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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 final part of this video series on getting

00:04started with Ableton Live Lite. So in the last video I showed you how to add a

00:08vocal sample to the track. In this video we're going to finish off the track by

00:12adding some audio effects, building up a quick arrangement in Session View and

00:15then recording our track into the Arrange View so we can export it. Let's

00:20go! Okay so let's try adding some audio effects to some of the tracks. Now if we

00:25go in the browser to the Audio Effects section you can see that the audio

00:28effects here are grouped into lots of different categories. So we have delay

00:32and loop, drive and colour, dynamics, EQ, pitch and modulation, reverb and resonance

00:40and some utilities as well. So all of these add different characters to the

00:44sound and for example reverb this allows us to create different spaces so we can

00:50make an audio recording sound like it's playing inside a cathedral, a concert hall

00:54or just under a tunnel for example. So let's try doing that for this vocal

00:58sample. So I'm just going to click on solo and let's just go on to the second

01:02scene and I'm going to just drag over the reverb onto that track there. There we go

01:12so you can already hear that it's having an effect is making it sound like it's in a

01:16bit of a bigger space. We can increase the decay time and we can also change the

01:23balance between the original dry signal and then what we call the wet signal which

01:28is the reverb. And if we listen to that in context with the rest of the track...

01:45Now what we're doing is mixing the track. We're trying to get a good volume balance

01:49between the different channels. But as I mentioned in a previous video we do have

01:53to be very careful that we're not going to go into the red and clip. So I'm

01:57selecting all of the channels here while holding down shift and I'm just going to

02:01bring down the level very slightly just to make sure that on the right hand

02:05side we're not clipping and going into the red. Now another effect I quite like to

02:09use on this vocal sample is a delay. When we added the reverb effect we used

02:15what's called an insert so we inserted it directly onto this track. With these

02:19returns it means that we can actually share effects between different tracks

02:23by using these send controls here. So as part of the template set I used you can

02:29see that I already have a reverb and delay effect on each of these return

02:33channels. So I'm just going to use return B which is this delay. I'm just going to

02:39solo this and you'll see that as I increase the send amount here on this

02:44track it's sending more of this vocal channel to the delay effect on return B.

02:50Let's just turn off the reverb for a minute so we can just hear it better.

02:58There we go. Now we can adjust some of the controls on here so feedback controls how

03:05much it delays and we can also set the timing of the delay so I'm going to

03:10change the beat division here to quarter notes. I also want to add some filtering

03:18so that it's taking off some of the low end frequencies. Great so let's put the

03:33reverb back on now and take the solo off so that's sounding quite lush now that

03:47vocal. The next thing I want to do is to also add some reverb to this mini log. Now

03:54you can see that it's automatically named these tracks according to the presets

03:59that I was using but it hasn't done that for this track which is the mini log. So

04:03we can do that ourselves. Good to do some housekeeping. So I'm just selecting that

04:08track there and I'm going to select command R and that's going to allow us to

04:12type in the name of this track. So I'm going to type in mini log. There we go.

04:17Just so we know what it is. Great so let's just solo this. We could try adding some of that

04:26delay to this sound as well. Great and let's put some reverb on that as well. Why not?

04:39Maybe slightly less of it there. And this is where we can start adjusting the volume levels as we go.

04:55So I'm feeling now that that riff is a little bit too quiet and maybe the vocal is a bit loud. So

05:00I'm just going to adjust those. Now let's go way back to the drums and I want to make those drums

05:10sound a little bit punchier. So we can go to the audio effects here and utilities and audio effects

05:20rack and there's a section here called mixing and mastering. And this looks like an appropriate

05:27preset. It's called drums punchy. So let's drag that over there. Turn it off and on so we can compare.

05:45Now it sounds to me like it's slightly increasing the high frequencies there

05:49which means that the hi-hat sounds a little bit louder.

05:51So let's try bringing down that hi-hat which is here. Just very slightly.

06:05Brilliant. We can also add some basic mastering and mastering is normally the final stage of the

06:11production where we want to make the track as loud as possible and sound as good as possible on the

06:16radio or in a club. So we can stay in this mixing and mastering section here. And let's choose

06:23master punchy dance and just drag that onto the master channel there.

06:30Turn it on and off. Off. And on.

06:33Okay so what we're going to do now is we're going to do a very rough arrangement in the session view

06:47and then record that arrangement live into the arrange view. So this is where we can start working

06:54with these scenes a little bit more and duplicating some and taking out some of the clips to create a

07:01very rough arrangement. So I'm going to take this first scene here and I'm going to duplicate it

07:07a couple of times and let's start the song without the beat. So I'm just going to delete that first clip

07:13there and let's take out this pad maybe as well and also the mini log. So we're just starting off with

07:22the vocal and the bass. Great and let's go to the second scene now take out the drums

07:32and maybe the mini log and let's just bring in the pad sound.

07:36Okay and then we can bring in the beat. Maybe we'll hold off on the mini log as well.

07:55Turn up the vocal slightly. Turn down the beat slightly.

07:59Now this is where the drums come in.

08:09But we've also got that mini log so I'm going to duplicate that scene

08:14and then just save that mini log arpeggio so we just have the additional 16th hi-hats coming in

08:20at that point and then bring it in here and I'm going to duplicate it again and this time I'm going

08:37to take out the drums so we just have a little space so we then go into the piano section.

08:44Here we go.

08:53Great so we've got a very rough arrangement and what we can do now is we can record it into the

08:58arrangement view. So just so we can get all the tracks in view I'm going to press this H button

09:03here which is the optimize arrangement height and let's go back over here and we're going to hit

09:10record and we're going to trigger these scenes and it's going to record them into the arrange view.

09:15Now one final thing that we can do before we actually record it in is play around with the

09:19tempo. So at the moment we're at 120 which is a very classic kind of house tempo. Let's try increasing

09:27it a little bit. Maybe 125. There we go so that gives it a little bit more energy. So this time I'm going

09:41to press this arrangement record button and we're going to trigger the first scene.

09:45Now I'm going to flick over to the arrange view here and you can see it recording in.

10:05Let's try the next one.

10:15Bye.

10:45So if we now go back over to the arrange view you can see that every action I made has been

11:02captured and if we just press the back to the arrangement button here we can then play

11:07the track from this arrange view.

11:17This is where we can really refine our arrangement and we can take things in and out, we can change

11:22the lengths of the clips, we can do all sorts of things.

11:26So how do we get this out to the world?

11:27How do we get people to listen to the demo that we've just done?

11:30What we're going to do is we're going to export it.

11:33So the first step for this is to go to the loop brace here, so just drag the loop start

11:38to the start of the track and the loop end to the end of the track and then we're going

11:44to go to export audio and there are various settings here.

11:49We can turn the analysis file off, we can put normalize on, that's going to make it as loud

11:55as possible and you can select the file type as well, we'll keep that as a WAV and click

12:01on export.

12:06And you can select where you want that to go.

12:10So let's just open this up a little bit.

12:12This is the project that we were working on.

12:15Let's select that, call it house beat one and then save.

12:23And let's look for that file now.

12:25So let's go to here, Ableton projects, house beat and there is our file, house beat one.

12:33And we just press space to audition it.

12:38There is our track and we can upload it to SoundCloud or send it to a record label or send it to a vocalist

12:57and develop the track further.

12:59Now one final, very important thing I wanted to remind you of is to save your project.

13:04So go up to the file menu and click on save live set.

13:11And that means you can come back to the project and carry on working on it.

13:15Okay, so there we are.

13:17I hope you enjoyed this series of videos on Ableton Live Light and it gave you the confidence

13:21to start producing your own tracks.

13:24Please have fun experimenting with your own ideas and I hope to be back soon.

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