1. Ableton Live 10.1

Ableton Live 10.0.6 Suite is software for creating musical ideas, turning them into finished songs, and even taking them onto the stage. With two views – the classic Arrangement View, where musical ideas are laid out along a timeline, and the unique Session View, where you can improvise and quickly experiment with musical ideas –.

I recently posted about some of the What good does it do to have a bunch of great samples though without being able to make them into your own song? Today, I’ll be talking about my favorite method of sampling in Ableton Live 9. By no means is this the only way, but I think it’s one of the most efficient and easiest to understand.Step 1: Import your sample into AbletonFor this track, I chose to use a sample from The Vinyl Frontier, from his.I think it’s easiest to just drag an mp3 into an audio track and go from there.

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As you can see, I usually start out in the clip view of Ableton. Until I’ve chopped up my sample and decided laid down my first loop or two, this is usually where I’ll stay.Step 2: WarpingNow comes the part where we take advantage of some of Ableton’s features that make it perfect for sampling. After listening to the track, I found the section that I wanted to sample and selected it. Then, I placed one of Ableton’s warp markers (just click twice where I’ve labelled in the image) wherever I wanted the start and end of a sample to be.Step 3: Slice to MIDIAfter selecting what parts of the track I wanted to sample, I used one of Ableton’s best features for those who make sample based music – Slice to Midi.

You can access this option by right clicking on audio in the sample display/clip editor. There are several different options to create slices. I chose “warp markers” since this option lets you pick right where your samples start and end. However, you can also choose to slice at transient points (basically where Ableton detects a change in the song) or just at a regular interval.As you can see, I now have another track in my project, with each of the bars lengths in the bottom box representing the lengths of the individual samples.

You can play through these samples using either your keyboard and musical typing, or with a MIDI keyboard.Step 4: Recording your samplesNow that you have a MIDI track of your samples, this track will behave just like any other MIDI track in Ableton. You can add effects, change the volume of individual samples, and record what you play. After messing around with different arrangements, I came up with a loop I liked and recorded it, seen below as part of the mostly finished track.Here is the recording of my first loop:After recording this track, I decided I liked how another section of the song sampled on top of my original track sounded. I duplicated my original MIDI track and then recorded a new loop. Below are how the two tracks together in the session view.Here are how they sound together:Step 5: Drums + BassNo hip hop track would be complete without percussion of some kind, and my usual process is to start with samples, then move to drums.

After coming up with a loop I liked, I decided to lay down a basic drum track to start with. To do this, I first added a drum rack from the instrument tab in the content/browser pane.Drum racks let you add in multiple drum samples, and play through them with a MIDI keypad or just your keyboard. This is way easier than adding in each audio file of a drum sample, since you can tap out a rhythm with all the drum hits.

I made two different drum racks: The first, above, is for my kicks. The second, below, has differently tuned kicks and a snare I liked. I found my drum samples online, and will add an article about some good sources for drum samples soon.Here are both my drum tracks together, after recording a rhythm I liked.Adding drums already makes your track quite a bit more interesting.

But kicks and snares aren’t always enough to make a sub thump, so I added in a sub bass track as well.A bass track is going to be pretty loud and take up a lot of your frequency by default. To help with this, and to keep the bass from drowning out the other drums, I added a compressor from the effects tab in the browser pane.

I used sidechain compression on my bass track, so that whenever there is a hit on the kick drum, the volume of the bass is reduced, keeping the mix from getting too muddy. You can also see that I added a chorus effect, because I liked how it made the bass sound.Here is my main loop of the song, with the bass, drums, and two sample tracks:Step 6: Make it more interestingIf this sounds like pretty broad advice, that’s because it is. Sure, you’ve got a pretty dope loop going on, but who just wants to listen to the same loop without any change. From here on out, the advice for spicing up your track varies quite a bit. However, I’ll talk about a few things I did with this track in particular to make it better.Adding in extra drum sounds and taking out existing ones can go a long way. Few listeners want to hear the exact same drum loops for an entire song, and switching it up can go a long way towards making a song more lively. You can see I added in some different kicks and cymbal hits.

Honestly, listening to the 80% finished track below, I already thought of some more changes I want to make.Adding some sound effects or transition effects can also go a long way in making a track sound more professional. Listening to the final version of this track, you can hear some sounds duck in and out throughout the track. Most the tracks have some reverb, some echo, and some panning effects applied. Phasers and chorus effects can sound cool and add depth as well.Another thing I did on this track was cut up some other parts of the original sample, and put them on top of it.

Ableton Live 10.1

This added some nice mid range sounds that “evened out” the sound of the track.Below is my mostly final arrangement with some labels so it’s more clear what has been added in. I’ve also included an mp3 of the track, and although in my opinion there’s still some work to be done before I’d call it finished, it gives a good idea of some different directions to go with your own track.This entry was posted in, on. Post navigation.