Ultimate Ableton Live 11, Part 4: Synthesis and Sound Design

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Hey everyone.

Welcome to Ableton Live 11. In this class, we're going to cover all aspects of Ableton Live, from just learning the program to recording, to producing, to DJing, mixing, mastering. Everything is going to be included in this huge, huge multi part class. So if you're brand new to the program, this is the best place to start. If you're already familiar with another audio program, all of these classes will get you up to speed on using LIVE to do professional music production in no time. All right, part four. In Part four, we're going to focus on synths, samplers and sound design. We're going to look at all of the instruments that come with live, every single one of them, and all the samplers that come with live. I'll tell you how to design your own sounds using those synthesizers and those samplers. We'll look at some of the built in presets that comes with Live, and then we'll build some of our own from scratch. So get ready to make some noise because this is where we really start making our own sounds and creating our own voice.

Okay, so I just loaded sounds onto this. So now I have a classic 808 drum machine. Cool. For each sound, I can control all these parameters, right? Start position, stop, stretch. You rapidly switch those waveforms. Okay, so the list of waveforms is called the wave table, right. Like it's a table of waves and we can scrub through them really fast if we want to. We can also just use it as a single waveform. So that's what wavetable synthesis is. Now doing that like kind of scrubbing through them gives you the ability to make really complex sounds. Tracks give me something short and a little bit buzzy. So I'm going to go to FM to get that kind of buzzy sound. So I'm going to be sure this is set up in fm. Now I'm going to go to my first oscillator and change that waveform envelope.