is when I record all the hardware with the ERM, my Ableton session is set up with no plugins since some report wrong and add latency (sp950 plug was for a while for example, think he fixed that). So if I sound design something with plugins I commit to it and print the audio and then delete the plugin channel. Once I start the mix/arrange I save the project as a new session and call it "mix song 2" or whatever. This way if I have to punch something in later on, I can reload the session with no plugins and the punch is recorded in time with everything else. Then I just drag that new audio to the mix session window and continue on. Hopefully that makes some sort of sense, its actually super easy in practice but sounds complicated AF typing it out. haha.

[@RickyTinez]

hmmmm i had to read that a few times Landon but its starting to make sense haha.. I've noticed super swings in latency when i add a heavy plug-in like Ozone 9. but i guess it adds up with tiny plug-ins here and there! That's smart to have 2 sessions, one plug-in free and one without. You notice that the recording gets delayed or has latency when you record with plug-ins so that's why you have the separate session correct?

[@landonh3535]

@@RickyTinez Yeah sorry that was an insanely wordy post, lol. But yeah anytime I add plugins I see latency. So I just have a blank session with audio files only and no plugs (besides the ERM one) just for tracking in hardware. If you want your mind blown, try this with the MPC 4000 and marvel at the insane tightness.

[@josslyn303]

This is exactly how I do my music. I'll do different takes moving envelopes and other parameters.

[@sketchdashaman]

this is Sexy! very happy with this dude! my Octatrack has been ignored for A while. the things "Surgeon" has been doing with it....I like...like alot!!!!! but your flow...on this...is very, nice.

[@mstr.alexandre2709]

Dope video as always. Funny enough sometimes i have to do the opposite. I’ll get a loop going in Ableton and just won’t get anything fleshed out unless I throw it on the OT and start playing with mutes and effects

[@MrMarcLaflamme]

This track is so awesome! Is it just me or is there some weird panning in this track for the OT parts (it's more on the left).

[@ericvernooij2917]

Right now I don't use a daw, but you make it look fun.

[@lilbear4466]

Hi man, the problem with your clamp here because you use 24db slope, try 12 instead

[@crifox16]

just out of curiosity, you always mention that you work at novation, but what do you do there?

[@nicholasmichelangelo]

Hey Rickey, how do you save your beats into a sd card or something?

[@TRaddcliff]

Sick 👍🏿

[@futur_sunds]

How come you use your MacBook and not your monitor lately? Just curious

[@JUNO-69]

Recording into midi and then using that midi to record the Audio from hardware obviously fixes the latency issues right? I’m still struggling recording from my mpc live across to Ableton and it messing with my groove...

[@X-101]

Dunno if it's a KZbin thing but those drum loops sound pretty hard panned, would sound better centred

[@rocky_racoon_uk1252]

Get yourself an Arturia Spark and Spark 2 software, not hardware per se but I am sure you would get lost in it pretty quickly.

[@romichjordan]

wee need grandmother vid

[@pierre-huguestheunissen7342]

I wonder if someone ever tried to divide their track into 256 individual clips and mastered them all with landr's sample preview

[@stanislavdumstorf724]

Geezer mode 😂😂😂

[@dillipphunbar7924]

Embrace the Wiggle.....

[@tacosandsex]

Love you Ricky!

[@midsoulmusic]

This is awesome!!! Love your videos always Ricky! sent you a DM on instagram asking if I could sample one of your posts. Let me know! Hope you are well!