Let me be clear, Ableton are not paying me to talk about this. And if you look at the workflow at Ableton, you’ll get very, very excited by it. He would take the rough mix I gave him of Five Seconds of Summer, pull it in, and then it was reading all of the keys, it was reading the melodies, and it was recreating them. And he opened up Ableton and started dragging audio in. I just downloaded it recently, and I’m right there with the rest of you who haven’t yet to use it.Ī few weeks ago, I was working with Salaam Remi, and Salaam was producing Five Seconds of Summer. In the meantime, we’re going to do some stuff with Ableton, with Alex, who is an apprentice here, who goes to the Recording Connection, and Alex is going to show us some of the basics of Ableton. And he’ll be showing us some of the tricks and tips that he does. Chris is an incredible DJ and remixer, and he works in Ableton. We have an interview with the great Chris Lake. And the great thing about Logic is, it’s inexpensive, and there’s a lot of virtual sounds that come with it, which are incredible.īut recently I have been working a lot with a lot of different artists and producers that are using Ableton.
#NOW YOU CAN SYNC ABLETON LIVE VISUALS PRO#
And if you’ve been following me, you’ll know that I record and mix primarily in Pro Tools, but I do a lot of my keyboard stuff, my programming stuff, on a laptop using Logic. They all do a bit of everything incredibly well. Now we’re in a really incredible place because, depending on your genre, you can almost pick your DAW quite exactly. And Pro Tools came along and really was kind of revolutionary in the audio world. There was all these incredible systems that were geared more towards MIDI and digital audio in that way. There was Logic, Notator, of course, Cubase, Digital Performer. There was already other incredible DAW on the market.
So Pro tools was like a breath of fresh air in the mid-’90s, many of us, mainly guitar players, really gravitated towards it. But when you’re on your own, it’s time-consuming, because you are your producer. Which is fantastic when you have a producer and an engineer. And as a guitar player on tape, of course, we were sitting there punching in and fixing, punching in and fixing. Keyboard players were able to play, record MIDI, and then quantize themself or move themself forward or behind, do all kinds of fun stuff. The great thing about Pro Tools is, I felt like I could compete with a keyboard player.
And as a guitar player moving from tape, Pro Tools was a godsend. Now, you may ask, why am I talking about this? For those of you have watched me, will know that I work using primarily Pro Tools, and I’ve been using Pro Tools since ’96 or ’97. In this episode, I’d like to talk about a DAW. Watch the video below to watch the beginner’s guide to using Ableton Live! I was very impressed with what Salaam was able to do quickly and highly creatively! Ableton has the reputation for being extremely easy to use and very intuitive!
#NOW YOU CAN SYNC ABLETON LIVE VISUALS TRIAL#
In this video Alex takes us through the basics of Ableton, I learned a lot from this video myself! I recently downloaded the trial of Ableton after working with the Producer Salaam Remi when we were working 5 Seconds Of Summer together. One of our new Apprentices is Alex Valente, Alex is young guy who has embraced Ableton as his DAW of choice, making great Dance and Hip Hop tracks! I take on apprentices from Recording Connection, in fact my main Engineer, Eric Gonzalez, is a Recording Connection Graduate. However, there is one DAW that keeps coming up again and again in the Dance world and that is Ableton. So we’ve touched on Rock Production, but what about Dance Music and Hip Hop? Obviously all of the DAW’s can create Rap, Hip Hop and EDM, Virtual Synths and a myriad of third party plug ins enable us to create amazing music. I made an album with Paul Gilbert and he used Nuendo, he flew around that program with ease and the results were superlative! Our good friend David Mood is a Studio One Expert who has shared many tips with us, Reaper has many amazing followers and FL Studio is the main stay of Mick Gordon, virtuoso Rock Guitar player and Video Game Composer. Both of them believe that Logic’s stock plug ins give third party plug ins a run for their money. CJ as an accomplished Keyboard player who navigates Logic with ease and Ulrich mixes great Heavy Rock. Producers, Songwriters and Mixers like Ulrich Wilde and CJ Vanston both use Logic and make amazing music. Although a main stay with Rock Producers, not everyone uses Pro Tools. There are now many options in DAWs, the older ‘legacy’ DAW’s like Pro Tools have amazing audio editing capabilities that I find incredibly easy to use.
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