J. Anthony AllenComposer, Producer, Music Educator, Entrepreneur

Velocity Shaper: Free Ableton Live 12 Music Production Class! Delivered Daily

Name: Velocity Shaper: Free Ableton Live 12 Music Production Class! Delivered Daily
Uploaded: 2024-10-29T22:45:21+00:00
Duration: 1 min 46 s
Channel: J. Anthony Allen
Description: In this tutorial, J. Anthony Allen demonstrates Ableton Live 12's Velocity Shaper, a Max for Live device that provides detailed control over MIDI note…

29 Oct 2024 · 2 min

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In this tutorial, J. Anthony Allen demonstrates Ableton Live 12's Velocity Shaper, a Max for Live device that provides detailed control over MIDI note velocities. He opens the device, shows the visual velocity curve, explains how to add points by clicking, adjust the curve, and set looping to repeat patterns multiple times. By tweaking the loop count and curve shape, users can sculpt velocity dynamics precisely, offering more expressive control than standard velocity settings. Allen emphasizes the tool's usefulness and enjoyment, then briefly transitions to discussing Live 12's MIDI generators for further sound design possibilities.

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Okay. The last one in this whole big section of transformations kind of is under its own little heading, because it's actually a Max for Live device. But it all works the same. You don't need to worry about the Max for Live stuff at all. It's just here. So this is a velocity shaper. So let me open our velocity a little bit more so we can see what's happening here. And it's pretty obvious, right? You can see this. This arc and what the velocity is doing. Right. We can move it around and just kind of see what it's doing. So, you know, we can really kind of craft our velocity to do what we want here. We can make more points on this line by just clicking on it. You know, it's a velocity shaper. It is exactly what it sounds like, but it's giving us a lot more control over our velocity than we've ever had, which is quite enjoyable. I like it. You can set a loop here so that it's going to go through this a few times. In this case, six times. So it's kind of hard to see what it's doing. But if I send it down to two, maybe we can tell. Let's go like this. Okay. So we can see the arch. It's going down so there. And then it starts over again here. So it's going through this pattern twice in this case. So pretty cool. Way to really sculpt your velocities. A handy tool. All right, let's move on and talk about some of the midi generators in live 12.