Push 2 Sampling Workflow (Tutorial + Lo-Fi Beat Making)

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In this video a sampling workflow using only the Push 2, without touching the mouse or the computer keyboard. It's a tutorial showing 3 different types of sampling with the Push 2:
- making a drum kit with the Drum Rack;
- chopping a musical phrase;
- making an instrument with Simpler by sampling one note from a synth for the bass line.
To illustrate the techniques better, I made a lo-fi beat (or is it just boom bap?)
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[@LowHeatBeats]

Would you actually call the beat "lo-fi"? These days it seems that everything that's slow and mellow-ish is called "lo-fi" 😅

[@LMarquee]

You make a good point! Haha! I still would probably call it lofi. There are no rules to music.

[@audioexpedition]

Sampling a youtube rip.. yeah that's lo-fi

[@LowHeatBeats]

​@@audioexpeditionYT's sound quality is pretty good nowadays. Definitely not lo-fi and definitely useable for sampling, unless it's a really old upload from back in the day when the sound quality was bad.

[@audioexpedition]

lol @@LowHeatBeats

[@kamilgoj6269]

I think that the easier way to chop the drums is to throw the sample to simpler then set the Mode to chop by transients and convert it to drumrack using convert botton :) Great and helpful tutorials BTW 😉

[@LowHeatBeats]

Good point! I just wanted to show the different methods but I agree that this would be easier and much faster.

[@bloodcell6282]

Yeah for kit hits it is but m glad he slowed that technique as well

[@piotr803]

Not all material has clear transients (like pads/rhodes/chordy things), so this method or manual setting of markers is the way to go.

[@LowHeatBeats]

@@piotr803 Yup, exactly

[@piotr803]

@@LowHeatBeats These days I actually find the transient detection extremely disappointing with exception of straight drum loops. Much prefer Manual mode for most sources.

[@MaTTiiBeaTz]

This video was wicked!!!!!!!!!🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻 please do more push work flow stuff. This was really great🙌

[@LowHeatBeats]

Thanks for the feedback man! Yeah, I will do more and I have a couple of older vids with the Push as well.

[@khz5324]

I just got a Push 2 today. The best transition I ever made. I love it more than my Maschine/Ableton setup

[@LowHeatBeats]

For sure, I only use the Maschine with its own software. The Push 2 is much better for Ableton.

[@borodnya]

Man, so happy you're back on push review's 😎

[@LowHeatBeats]

Nice to hear! Will do more of these for sure

[@bloodcell6282]

Thank you. Love the manual sample chop work flow you showed. I was wondering how if I was able to chop the same sample multiple times in a drum rack like that! Thank you

[@LowHeatBeats]

Glad you enjoyed the video! I think the only way to chop to a drum rack is the method I showed for the drums. I don't think the Slice To Midi feature is available from the Push (not sure if this is what you meant).

[@CDMESD]

This was dope. Sounds more like funk with a HipHop twist.

[@LowHeatBeats]

Appreciate you watching 🙏

[@rowley94rowley]

Unbelievably helpful. This is exactly what I needed explained

[@LowHeatBeats]

Glad it was helpful!

[@iffyk]

This is a really awesome video. Thanks for all the info!!

[@LowHeatBeats]

Glad it was helpful!

[@kerwinfernandes9583]

Hey that was a fun tutorial. Thanks and God bless you and your family abundantly always 🙂🙏🏼🙏🏼

[@LowHeatBeats]

Appreciate it! Glad you enjoyed the tutorial 🙏

[@HordurSmariJohannesson]

Nice, more Push workflow please :) love it.

[@LowHeatBeats]

Much appreciated! Will do!

[@alvaroplol]

Love your vibe bro, keep it up.

[@LowHeatBeats]

Thank you so much!

[@bloodcell6282]

Nice video. Nice tune as well

[@LowHeatBeats]

Much appreciated!

[@kimmiesrhythms]

Wow learned so much thanks for sharing this!!

[@LowHeatBeats]

Nice one, you’re welcome!

[@Farmatique]

Just two words: Awesome and Subscribed ;)

[@LowHeatBeats]

Highly appreciated 🙏

[@melihron_sound]

Thanks for the video) a lot of useful things! Only there is a question of how to assign the LFO to the pitch from the controller itself and not with the mouse

[@LowHeatBeats]

That is an excellent question, I can't seem to find it either. Glad the video was useful!

[@tonycarrera69]

nice brother!

[@LowHeatBeats]

Salute

[@LoopnMix]

Thanks for this! What are your settings for your drum bus?

[@LowHeatBeats]

I just loaded the default preset and didn't touch any settings. Otherwise, last week I uploaded a video on how to use it: kzbin.info/www/bejne/oWrJkIaEgrl1hqM

[@LoopnMix]

@@LowHeatBeats thank you!🙏🏾

[@Joey_Tai]

Very nice and helpful video. I have a question. How do you connect your IPad to Push?

[@LowHeatBeats]

Glad the video as helpful! Push is just a controller for Ableton Live, you can't connect an audio source to it. The iPad is connected to my audio interface.

[@joeydomhof6480]

@Low Heat Beatz, would you say that the Push 2 is as good as the Machine? I love the Ableton integration, but I think I had a faster workflow with jamming when I was using the Maschine back in the days..

[@LowHeatBeats]

You can check out some of my reviews and comparison videos for a longer explanation but I’d say that the hardware workflow on Maschine is indeed faster/better.

[@siberianfastfood]

Excellent video. Used it from start to end to sample some of my own stuff. One thing that is different on my Push is, I dont see the Voice parameter in the Global Simpler settings. You were using this to switch Simpler to mono voice. In my case I want the samples to be played in parallel. But I don't see the option to chose the number of voices. Couldn't figure that out. Does anyone know how this works?

[@siberianfastfood]

Just figured it out, Sorry. Obviously this works only in classic mode and not in 1-shot 🫢

[@LowHeatBeats]

Glad you figured it out! Thank you for watching 🙌

[@mauronedj]

Song is fire bro

[@LowHeatBeats]

Thanks my man! Again, tried to make a beat that’s not just a placeholder 😀

[@christianlibaton]

bro how did you connect your Ipad to record your music to Push 2?

[@LowHeatBeats]

It's not connected directly to the Push. I connected it to Ableton through my audio interface and Push 2 controls Ableton.

[@GoodxJ]

👍🏼🎤✌🏼🙏🏻😁🔥

[@LowHeatBeats]

🙌🙏💯

[@funguy29]

Did you quantize the first sample?

[@LowHeatBeats]

Nope, played it unquatized. I turned on warping in Simpler which stretches the chops to the tempo if my project, this helps them stay in sync.

[@magadan4626]

Hi. Immediately apologize for poor English. What do you think - is it possible to carry out with the help of Push2 the workflow as on SP404? Without using to the mouse? Or how on MPC? For example, use only one DRUMRACK. And don't use other tracks. I am trying to do this, but the problem is that the simpler device cannot sampling directly into itself.

[@LowHeatBeats]

That’s a loaded question, not sure tbh. Why don’t you want to use other tracks but a single drum rack?

[@stax671]

What’s the turntable app on the iPad called?

[@LowHeatBeats]

It's not a turntable app, just a KZbin video of the song playing on a turntable.

[@tacosandsex]

How do you connect your iPad to your audio interface?

[@LowHeatBeats]

With a 1/8 inch stereo to 2x 1/4 inch mono cable. I've got a video on how to connect the iPad or iPhone to Mac or audio interface, search for it.

[@fax7451]

Hi Low heat, I want to ask will you use maschine mk3 in ableton? or just use it only with maschine software? I use mk3 and ableton together and the workflow really killing me. Do you have any suggestions regarding this? Thank you for your reply!

[@LowHeatBeats]

Nope, I never use the MK3 in Ableton exactly because "the workflow is killing me", so I see no point in doing it. It works but it doesn't feel like an instrument and slows me down, instead of helping me work easier. It can work for a live performance where you use only several specific parameters and trigger clips but for making beats, nope.

[@fax7451]

@@LowHeatBeats Hi Thank you very much for the reply, then I think I probably will get a push2 now. THANKS!

[@Drrolfski]

So you're sampling from KZbin compressed audio that is compressed again as you stream it into Ableton, right? Even for a "lofi' genre, isn't that just a bit too rubbish as a sound source for music production sampling?

[@LowHeatBeats]

Not really, Ableton records it lossless but it's compressed again as I upload this video though 😀 I just use my ears and I think it sounds fine for the purpose that the sample is used in my beat and it's not even fully mixed or anything. Does the final beat sound rubbish to you? Mind you, drums and bass were not recorded from a compressed source.

[@Drrolfski]

@@LowHeatBeats The moment you upload music to KZbin it gets converted by KZbin and compressed. When it then plays/streams that music - to be recorded into your DAW (lossless or not)- another compression takes place. This makes KZbin as a source for sampling rather limited IMO but as a source for melodies in lofi-style productions, I guess you could get away with it.

[@LowHeatBeats]

Yeah sure, that's what I use it for and also for a tutorial video like this, it does the job fine, especially with some processing

[@FlauntitNatural]

Awesome video! Keep up the great work. If you have a second please feel free to look at my channel and sub if you like my content 💞💛