The BASICS of Samples in Ableton Live For Beginners

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This is the seventh video in my Ableton Live for Beginners series. In this video you'll learn the three major ways to work with audio samples in your music.
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00:00 Intro
01:18 Sample Browser
1:50 3 Main Types Of Samples
3:44 Working With Drum One-Shot Samples
6:08 Important Functions of Simpler
13:14 Baby Yoda
15:32 Making Your Own Instrument With Simpler
17:57 TUNE YOUR SAMPLE!
19:29 What Is WARP?
21:48 How To Warp Rhythm Samples
27:41 Add Your Own Warp Markers
30:41 Warp With Caution!!
31:31 Using SAMPLER for better melodic instruments
33:29 What's the point of all this?
34:20 Another chapter?
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[@StereoAnthony]

Went to school for music engineering and production, many years of recording and production in computers, but just couldn't wrap my head around Ableton. With your helpful videos, this 45 year old is now diving into electronic music production, which I've always wanted to learn. I also find your videos very straight forward and easy to understand. Thank you for your work!

[@Taetro]

thank YOU so much for the super thanks Anthony!

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Incredibly well deserved

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Complete newbie here and been working through this beginner series slowly. This video suddenly opened my mind to how many crazy things could be possible, can't wait to watch the rest!

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UNREAL I have been loving this whole series. I am totally(as in totally) new to Ableton so this has been my training ground. Thanks so much ...more of what you are doing with this...cheers

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[@bennis123]

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[@redpeople2192]

Thanks Taetro, a brilliant tutorial on Simpler and Warping. You explain things so well and make it so easy to understand.

[@LuisTorres-qz5kr]

Great job on these tutorials, much appreciated! Thank you!

[@88keysLA]

I love how knowledgeable you are but yet completely gentle. Thank you for being you.

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thank you so much.✌ I have watched all of your Ableton beginner's videos and they really help me out with all my doubts. You’ve made a positive difference in my life. keep the good ideas coming...

[@oliii3381]

thats crazy how easy is to learn with you i didn't even have to pause the video - perfect balance between learning and applying things at the same time, much love thank you!♥🎶

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Started watching you from the music theory videos, got hooked up with playing music, bought a minilab 3 to learn by playing, and i intend to watch every playlist you made to help me get the grasp of the music world, thanks for inspiring me and giving me the stimulus to start practicing what i love, you are a huge gift for everyone that loves music and wants to learn about it, hope you good and stay cool

[@cccccccccc263]

thank you thank you thank you so much for this series. i'm just getting started with music production and your videos make the whole journey super accessible and exciting, i'm so happy.

[@HansyPants184]

You're a great teacher, Taetro! I've been using Live for over 3 years and your vids are always worth watching even if just for one or two little nuggets. I would love to see a vid on library organization in Live. For example, using your previous samples/midi files in new projects, creating a groove library, etc. Basically just something that helps building a personal library within Ableton. Also, yes please to another chapter on sampling!

[@peterbuisseret1195]

Thank you so much for these instructional videos! The initial dive into music production was very daunting, but your "Beginners" series has really helped me to get started. Incredible stuff: thank you!!!

[@iamOrangeFM]

It’s cool seeing so many people pick up learning music theory & creating in a DAW. I really appreciate your teaching style TAETRO. Its demystified a lot of fundamentals and hope everyone continues their learning process. Creating is what we do as humans. There’s room for all of us 🍊

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Hi Taetro,I just want to say Muchas gracias. This lessons are actually very inspiring.

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This series has helped me a lot! The way you have organized it makes everything easier to understand. Anyways, a big thanks all the way from Brasil.

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This video, and this series so far, has been incredibly helpful. You're a fantastic teacher, thank you so much for sharing your knowledge with us!!

[@Rhinom11]

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[@jacekwoynarowski7484]

Thank you TEATRO! It is a great series! I learn a lot from you! Well done! Excellent and precise tutorial for the beginner! You're the BEST! Thanks a lot!

[@nathanberry919]

I cannot thank you enough for taking the time to do this for us all. I have wanted to get into music production for 15 years. I’ve tried to dabble here and there but have struggled to ever find a resource that could communicate things to someone who just cannot follow the language. Thank you so much. I’ve been writing ideas for 8 years on my loop station with organic instruments, saving those “scribbles” in hopes one day I could make them finished ideas. I’ll get there because of you.

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Really loved this video. So useful and well explained

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Good stuff Taetro! Ditto here. Just recently got Ableton myself, and your tutorials have been invaluable. Along with so many others, as it would seem here, I just couldn't resist letting you know, just out of sheer appreciation for your patience and work by painstakingly putting these videos together. Amazing job. And thanks so much. Can't wait to move on to the next tutorial. You actually make learning this DAW allot fun. Good show... 😊

[@Macho_Beats]

Buy far the best Ableton video for my understanding. Thank you.

[@Taetro]

Thank you Macho!!

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you are an INCREDIBLE teacher!!!! I got ableton live knowing nothing about it and just followed your guides pretty much exclusively, and now i can confidently say that for me.... ableton is here to stay!! 🙂

[@shawngibb1170]

Absolute beginner here. So much more confident after watching this series and I know what a lot more of the words actually mean. Very well laid out and explains each change made.

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insanely helpful . your videos have made my life so much easier thank you very very much

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Another great video. Keep them coming!!

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I really like this series. I am getting an Mpk mini mk 3 on christmas. Very helpful to get some knowledge before getting started

[@zzy13236]

love this, thank you.

[@gdal8539]

Thanks Taetro - genius stuff

[@harrycallaghan22]

Super useful tutorial. More of this please. Really appreciate it.

[@mtundunoiz]

Very good and easy to follow guide, thanks so much. I have always been struggling with simpler/sampler

[@williampare9199]

Very helpful! You are the best to explain

[@marco_movie]

Hi! I came here because after a long while of using Logic Pro, I purchased Live. I remembered your tutorials for music production and so I was happy to see you made something for A'ton too.

[@sie315]

Awesome video as always Taetro! Also Yes please on the advanced sampling tutorial you mentioned; I would love to learn more

[@TommyRarivoson]

I love your videos thank you so much!

[@remt13]

Man you are like Ableton's god!! you are the best with your explanations I appreciate you

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Thank you for making my learning curve understandable now

[@silentlysound7213]

Thank you!!!! I found tuning the sample to be very helpful

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AWESOME, Thnak you!!

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Superb teaching ability💯

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Absolutely love all your videos, been eating them up this week, absolutely zero experience in any of this but youve given me enough confidence to get started and see what happens, my Novation Launchkey Mk3 49 is arriving today, lets go!!!

[@Taetro]

Let’s gooooooo!!

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best teacher ever!!

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Another awesome lesson! Thanks mate!

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Agree with most of these comments about how good these tutorials are. I bought a Launchpad Mini Mk2 years ago and gave up on it. Got it back out again and watched more tutorials and almost gave up again, but this one is great and I will probably watch all of your videos now. Thanks!

[@bigfuzzztv787]

Excellent episode,...

[@antonbykovsky]

Thanks TAETRO! Its so cool, thank you!!!!

[@seanc9088]

Awesome as always. You're a great teacher. I'd be interested to see a more advanced sampling video if you keep this course going. Something like chopping up a sample and creating a song around it if that's something you're interested in doing. Thanks for all the content!

[@Taetro]

good to hear! thank you Sean C!

[@ignatirabo]

You're the GOAT of Ableton tutorials. It's crazy

[@Halcyon111]

I love how clearly you explain things.

[@Halcyon111]

PS As far as a direction to go after this (as you mentioned) do you have now, or are you planning to walk us through creation of a few songs, step by step, in a way that we can follow along with yuo at home? Thanks again.

[@benjaminlehmann]

Really helpful, man. Appreciate it

[@Taetro]

happy to hear it. Thanks Benjamin.

[@ashdeen]

This video was super helpful, going to have a lot of fun sampling my voice :) Would definitely love to see an advanced sampling techniques video in the future!

[@jijfl]

Thanks for all the helpful videos Taetro…

[@farimehr4103]

This series is a gem truly

[@Taetro]

Thank you! I’ll be adding to it soon!

[@mikeharding9413]

Very easy to follow. Good teaching style . Yes more advanced sampling techniques and tip would be welcome by myself and no doubt many .Big Love

[@alexhandshaw5021]

Amazing!!!

[@justingaumont7308]

Yes please! More advanced sampling techniques

[@nil_blank]

This is great! Would love a deeper dive on this topic at some point, but this is plenty to chaw on for now.

[@tarunsetty109]

Love the video!!!! Please make Pt.2!!

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u r too smart bruh! keep droppin' videos, helpin' me fr!

[@benjaminjacome]

This was super clear and helpful!

[@Taetro]

I'm so glad!

[@lsdsoup2988]

great video learned a ton. would LOVE to see a pt.2 that covers the more advanced stuff. cheers!

[@noahdekoning7716]

I would love to see your way of explaining plugins like Serum! Love the vids and your teaching method, really helps Ableton feel less overwhelming and simplifies the complex stuff :)

[@Shawn-tw5nu]

Great tutorial

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bro, you are the best teacher I ever had

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awesome work learnt so much

[@Taetro]

Happy to hear!

[@DanReederMusic]

This has been a great help. I had pretty much given up on ableton.

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Nice work, love this!!

[@watthedevil]

YES more sample content!!! Especially using launchkey mini !

[@sergeibergen9963]

Thank you!!!

[@arminbehroozifar6890]

Ahhhaha the fun rythm that was created due to unwarping the kick was very cool. Thans for your professionalism and nice style man 🎩

[@ganantharaja]

This is a gold mine Brother, I am just about to create an instrument with hand drum Parai, I will try your steps😍

[@alexanschuetz485]

awesome!!

[@josegarza7719]

Hey, taetro, Ive watched all your music theory videos but im stilled baffled how you can tell chord progressions from listening to a song. I know you explained ear training in one of your videos and you did explain trying to pick up chords from songs but that skill seems crazy to me. Im going to look up videos on it. Keep up the good work!

[@ventusmoses3428]

def would like to see more sampling vids! Came over from FL and liking Ableton a lot more was worried I wouldn't like sampling or the piano in Ableton

[@brejon4054]

the series is definitely helping. 😄

[@dustyaudio]

Just upgraded to Intro. Thanks for doing this, I’m self taught so this absolutely helps me find things I missed or never knew about

[@Taetro]

Stoked to hear it!

[@b00ts4ndc4ts]

Just noticed that it a year ago since you made this comment and just out of interest are you still using Ableton? If so how you getting on with it?

[@dustyaudio]

@@b00ts4ndc4ts I still use it. Mostly to track audio & mix my stuff at this point. Live 12 didn’t seem to have much for me, I’m still on 11 Intro and it works for me and my situation.

[@Younglovefast]

Video about side chaining or basics to music theory start to end episodes on creating a song , song structure maybe

[@emcee19.05]

He already has a series on music theory, something like 5-6 videos 😉

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Definitely helpful 🤝💯🏆

[@FiercyRabbit1]

Hey Taetro, long time fan here! Ableton is familiar to me personally but I'd be very interested in your guide for content creation and combined media. You're quite visual and have a cool aesthetic that works perfectly with your musicality. Maybe you could shed light on questions like: 1. What kind of software you use in your editing? 2. What color grading you do and any insight for the LUT's you use or recommend? 3. Tips on how do you sync your audio with the video or multiple videos from different perspectives? 4. What's your streaming setup software wise? 5. Do you use Abletons video playback to sync with the audio or just use a different platform to sync the tracks? Maybe some future video ideas?

[@karacoldmusic]

I agree with this. Maybe after you've finished the whole Ableton series and if you have time....I feel like the "how" of how content creators create their content is kept very secret by everyone.

[@Taetro]

Thank you Simalaa! I’ve actually done a video on my video creation process AND did a full members workshop on it as well. Since this is a music channel, it’s tough to make dedicated content about making KZbin vids. But those are the best places to start.

[@C75525]

sick thank you

[@yeniel]

Is my first time using a DAW and this tutorial is amazing. Is really fun when you show some cool feature and I stop the video and spend maybe one hour playing with it and discovering new sounds. Is amazing and addictive, time flies. Thank you!!! I have a lot of gaps in basic DAW concepts like the different between slot rec button, audio rec button, session rec button... but I will see again your videos :) Is possible with to play with multiple instruments at the same time? to perform a riff or a break in a live session. Thank you again!!!

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Very resourceful no lie man. Specially cause there more for protools than ableton live

[@wozowski]

Learnt a lot from this. Thanks.

[@Taetro]

Awesome thank you Warrick!

[@NeuralBeatz]

great stuff. from knowing nothing to making my own music! please keep teaching!

[@Taetro]

I love to hear it

[@streetguyrj]

I got live 11 suite & never knew about sampler 🤯 Can you do an in-depth song sampling video because I love these videos I learn something new everytime.

[@EdwardKemp]

Yo wild, I was actually trying this out the other day and was completely lost 😆

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Damn you're the GOAT bro thanks a lot

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great video and hope to see a ableton note video in the future if possible!

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I wished I could give this video a thousand likes. 👍🏾✅