Baby Audio Transit vs Ableton Device Modulation

[@SeedtoStage]

To add to this, I want to reiterate that Baby Audio makes great stuff, and Andrew Huang is a BEAST of a creator and a badass musician and now developer. This is not meant to be a blast piece on them whatsoever. I hope this video sells some transit plugins for them. If anything, this video hopefully is a celebration of the incredible forward thinking from Ableton and their amazing software. ALSO FIRST OF ALL. Lol sorry I say "First of all" 3 times in a row, kinda defeats the purpose of saying it haha.

[@JoelLinus]

Well, also what now?

[@fakshen1973]

There's a much older VST by the name of Turnado that Transit shares a lot of concept with. It's basically a multi-fx processor with macro-knobs.

[@thelolmighty]

@@fakshen1973 Yep! He actually demonstrates that VST ~ 17:41 in this video!

[@decapitateallcops3214]

No, Haung is an annoying grifter

[@chantreaulouis9873]

Hi! Thanks for your tutorials, they're really helpful. I would like to know if you could explain your method for playing electronic tracks live, from the arrangement view to the session view. How do you organize a live set with multiple tracks, how do you export everything properly, and how do you avoid getting lost, etc. Thank you

[@commodore74]

As I said it before, Seed To Stage is probably one of the best Ableton resorces for any Ableton live user. BTW cool vibe

[@Feldspar__]

The courses look impressive. Besides the do everything custom/sound design mindset they have, which is exactly what I'm looking for, it's great to see you enjoying yourself during the videos. Signed up for Black Friday notifications.

[@modularjesus]

yep this video is exactly what I thought it's gonna be like. :D I spent countless hours on your youtube channel and in all fairness, the info you offer is insanely valuable. I have made so many devices, drum racks and fx racks the way I want them just because you explain everything so well. a gazillion thank you

[@CStoph1979]

The amount of effort you put into pre production is really really appreciated. I hate watching videos where things are not prepared in advance. Great tutorial!

[@WBradleyRobbins]

Glad to see you back. I hope things are going okay down in NC and things are slowly getting better.

[@SekouTV]

See!! This is why I function with you Anthony and copped 3 courses. I’m brand new to Abelton and working efficiently through your courses paired with self-exploration and thus far having a blast. I coppped Transit 1 & 2 and later on copped your courses and been an avid YT watcher for 1.5 months now and like your trend of showing all these A12 tools that are already at our hands. Yep, parents taught me resourcefulness and glad to see others keep it alive.

[@SekouTV]

@ I was raised on E40 lingo.

[@SHLDMusic]

This is the best shaper application I have seen! Thanks 😊

[@abletonflow4673]

I agree with you 100%. I like to do all of that directly from Ableton but sometimes I find myself playing around with Shaperbox 3.

[@jethrobrewin]

I love transit. There's a couple stock presets that are great go-tos for... doing a transition. The one knob transition control is super useful and streamlined not to get in the way of creativity. That's it's entire point. That said, this video is amazing. Some of these things in Live I was aware of. But having watched this there's a load I learned that I'll carry in my future productions.

[@Kevin-pv1xk]

I feel like the pitch for transit was never “look at what you can do now” and more so “I’m sick of setting this stuff up over and over and I bet you are too”. Like they were always selling the workflow. Plus it seems like there WAS some novel stuff but ableton 12 came out when it was in development and kinda torpedoed it. Great video! Gotta try that shaper trick

[@GrillChillDavis]

I like the new direction you are going with these tutorials. Your work is greatly appreciated! Thank you!

[@JSPHKH]

wow that shaper tip is clutch, i've been wishing for that functionality since like v9! very grateful to have stumbled across this right after upgrading to 12 🤯

[@evilwahwah]

Great “we already have candy at home” hook and framing. Good video that delivers on the hook - been enjoying learning so much about Ableton from your channel. Thank you!

[@tommayo3212]

Love the transit, but your quick, to-the-point way of getting into the hard stuff - easily - sold me on a sub to your channel. I expect I’ll learn a ton here.

[@flrn84791]

100% agree, that was my first thought when I heard of Transit, we already have Transit at home :)

[@SwiftDreamer]

To be fair, it can be said about most 3rd party plugins that your daw already can achieve what they are doing. All most of them essentially do is save you time, or make you think about something differently

[@SeedtoStage]

Exactly.

[@ghfjfghjasdfasdf]

OP prefers walking to driving a car apparently… 👍

[@BenWasted]

Damn, can't wait to buy your courses. This is the stuff🎉

[@crankcuffin7238]

🤯 Absolutely epic video as always. Thank you.

[@synapticrush]

Good job ! Harder than pimping plugins but so much more convincing.

[@lofi_soul_jazz]

thanks man, loved this video and your pitch about why invest in learning, I was thinking about Transit 2, but truthfully i know the answer is to make more time than look for quick solutions (which do work for a while) ironically i've bought all of yoru courses just haven't started them yet, hahah bought them a few years ago.. th anks man! :)

[@markrestuccia7880]

Another superbly useful vid Anthony, keep em coming!

[@Metagenome]

I've been following your channel for a while and really appreciate your videos. Not to undermine the work of A. Huang or Baby Audio as it appears to be a great plugin, but Live easily overcomes this type of plugin effect as demonstrated here. Nowadays I prefer to invest on exploring the tools I have instead available of acquiring new software and gear.

[@ghfjfghjasdfasdf]

You’re missing out. Obviously, anything can be done by hand in a DAW.. it’s always been this way. By not acquiring useful multi fx, you’re only keeping yourself from a universe of fun and possibilities.

[@PanopticMotion]

This Ableton tutorial was fantastic!

[@ChrisChamberlin-zf9jt]

Everytime I see this add from Baby Audio I think to myself, “can’t we already do this in ableton”? ..so stoked to hear your thoughts on the subject.

[@burn_after_reading]

Nice one. You make so good tutorials that are real value!

[@Karnnos]

Even though I don't need Transit, the one thing that would actually sell it to me would be the randomize button. You can basically generate infinite number of presets. If you want something very specific than yes - Ableton is more than good enough for that.

[@sonicsanctuaries]

You can also use multimap and the new performer device. I like this route because there seems to be more control of the curves and you can slew to off set automation.

[@danbient]

That envelope into the shimmer has me going to gumroad tonight

[@flrn84791]

At the end of the day as you say it's probably a time vs money thing, most people will buy it because they don't have the time or don't want to take the time to setup those macros and fx racks themselves, which is understandable.

[@soundologia]

Such an informative comparison review.

[@nlhmusicofficial]

Totally agree with this video. I bought the Endless Smile by Dada Life one year ago and I have a much better result with my own Ableton designed racks. Crazy but true

[@f.botello]

have you checked out the Performer device from Iftah's Performance Pack? it lets you make macros that can be mapped anywhere in ableton and each macro can have its own shape/range etc. really deep stuff!

[@nicoincertezza5763]

great knowledge here, thanx!

[@JakeMakesNoise]

Great Video! I definitely am guilty of not taking the time to understand everything Ableton has to offer. I was curious if there are plugins that you think really do add something that Ableton doesn't already offer? I use Pigments a lot and feel like the sounds I can make there I can never quite achieve with Ableton's basic synths. Then again I am quite the passive hobbyist currently...

[@SeedtoStage]

Pigments is in my opinion one of the best plugin synths available from a workflow standpoint. Just like any other synth there isn’t anything it can do that Ableton suite can’t do, BUT the visual nature of the modulation system right in the center is so good. You can see nearly everything from one view. One of the best UI designs in modern music tech imo. I love it so much I made a course for it and that’s the only thing other than Ableton I’ve made extensive education on.

[@ilia7206]

Superbly explained As always 20:39 🫴🏻 ❤✌🏻

[@morizanova]

Yeah.. "Right in the Surface editing " is one of advantages of this kind of plugin especially for live performance . Imagine if you have complex and deep rack , and you want to change how the macro behave ( i.e MIN MAX values) for long list of every FX chains ON THE FLY ?. Of course there is always MAX 4LIVE solutions to make it efficient but I agree with you about price especially if we already using Ableton or Bitwig . There are workaround for DAW like REAPER , but not sure about another ones

[@mthomas1091]

Thanks more good stuff 🙏. I remember you really liked Turnado before (and Transit V1 didn’t wow me, but V2 does look better). Now I’m wondering, which are YOU using now?? Still Turnado? (unless I’m missing that part in the vid somewhere..I’m almost done).

[@akagerhard]

For a second there I thought you changed my life. Started up Ableton and attempted to "configure" the velocity paramater in Modo Drum (changes the way the whole Drumkit is played gradually) - alas, it doesn't work. I'm a sad little camper. I hate that it isn't automateable so much.

[@gooneybird808]

The first thing I thought when I saw Andrews plug-in was ableton can do that. He knows haha

[@ChrisChamberlin-zf9jt]

Amazing video!

[@levoons5958]

Great ! thank you so mutch !

[@AFRoSHEENT3ARCMICHAEL69]

I swear Andrew had originally said that he got the idea from Ableton's Macro system when he first made a video about it.

[@josealejandrogarciarojas1115]

He did

[@DENDENsound]

Thank you!

[@fakshen1973]

Dude... Shaper does that??? I noticed the other functions of Shaper as well.. I am definitely going to have to have a play.

[@denizatalay]

I moved from Cubase to Ableton. I'm happy with my decision. However there are lack of audio analysing tools in Ableton. Cubase's Supervision is very powerful. Does Ableton have a tool similar to Multipanorama (Supervision) analyser? It shows frequency/panorama corelation which is quite important in mixing.

[@Feldspar__]

I see Ableton users installing the free plugin Voxengo Span for this. I think I've seen Anthony mentions it.

[@denizatalay]

@@Feldspar__ As far as I know Voxengo Span doesn't show frequency vs panning correlation.

[@excape_artist]

not related, but moments in the video made me feel the same disdain i have when i'm working in Ableton myself... does anybody else hate the XY pad on the device window as much as me? it seems so horribly inefficient. i NEVER use it and idk if i've ever seen anyone else use it either lol! i honestly just collapse the device window so it's that narrow strip and i can view more Ableton devices/third-party things in the bar, and i get annoyed when i have to see it again when i open it up for parameters to automate i'd love if there was some kind of page/tab system flipping between the XY pad, maybe a "notes" feature i could type something in, larger In/Ouput signal level... ANYTHING would be more useful to me than the XY lol. or maybe you'd tell me it's not an issue and i'm needlessly whining 😂 anyway, great video! you once again remind me to think differently!

[@ghfjfghjasdfasdf]

Vector modulation is beyond badass. Having it built in is killer. It’s interesting that it bothers you so much. Try assigning a couple parameters to the x and y and have fun modulating it.

[@excape_artist]

@ oh i’ve tried it before! i didn’t care for it lol. like i said, i’d prefer if that space had the option to be something else i just wondered if others felt the same, because of the hundreds of hours i’ve watched people using Ableton, i don’t think i can recall even one time i’ve ever seen anybody ever use it either 😂 but hey, i must be the only one it bothers lmao take care!

[@simona6670]

OhmForce did the macro system before Baby Audio, and it's way more powerfull.

[@4CloudySky]

Hey, I was trying to use it on separate submixes with different presets and had some awful latency mismatch. Trial version, is it present in the paid one?

[@SeedtoStage]

@@4CloudySky yeah the spectral one has to create latency to separate audio into bins. So that one is likely the culprit

[@4CloudySky]

@SeedtoStage that's a huge deal breaker. And thank you for the really great insight 👍 I wish someone did something like Ezbot does for the Octatrack bit in Ableton. That would be an instant buy for me 🙏

[@skottx3me]

best

[@alansalomon]

[@cliftonmccallum8660]

First

[@CStoph1979]

More action down low on the knob makes it 100% wet.

[@CStoph1979]

Yes, my single knob could use more action.

[@ghfjfghjasdfasdf]

Baby Audio rules, but both Transits are buggy and cause strange issues in Live 11… not cool

[@fabianwolf6849]

Deng... Now I need Ableton 12 for just one feature... 🥲