This is part 2 of the File Management series. Before you attempt to follow this one, you should go through part 1 (Collecting Files) to avoid accidentally deleting any files you still need in other Live Sets. Finding and Deleting
Almost no one likes tidying up, but unfortunately, it’s a necessary part of music production as well. Of course, you don’t want to do this while being creative and in the flow. And you don’t need to. There are some
With Live 10, there are now two ways to quickly access files you regularly need in the Live Browser. Spending a little while on these features can you save you plenty of time in the long run, and helps you
Since there are two views in Ableton Live, you can export audio from both the Session and Arrangement View, or even a combination of both. This is why it can be confusing at first and you might end up with unexpected
Saving your work in Ableton Live seems easy enough to not need a tutorial, but it’s something that comes up fairly often as a problem when I’m giving lessons. This is, because the file structure Live uses is more complex
Normally, an attack time of 0 ms would create a click, which is why the attack time of compressors starts only at 0.1 ms. With this workaround, you can achieve 0 ms and thus very tight sidechain compression. This Ableton
There are plenty of reasons why you might want to resample to audio in your music productions. Perhaps you’re working with CPU hungry plug-ins. Or you’d like to commit MIDI to audio to use audio specific features like warping, reversing,
Once you’ve finished a project, whether it’s one track, an EP or a full album, you should always make sure you will be able to access the files in the future. Not just within the next few months, but years
In Ableton Live, you can have only one Live Set open at any given time. So what if you want to merge two or more Live Sets or use parts of one in another Set? This can be necessary if you
There are a lot of free Ableton Live and Max for Live Packs available at Ableton’s website alone, and there are tons of premium packs to choose from. Most of them come with an included help lesson that is opened
This video tutorial shows an often overlooked feature in Ableton Live, an easy trick to keep your tracks always correctly numbered, even if you reorder them. I was reminded of it when a producer who’d been working with Live for
Creativity can be messy and chaotic. It’s often more important to quickly get ideas down when you’re in the flow than to keep things tidy. Yet, once you get to the mixing stage, keeping order in your Live Set helps
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