Ableton Live Lite 1 Part 1 Creating a 3 track with sample loops and a. i. vocals like Nas's voice!

1. Ableton Live Lite Introduction Overview: Hi and welcome. This is the introduction video for Learning Ableton Live 11, the Light version. We're going to look at how to make a simple track like this, where you have an audio on top, melody, and drums. How Ableton Live works, different modes. We're going to look at how to fade in and fade out, how to loop, how to edit samples, make the volume louder and softer. We're also going to look at how to play it, stop it. Sample basics Metronome, how to switch modes. We're going to look at how you can basically export a MP three file or create a flak file. That's the intention of discourse. If you're interested, let's learn together. Here we go. 2. Setting Up Audio and Midi in the Preferences Section: Okay, the first step will be to go to the File menu and go to Settings Five Settings. Now we're going to look at the audio. We're going to make sure that your input device is set to what you want it to be like. If you have an audio interface, you could choose this one. You can use your Macbook speakers if you want to output is where the sound is going to come out, you can have it coming out. Speakers. I have a interface, so it's coming out. The interface can do the sample rate. When you're recording or doing mid, low samples, just play around with it, see if there's too much clicking, then play around with it. When you're done inputting and you're doing mastering, then you can put a higher sample rate. You can do a test tone, and you can play around with the volume there. Then you can go to the Midi and make sure that you Midi controller, you try to find it here. You've got to click on the check marks for remote and track so that you can control features. Hopefully your controller comes here through the list. If not, you can do some mapping. The file folder is where your files are going to go. You can set that, your library where your content is. You can look at recording and warping and launching. You could choose a file type. Bit depth, I don't want counting, you could use a counting to basically 12 tick tick. You can do it for 1 bar, I use none. Yeah, this is do warped one shot. It's basically whatever sample that you put in is going to basically get warped. The temple you set for the track, I don't want it to be warped. I left it unworped off and creates fades look and feel. You can just mess around with this. You can change the light theme, right? Yeah, I'll conclude there with just setting up the preferences. 3. Finding samples in the browser, understanding the categories and dragging samples: All right, let's say for example you want to start your project, we can go to Live Settings. I forgot to mention about plugin. You can have a scan. You can turn these things on and off and mess around with this. Then scan, and then you can see your plug in. Now with this lesson, I just want to help clear the confusion about how it's set up. You see this, This is important because this is how you access all your samples, right? And all your files. You click this one, this is a browser, right? And so we can practice that opening and closing your browser searching. Okay, we're going to focus this lesson on the browser. So what we're going to do is we're going to look at collections. You can click on Edit, and you can make certain collections. Let's say for example, you just right click and you rename that, this could be my best samples. Okay, now it didn't come. I forgot to check. Mark whenever you don't check, and then click on Done. Now my best sample is here. There's different categories. Templates is important when you make a template. You can save it here. We're going to look at user library. Everything you save is going to be here. I added all these folders, You can add folder wherever your files are located, you click on that and click open, and it will be there. Let's go here, for example, to Loop Cloud Samples. I can type in something like piano. And let's say you can listen to it like this. You have to click on this headphones to be able to preview it. Or if you don't, you leave it off. You just have to click to the right with your arrow to preview it. Okay. It's not warped. Do you see Otherwise, it would be warped. It would go to the temple. All right, let's say that's one of my best samples. I'm going to click and drag it here. You can also press one to put it in because it's the first one, right? If I want this one also, I can push one and it'll automatically go in my best samples. There you go. Okay. Let's say for example, I have another one. I'm going to call it, for example, I'll rename this Drum Loops Favorites. Okay, remember Check Market Done. Now I have like most of my drums in two folders. One is this one you see piano is still. I have to close this to be able to see all the other ones. Let us take on drums just like that. Now I can just see the different drums. It's not previewing because I don't have the headphone clicked. I can hear that if I like that. Click and drag it. Remember I don't have to click and drag it. I know this number two because it's the second one in the collection that just push number two and you see that color there. It's orange. I don't know why it's orange. Just try that again. Two, because drum loop favorites is three. That's yellow. Weird delay. If you look here, three is delay. Four is drum favorites. I'm going to push, it's actually in two categories because I take three. Turn off, there you go. That's a quick way. Audio effects for reverb delay instruments. Let's click this one away. Now you can see all the instruments when you download the live light. I think this comes automatically. So if you want guitar sample the different instruments that come. Okay, so there's some drum kits. All right, so that's it for the browser lesson. Remember to close it. There you go. I hope you feel comfortable to be able to get open and close your browser. But I forgot one important thing, like how do you bring it into your project? If this is the audio, these are audio tracks. Drums, let's say. Let's go to my favorite right here. We're going to just drag it over, drag and drop. And then I can go back here, close second, and I can bring it to the left. So now I can play it, Space bar. Okay, so that's the browser lesson. 4. Adding audio tracks and loops, fading and looping feature: All right, lesson number three. We're going to look at understanding the two different views. Tab, You push tab and then you can go, this is called the Session View. Then if you push tab again, this is a arrangement view. When you make a switch, if you're, you're using this session view and you click this clip, you got to stop. You push tab again. You see this faded thing, right? You have to click this to say that you're coming back. All right, now you have this back. So let's look at again tab. If you activate you're messing around in this view and then you stop it. But then you push Tab to go back here, it's like a curtain right over. You're going to maybe get stuck here. But if you push this, then you're back in action over here. All right, so now what we're going to work on in this lesson is can you create a track? That's it. So I'm just going to delete. Okay, let's delete everything. Start from scratch like this. Okay? Right click and delete anyways. Okay, command R is rename, let's just call this blank. All right, so what we're going to do is command that makes a new audio track for audio files. Command shift is going to be Midi files. I'm using a Max. This are Midi files. The challenge for you is to create a new track. Remember command to rename it. Let's go here, command R and let's rename it to drums. Okay, that's the objective of this lesson, is to create a drums track. Okay, I'm not going to worry about this is the input, this is if it's activated or not. This is how you arm the track here. It's arm, it's for recording. When I record, it's going to go in. I don't need to worry about that because I'm just going to click and drag samples on this audio track. I'm going to worry about recording when I'm doing Midi. Let's first create a track, rename it, if you can do that, let's click on the browser here. And I'm just going to type in drums. I'm going to go to where I know my drum loops are, and I'm just going to see what to start with. Going to my other source here, I'm going to drag it in like that. And I'm going to close this one. The thing to be careful about is to look for sources of samples that are like royalty free, if possible, so that you don't have to go through the loop of copyright clearance. But you can always source it as well, give credits. I used to use Sounds.com I know that to my understanding, it's royalty free samples and Luke Cloud.com also royalty free samples. Here's a sample loaded in. Now when I click click once twice, now I can mess around with the gain louder. That means louder or softer. Okay, now if I did Warp, that's where I can mess around with the temple turn. Warp off. Now this is called the loop race. Where do you want to start it from? Can grab it from the end. We're going to end it right here. I'm going to click and turn the fixed grid off so I can be more precise with that. We're going to click the square here to have it fade out. Okay, now I'm going to hit Spacebar, and it's going to keep looping. If I click it here, it turns black. That's important for when you're exporting, when you're going to file. Now, master track. Where does it start? From the first bar. Yep, up to this it's going to be 6 bars long. You can make it as a loop. You can have the flag file, and it also creates a MP 35. If you click click on Export, it'll export that. Okay, that's if you want to just want to export your drum loop. You can also choose here and only do drums exported or have them all individually. Okay, that's exporting. The another thing, you can even set it here to start from here. You can also use command L to turn looping on and off command L. You see this is the icon for loop. Okay, this is over dub for Midi. This is a metronome you want to click, click, click. When you're recording, you notice that. All right, that the conclusion of this lesson is basically ask you to practice dragging the loop, drums loop and messing around with the gain. You could turn warp on and off. Warp is on. You can see what happens when I change the temple here. It's really slow, faster, faster, really fast, super fast. It's this top left here, temple. I'm changing. I can turn off and then I'll be the normal one. It's going beyond. I need to grab the loop brace again and bring it back. You can have it looping. So you know, if you were writing some vocals or some writing for the song, you can give you ideas. Do I was looping. You can write, you have a singer they can sing. All right, so I'm going to conclude the lesson here. I hope this helps. 5. Layering audio melody and drum tracks: All right, so let's practice now. Layering the drum track is there. We're going to layer it with another sample. We're going to look at here, opening a browser. And I'm going to go through my loops and see if I can find a melody that I can do on top of the drums. If you have a specific instrument you like violin, you can type in strings or if you know how it's set up. So I notice that this has the instrument right beside it. So if I like a violin type in violin, here's a violin sample. Now if I was to drag it onto the Midi track, I don't know if that'll work, but I'm going to put it into audio track here. I'm going to go back here. I can just put the volume up and down. The thing is I want them to both sync together. I'm going to focus on the drums. The drum says it's 143 BPM. Let's see if I can this into 143 as well. Whole project I just clicked on per see if the violin changes to 143. Um, everything is 143. Now I can slow it down. That's 9809120. Put drums to 120, slow the drums down, I can turn warp off, have the violin at the normal temple. Let's say I just turn warp off. Temple is at the speed of the truck. Lower, slower, faster. It. Read that for a second. All right, so I can find another sample. If I don't want the violin, I can go here, check this out. Okay, I like that. So I can duplicate it by hitting command D, and that just doubles it up. I just use the mouse basically, the pad I pinched in to zoom the whole thing in and out. You can also use and H to change the views too. You can click here to fold, unfold it to make it wider. You can also use plus and minus to zoom in. Zoom out. I have that looping going here. That was the lesson. The practice of this lesson is layering two audio tracks, a melody and drums. I can change my drums, I can have another drum thing, maybe slower. All right, I'm going to conclude that command D. I'm just doubling it up. You can delete it here. It has some moments without the drums. Okay, that's the conclusion of this lesson. Is just dragging and dropping a melody file and then a drums file. 6. Adding Midi Samples and Creating Vocals with A.I. Technology: For the final lesson, the focus will be on a tip or trick that I learned, a shortcut that I learned about using Midi files and adding vocals with the help of AI technology. The first thing is a little trick that I learned is that you can basically outsource Midi loops. The one option that I showed you in the previous videos is getting a sample audio sample from a source loop. Cloud sample Sound.com or you can use loop maan or loops. Let's say you just, for example, just download Nick Midi packs, right? If I get a download, a Mi pac, I'm using NPC, you can use BC Beats free version when I download Nick Mira's Midi files, these are all basically Midi files. And what I like about them is that you could choose any instrument and it creates a different sample. Multiple samples can be made from one Midi file. Let's look at up, for example. Or Greed. I can double click on Greed. Now I can minimize this, and I can change the sequence to eight. Let's see, how many bars is it really zoom? It's longer, it's like 16, 17 bars. Let's just do ten. For now, I'm going to choose an instrument. The instruments are from an expansion pack. You can get them from a Po.com You can go into there to get the expansion. If you're really interested in how to get expansions, I think you can look at expansion over here. Here's where you can go to get expansions. Okay, MPC Beats Edition. Let's say you downloaded instrument expansion. What I could do now is that in preview, a instrument that I like, Florida Keys. That sounds nice. I'll double click it. I'll minimize it. Now if I click this, nothing happens because I didn't choose the instruments. I'll double click on it. Now I can hear it. So it's like having Nick Mira, like a very good piano player sitting with me and helping me out. But he's not physically here because I just downloaded. That's like the trick, right? So I really appreciate and love that I can control A and I can t transpose the notes up or down. Octave, higher, lower. Okay. So let's say I like that a lot. And now, what? Right? Because I'm using the other program. The. Right. So I'm using a different doll. What do I do? I click over here. It, it creates a weight sample audio file. So I can go back to live and I can put it in right here. Now I got the help of a really good piano player, right? So I can remove this and then I can have that playing. So check it out. See it's not that loud. So let's put it up, Let's have it. They're playing. That's a tip and trick I learned from you. Look at the multiple uses of that one Midi file. Now I can just change another instrument. Can go over here and use. Ice Bell. Ice Bell. Now I can check it out. And now it's check it out. Awesome. Right when I explore, it won't work because it'll be the old one. I have to go to another sequence and come back. Come back now I can do it again. Bring it in. And now I can have it right beside it. I can overlap it like that. Okay, so let's go here. And I can just shift, click this one and then command J to join the two. There we go. So let's listen to it. It's playing awesome. You can bring the drums in. These drums are not really matching. I can get other ones, so I can type in drum loops. I like that fat in. I can go like this, hover over it, get those that bracket. And I can bring it in here like that. I can just bring this loop race here. Now, there we go. We've got the sample playing can control command C and then command V. Paste it over here. Now I can do the vocals. You got a pen and paper. You can write them or what I'm going to do is go to.com This is text speech. I could choose someone like Nos Shaquille O'neosas. Okay, and now I can write something. What up skill? Here's listen and then click on Speak. And here it is. Let's play with a skill set team. Let's start the lesson. All right, I like that. What I notice sometimes is that pronunciation off, you just have to mess around with the spelling. If it's saying something else, you can change it to that and it might make it better. You can play around with that. I'm going to click here and then right click. It's going to download the link file. Now what I notice is I have to rename it. I'm going to rename, go to download. That's where my downloads are happening. It comes like a crazy name like that, right? So I'm going to double click and I'm going to call it, um, December 22, Enter. Now when I'm in live I can just type in December 22 like that and then go here, Click to my downloads, it's going to basically extract it like that. Now I don't want this track. Click, delete there. Now this audio track, I'm going to click on it, command R to rename it. I'm going to call it vocals N. Now I'm going to grab that and bring it in like that. We still saying, let's start the tax. There we go. So now we have vocals, so let's bring it back here to the left and Spacebar hit Spacebar again. Stress from the starting up skill said, team, let's start the lesson. Okay, so I can just basically loop that so I can try to work with that. So I can think of the next line, So I'm going to loop it from here. So I can think of what can I do with that line up skill said team, let's start the lessons. I'm going to go here. Let's start the lesson. What can I work with? Let's start the lesson. Put up skill said, team, let's start the lessons. Put up seam, let's start less put up skills, let's start the lessons. Put up skill said Team, let's start the lessons. Put up skill said, start the lessons, put up skill set, Team, let's start the lessons put up skill set, Team, let's start the lessons put up skill set, Let's start the lessons Put up skill set team, let's start the lessons. Put up skill set team, Let's start the lessons. I'm going to check it out. Let's speak Put up skill set team, let's start the lessons. Put up skill team, let's put up that skill Sat team, Let's start. You can also put a comma, and then that leaves more of a gap. Put up skill set, more of a space and more of a space between. Let's say if he's going too fast. Like if you want focus, focus, please. And then you can put a speak again. And then there's going to be a little bit of a space and gap, I hope. Or you can put a period as well. Focus please. When we are on session. Yes, the multiple commas and that leave more of a space there. Let's go click download file. As it's a trick I learned because if you click on actual download by itself, you're basically going to get this. And I don't know what to do with this, right? There's a way to share it with people as well, but I think it works better with the phone. But for now I'm going to focus on right click, download, link file as to rename it here, December 22, version number two. And then I'm going to go here again. Downloads. Here it is, please. And put it there. Let's see how it sounds now, both of them. Let's move it over here. What up skill said, team. Let's start the lessons Focus, please. What you assess what up skill said. Let's start the lease. Now, that's just a basic like that, right? So if you want to add effects like say you want, you want all that, bring the delay onto the track. Just like that. I have the delay going on the track, so I can go here the time then now the delays on the track fade. Let's have it sink. You can play a dry and wet. See how it's going less and less and less. You can have more stronger team. Let's a volume actually, please. All right, so that's adding effect to track.