Live Multi effects with Ableton Dummy Clips

[@josipvulic5471]

Brilliant. It’s such a joy to have zero latency with great sounding software.

[@alkisliv]

Best music production educator on KZbin, by far.

[@davidpotsdam]

Great Tom Cosim turned me on but you got to me to understand dummy clips .Thanks

[@andreafioretti1134]

I have been playing around with dummy clips for a live performance set I am planning. Right now they have been super useful to create a step sequencer to chop live audio. There is no limit on their usage

[@engeomusic]

Dang, the timing for this video couldn't be more perfect for me! Just ordered a Softstep and I've been working on dummy clips as per your suggestion!

[@engeomusic]

For some reason I thought you couldn't automate sends in dummy clips, so I spent a couple hours automating every relevant parameter of a reverb to a dummy clip before realizing how ridiculous it was, lol. This cleared things up. I am infinitely grateful for your generosity with this knowledge!

[@kevinrobertandrews]

This is a badass approach, I'm definitely going to experiment with these ideas! 🙏

[@sirrusminor8436]

Such a clever boy. Thanks!

[@RioTGeaRMusic]

Love me some dummy clips! Also, excited to see you perform at Revolution in Ft Lauderdale soon!

[@marcogiambartino7338]

This channel is so eye, but mostly ear-opening ❤

[@crhettbuttler1]

You what's cool, this is sooo useful in any genre

[@kendallsmith9199]

Dude 🤯 this is making me completely rethink the utility of my launchpad pro

[@fa8ster]

oh man ive been searching for something like this for weeks now 😊 can you do more of these?

[@mindofthepines9531]

Perfectly explained 👌📿

[@pispalantimbaland]

Ah, why did I not think of this before? Because I had no idea about dummy clips. Thank you thank you!

[@tommorton7211]

Very nice. This will certainly help my workflow for trailing effects chains. A affiliate link to a midi pedal board you recommend would also be helpful.

[@gustavost86]

Awesome video man! Thanks for that

[@williamburns7336]

SUPER VIDEO FOR ME WHO IS LEARNING ABLETON . ALREADY SUBSCRIBED BUT AM NOW GOING TO CHECK OUT YOUR OTHER VIDEOS. JUST GOT OUT OF HOSPITAL NEXT 10 DAYS ARE FOR STUDY

[@Toniodubendobeats]

Great video, solved lots of my problems. I was wondering if there is a way to quickly save the plugins parameters to the envelope and not having to draw it all the time ?

[@redbirdsaraceno]

i never knew about instant clip play via turning off global quantize . Nice 👌🏻. ill be using that almost all the time now . Thanks !

[@leowalless9328]

WOW! Love this!

[@grantbello8695]

So fucking good. I've wondered how to do this for YEARS.

[@chriswinterburn3485]

Fantastic video, thank you for your help.

[@nicoincertezza5763]

mindblowing indeed

[@pablovillegasabc]

Amazing!! you are the best. I realize that for to do it with vst it is necesary to build an instrument rack with all the vst and then to do almost the same. Excelent!! Thank you so much, my cpu and i say thank you to you hahaha.

[@paulogalindoMusic]

Really nice!

[@paulclement4222]

Wow this is great. I am working on setting up my hybrid eurorack/Ableton rig. Mostly I want to use Live for FX and clock, so I will be going hard at this, and using Launchpad and LaunchControl. Thanks!

Great tutorial @seedtostage, thank you! Could you or someone from the community please explain why using dummy clips and envelope automation is better than just MIDI mapping the device FX's on/off? Thank you

[@ShaheedShabazz]

You’re a madman!!! ❤

[@AndreiLemieux]

i remember seeing you guys at great north.

[@michael999michael999]

Awesome information - appreciate you sharing, thanks!

[@timqae]

I always inspiring by your videos. Thanks! I use almost the same concept of pedal-board, but instead of dummy clips I use effects grouped and macro map [on/off + dry/wet]. So by turning respective knob on the Push2 from zero I triggering ON the effect and control the dry/wet as well. Separating the AMP chain to other track and route it to pedal board track, great approach. You are a genius, man. But I confused regarding to the flow, is it normal to have pedal-board after amp+cabinet chain?

[@LordLoss66613]

Amazing! I'm wondering if with dummy clips it's possible to do something slightly different: for each song in my set I have a different instrument rack in a different track. Can I use dummy clips to arm only one track per scene?

[@witchionapsyche]

You’re amazing… thank you.

[@danielparkmusic]

Thanks for a great informative video!

[@quentinmorales]

Super cool trick

[@kirtandreamrezzer]

Thank you for sharing this wizardry. ✨ 👁 💖 🧠 🧞‍♂ 🚀 🧙🏼‍♂

[@twisterwombat]

What's the benefit of dummy clips over just mapping your midi controller to device on/off? I would think that would be simpler, as it would end up working the same as a standard pedalboard, allowing the freedom to choose any combination of effects at any time, rather than needing dummy clips for each individual combination of effects you might want.

[@ItsWesSmithYo]

2025, good question, maybe just visual thing in session view, I do like that. Agree about multiple at one time, maybe he doesn’t care about that….otherwise I guess it’s just a bus track basically w/fx on it, so that’s cool…I’m using FX in a DJ context so I don’t really need that workflow…yet anyway 😂. Stay curious…🤙🏽🖤🔊

[@chrisw1462]

What kind of computer do you use on stage? Is Windows on a laptop even worth trying to get the latency low enough?

[@herschoolcolors]

What is the logic behind having monitor set to IN on the AMP track once we've set up the PEDALBOARD track? Logically I would think that would mean that we're hearing both the amp sound pre-effects *and* the post-effects sound-which presumably we wouldn't want. I find this whole routing section of the track/channel controls really non-obvious.

[@nelsoncolereis4058]

Thanks! Is it possible to toggle in on/off with a single clip? Or is the dry clip always needed?

[@ErwinS81]

i don't have the shifter device?! .. it's not in audio effects - pitch and modulation - shifter . i'm on live 11 suite . anyone know where to find it?

[@andreasturau3334]

I recently bought Live 11 Standard and realize that I need the suite 11 to get the guitar rack:/ Do you see it worth investing in suite 11 just for this or do you have any other good suggestions for a alternative?:) Thank you for all the great content you make!

[@ibdeveloper]

Hi! I suggest you to wait a bit for any discount from Ableton, or for upgrade to 12. I did my way from 10 Lite to 10 Standard and to 11 Suite, and saved ... I don't remember how much :-) Maybe up to $200, maybe less. Whoa! Today is the last day of 20% discount. So, check it. p.s. I really wanted to upgrade to Suite, becase I needed synths and effects that included in it. Check comarison matrix.

[@philsmith5000]

It's 100% worth getting suite. Max for live, operator and wavetable make it worth it just with those three things. Suite is the complete package, you won't need anything else for a long time.

[@LK-zd2mc]

Great man, thanks 😎🤟

[@Maniek_76]

Will it work with guitar VST to change presets ?

[@Tomlinsky]

If the effect responds to Program Change messages you can, but most don't. I ended up using effect racks and automating the chain of multiple instances to keep things linear. The same with instruments.

[@glyndwr15]

Clever

[@fa8ster]

with an Ableton Push this is even faster

[@martindiehl155]

Nice

[@paulflores7026]

OMG, you are a fucking saint.

[@endritfusha]

how about having a VCA ..that s whats mising in ableton

[@nesofearth]

Octaververb

[@feandin]

✅

[@Keilnoth]

Sorry, I don't understand how is that better than having 6 tracks and arming the one you want to play in with Auto monitor? Is the goal to have only one track?