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Tutorial using Ableton Live 11 Lite with Ski Oakenfull - part of the Music Radar series

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00:00Hi everyone, welcome back to this video series on getting started with Ableton Live Lite.

00:05So in the last video I showed you how to add some chords and a melody to the track.

00:09In this video we're going to add a vocal sample which is going to be the final layer.

00:13I'll be introducing the concept of sampling using a device in live called Simpler which allows you

00:18to get really creative with audio. So a simple definition of sampling is where we can take an

00:24audio recording and we can manipulate it and play it on the keyboard up and down so it changes pitch.

00:30And in Live Lite we have a device called Simpler which we can use for this purpose.

00:35There are also lots of presets that come with Simpler with loads of great sounds, bass sounds and effects

00:41all made up of samples so I thoroughly recommend you go and check those out.

00:45Now first of all where can we get some vocal samples? Well I found this great webpage here,

00:50it's actually on the Music Radar website and it's 1,338 free female vocal samples. So if we just scroll

00:58down you can see some examples and then there's the link there. So download those

01:08and I'm just going to show the desktop now. There we go and this will be the folder that you get

01:16and you can see it's divided up into different genres, rock and trance and house and disco.

01:24But this is where we can use Live's Places feature. We can drag any folder of audio samples into the

01:30Places area so it's then accessible in our track and in any future projects we work on as well.

01:36So what I'm going to do is I'm just going to drag this over to this area here,

01:40click on OK and you can see the folder has appeared and then you can also see all the different categories.

01:51Great, so let's just make this full screen again.

01:55I'm going to create another MIDI track, there we go and we can actually delete that audio track,

02:02we don't need that anymore. And let's just have a little listen through to some of these samples.

02:09Do you love me, don't you think it's time, find your destiny, find your destiny, find your destiny.

02:18Fine.

02:18OK, there's some good ones there. Keep going down.

02:22La la la la la la la la la la

02:24Hold it up, hold it up, hold it up, hold it up, hold it up, hold it up, hold it up.

02:35Oh, I really like that one there, that's really nice. OK, so how can we get that into simpler?

02:41Well, we can just go over to our instruments and I'm just going to drag a simpler onto this track here.

02:47There we go, it's loaded up and you can see there it says drop sample here.

02:51So let's go back here and then let's drop it on. There we go.

02:57And I can now play the sample on the keyboard.

02:59OK, so let's just play the first scene and see if we can make it work with our track.

03:17OK, that sounds really good. One thing you'll notice though, is that as I play it up and down

03:22the keyboard, it's changing the timing. So the higher I play it, the faster it plays.

03:26So in order to fix this, we can use warping again. So you just click on this warp button

03:36here and just like that mini log part that I put down in the previous video, we can select complex

03:42because it's not a beat. We want to use a warp algorithm that works for this kind of sample.

03:49We can also change the start point of this sample as well. So there's a bit of a breath there.

03:53Let's just make it a bit closer to the H of holding. OK, so let's play this again and listen

04:06to what it sounds like. Great, that's sounding really good. So I'm just going to bring down

04:21the level slightly and also that synth part as well. So let's just try recording in a few variations of

04:28this part. That's very simple for that first scene. So let's quantize it, command U and let's just give

04:50it the groove and let's go to the next scene now. Maybe let's play that lower note to start off with.

05:03OK, let's record it in. OK, quantize it again and give it the groove.

05:24Now I'm just going to tighten up slightly the start point again, just to make sure it's a bit more in

05:29time. There we go. Great. And then for the third scene, which is a little bit funkier,

05:44let's try playing something a bit more rhythmical. Let's just play along first, have a go.

05:49OK, let's record that in. Let's quantize it and add the swing groove.

06:19So this note here is just slightly too long. So what we can do is just let's just zoom in so we can

06:28see it and we can just hover over the end of that event there, that note, and we can just drag

06:36it to the left just to make it a little bit shorter. Great. So we've got three vocal riffs

06:47there over our three different scenes. OK, great. So that's all the main elements of the track added.

06:54In the next video, I'm going to show you how to add some audio effects and then arrange these parts

06:59into a final track that we can export as an audio file and share.

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