Pro Tools Killer? Exploring Ableton Live 11 Beta: Track Linking, Playlist, and Comping Deep Dive

[@ThreeBeingOne]

Best comp tutorial outside of abletons. No one else even mentions linking tracks. 🙏🏾🙏🏾

[@kucingdubstep7162]

this man behind Live Bjork awesome with crazy electronic setup when he play with the one and only QUEEN BJORK ...please make tutorial what u used on stage when u live with Bjork.. thx master damien

[@sietsefase]

Really excited for the new update! Awesome video man😁

[@HereIsDamian]

Thank you Sietse! I’ve only just begun to scratch the surface of Live 11 - there is SO much to love about it :)

[@Wasaia]

Great video. Just one request: make your background-music 6dB more quiet ;-)

[@HereIsDamian]

Will do! Thanks for the feedback :)

[@seanmurrayguitar]

Really great video Damian! Can't wait for the full Live 11 release! 🤘

[@HereIsDamian]

Thank you Seán, it’s gonna be amazing. I’ve been playing with the random velocity range stuff which is great, and next up is diving into MPE controllers.

[@muttmuttmutt]

Discovered you from the HOWA podcast! Thanks for this excellent breakdown Damian. I'd be really interested to see the process of how/when you move a project from Ableton to Pro Tools. I want to do this myself, but I'm still trying to determine when is the right time and how to transfer multi-tracks in the best way (with or without effects, mix/mastering chains, etc.)

[@HereIsDamian]

Hey Josh, thanks for the kind encouragement, and that’s great that you heard the HOWA episode. Simply put, I move stuff over into Pro Tools either in advance of a big batch of recording (in which case I’ll send over a few subgroups) or when I feel I have maximized the production of the song, maximized the ideas, and that all that is remaining is the mix. If I’ve done a lot of recording I’ll finish up comping and editing in Pro Tools , then will print a couple of subgroups to bring back into Live to act as anchors if I’m developing any further programming. Thanks to covid I haven’t done any in person sessions since Live 11 became available; I’m sure I’ll do a lot more recording in there in my room, but I imagine I’ll still want to be in ProTools for heavy duty tracking sessions. My program The Beats Accelerator Process has a full breakdown of how I prep and export my multitracks from Live , you can get on the waitlist for the next round at www.beatsaccelerator.com Please feel free to come hang out at www.completeproducer.net and over on www.Twitch.tv/HereIsDamian too to connect with a wonderfully positive and supportive group of people involved in all aspects of music production :)

[@muttmuttmutt]

@@HereIsDamian Ok awesome, I’ll check it all out! Thank you so much for the detailed explanation.

[@kraithaywire]

Thank you so much for this! I'm so excited to get my hands on Live 11! :D

[@HereIsDamian]

Can’t wait to see what you do with 11 Krait!

[@andrewmcfarlane6934]

This was super helpful thanks. Would give two thumbs up if I could.

[@HereIsDamian]

Nice one Andrew! Glad to help :)

[@simonmacdog2599]

Thank you Damian, a superb, slick and highly informative review. Totally agree about needing a quick unlink feature for editing those toms.... gates are so ‘00s

[@HereIsDamian]

Hahaha nice one Simon!

[@maureelyo]

since i work on both DAW will definitely love to get a deeper comparison view i feel the comping in new ableton version is mind-blowing for creative purposes not really convinced for editing still

[@HereIsDamian]

Hey Maurizio, that’s a great way to put it. Live’s creative and functional abilities have just taken a massive leap forward and it very much still (in a good way!) feels like a very different environment than Pro Tools. I don’t feel it will replace my use of Pro Tools, but rather expand my use of Live :)

[@P4nikStudios]

Very cool, hopefully ImageLine will step up with a big update too.

[@HereIsDamian]

Yeah it’s a great time to be making music, so many incredible tools :)

[@vinnowater]

As a producer who alternates between ProTools and Live, that video was really useful. While those new Ableton functionalities are really exciting and useful, ProTools’s workflow for tracking live instruments or vocals is still the king in my opinion. I will try Ableton’s workflow when I get Live 11 tho, maybe I’ll end up liking it more. At the moment tho, somethings seem a bit too finicky to work for me when doing client work.

[@HereIsDamian]

Hey! Thanks for the great comment. Yeah I agree that Pro Tools is still definitely the place to do tracking for live instruments, and I’m happy Ableton Live isn’t trying too hard to fill that niche. I’ve been using the Beta of Live 11 for quite a while now and really love that these new features bring an additional creative dimension - they’ve expanded on what makes Live great but aren’t trying to put themselves into Pro Tools territory. I’m happy to have really clear choices about what kind of work I do where, and to have the best environments for either of those processes.

[@vinnowater]

Yeah exactly ! I can’t wait to try these functionalities for things they were not intended for tho ! Unfortunately for my wallet, none of both could replace the other haha

[@stehil1454]

Yeesssss!!!! Warp some drums!!!!

[@HereIsDamian]

Hahahaha okay coming up!

[@dasunkid6559]

nah, 11 right now sucks... crazy cpu issue...

[@damiantaylor896]

Might be time to do a fresh OS install and rebuild your system piece by piece if you're getting those kinds of issues. I've been running Live 11 constantly since the beta and it's been great. But in the past I've lost big chunks of my life to figuring out which plugins and applications on my computer slow things down. I run a suuuuuuuper tight ship, hardly installing anything else on there, and it runs like a dream. To clarify, I do run plenty of plugs, but I'm always hyper aware any time I install anything about what kind of knock on effects they have on music stability. I hope the situation improves for you :-)

[@dasunkid6559]

@@damiantaylor896 yeah, i did try to clean up my pc, but still... i was unable to work with it after flatten tracks to audio, it crash the whole time with no heavy plugin (i have the trial version from the website btw)... i had to export my project to protools, and everything run smoothly...