J. Anthony Allen teaches every audio and MIDI effect in Ableton Live 10, covering parameters and how to combine them in a mix. A live demo shows using a low-pass filter, EQ, and phaser to shape frequencies. The course is part of Slam Academy, a community focused on original sound design over presets.
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We've made for you here the most comprehensive Ableton Live program we could imagine. It's designed to take you from novice to pro. It'll have project files, instrument downloads, special guests, and a lot more. I've divided this class into six different sections so that you can focus on what you want to learn right away. However, to really take full advantage of the program, start at the beginning and go to the end, or at least make sure you take all the sections at some point. This is Class 5, Audio and MIDI effects. In this class, we're going to go through every effect in that long list of effects that comes with Ableton Live. I'll go through every effect and talk about the parameters of each, how to use them, some style things to consider, and even some genre things to consider. We'll also look at those MIDI effects and show how using some of those can really improve your composition. And last but not least, we'll talk about how to work with effects in your track and what kinds of effects to put with what, and just some general ideas about that. Right so we can decide what frequencies are going to get delayed right? We could say all of them just by smashing this up if we wanted or we could say just the high stuff, just the low stuff, just the middle stuff this can be like a total sound design kind of plugin or you know it could be a normal delay type plugin if you wanted it to be But I just want to shot this one which is a low pass filter right so everything under this is going to pass through it lows can pass through it and high stuff is going to be cut off this is going to be a sharper low pass filter so here's what I like to do with this kind of effect I'm going to tighten the width a little bit okay Now I can really see what's happening so if I'm going to use an eq, a phaser and anything I can really see how it's going to be affecting this sound. Sam.
