J. Anthony AllenComposer, Producer, Music Educator, Entrepreneur

Free Ableton Live 12 Music Production Class! Delivered Daily.

Name: Free Ableton Live 12 Music Production Class! Delivered Daily.
Uploaded: 2024-12-10T18:07:45+00:00
Duration: 2 min 22 s
Channel: J. Anthony Allen
Description: In this segment of J. Anthony Allen's Ableton Live 12 tutorial, he demonstrates how to apply instrument presets to MIDI tracks, highlighting that presets…

10 Dec 2024 · 2 min

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In this segment of J. Anthony Allen's Ableton Live 12 tutorial, he demonstrates how to apply instrument presets to MIDI tracks, highlighting that presets cannot be dropped onto audio tracks. He shows how to audition presets, swap them on existing MIDI clips, and illustrates the flexibility of MIDI drum clips by replacing a drum kit with a synth preset (hickory bells). The walkthrough emphasizes that MIDI notes are independent of the sound source, allowing any instrument or synth to be assigned to a drum MIDI clip, and references specific presets like Drift Club Bass and Hickory Bells.

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Okay, so if I want to use a preset, I can just drag that right onto a MIDI track. Oops, that. See, what happened here is I tried to drag it onto an audio track, and it's saying, no, I don't know what to do with that. This is a MIDI track. Okay, so now here's that same MIDI note through the drift club bass. Now it sounds like this. Okay. Wild. We can also, of course, audition these presets by turning this back on. Okay, that's kind of cool. Let's use that for my MIDI note here. Cool. And maybe you just had the thought, well, here's a drum kit, and the drum kit is just MIDI notes. Right. Like, it's still got a drum set on it as an instrument. But could I just put a synthesizer on it and have it play these as MIDI notes? You sure could. Let's use hickory bells. Okay, now here's our drums being played with hickory bells. Maybe if we zoom in and look at that again, it'll help understand what's happening. Right. It's just MIDI notes. So with this drum clip, we can put whatever sound we want on it. A drum set is going to sound the most interesting on it, but you can put any synth you want on it. Okay. So all of these presets are the same ones that we found in this set. Sounds or synth preset knob, just organized differently. Cool. All right, let's move on.