This tip might be among the more well-known of Live's 'hidden' features, but it's so central to my production workflow that I feel it worth mentioning all the same.
Needless to say, MIDI patterns are invaluable for use with this feature, of which you can find a great many in our royalty-free sounds catalogue. Setting 'Follow Action A' to 'Next', then repeating this step for the next clip and, finally, setting 'Follow Action A' to 'First' for the third clip, will result in Live cycling through the variations for you when you next hit Play. In the Follow Action section you can set how long the clip should play for, then set instructions for what should happen next.
Set the patterns up as individual clips stacked on the same channel in the session view, then open up the clip view of the first one and bring up the Launch box by clicking the small 'L' you can see in the image below. It's easy enough to get a loop going in Live but what if you want to add a bit of automated variation without any fuss' Let's say you have 3 variations of a melody that you want Live to loop between. It really couldn't be easier - thanks Ableton for saving me from needless repetition! 2. I soon found myself thinking that life was too short to be endlessly remaking the same loops twice and thankfully, the folk at Ableton were way ahead of me and had put a fix for this in place some years previously - in order to merge projects, you just need to open up Live's Browser window on the left-hand side and navigate to the project that you want to import/merge with the current session and hey presto, you have instant access to everything included in that project, on a channel by channel basis!ĭragging individual channels from the Browser into your new session will load up all instruments, clips and accompanying devices associated with that track automatically, or you can choose to just drag in the entire session. Merging Projects Togetherĭiscovering Live's project merging feature was a big revelation for me - have you ever been working on a project and thought to yourself, 'this idea would sound really great with that other project I have going on'' Well, I used to feel this way all the time as I like to work on lots of sessions at the same time.īefore, in order to achieve this I had to bounce my ideas down to audio clips, thereby limiting the scope for extending them, or go through the painstaking process of recreating them inside the other project. Today, I'd like to share my 5 favourite of these 'hidden' features, from the obvious to the far less so - let's tuck in! 1. The downside of having so many features is that it's very easy to overlook entire sets of extremely useful functions, some which are actually fairly well hidden within the software's architecture. Like most DAWs, Live has a wealth of features that may in fact sometimes feel like an overabundance, but this extensiveness means producers can pick and choose from amongst the many shortcuts, processes and procedures to find a workflow that best suits them. With its intuitive user interface and impressive time-stretching capabilities, Live is one of the most popular DAWs around amongst producers of all skill levels and from a wide range of genre backgrounds. It'll come as no surprise to you when I say that here at ModeAudio, we're huge fans of Ableton Live.
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