This is absolutely amazing. I’ve been debating learning Kontakt and/or C++ to build my own plugins, but I might just get Ableton as you can basically build entire instruments and soundscapes as you demonstrated!
This is incredible, excellent tutorial explanation. The lack of clear time signature with the long etherial instrumentations reminds me of Brian Eno's ambient sound music which I love. So to be able to accomplish this through complex automation and generative music is quite impressive!
I don't know how I have missed your channel for so long. I love setting up systems like this in Live (and AUM and in a limited way in FL Studio) and I think the way you describe your patches here is fantastic. I'm seeking out all of your social media that I am active in as well. Really nice! Subscribed!
Flume has a bit where he talks about doing this on his remix of “some minds.” Thx for the tutorial btw I’ve been wanting to try this out for a minute now
Rico thank you for this very generous and complete diagram. As a fellow practitioner of this type I realize it is a snapshot and I am sure you have even made many more refinements in the months since!! You are clearly a very creative and accomplished technician, artisan and artist. And your musical taste in this piece is very successful to its purpose. What a pleasure to locate your RUclips channel!
Fantastic tutorial and thank you Rico :) It inspired me to start a blank project in Ableton and follow along with your video. Your 20 minute video turned into a 2 and a half hour long play/pause, alt+tab building session in which I believe I recreated your effects chain. I do not have the MFL device Random Chord Generator Pro so I went without it (working on a way to simulate the same effect in Live). I also did not have the Scale "C Minor" and I went with "Minor" but did tune it to D. I used my own chord progressions and it sounds lush and delicious, yummy even. My question, or request for a future video would be a walkthru of the sends you used in the video. Have a great day and keep making wonderful music and the occasional tutorial, but don't stop making music :D.
Question, if you had an orchestral VST, could you use a similar approach in this video to make different ostinati for different instrument groups? For example, do a 16th note ostinano in the violins and an triplet pattern in the flutes? This way you could more quickly prototype different orchestral textures before even beginning to write out complex orchestral pieces.
hi AAron, yes you can do this, but to write the MIDI in triplet it's something that you have to do, perhaps with Max for Live there are midi devices that let you even write MIDI randomly with your custom desire. i'd suggest you go to maxforlive.com/ to discover new MIDI devices
It get even more interesting if you throw some midi controllers in to adjust some of the parameters: you can, kind of, emulate eurorack (which is the ideal source for generative music, but also called "eurocrack" as it's very, very expensive).
is there a software where I can play simple melodies and music can be generated from it and tweaked? Say I wanted it make meditation videos but not get slapped with reuse cuz its stock music I bought, thanks
The notes in each channel/instrument are randomised, but the different instruments are not randomly interacting with each other. They are playing in a loop manner all at the same time. I think that is the missing element that will create true self-generative music. Is it possible to achieve that without advanced algorithm programming?
Exactly it’s just each channel has a randomiser note generator and also randomising intensity and tone. Maybe I’ll do another tutorial for channel interaction
@@mdmamusicproduction I fixed it now. It turned out the app was not very happy that I changed the default folders so I had to reinstall everything and not change any folder
Atmospheric music is the easiest music to make and doesn't need to be done by AI because I feel its aways missing something. Sounds nice like atmospheric background sound for a TV show but it's not memorable.
The Ableton Project featured in this video is now available to download on my Patreon:
patreon.com/ricocasazza
Such an excellent tutorial Rico !
Simply captivating atmospheric space
Excelent demonstration of how to make this kind of music with Ableton Live. Congratulations!
This is absolutely amazing. I’ve been debating learning Kontakt and/or C++ to build my own plugins, but I might just get Ableton as you can basically build entire instruments and soundscapes as you demonstrated!
you can also use max to design your own pluggo's as well
If your into coding check out Pure Data. Build your own everything
good luck. hit me up if need help
Love the tutorial! Thanks for sharing!
Wow! Can you post the entire project? I have those Spitfire Plugz :)
might do at some point
This is incredible, excellent tutorial explanation. The lack of clear time signature with the long etherial instrumentations reminds me of Brian Eno's ambient sound music which I love. So to be able to accomplish this through complex automation and generative music is quite impressive!
thanks zach. check the generative ambient music tutorial that goes along this one
I love it. I haven't touched Ableton in years. Maybe I should give it another try.
I don't know how I have missed your channel for so long. I love setting up systems like this in Live (and AUM and in a limited way in FL Studio) and I think the way you describe your patches here is fantastic. I'm seeking out all of your social media that I am active in as well. Really nice! Subscribed!
thanks 😊
This is great! Quite a know how! I have learned a lot! Thank you for sharing!
my pleasure. hope it contributes
Flume has a bit where he talks about doing this on his remix of “some minds.” Thx for the tutorial btw I’ve been wanting to try this out for a minute now
Rico thank you for this very generous and complete diagram. As a fellow practitioner of this type I realize it is a snapshot and I am sure you have even made many more refinements in the months since!! You are clearly a very creative and accomplished technician, artisan and artist. And your musical taste in this piece is very successful to its purpose. What a pleasure to locate your RUclips channel!
ehy kevin your words means a lot to me thanks buddy. if you’re interested i’ve done another video similar to this.
Fantastic tutorial and thank you Rico :)
It inspired me to start a blank project in Ableton and follow along with your video. Your 20 minute video turned into a 2 and a half hour long play/pause, alt+tab building session in which I believe I recreated your effects chain. I do not have the MFL device Random Chord Generator Pro so I went without it (working on a way to simulate the same effect in Live).
I also did not have the Scale "C Minor" and I went with "Minor" but did tune it to D.
I used my own chord progressions and it sounds lush and delicious, yummy even.
My question, or request for a future video would be a walkthru of the sends you used in the video.
Have a great day and keep making wonderful music and the occasional tutorial, but don't stop making music :D.
i’m glad it helped you 🥹
very good tutorial!
Question, if you had an orchestral VST, could you use a similar approach in this video to make different ostinati for different instrument groups? For example, do a 16th note ostinano in the violins and an triplet pattern in the flutes? This way you could more quickly prototype different orchestral textures before even beginning to write out complex orchestral pieces.
hi AAron, yes you can do this, but to write the MIDI in triplet it's something that you have to do, perhaps with Max for Live there are midi devices that let you even write MIDI randomly with your custom desire. i'd suggest you go to maxforlive.com/ to discover new MIDI devices
the best video on the topic
thank you my friend
It get even more interesting if you throw some midi controllers in to adjust some of the parameters: you can, kind of, emulate eurorack (which is the ideal source for generative music, but also called "eurocrack" as it's very, very expensive).
thanks for the tip
Thanks man, great work
Nice tutorial thanks
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Thanks! Very inspiring.
hope so!
Another great tutorial! Thanks! Your are a big inspiration mate! 💙💙💪
Hermano mio
very useful thanks!
pleasure
is there a software where I can play simple melodies and music can be generated from it and tweaked? Say I wanted it make meditation videos but not get slapped with reuse cuz its stock music I bought, thanks
not sure about it, but there are several ambient music facebook groups where you might find the answer
The notes in each channel/instrument are randomised, but the different instruments are not randomly interacting with each other. They are playing in a loop manner all at the same time. I think that is the missing element that will create true self-generative music. Is it possible to achieve that without advanced algorithm programming?
Exactly it’s just each channel has a randomiser note generator and also randomising intensity and tone. Maybe I’ll do another tutorial for channel interaction
great tutorial rico!
thanks my beige
Incredible, are you able to do an example of one of these that's generating house / techno ?
You can apply this technique to any style of music
Maybe one day 😎
hermano mis respetos, eso suena muy bien !!
great tutorial
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Goood idea, great, thanks
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Hi Rico Can you tell me please where can I get the Random chords generator?
you can find it easily if you just google it
Very nice, thank you very much.
Sadly, the plugin sometimes has issues when loading presets and I have to reset everything.
which plugin
@@mdmamusicproduction ah sorry, I meant the Spitfire Audio
@@SebaDiGiuseppe you might need to enable rosetta on the spitfire audio. check ok google about it
@@mdmamusicproduction I fixed it now. It turned out the app was not very happy that I changed the default folders so I had to reinstall everything and not change any folder
@@mdmamusicproduction btw, I also just made music with it. In just an hour or so. Something simple for my guided meditations. Thank you very much ❤️
great
thanks
Great rico 👽😎
😂
💣💣
do you sell the template?
There’s nothing to sell, you can get all those instrument for free and copy what I did and then applying your twist
Wov
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self generative is like sayin "wet rain" Lol
Sith instrument sounds really dark.
congrats! Great crap!
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Atmospheric music is the easiest music to make and doesn't need to be done by AI because I feel its aways missing something. Sounds nice like atmospheric background sound for a TV show but it's not memorable.
not trying to make memorable things in this channel , this is just an experiment to show ableton and max for live devices
ok this title is really not the way to do it :/
ha