How to Use Ableton Live on Stage for Live Performance!

1. Introduction: In this Skillshare class, I'm going to show you how you can begin to use Ableton within your live performances, whether you're a solo musician or you play in a band and you're looking to create more punch within your life show Ableton is a perfect solution. I've been using able to now for many years within my live performances. And it is enabled me to automate various parameters, which is my audio effects, true green backing track elements in samples, as well as midi program changes to create a bit more of a flow when I'm performing on stage, all of these speeches and tools available to you within able to live, let you basically programmed the equivalent to a digital stage crew controlling your entire show. This class will take you through the basics of getting started and creating your very first sets. Now the clarification I did film this course before I had a haircut and moved into this new studio space. So if I do look a little bit different, don't be too surprised. 2. Control Bar Overview: So in this first module, we're gonna take a look at the Ableton Live interface. I'm going to give you an introduction into the basic elements of Ableton Live. So you kind of know what older the symbols mean inside of the software. Inside of Ableton Live, we take a look at the top. We have these con, a troll bar with various different symbols and buttons. Now at the center of this control bar, our transport control. So this is play, stop and also record. Now you'll notice when we're recording in Ableton Live, nothing is really happening with inside of this view. Now if we click Tab, it will take us over to Arrangement View. Now, Arrangement view, if you're familiar with traditional doors like GarageBand Logic Pro X Pro Tools, things like that. This is able to lives version of that. So basically it's designed for doing song structures from the ground up. So if you're recording like a hit single, you can record it inside of arrangement view, like a normal DAW would operate. But because we are going to be building an Ableton Live performance, we are probably going to spend 90% of our time inside of Session View. So if we click tab, it will take us back to session view. Now, if you don't want to click Tab, you can use these little logos in the top-right corner to just change between whatever view you prefer. Now at the top left of our Ableton Live software, probably the most important functionalities that you need to understand for what we're gonna do. So as you can see, we have our tempo over here. So this is the beats per minute of the track is set to, and we can just click in this box and type in whatever we like in our keyboard. And it will change the global beats per minute of our entire Ableton Live Set. Now right next to this is a tap tempo. So we can literally, if you're maybe Janning, for example, maybe writing a song and you're like, oh, this is the right tempo, but you don't exactly know the numbers. You can just feel it in, tap it in. So 1234 and we were around 105 BPM. We can round it up, just type in 105, and then you are ready to rock. Now to the right-hand side of all these controls is our Time signature. So we can change that if you're doing any light progressive rock or something funky, you can change your time signature here just by clicking and dragging the number up and down. Or you can click and type in a value right next to our time signature is probably the second most important thing in Ableton Live, and that is the metronome. The metronome is just a click track to help us play in time with the software. So if you've got some samples playing, we're playing in sign with those backing tracks and samples. Or if we recorded a song and arrangement view, everything is in time with each other. Now to turn the metronome on your lips, you just click on the two dots and it will turn yellows. That means we have activated the metronome. If I click Spacebar to play back our able to live set, you'll see in our transport controls then it is started to play. You will hear the clicks right clicking away. Now if you find this a little bit too irritating, you can click on this drop-down menu here and you can change the type of sound. So that's the click, and this is wood. Now you can change that sound depending on how piercing you find the default sound. I'm not really bothered, whatever the sound is, it's kind of annoying either way, so I just roll with the default one. But inside this menu are a variety of other options as well that we can play around with. For example, the rhythm allows us to determine the subdivision of the click track. So instead of it being the basic 123412, etc. We can have it be like 12341234, Yana, depending on how complicated do you want to count things or how you prefer to count things. This is especially useful if you are a drama, for example, and you maybe want to count the subdivisions with the software to kind of mentally save yourself from doing it on your own. So I usually leave this to audio, but just to show you an example of how it can count like different varieties. So we have eighth notes here. This is auto. And then this is 16th notes. But we're just gonna leave it at order for now. Now, one final thing on the click track, if it's a little bit too loud. In the bottom right-hand corner, you can see we have this little blue dial. Now we can turn this up and down, and this is our Q out. Now we'll talk a little bit more about the differences between the ins and outs of the master out and the Q outs and routing audio later on in the course when we start to build up our own light performance. But for now by default, this basically just allows you to turn down your click drag and that's all you really need to know for now. 3. Quantization Menu: Now the final thing you definitely need to know about in this basic introduction to this control bar is the quantisation menu. Now this is located to the right-hand side of our metronome. Now quantisation is basically used to make up for any human error. So for example, if we were recording a keyboard part via a midi keyboard and we replay it a little bit out of time. Ableton will then quantize that and put it in time for us. So it sounds like we played perfectly to the clinic. And likewise, if we are in session view like we are right now when we're triggering different samples when we're performing live, if we trigger a sample and a little bit too early or a little bit too late. Ableton is going to counteract our human error and make sure that it is in time with the rest of the track. A dead awesome feature. So by default it's usually set to one bar. One bar I think, is a great starting points. You start to understand how it actually operates inside of the software. But I feel as you become more advanced, you could probably make it like a 16th note. So it literally is instantaneous to when you press it, and it will sort of counteract it back or forth depending on how out of time you were. But we'll leave it for one buffer. Now, as we're just building up our Ableton Live Set. 4. Preferences Tab - Audio Interface Setup: Now before we can actually start to make any music, we actually need to head into our Ableton preferences and we're gonna set up an audio interface. Now, an audio interface is going to allow us to plug in real instruments like guitars and microphone's, all of that good stuff. So we can actually use it inside of our computer. Now if you don't own an audio interface, head on over to the course notes and check out my YouTube channel. I've got a ton of reviews of various different audio interfaces for you to check out. If we head over to Ableton Live and we jump into our preferences menu, we're going to want to click on these Audio tab here. Now you can see by default our audio input device and output device is probably gonna be your built-in microphone. Now we want to change this, and we want to set this to whatever audio interface you own. Now it's super easy to set up an audio interface in 2020, you literally take the USB cable and you plug it into your computer. And then Windows ten or the Mac OS will download the drivers automatically for you and you'll be ready to rock in seconds. So from this drop-down menu, you just want to select the brand of audio interface that you own. In my instance, it's the complete audio six. And we're gonna repeat the same process for our output device as well. There's a further step you might need to undergo, and that's just in the input Config. You just want to make sure all of these are pretty much turn to yellow because you have the option to deactivate and activate certain inputs in certain outputs. So you just actually click on this rectangle to turn it on or off. Now, I like to have everything on and click it so it's yellow because you never know when you're going to use it. When you're setting up a set, you would like just the convenience of having them all activated. So we'll do the same for our output comfort, just make sure everything is on if it isn't. And then that is the main part of our audio interface setup. Now down here, we have our latency. Now you can see my overall latency is 18 milliseconds. Now that isn't too bad, but depending on the quality of audio interface you own, the lower the overall latency, you're going to get nuts. A good thing, because basically when I'm playing my guitar and I have a super large latency, it's gonna put me off playing my guitar in time with Ableton, Live click track and the metronome. So if you own some of those modern audio interfaces that you can get in 2020, which are like USB type C, You probably going to have a super low latency compared to my USB 2, ancient hardware that I'm rocking right now, if your latency is obnoxiously high in, it's really noticeable. You can turn down the buffer size, but when you decrease the buffer size, you will hear a large increase of pops and clicks and noise coming through your output audio, but you will see a decrease in overall latency. Now, I preferably like it to be 256 samples. It's kind of a happy medium. You get a decent overall latency and very minimal clicks and pops on the output. Now there's one final thing you can do in Ableton Live, which I do like, and that's the driver error compensation. Because even able to live as clever as it is, it can still sometimes make mistakes in predicting your overall latency with some driver issues. So you can actually just click and hold and then drag the mouse up and down to turn this, this overall latency down. So look, we'll set it to somewhere near 0. So we've now got it to be about 0 and able to live will compensate for those errors. Now again, you might see some drive issues if this happens. So just don't use this feature if that occurs, but maybe try it out. 5. Browser: So now we're gonna take a look at the Ableton Live Browser. So to open up the Ableton Live Browser, you can either click on this little arrow here and it'll expand it out. Or you could do Command or Control Alt B. And then it's going to open up the browser to the left-hand side of the page. Now, in Ableton Live browser, this is where we can explore all of the instruments we want to use inside of able to live. This includes the audio effects, midi effects, instruments, sound samples and clips. We can access everything from this menu and this is under the categories. So we have our different categories. Sounds, drums, instruments. As I just mentioned, we've got all of our categories here. It may be effects, audio effects, all those kind of things. Now we can actually edit these categories and kind of hide and remove certain things. We don't want to particularly see because obviously we're not probably going to use everything. And if you want to really streamline your able to live browser, you can click this Edit button here and you can hide certain menu. So for example, we are going to be using Max for Live at all during this tutorial because it's quite advanced. So we're not going to be using that during this course, so we can hide that and kind of make it easier to navigate for us and easy to see what categories are available. Now an additional feature to this is you can see we have this red color over here. Now these are assignable colors. So if we click Edit again, you can see we have all of these colors we can assign to certain sort of subcategories. For example, let's open up this echo here. Now let's say this is my favorite echo effect in Ableton Live. I can right-click on this and I can save it to my favorites. We can also right-click on it and save it to a new category. And this one for now is called the yellow. And then we can rename it by right-clicking on that. And we'll say maybe my sound. By setting up your own custom folder, we can actually save all of the sounds we use on a regular basic like keyboard. Since any samples and drumbeat sounds, we use kicks and snares, we can save them all in one location. Open up these location every time we open up a new set, and then just drag and drop them in so we can get up and running as fast as possible. So we're not constantly diving into the search bar and typing in the name and then dragging and dropping it in and just wasting time. Now one thing I just want to tell you about inside of categories is the plugins and packs. So depending on what version of able to live you own, whether you bought able to live sweet Ableton Live standard or you have Ableton Live light. You'll have a variety of different access to additional pacs over on Ableton website. Now these packs are basically just able to install additional audio plug-ins that you can download. Now, I loved the fact that able to live allow you to download them. Additionally, my main problem with some other DAWs is the fact that installs literally everything onto your computer. And if you're running like a Mac, like I'm running right now, you don't usually have that much storage. To begin with. The beauty of having the packs we can head over to Albertsons website, download whatever packs we want, maybe some orchestral sounds, some more hip-hop drum beats, depending on what genre of music you're playing. And it just allows you to free up a bit of space on your hard drive and only download the things that are relevant while we're on the subject of sort of additional content. There is this category here called plug-ins. Now, if you own any fancy sample libraries like complete 12th, ultimate or the tutorial synth collection with those beautiful samples sort of vintage since you can head into your plugins, dive into your VSTS, and then you can literally drag and drop your fancy sounds that you've bought online or whatever, drag and drop them onto your tracks. And it just allows you to super easily access them. 6. What is Session View?: Now right now we're gonna take a look at Session View, secession views. What we are going to spend 90% of our time and building up our projects. So it says review is designed for doing live performances and it's made up of these rectangular boxes. Now these are referred to as clips. Now clip contains audio or midi information, and we can either record these clips live with playing an instrument into them, and then loop them back in, they'll play. Or we can load in prerecorded samples and trigger like pre-recorded drum beats, pre-recorded vocal samples, or LAN satellite back in track elements that you might want to use in a live situation. If we open up our browser menu, either clicking on it or using our shortcut Command or B or control. Or B, if you're on a PC, we're going to load in some clips. So enabled to Live's browser. We have our categories here that we touched on earlier, but right down at the bottom we have clips. These clips are Ableton Live provided premade clips that we can literally just drag and drop and start getting super creative inside of Ableton Live. This is awesome feature for literally playing about and understanding how this software works, which is what we are doing today. In order to know what a sample sounds like before you drag it in, you can click on it. And if you see down here we have this little headphone icon next to the little wave format. Now we can click on this to turn it blue, and it will start a little bit of a previous. You can hear that there. Now we want a drumbeat so this m can play along to the bass part we loaded in here. Let's try out this one here. That's no good because the drum fill, we go, this is more like it. So we literally drag and drop this into our able to live project. And now we have a section so we can click Play. And then we can trigger the next sample. Now, right now all we're drums assigning it a little bit loud. So if you pause that for a moment down here, we have our volume slider so we can click and drag and pull our drums down ever so slightly, just to get a little bit of a better level. That sounded a little bit more likely for our instruments are sounding a little bit dry. And I kinda want a little bit of reverb on the drums and the bass guitar part. So if you have a look over the volume slider, we have these things called a and B, and these are referred to as cents. Now these sends, it will go to these return tracks over here. On these return tracks we can load in reverbs, delays, all those sort of things from our Audio Effects category over here. Now the reason why you'd want to use send and return tracks is the fact it will reduce your CPU usage. So you see in the top right over here, we're only idling at about 2% usage. And that's because we're not doing anything too strenuous in our Ableton Live set. But if we were to have 25 audio and midi tracks over here loaded up and we want you to reverbs on every single one of those. So we'd have 25 Reverb loaded in. We're certainly going to see a huge increase in capacity on our CPU. It's gonna make Ableton potentially crash and run a little bit slower. So by using a return track, we can literally have one Reverb loaded in and send every single track to that one reverb. And it's gonna be way more efficient for our computer. So let's turn up the reverb and our bass part, so we'll preview that. Then. Same for the drums. Will add a bit of a delay in as well. In the able to live session view, we can also do click scene. So if you notice on our columns over here, we've got our bass guitar part and our drums. And these all lead over to this master that says, number one, this is called seen launched. So I can launch this scene and know all play at once. Then I can use the little square to stop all on the entire scene. Now we can load in some more instruments over here to a loading this other drumbeat. And we'll do this guitar part over here. And now we have sections, so we've got section one and section two. Now, obviously as we build up our able to live set is gonna start to get quite complicated to work our way through it. If we have loads and loads of tracks like 12345 to actually know which section of the song we want to go to. So we can actually click Command or Control on PC and type in verse. We can then do the same for number two. We can right-click this time and go down to rename if you prefer. And we'll type in chorus. And now we can use scene launch to seamlessly switch between these two sections. So we'll start with our verse. Now we'll go to our chorus. Now we're back to our verse. Now if we turn down this reverb and delay, so it's less obtrusive. And we take a look back at our metronome. So we'll turn our metronome on and you'll now see the effect that the quantisation is having. So are going 1234123 if I trigger this an ABB three, so 12341234. Gonna wait till the start of the next, trigger, our next scene. Now if we make these 16th notes, this is what I was talking about earlier. It's going to make it instantaneous. So if we start our scene, 234, Horace. 7. What is Arrangement View?: If we click Tab to switch from Session View to Arrangement View, you will see Arrangement View has a more traditional digital audio workstation layout. It has a timeline and it has all the checks laid out on the side like this. Now Arrangement View is a super powerful editing tool. We can actually drag and drop those clips we were just using in session view into our timeline in layer up all of the tracks to create a song structure. If we open up the browser and we click on our clips category, we can just drag and drop these clips onto the timeline and you can start to make a little track, for example, like so. Now not only can we drag and drop these pre-recorded clips, we can also actually record audio directly into the arrangement view. So if we record one of our audio tracks over here, and then we begin to record, you'll notice it starts to create its own little clip inside of the workstation. Now one of the really easy things to access inside of arrangement view is automation. Automation is going to allow us to automate things like delay and reverb. How much of it you hear panning, whether he has stuff in the left or right ear, and you can get really creative with it now, yes, we can use automation in session view and we can put all of that information inside of a clip that we can trigger. But it is really easy to set up inside of arrangement view. So in order to do that, you click the function key and then a, and it'll open up Arrangement View. If not, you just click these little dots and lines to open up arrangement view. Now we can adjust track volume. So for example, if we have it on Mixer and then set it to track volume, we can have our attract gradually decrease in volume like that. Or alternatively, you could set it to delay. And delay is going to allow us to automate the amount of delay that you will here so we can ramp it up to full. Now to the right-hand side of these options are your standard track options like in session view. So we can mute this track, we can solo this track and we can also record this check now right now I'm going to solo it so we can hear this delay setting in action. As you can hear, that delay gradually increases and then it decreases like so, and we can even switch it fully off like that. That was a brief overview of the differences between arrangement view in session view, I'm not gonna spend too much time on Arrangement view because we are primarily going to focus our time on Session View during this course because we want to build up a live performance. So let's move on to the next module. 8. MIDI Instruments: We're now going to take a look at midi instruments. I've plugged in a midi keyboard. This is just a dead basic keyboard that plugs into your computer via USB. There's no onboard sounds on this keyboard. It's super-duper cheap. I think it was maybe 45 pounds back in 2016 when I bought it. And it just plugs directly into the computer via USB. And we're going to use Ableton Live as our audio source for the keyboard sounds in our back in Ableton Live and we are in session view. If we go to our browser and we have a look into categories, we've already explored our clips in previous lessons, which we've dragged and dropped into here. But now we are going to take a look at the instrument section. If we create a new midi track, so we right-click and then click, insert midi track, and then the appropriate shortcut will be here for whatever software you are running. Let's insert a midi track and then let's get ourselves a instrument from inside of Ableton Live. So I'm feeling like electric. Let's go for piano and keys. And then let's go for piano plus pad. If I play on the keyboard, you can hear there is no audio coming out and they're able to alive, and that could be a variety of reasons. So let's first check our Ableton preferences. So we're going to jump into our Ableton Live preferences and we're gonna go into our link midi tab. Now, we're going to check that our device is correctly setup. So this is the Alyssa is 49 keyboard. And as you can see here, I have an input device called Q4, E19, and output device called Q 49. So we're going to assume that this is my Alyssa is 49 because it is named accordingly. So what we're gonna do is we're gonna make sure we have track and remote turned on. You can then close out with preferences. Then, now when we play our midi keyboard, you can see in our midi signal channels, we have some signal coming through, so you can see the little orange dots flashing. Now there's one thing we need to do to now activate the audio, and that is record these midi tracks. So when I play a chord now, you will be successful. Audio coming from Davidson. 9. Drum Rack: So now we're gonna take a look at the Ableton Live drum rack feature. We're going to head into Session View and open up our browser, just like in the previous lesson, go down to instruments. And then we are going to open up a brand new midi track, just like we did in the previous class, right-click and insert midi track. And then we are going to drag and drop our drum rack onto this new midi track. Now down in the bottom left here, you will see we have these empty pads on these empty paths. We can fill them with a variety of different samples and create our own customized drum kit in order to find some pre-made samples from Able to, which are very high-quality. We go down to this little samples tabbing our categories, options in the browser, we're going to click on here. And then just like before when we were playing about with the clips, we can click on it. I have a little bit of a preview. We've got a shaker here. We can put that on whatever note you want. So we're going to put this on D1. We're then going to put this snare on C-sharp. Then let's look for a cake. That sounds all right. Now we've just dragged and dropped three different samples onto this drum pad. And basically, if you notice before we put these samples onto these pads, it said C1, C-sharp, One, D1, etc. Now this relates to what notes they are on our midi keyboard. So obviously, the letter refers to the notes on the keyboard, and then the number refers to what octave region it is inside of that keyboard. We're going to make sure we have our track record armed so we can hear it. And then we're going to try and find C1 on our keyboard. Now you can just see a box illuminated orange that I just clicked, which is telling me what note on my keyboard I am holding down at this moment in time, so we are pretty close, but we're still a few octaves behind. Let's try the next C note down. Now, we're getting really, really close and we're just one octave away. So it's clearly going to be this C note here, which clearly is. So we have our kick drum, snare on C-sharp, and then our shaken on B1. Now you can customize literally every single key on your midi keyboard inside of this drum rack, we only just explored one octave range from C1 to see two. But it's really exciting as you can see, we have these grids to the left which we used earlier to locate. Whereas abouts on the keyboard we were. But if we click on this box and drag up, you can see we are increasing through different key regions on our keyboard. And we can also go down as well. And these are all mappable with custom samples that we can drag and drop into here and swap them out and then play them on our keyboard. So this is a super powerful tool that we will definitely be using when we start to build our entire life performance sets. 10. Instrument Rack: We've just taken a look at drum racks, but now we're going to take a look at Instrument Racks though, an instrument rack that allows us to do essentially the exact same thing as a drum rack, but it consists of different instrument patches inside of Ableton Live. So if we go back to our instruments category inside of our browser and we go down to instrument rack. Over here, we will create a new midi track. Right-click, insert midi track, and we'll drag and drop this onto the midi track. Now, currently our intro Iraq has 0 instruments on, so let's occupy it with a couple of sounds. So we will go into instruments then let's say electric piano and keys, something like that. And we'll drag and drop that into our instrument rack. Now, an intimate rack allows us to put multiple instruments basically into one instrument folder. You could call it. Now, I really like an intimate rack because it means if you're using your midi keyboard and you want to play maybe more than one sound. You maybe got five different sounds you want to switch between during your performance. It saves you from setting up five individual midi tracks like this. And then switch in-between them by clicking the record arm and then switching to the other one to them play the keyboard and then back to the other worn in disabled. It just makes it super duper easy. So if we delete these unwanted midi tracks by clicking, clicking and holding Shift and then just clicking the delete button or Backspace on a Mac. Let's drag and drop a few instruments onto our instrument rack. And down here we have different view icon. So we have our macros icon. Now in the macros menu, we can meet him up multiple different buttons that may be on an external USB controller or on your midi keyboard. If you've got a really fancy one, we'd loaded dials, you can map different things to control different parameters inside of the sound that you're hearing in Ableton Live. But let's close that one for now and we'll open up our chain list now this is the most important thing we want to focus on. Right now. In here we can drag and drop multiple different instruments and then switch between them all. So let's get a second sound here. This one should do. And now we have two different sounds inside of our instruments rack. Now when I record arm this track and I play on the keyboard, you'll hear both of the instruments at playing in the exact same time. You don't necessarily want the software to do this because usually you're going to want to switch between a specific instrument at a specific point in your tracks. So what we're gonna do is we're going to open up this chain, select it over here. And then inside this chain, selected these little blue rectangles that we can expand out and position in different points of the editor. This then this chain select a ruler that we can slide two different points of our chain selected region to hear different sounds. For example, we're now going to hear the first sound in our instrument rack. Then if we slide it over to the second rectangle, will hear the second sound like this. Now we can set these so they overlap and we can hear both instruments at the same time. And then we can automate these parameters inside of Ableton Live. So the software selects our instruments automatically for us and we don't need to worry about it. I just wanted to highlight the benefits of using an instrument rack so you can have everything in one place on one midi track. And then you can reduce your CPU usage on your computer and also keep your Ableton Live Set as slick as possible. 11. MIDI FX: We're now gonna take a look at midi effects inside of Ableton Live. I've got a little bit of an example of what a midi effects can do. So I booted up this piano little midi track and I've added on an arpeggiator. Now an arpeggiator is basically going to allow us to just hold down a variety of notes and unable to live, he's going to play them for us. So let me give you an example like this. Just holding down this chord and then play through all notes makes you sound better than you are now, in order to access the midi effects, we can open up our browser and then we go to Categories and we opened up midi effects. Now there's a ton of options in here we can play about with. Here is the arpeggiator. And this was the one I was just using, the classic up and down eight. Just literally drag and drop it onto the instrument you want to use it on. And then you can start editing it. Down here. There is a ton of other midi effects inside of Ableton Live. So there's pitch, so we can drag and drop these onto your desired midi track. And it will put it up by an octave or down by an octave, or you can edit it, you drag and drop it onto here. Now we have the up by 12 semitones, which is an octave. Pretty cool stuff. We can also do things where we limited to a certain scale. So if your music theory isn't the best, you can drag and drop these scales onto the midi region. And then it's going to restrict all of the notes on the keyboard to play the actual correct different accidentals, Flats, and sharps according to whatever mode you selected. So for example, we've selected Dorian over here. We'll turn off our arpeggiator, and this is how it sounds with Dorian in C. Then we can switch the Dorian mode off and it'll sound like this. You can hear the obvious difference between immediate effect being on an off. Now to turn to me the effect on and off, you click this little device activated button, the little circle in the top left corner, and it will turn yellow when it's on. Turn great. When it's off. 12. Audio FX: Now the final able to an element we're going to take a look at is Audio Effects. Now we just explored the midi effects. Now the media effects are pretty cool. We can get quite creative with them, but the problem is they are restricted to Midi channels only. However, with audio effects, we can put those on both audio channels and midi channels. So we're gonna go into our browser. Once again, we're going to look in categories and go down to Audio Effects. The types of audio effects we can use, filters, compression, EQ, all the basic stuff you'd expect, delays and types of things. If we have a look at a compressive, for example, we can click this little triangle and they'll put down a little, expand the menu. And inside this menu are various different presets we can choose from. For example, we had just wondering a light better compression to maybe this keyboard track we were playing about with the media effects on. So we'll go for a gentle squeeze and just pop it on over here. And now we've got a little bit of compression to what we're playing about with now you can change the view by clicking these different things over here. This is my favorite view here so we can mess about with disorder out put, which is what you would may be referred to as the makeup if it was a more advanced compression. And then the threshold can also put our own bit of EQ onto our channels. Now my favorite EQ is the eighth band EQ. And again, we have a variety of different presets depending on what instrument we're using, which is a great place to start. So we'll go for the piano EQ, because we've got a piano on here and this is how it sounds. On. Now I'm going to create an audio channel. Now I've shown you that the audio effects do work on midi tracks. And let's say we're going to rename this one to Utah. Now at the top of our audio effects, we have this option here. And these are some virtual amplification options inside of Ableton Live. And to be fair, they don't sound terrible, they don't sound amazing, but they are definitely useful if you're just doing a little bit of light guitar work inside of Ableton Live, so we can click and drag these onto our audio track. We can also add a bit of Channel EQ, like earlier, we'll get our guitar preset this time. We add electric guitar. We've now got a basic guitar EQ setup inside of able to live. And we can plug our guitar directly into our audio interface and record the track. And we literally can start playing in Ableton Live straightaway. You could go even one step further and make a full guitar rig. And you could add a little bit of delay and then a bit of chorus and start to basically make a pedal board inside of Ableton Live. And what we'll touch on in the final module will be midi mappings. And basically over here, we can meet him up, anything that's blue to external midi devices. So we could create a pedal board that is controlled inside of Ableton Live if we really wanted to. 13. Planning your Ableton Live Set: Now we've learned all of the Ableton elements and a quick overview of how the interface works. We're now going to actually start to build our own Ableton Live performance from the ground up. So I booted up a brand new Ableton Live Set you just use by going to the little control bar thing up here, clicking File and then New Ableton Live set. Now by default in Ableton Live, when you open up a brand new set, you get to midi tracks and you get two audio tracks also along with the standard reverb and delay sending return tracks over here. Now, depending on what style of music you're doing, you're gonna obviously have your own requirements are what tracks do you require in Ableton Live? But just for example purposes, I'm going to create the desired about attracts for today's video. So what we're gonna do is we're going to plan our Ableton Live sets. So my audio interface is the complete audio six that we've selected in our preferences over here in the little audio tab, it's all selected. Now what we're gonna do is because I only have two audio inputs, that means I can only have two audio tracks. So we're going to rename this one guitar. And then we're going to call my second audio input vocals. I can plug a real guitar in, an, a real microphone in. We're going to click on these two things here and then click Shift to select both of them. And then we'll click and drag them, put them over the side here. Now obviously you're going to want some midi tracks in our Ableton Live Set. We're going to probably want a keyboard. So we'll have an instrument rack on here. And then we're probably gonna want some midi drums, so we'll call this one drums. Now if you really want to utilize able to the max, I'm assuming you're probably going to want to have a few audio attracts that you can launch clips from. So I'm going to create three individual audio tracks by clicking Command or Control T, just to insert the audio tracks. And we're going to move these over here. We're going to rename these by clicking command. We're going to call this sampled one. And then we'll call this one sample two. And then finally, sample three. Currently it's not the easiest to navigate when we look at are able to live, set everything to different color and it's all over the place. So what we're gonna do is we're gonna click and hold shift on the desired tracks that we want to select. Then we're going to right-click and we can change the chat color over here. For these audio samples will make them purple. And then for our guitar, will make the silver and our vocals will also make this one silver, so it matches the color of our audio interface. So it's all subliminal and easy to look up. And then the keyboard and drums, we'll just leave it that standard color. 14. Adding Instruments: Now that we've done a rough layout of what are able to live set is going to contain, we're now going to start introducing our instruments onto the correct track. So we're gonna go to our browser, head into the instruments category and light we talked about in previous episodes. This is where we have all of our different options. So we've got the instrument rack, the drum rack, all these cool things that we touched on at the start of the course. So we're going to obviously put an instrument rack on our keyboard. We're also going to obviously put a drum rack on our drums and then you can populate these, however, your heart desires with whatever instruments you want. We're then going to dive into our audio effects. And in the audio effects we have really cool amplifiers and stuff like that for guitar. So we can actually build an entire guitar rig inside of able to live. So we're definitely going to drag and drop an amp on here. We'll go for these nice little bluesy AMP, drag and drop that on there. So you're maybe also want to add a little bit of compression and then some form of EQ or grab a preset from the EQ for the guitar, electric guitar. Over here, drag and drop that. You might want to go one step further with your guitar inside of able to live. And we can do this by adding delays, chorus, all the sort of guitar effects you would normally have in a pedal board. We could put these inside of the signal chain in Ableton Live. So we're gonna drag and drop a delay and then a chorus effect for example. And as we talked about in previous episodes in Ableton elements in the top left corner, we can turn these on and off, pretty similar to how you return a guitar pedal off. When you click on it. You can map these on and off switches to external foot controllers. So you could basically have a virtual pedal board and you would do this by using the minimap menu over here. And then literally everything in blue, we can map to an external controller. We're going to talk about this a little bit later on in this module. 15. Scene Launch - Changing Track BPM: The next thing I want to talk about is how to utilize this scene launch functionality. Now, one of my biggest questions when I started to use able to live in a performance situation was, what am I going to do when I want to do multiple different tracks that are going to obviously be different BBN in tempo. So I thought what am I going to have to have multiple different files and then boot up those files throughout the set. How am I going to go about doing this? Well, a button has got a genius solution that I want to show you right now. Over to the right, we have our scene launch little clips here, so we click these and it'll launch all the clips him. And we can use these for doing light verse chorus sort of song structure. Now one thing that's super interesting is how I like to use this little menu here is I like to lay out my entire set list for my entire show. So for example, let's use my track Eloise available on Spotify if you want to check it out. But my check, Eloise is a 135 BPM. I'm going to type in Eloise and followed by the tempo in the scene launch. Now right now my Ableton Live project is set to a 128 BPM. Now when I launched this scene, it's going to change the global tempo to match this scene. Check this out. So right now, are able to live project is now a 135 bpm. What we're gonna do is we're going to now maybe do a verse because we might have a few clips and want to launch in this song, then chorus, etc. And now we want to map our next track. So my next check is we can go also available on Spotify if you want to check it out. My next drug is called weekend go and it's 128, Be PM. Now when I launched the scene, it's going to change the global tempo to 128 BPM. Now one thing I like to do that even more advanced to make it super easy for me to look at my set and nowhere on that, I like to color code the scene launches. So for example, I like to color code my tracks orange. I'm going to right-click and then click the color orange and same again for the next track. I'm going to make that orange. This makes it super easy for me adequate glands to know which scene launches are going to change the tempo of my Ableton Live project. So I can just straight away click on them. I don't need to really read anything. 16. Routing Audio Ins/Outs: Now we've begun planning our Ableton Live Set and we've inserted all of the audio tracks and midi tracks and instruments that we're going to want to use. It's now time to start routing the audio, so it goes to the correct place. Now inside of Ableton Live, we have these options down here called audio from an audio to now, obviously not all of the time are you going to want certain things to go to the front of house speakers? So for example, if you are running a click track, you're obviously not going to want that to go out of the master channel for the audience to here. So we are going to route different things to different destinations inside of these menus here. One of the most important things to keep an eye on is obviously your master. So we have a Q out and a master out. So a master out is obviously the one that the audience is gonna hear through the big PA speakers. And then the Q out is stuff that you can route to a separate location for only Uta here inside of your inner ear monitors, for example, if you're running headphones a little in-ear monitors in your ear, you can route the click track and stuff like that via the Q out in the audience is not going to hear it. We are going to change the Q out to output 34 because all my audio interface, this is the headphone OUT option. And then we're gonna leave the master out to 12 because obviously that's going to be our master left and right out on our audio interface now, from the individual tracks options, obviously we can select our audio from as the input. So obviously our guitar is gonna be on input number one on our audio interface in an hour, vocal microphone is going to be on input number two. So back to the audio routing options. Obviously we can route our audio input from this little drop-down here. So we can either run it in mono or we can have it in stereo where we're using two simultaneous inputs at the same time. So this will be input one and input two running on this track together. But we can also change the audio source. So by default it's set to external in. Now obviously external in is our external audio interface. Now we can actually change the source to be other tracks inside of Ableton Live. So for example, we could have the input is sample number one, which is now assembled track over here. And the audio from the sample track will be then inputted to this audio track over here. And we can also even play about with what audio is sent from that track. So we can have pre effects, post effects, and post mixer. So obviously pretty effects he's gonna have no effects on it's gonna be a 100% dry. And then the post effects stuff is going to have processing applied to it. Now just below our input options and source options is monitor. Now usually stuffs turned to monitor off and you're not gonna hear it. That's usually a safety thing inside of able to live, so stuff doesn't feed back. Now, I suggest maybe putting it to auto because it basically able to live is going to determine what the correct thing for this track is going to be, whether to have it as in or off. And then just below this option, we have audio too. This is going to allow us to route audio from out of Ableton Live two different locations through the outputs. So for example, by default everything is mapped to master. So it's gonna come out of the front of house and the audience is going to hear it. Now I know a lot of people that use Ableton Live in a worship scenario where they're playing and then things in church to backing tracks and stuff. They use these Q out things. So they have this little light robot voices like 1234, chorus, stuff like that. And obviously you don't want your audience to hear this. This is where we can route stuff to the queue out and we can also start reading stuff to even more outputs if you have a big audio interface. So you just click on this menu and obviously we can click External out. Then in external out we can route to different outputs. So obviously 12 is gonna be our master output. 34 is going to tie in with our Q out. And obviously he's going to be running in stereo because it's 34. But you can also run stuff in mono if you don't have that many outputs available on your audio interface and you're willing to sacrifice the stereo functionality. So we can just run it, for example, on output three. 17. Creating Clips in Ableton Live: I now want to show you a few ways we can go about creating samples inside of Ableton Live. So these samples are obviously going to be our own personalized Clips. Obviously, we've explored how we can import pre-recorded clips by able to. But now we're going to learn how we can actually make our own. So the first way we can do it is in a midi track. So here we have our midi keyboard. I'm going to right-click here and I can click insert midi clips. Now it's going to insert a blank midi clip. And inside of this clip, we can expand this little menu out here. So if we take a look at our midi note editor or the piano roll, depending on how you want to refer to it. Basically just this region over here. If you click B on our keyboard, you'll see our mouse cursor is now became a pencil. With this pencil, we can draw in midi notes, so we're just going to draw in a C code here. And then now we have created a midi clip and we can play this clip back. So we'll click B and we'll go back to it being just a standard mouse cursor. Now people play and you'll hear that our notes are playing back. Now you can adjust the length of the clip by using this little area over here and we can drag it out or we can drag it in. So it will be however long you want it to be shortened that there. That's a dead basic way to create a clip with midi notes, but we can do something pretty similar. But for audio clips, what we're gonna do is we're going to record our guitar track over here. And you'll notice these squares have now become circles. So if I deactivate the record on their back two squares, we can click record and we can play our audio instrument into our clip and then click playback, and then it's going to loop it. This is pretty cool if you want to do a little bit of live looping within your sets. So you're going to maybe trigger some drum beats and drum grooves, stuff like that. And then you could maybe record and loop live a little guitar riff or something like that. The chances are you're probably going to want to do something a little bit more advanced than these dead basic single layer clips, you probably going to want to basically import like a full sort of soundscape clip that's got multiple elements within that bounce down track. Now there's a variety of ways we can do this. One of the ways to do is natively inside of Ableton Live. If we click Tab head over to our Arrangement view, you could, for example, like we have here, basically record audio in your little midi tracks and things into Ableton Live and mix them and do all of this stuff you want to do. And then grab this loop stop punch in and out Tool and just basically bounce out this part of the track. You would just select it like this and then go out here. And then you would export it, etc. And then you would re-import it back into your able to inset as a bounce down file. That's one way you could do it, but I personally don't like doing it inside of the same Ableton Live set that I'm going to be performing with. Because the problem is when we now perform this set live to the general public or whatever. These samples that we've previously designed in a regular view are going to play in the background even if we're playing in Session View. So it means you would have to delete them like this and then save your set and perform with it that the problem is if you need to make any adjustments to any samples that you've done, if you've deleted them, so you have to go start them again. I prefer to make my samples in an external software. So this could be a brand new Ableton Live set for even a different program altogether. Now I personally make my samples inside of Logic Pro X. 18. Creating Clips in External Software: So here is an example of a sample that I've created inside of Logic Pro X. Now this is basically your arrangement view in able to live. So you can do all of this inside of able to lie. But I just want to show you an example of a real-life sample I've actually used. So you can see I have my little midi synth here, which is like some sort of quiet voices and I've EQ it so it sits correctly inside of the mixed, basically like you would if you were doing a professional song. Then have my little audio tracks that little samples that I've created over here. And again, we have EQ d, So they have their own place inside it. The mixed, they're not all sitting on top of each other and sound really, really messy. Again, this one's got its own EQ just so it sits there, nice and clean. Now, I highly suggest when you're making your samples, you do basically mix them like a proper track, like you would mix a master attract that you're going to release to the general public. This is basically a mini track that we're going to trigger inside of the software so we want it to sound as best as possible. So you can see here, for example, on this audio track, I've added a compressor and some other effects to make it sound awesome. Now the next thing to consider is when you are designing your samples is to make sure you do them to the correct tempo and grid. This makes it super easy for when we import them into Ableton Live. So let's say for example, if we expand a little tempo thing over here, this sample we're making here is a 135 BPM. And it's super easy in Ableton Live logic, whatever you're doing, you basically just automate the parameters. So we're making some samples here and we can go right, we actually want it to be 163 BPM. And now when we import this into able to live and our temporal enabled some lives, 163 bpm. It's going to just slot straight in and play in time with our project. It's not going to do loads a weird warping and stuff like that and play out a sink. Now on final thing that's super important before we export this sample is the automation. Now if we open up the automation here, if you've worked with any audio in the past slight recording is single or attract for an EP, you'll understand the importance of avoiding audio clicks now. Right now, if this track plays, it's going to have an audible audio click at the beginning of this check. Because our audio is just going to start abruptly with no fading. So it's going to kind of have a bit of EQ. And then the audio is going to start. And we don't want this to happen because obviously Our able to live show is going to be through a PA system. Probably it's gonna be super audible, any sort of clicks that we have in our sample. We want to prevent this as much as possible. So the way we are going to prevent this from happening is we're going to add in a little fade in. So now if we zoom right in to our little fading we've now implemented, you can see when the audio actually starts, it's at level 0 and then it fades in. So there's not gonna be any abrupt clicks that are going to happen when we bounce this out. And you want to do the same for every single channel in your sample, along with also the outro tail off as well. So it just subtly fades out as opposed to just abruptly stopping. Once you're happy with everything, how it sounds, you've mixed it, you've put your automation in there now ready to pretty much export the sample. And the way we'll do this is you will just use the loopback tool. It's literally select it like this. This is available in Ableton as well. And then you just bounce it out file and then bounce project or section. Exact same thing in Ableton Live. 19. Importing Clips: Now I've shown you how you can create a sample and we've exported them. We now want to import them back into Ableton Live. So I've got a little folder here where I've exported samples to call live rig samples. I'm going to open this up and we're going to look for some sample. So you can see I have literally every single web in my history of creating tracks inside of Ableton Live, literally inside of this folder. But the one I want to be surfaced, the one we were just playing about with inside of Ableton Live and that's what I decided to call ship on heavy sea sample. You literally just drag and drop it into Ableton Live and it will in ported. So now we've imported a few samples into Ableton Live. We're gonna take a look inside of the clip view and we're going to explore a few of the settings. So you just double-click on the clip you want to edit. And it's going to open up a little bit of a menu like this and we can expand it out just by clicking and dragging up. We've got the waveform over here. What normally happens by default when we import sample into able to live is it turns on this effect called Warp. Warp does is it basically makes the AudioClip quantize to the grid enable to live. So it's going to play in time with the tempo of our project. Now, most of the time we're probably not going to want this to actually happen. And what I've noticed is, yes, you do get good results with it from time to time. But there aren't noticeable artifacts in robotic clicks, in glitches coming from the sampling. Does it sound natural? So I prefer to turn it off. Now we can turn it off over here just by clicking the warp button and we'll deactivate it. Now you'll notice the timeline is disappeared from here, nurse, because the audio clip is no longer quantize to the grid. Now when I turn it back on, you'll see how it locks in with the Ableton grid. Now if you don't want to do this every single time turning warp on and off. Every time you import your samples, you can change this setting in your preferences. So we are now in the Preferences and we're gonna go down to the record warp launch tab at the bottom here. And here we have auto warp long samples. You can turn this from on to off. Now personally, I just leave it on because it's default and I'm happy with that. So let's close out of here and continue with our clip view settings. Also inside of QlikView, we have a volume adjustments so we can change the clip gain so we can make it louder or we can make it quiet. And you can see how this is having an effect on the audio form to the right-hand side of this screen, we can also transpose it. So for example, you can change the key of it by changing the semitone, lower it by an octave, a bit by an octave, whatever you want to do to make it match Aquino, I actually quite like using the transposition thing, especially if you're maybe doing a little bit of songwriting inside of Ableton Live, and you've recorded some corporate aggression and things that at all, maybe it might sound better, this chord being b instead of an a. So you just literally transpose it up a few semitones and then you're like, oh yeah, that does work. And then you can actually record in the proper audio once you've mapped out your ideas. Definite pro, there. 20. Clip View - Launch Modes: So the next thing I want to talk about its launch mode inside of view now there are four different launch modes that we can toggle around with in Ableton Live now the first one is called trigger. Now trigger is the default one. It's basically just where you click play on the sample and it's going to play for the duration of that sample, and then it just going to basically stop. Now the next one is called gates. Now gate is literally where you just click and hold the clip and it will play for as long as you haven't helped downfall. And then when you release it, it's going to stop playing. The third one is toggle. Now toggles basically like an on-off switch so we can click Play and then we can click Play again and it's gonna stop it. I quite like this one because if you're maybe triggering something on a foot controller, like I do on my life set. And you may be accidentally click the wrong one because the buttons are so close together, you can quickly toggle and stop the other one from playing. Whereas if you have it in normal trigger mode, it's going to play for the duration. You can't stop it. So it's a good safety net for sure. 21. Clip View - Clip Quantization and Follow Actions: So now we've taken a look at launch modes. I want to take a look at the quantization menu. So if you remember back to our specific tutorial on the global quantization options in the control bar over here, basically we have all of these settings, but for specific clips. So we can basically change how those clips respond to how we press them. So you can have it set to non. So literally, if you're playing to a click track and you just launch a clip, It's not going to quantize at all. So it's probably most likely going to be out of time and then become out of phase and not in time with the click track in your ears. So a nice place to start is just one bar. So that means when we have the click track playing along, we can then click on our sample and then it's going to wait for the start of the next bar before the assemblies triggered and likewise, stopping it. It's going to wait until that bond is finished. We can then change this out to half a bar 16th notes. It's literally like instantaneous to only clicking steel in time and all those different types of options. You can also just set it to global so it matches whatever you've set in the global containerization menu. Now just below the quantization menu is these things called follow actions. They'll follow actions basically allow you to trigger one clip and then it's going to set off a series of commands, initiate all the other clips in that chain that you've set up inside the following action dropdown menu. We have all of these commands. We're just going to set it to play the next clip down, so it will play this piano sound here. Now just above here we have the following action time so we can set how long the able to live. We'll play one clip before it triggers the next clip. So right now it's just set to sort of one beat. So basically, if we warp the clip, you can see when now got a grid here. So it's going to just play up until number two and then it's gonna launch. The next one is to check this out. Now most likely you're probably going to want that to be a little bit longer. So let's set it to four. It's now going to play up until beat number five. So it's going to play for four bars and then it's going to trigger our next sample. You can see how these basic introduction to the following commands can be quite powerful for making your life set quite economical. So you only have to click one button instead of multiple buttons in a series is click want, it triggers something for wherever you want it to do in the software. 22. MIDI Mappings: One of the final things I want to show you in these able to live basic course is the midi mapping functionality. So I've taught you how you can create a sample and how we can import those into an Ableton Live Set and all the various able to elements in interface basics that are essential in order to understand how to create an Ableton Live performance. Now there's one final thing that we need to know about in order to perform our show super easily, and that is midi mapping. So in the top right corner we have these little mini button. And if we click on this, it will open up these little blue boxes. And in these blue boxes with the likes of a midi keyboard or anything that's like USB. It can send the data to the computer. We can map commands on these keys to control certain things in these blue boxes. So you can see we have all of these blue boxes now with these blue boxes, with any USB midi device like a launch pad or a keyboard, or a foot controller, we can now minimap has specific button to control a specific blue box. So for example, I want to set a command that will launch this clip over here. So all you have to do is you literally just click on the box. You want some map, and then you click a key on your keyboard or your midi device. You can map, teach me everything you can see in blue, you can map it to a button in order to control it. So we've mapped this sample to be triggered by the keyboard. And let me show you this in action. Now we're going to click our D key and it's going to trigger our sample. And it's obviously going to trigger our follow-up commands that we learned about in the previous lesson. Now this is a super powerful but yet super simple tool in order to customize your life performance to basically work however you like when you're using normal analog instruments or whatever that are made by a manufacturer, you don't often have these amount of customization the Ableton is providing. You can literally map whatever button you want in the software to whatever button you have available on an external controller. When it comes to midi mapping, you have to bear in mind you can't always duplicate a certain button to a certain mapping. For example, we've mapped this D key to launch this sample at the top over here. Now, let's say you have a midi foot controller as well, and you want to map a secondary button to launch the same clip. So you have the option to either launch it with your keyboard or once you with your foot. This is where you're going to get an issue. So let's try and map another key to this same strip, and it's just going to overwrite it. So you see now is just mapped it to the G key instead of the D key. Now it's likewise the same situation. If you want to map the D key to do something else on this track, let's say we wanted it to do a track launch and then we're going to map it is going to overwrite our previous mapping, which you might not necessarily want it to do. 23. Recording your Performance: In this final module, I want to show you how you can record and capture your live performance. So we've now went through all of the basic elements that you need an understanding of in order to begin constructing your own Ableton Live Set. And hopefully along the way you have got your set and you began to build it up. And now when you finally take it out and you finished it, you probably going to want to record the audio so you can sync it up with some cameras and share that awesome footage online. When we jump into Ableton Live, we are now going to utilize both Session View and Arrangement View with what we're going to do. So we'll make sure we have our attracts record armed down below here. Now, as we performing Ableton Live, we can record that exact same performance into our Arrangement view without it really affecting how we are performing, we won't probably even notice that this is happening. So what we're gonna do is we're going to click record on Ableton Live and he's going to begin recording. We can even put our click track on and we can play away. And now as we begin to trigger samples inside of Ableton Live and we're playing our song and all them sort of things and we're launching scenes. This is recording in the background in arrangement view. Then once we have finished the performance, we can stop it and we can click these little playback arrangement options. So we are basically activate in any of the clips we've triggered in the Arrangement View. And now we can export this and then mix it and master it or whatever in a separate software and then piece it together in our video operator. 24. Exporting your Performance: This is my finished Ableton Live set over here and it's pretty jam-packed and it's pretty full. But I've used pretty much every single element I've showed you in this basic course. In order to achieve results like this. This just shows you the power of what you can do with Ableton Live. So I have my full track list to the right-hand side over here. And I can switch between the scenes depending on what song Amman. And then when I switch to the scenes in my little samples pack, It's going to select the according samples for me to then trigger with my midi controller and all that sort of stuff. And then have all my audio tracks over here. And then I have my drums on a little midi track here. If I click Tab and switch to Arrangement View, you will see I have a whole two-hour performance captured into my computer. And this was just recording away in the background like you just saw me do earlier with our example set. Now we've recorded our performance into Ableton Live Weekend export this out in various different ways. So if we head over to the top here, we click File and then Export Audio slash video. We have our export menu over here. Now, the way we want to render the checks we can choose in this little menu here. The default option is master. Now Master basically is the master track inside of Ableton Live. So it's going to export a stereo output of exactly what we're hearing inside of Ableton Live. And you might want this if you just want a rough mix of how it sounded when you did it live. But if you want to take it to the next level and do some extra post-production to the track. We can do all individual tracks is an option. So what all individual tracks is going to do is it's going to export every single track in its own audio stem. And then we can import these into a brand new able to live set and we can start to mix and master it. If you're gonna go down this route and really want to get creative with it in post-production and do a proper good job of it. You're gonna want to make sure you turn normalize on. Now normalize is going to maximize the volume of the output of that track. So it's gonna make sure all of the tracks stems that have been mastered out is going to be at as loud as possible and they're all going to be set to the same level. Then this means we can then export these, drag and drop them into a brand new Ableton Live project into Arrangement View. They'll all be as loud as possible. And then we can start a mix from basically ground 0, which I highly suggested what you do every time I record a song in a minute performance in Ableton Live, this is exactly the process I do. I explore out the stems, normalize them and then I re-mix it because you can always do a better job mixing it in, post them what you did when you did it live, 100% guarantee it. So that's what we're going to do. You can then choose your sample rate, but the default ones usually more than adequate and then your file type, bit depth. We touched on this previously when we were creating samples. And then finally, you can export the project. 25. Thanks for Watching!: I do hope that you enjoyed this class on Ableton teaching you how to use it for your live shows. I do have another Ableton course available here on Skillshare that takes you through the latest version of Ableton Live 11. So if you want more videos just like this, I recommend watching that class next. But as always, I've been been Rowling's. Thank you so much for watching. Make sure you're following me here on Skillshare for more courses every single week. And I will see you in the next one.