One Thing: H Lite - Scrubbing for variations

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[@mario_actually]

This reminds me of a really old Four tet video where he showed how he made sounds by scrubbing around Audacity (iirc). Neat trick.

[@knfld]

could if been cool edit pro, was a favorite of tet's

[@beatz04]

If it's the video in his kitchen, then it was Ableton.

[@basementrockets5798]

[Cool Edit Pro] kzbin.info/www/bejne/b3ysp6GCd6tqrLc

[@dumafuji]

It’s a Red Bull academy video and it was cooledit pro

[@madtho]

It’s a Martha Stewart video and he’s using Microsoft Excel

[@BobBell.]

Nice! Didn’t even know that permanent scrub business was a thing 👌

[@nsjx]

pretty damn clever 🤘🙏 Much Appreciated Anton. Cool beats too!

[@andycordy5190]

This is unknown territory for me. Definitely coming back for more. Thank you!

[@JamesRamboPearce]

Ok genuinely new information, awesome

[@Jordan-nt8rk]

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[@theboytheycalljonny1]

Brilliant. Didn't realise this could be done in Ableton. Hello IDM!

[@HelicopterRidesForCommunists]

My guy has 2 Machine Drums? Or is one of them an old Analog Four or RYTM or something? Either way, he knows what’s up.

[@asdretdghjhfgj]

Anton is the fucking man!

[@jammadamma]

This guy looks like he's starting a tech giant in his parents garage in 1977.

[@shannonia81]

Didn't even know this was a thing! Thanks for the demonstration 😊

[@thomasblondet]

Nice tip! Thanks!

[@ShortP1089]

thats an insane method!

[@p4yce]

That went crazy

[@amandakrueger2131]

love this!!

[@EggZema_]

This is a very good tip

[@digitalfoam]

so sick! cool moped & unique method -- i want to try this!

[@amar_paul]

Thanks !🙏🏻

[@dbPRO]

I just switched to Ableton. For example, I found a tricky way to change all my beats on the same channel at once. However, the new kicks are not the same length as the old ones. I've also discovered that in Ableton it is more difficult to select and stretch all of these sounds than to split the atom.

[@in_10z]

Dying to know if this was a happy accident discovery or by design. Either way this is fabulous to save beat programming time.

[@coolasroro]

wow

[@Streetfevermusic]

H Lite forever and always 🖤

[@gweegoop7781]

Oh my gosh!!!! I think this guy is cool!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@danielwall8032]

I can't get this to work as shown here. The playhead seems very laggy and doesn't respond rhythmically like in the video

[@duncansmith6318]

Had the same issue. If you watch the first part again you'll see he's not actually scrubbing, he's clicking and holding. The global quantization is then causing the repeats. If you hold and drag it seems to be, as some others have put here 'laggy'.It seems like it's repeating at 1/16 note intervals but when you move the play head it seems to take 1/4 note before repeating at the new position. When he then turns global quantization he also turned on 'Legato' within the clip tab. This then allows the scrubbing to be immediate with no lag. Took me a couple of watch throughs before I got that.

[@lemonberries]

❤Ableton❤

[@tilersun]

Buy that man a cigar.

[@Paradroidx]

can do the same thing in other Live version before comping in 11. just dont loop your armed track in arrangement.

[@zackyzackyzacky1]

I've been doing the same thing, but I use looper to resample the sounds.

[@Dark_metta]

Big Ideoteque vibes

[@divorcecourtt]

H Lite is your favorite producers favorite producer.

[@encuentroargenlive]

Muy buenooo

[@strawberryemotion]

hi i was wondering if anyone could help me with a few questions -- for some reason when my global quantization is set to 1/16, i'm not able to scrub rapidly the way he is in the video. it seems delayed and doesn't respond to multiple clicks. it seems like the playhead will only go where i want it to if i hold down my mouse. has anyone else experienced this issue? the other thing is i don't use session view a lot. when i followed the steps in the view and created the clips in session view, the clips didn't show up once i switched to arrangement view. i had to drag them there in order to see them. i was wondering if there's a setting i have to turn on so they record into arrangement view at the same time. greatly appreciate any help, thanks!

[@RyanMoelter]

I’m not an Ableton expert so someone feel free to correct me, but I think a couple things are going on for you. First, for the rapid scrubbing, I think you have to turn global quantization off rather than to 1/16. He mentions it somewhere in the video, but it’s easy to miss! For the session view part, the big record button at the top should start recording to the arrangement, but you might have to turn off clip recording first (un-filled circle in the top bar). Keep in mind that this will record to the arrangement INSTEAD of the session view, not in addition to it. Hope that helps! Edit: you mentioned you're not familiar with session view, thought you were unfamiliar with arrangement view, sorry for the confusion haha. Reworded this.

[@duncansmith6318]

Had the same issue. If you watch the first part again you'll see he's not actually scrubbing, he's clicking and holding. The global quantization is then causing the repeats. If you hold and drag it seems to be, as some others have put here 'laggy'.It seems like it's repeating at 1/16 note intervals but when you move the play head it seems to take 1/4 note before repeating at the new position. When he then turns global quantization he also turned on 'Legato' within the clip tab. This then allows the scrubbing to be immediate with no lag. Took me a couple of watch throughs before I got that.

[@strawberryemotion]

@@RyanMoelter thanks so much for your reply it was very helpful!

[@joshuarodenberg2609]

@@strawberryemotion I also was having issues but realized that the warp mode needs to be set to complex or complex pro to make it more fluid opposed to the default transient setting.

[@charlieyin]

fuck yea

[@frogswordof8024]

Theme name plz!

[@dbPRO]

Can someone tell me if there is a way to select and edit multiple audio clips?

[@Ableton]

Hi there. Thanks for the comment. There are certain things you can, and certain things you can't do when editing multiple clips at once. So our response will vary depend on what editing you're trying to do. In any case, the best thing for you might be to get in touch with a Certified Ableton Trainer. They can help you with all of your workflow questions: bit.ly/3NBD0qD Thanks - Ableton

[@dbPRO]

@@Ableton You know, it's the kind of way we can do by holding the audioclip on another channel with the linked track method and extending the corner. You know, in the style of making multiple selections with the shift key in all programs, making the fade, extending the clip lengths, and shortening it :) Although my research has shown me that this has been requested in the forums for 10 years, I still don't want to believe it is not happening.

[@dbPRO]

@@Ableton sorry for my english but i think what i am not understand is understood.thank you for your answer anyway :)

[@ashutoshvishwakarma4903]

After clicking on record when i scrub recording stops.. why?

[@Ableton]

Hi, thanks for reaching out, and sorry to hear about this! To receive help, please get in touch with our Technical Support team along with a Status Report via this link: bit.ly/3RBQG6E You can find out how to create a Status Report here: bit.ly/41j1o5i Cheers!

[@rundtomrasmus]

I don't understand the second example - do you just hold the mouse button down and then drag sideways, or do you click over and over again? (actually this probably goes for all examples - I don't understand how the mouse is being used)

[@beatz04]

Same here - i don't really understand how the stutter effects were accomplished.

[@JoelLinus]

He held down the mouse button and put step quantization to 1/16th, even if there is no quantization, there is still a sort of attack or release delay to it.

[@rundtomrasmus]

@@JoelLinus cool! Thanks for explaining - that seems like a very interesting technique :)

[@ModernDevotion]

Did you enable permanent scrub area like he explains at the very beginning? Might be that

[@arnaubrichs]

Why are Ableton's artist demonstrations only within a narrow "techno" or experimental style of production? Why not show the diversity of musical styles of users, approaches and setups that you can achieve with the software (theater, dance, live electronics, installation)? There are many use-cases that are ignored in the channel, which could show the myriad of possibilities that the software has to offer

[@jasonphoenix]

What would you like to see?

[@ggoty]

Ableton is based in Berlin, duh…

[@tooprotimmy]

Read their articles! They have a wide range of genres featured there

[@toslinked]

@@ggoty we have tons of experimental music, theatre productions and performance art in our city.

[@Ableton]

Hi, thanks for your feedback! We try to cover all the different musical styles that can be done with Live. However, we recognize that there are limits to covering a myriad of possibilities. So we appreciate hearing what you would like to see and will be sure to pass your request along internally. In the meantime, feel free to browse our One Thing video series to see if there is something that fits your style:bit.ly/4157pAs. Thanks!

[@kH3NDO]

Something important to note here is that the "Percussion Track" gets overwritten as well when resampling is on. It seems to me that If you want to maintain the original track and then add variations to it, you should let it loop one complete pass through the "Percussion" track and then add variations on the additional takes. Can anyone confirm is this is the best way to go about it?

[@BrowsSmellLikeShit]

Make sure the track isn't armed

[@maximalDruck]

Release Push 3 already

[@sneed777]

you cant compete with bitwig

[@voicesofdust4749]

Bitwig eats Ableton for breakfast.