I followed along in Drift and the first few minutes I was like I'm probably not really going to use but by the end (and multiple hours later) I have like 3 song ideas and 9 presets. Love it!
Thank you for what you do! The amount of time, research, experimentation, and thoughtful post-production that you put into each of your videos is absolutely seen and appreciated. You’re a true educator who allows curiosity to lead your exploration and discovery. Incredibly generous knowledge sharing. Plus rad sonics! 🎹
Oh yeah, instant subscribe. I was onboard with using this synth as soon as you started explaining how it models the OG analog synths. Then the way you dig into all the specifics so that it's easy to follow along is just fantastic. Love it.
Idk. It sounds like a stock Logic synth from 5 years ago. I guess it’s nice to have that for Ableton to, but don’t most people just use their go-to third party synths anyway? I think they would be better off trying to compete with Logic by imitating the spatial audio/Dolby Atmos stuff Apple is doing? That’s what it would take to get me to switch back, I think. It seems like that kind of sound innovation that Apple is invested in is the future. But maybe AI changes the game anyway?
@@79Glitch I don’t think so ! I associate it a lot with the new PolyMax by Universal Audio ! .. But even better! Sounds are great and UI is extremely simple/user friendly
@@guidosc3470 Okay. Well, it’s not always accurate to base an opinion on RUclips. It’s certainly not too impressive in this format. That funny thing is, pretty much everything in every DAW sounds good enough today to make good music with, so it’s just another tool to use.
Amazing! This is a great surprise...and will teach me to read the release notes with every update. 🙂 Excited to start using Drift right away. Thanks for all your hard work getting this out there!
Excellent thorough but to the point demo... Thank you! Fantastic sounding synth, nothing out of the ordinary in terms of features but the fact it sounds so good and it's in such a simple fun interface that is hard to mess up is a very smart and refreshing choice. Excited to explore Drift.
Nice of Ableton to make it available to a Live Lite nobody like me. I'm not a designer but I do like to tweak so I'm looking forward to seeing what presets other people come up with!
Man, this sounds amazing.... and love the relative simplicity of use! Really reminds me of my Microfreak, but I'm sure in certain situations it will be awesome to have something similar with the greater degree of control of a virtual synth. It seems absolutely perfect for Melodic Techno, will try it out tomorrow!
amazing how simple it looks, yet how deep it is. thanks for this tutorial. can't wait for this version to come out. ableton is awesome. 🙂 i'm going to learn this one deep, with great results.
It does have a lot of character to its sound. However, I wouldn't play it in place of my 2 or 3 vst mains. But will check it out to make sure I'm not missing anything.
I recently signed up for your course - all four and I was looking at the Sound Design curriculum and noticed that Drift is not in there. I was really excited about that when you said you were adding it in this video to the course. What's going on with that?
It sound lovely, but does it consume unreasonably high amount of CPU for you guys (compared to other Live synths)? For me, almost every patch is like ~25%, whereas Analog,, Operator or Wavetable usually stay below 5%< occasionally making it up to 10%
Couldnt you do all with analog operator and wavetable,too? I dont get why so many synth? Can you show me what you can do with one you cant with another?
This is neat! I hope at some point they'll invest more time and resources in making Live even more accessible towards pure editing/sound design, and by that, I mean more QoL tools/scripts that allow to save time while exporting multiple files at once, batch renaming, removing silence between many clips at once, better midi expression editing, more advanced search engine that include filters and metadata, things like that. I know it is much to ask for, but on the other hand I'd rather avoid having to invest time learning another DAW...just to save probably less time with my workflow.
just something i made for the video. Maybe ill make it into a tune someday. I have so much EarthCry music I need to release! Trying to find the time as a new dad for it all :)
Thanks for this. It's going to be forever before I can DL and install 11.3 (I'm DL'ing Toontracks "Area 33" as well, ah......it's just too much to upgrade to fiber). But it gives me more money to buy things I'll really use! As far as "two oscillator synth" is concerned, who cares. Does it sound good? Sounds like it from your informative vid ;)
This is probably a weird comment to write as a random video, but this is the first video of yours I have seen in a while, and the quality seems to be on a whole new level. The mic, your tone and overall presenting style are just great.
It feels like the developers' modus operandi with this one was 'MUSICALITY', I am incredibly impressed with how musical this is. Can't wait for it to come out of beta!
Drift has so much depth and personality for how simple it is, and it's so refreshing to see a synth with opinionated / tasteful tweaks and stacking. It's so much better IMO than a typical synth that needs a ton of tweaking and automating to get it to sound ok. Thanks for sharing!
That's the same reason I like digitone. Since it's an FM synth it can go into some pretty crazy directions, but these small decisions they make like having the detune not affect the harmonic fundamental of the sound you're creating just allows for a lot more pleasant and "safe" synthesis journey
I tried to check it out but for some reason, I don't have it still, even with automatic updates turned. By the time they add it, I will have forgotten about it already. Bad job Ableton.
The whole premise of the Juno. To quote Dave Smith on synth design - “if I have two oscillators and a filter, and x amount of modulation, it’ll probably sound pretty cool”
This is almost a 1:1 software imitation of the Korg Minilogue. Wow! It sounds identical, and all the effects and logic layouts are suspiciously similar. The one thing the Minilogue doesn't have is the FM capabilities. I wouldn't be surprised if the Minilogue was their inspiration here...
The fact that this is in all editions is kinda nuts. I could totally see myself buying Intro instead of Suite when Live 12 comes out. I'm on the 11 Suite right now but I miss the constraints of Intro in a weird way.
I made some cool stuff on Intro, which I installed for some reason when I already owned standard. Being limited to 8 tracks helped my compositions a lot.
What I'm hoping for Ableton to do was update the Analog interface just like what they did with Electric and Collision to make it more accessible and easier to program. But having a new synth is better I guess. Drift would be nice for a Boards of Canada type of sound.
I like the design philosophy here. It doesn't try to do everything you can imagine a synth could do, like Pigments or Omnisphere. I own those and like them, but I don't really tend to just sit down and make sounds from scratch with those. The enormous feature-sets make the UIs a bit less inviting. Drift takes a fairly simple architecture and gives you some great hardware-like stuff like free-running oscillators, a filter that doesn't try to be every filter ever conceived but sounds good and saturates beautifully, and inherent instability as a central concept rather than something grafted on at the end. So far to my ear this captures a lot about analog hardware more successfully than most emulations... and yet it's not an emulation. I like that. And sophisticated mod stuff is quickly accessible, but not in a way that clutters the UI. Very elegant.
They finally made a move over the old v1. 2007 analog device! This sounds like how an expensive Moog staked with extra features. This is the way to go in the digital realm.
This synth is like if you mixed the prophet’s oscillator section with a Moog or prophet filter. The work flows are super similar in Drift compared to the real synths. The lfo modulation is one of my favorite features on this synth because it’s like a macro modulation for the LFO. 1:1 just makes so much sense
Second time I have posted this (on a different video). Reposting because I stand by my initial comments. I still refer most days to the courses Anthony makes. "Anyone watching this, its really worth checking out the seed to stage courses. I've learnt so much, although this was after I'd spend sooo much on plug-ins that "look pretty", because let's face it, that's why I bought them! I play solo gigs with a laptop that is by no means powerful and a MIDI controller in session view. by using stock plugins (that I now know how to use), I have no cpu OR latency issues. Seriously, use your cash on learning, you won't regret it. 3rd party plugins have their place, but the marketing is disgraceful. Too many RUclipsrs advocating them, and inexperienced users ie ME, believe they will dramatically improve your skill. The thing is, you need the SKILLS to make them work, by which time, you realise you've wasted your cash, because the stock ones do the same thing!"
Great video Anthony! Super excited to dig into drift when it releases. Just curious, how did you visualize the output waveform of the synth in this video?
Awesome video. I just started using it last night and without knowing half of what you just showed in this video I got some great sounds out of it that were surprisingly full. I have a prophet rev2 and a moog sub37 and I can tell you this instrument sounds just as warm and analog as those instruments do. Bravo to Ableton and thank you for this great demonstration. Cheer.
Honestly, I've actually been waiting for an Ableton device like this that is super simple and authentically behaves more like a classic analog synth. It looks like it will be very intuitive to map the different controls in such a way that you can do stuff like lead synth manipulations on the fly ala Jan Hammer and Bernie Worrell. I'm gonna have a lot of fun with this!
It's honestly getting to a point that you don't need anything more than the stock plugins, Roar is incredible, Hybrid Reverb, this too...
I followed along in Drift and the first few minutes I was like I'm probably not really going to use but by the end (and multiple hours later) I have like 3 song ideas and 9 presets. Love it!
Thank you for what you do! The amount of time, research, experimentation, and thoughtful post-production that you put into each of your videos is absolutely seen and appreciated. You’re a true educator who allows curiosity to lead your exploration and discovery. Incredibly generous knowledge sharing. Plus rad sonics! 🎹
Oh yeah, instant subscribe. I was onboard with using this synth as soon as you started explaining how it models the OG analog synths. Then the way you dig into all the specifics so that it's easy to follow along is just fantastic. Love it.
After ten years of using Ableton Live I’m more in love with it now than ever. This synth is simple and sounds absolutely amazing.
Same here .. 🙂
New Dark skin, colors and readability is actually amazing for the FIRST time 🤪
Idk. It sounds like a stock Logic synth from 5 years ago. I guess it’s nice to have that for Ableton to, but don’t most people just use their go-to third party synths anyway?
I think they would be better off trying to compete with Logic by imitating the spatial audio/Dolby Atmos stuff Apple is doing? That’s what it would take to get me to switch back, I think. It seems like that kind of sound innovation that Apple is invested in is the future. But maybe AI changes the game anyway?
@@79Glitch I don’t think so ! I associate it a lot with the new PolyMax by Universal Audio ! .. But even better! Sounds are great and UI is extremely simple/user friendly
@@79Glitch atmos is a fad. I use Ableton stock plugins more often than not
@@guidosc3470 Okay. Well, it’s not always accurate to base an opinion on RUclips. It’s certainly not too impressive in this format.
That funny thing is, pretty much everything in every DAW sounds good enough today to make good music with, so it’s just another tool to use.
11:56 ok imma go back to this after college. Tweaking it while watching it.
Amazing! This is a great surprise...and will teach me to read the release notes with every update. 🙂 Excited to start using Drift right away. Thanks for all your hard work getting this out there!
Oh yes that Stereo mode IS so pleasing, what a sound!
Live is always the king when it comes to workflow.
I have ableton live 10, and this is exactly what I'm looking for in a synth. I'll seriously consider upgrading.
Excellent thorough but to the point demo... Thank you! Fantastic sounding synth, nothing out of the ordinary in terms of features but the fact it sounds so good and it's in such a simple fun interface that is hard to mess up is a very smart and refreshing choice. Excited to explore Drift.
I am unbelievably excited for this. It’s so beautiful and will be very fun to use I think.
Nice of Ableton to make it available to a Live Lite nobody like me. I'm not a designer but I do like to tweak so I'm looking forward to seeing what presets other people come up with!
Wow im so excited for this instrument. Sounds amazing
Fantastic video, thank you. Look forward to checking out the rest of your channel.
I've been feeling Ableton's stocks are a programmer's dream but are overlooked by the exact audience that would love them.
Man, this sounds amazing.... and love the relative simplicity of use! Really reminds me of my Microfreak, but I'm sure in certain situations it will be awesome to have something similar with the greater degree of control of a virtual synth. It seems absolutely perfect for Melodic Techno, will try it out tomorrow!
Great overview. Looking forward to this update.
Some awesome low end sounds there, you made my day with the vid and synth. Thanks.
amazing how simple it looks, yet how deep it is. thanks for this tutorial. can't wait for this version to come out. ableton is awesome. 🙂
i'm going to learn this one deep, with great results.
Well done. What a sculptural tool they’re giving us!
It does have a lot of character to its sound. However, I wouldn't play it in place of my 2 or 3 vst mains. But will check it out to make sure I'm not missing anything.
Ableton synths are unique...Thanks for your great content man.
Sounds really good IMHO
Got to love Ableton ✌🏽 Can’t wait for this addition! Great overview too!
15:38 Whoa, this was amazing
I know very little about sound design, but this overview is very easy to follow. Thanks!
ok, I'm hyped
I recently signed up for your course - all four and I was looking at the Sound Design curriculum and noticed that Drift is not in there. I was really excited about that when you said you were adding it in this video to the course. What's going on with that?
Veeeery good video my man
Great demo fella. Drift sounds promising for sure
Really cool sounding! Def have to cop
Sounds great, love it
Great video again! Any idea when 11.3 might be publically available?
just wondering when does this synth will ever release
I believe you got the drift slider wrong. Looks like it changes the amplitude of the harmonic frequencies of the sound.
Sick! Love Ableton ❤️
it's neat when ableton releases new things inside of Live.
Can you please let me know the chord at 19:45?
It sound lovely, but does it consume unreasonably high amount of CPU for you guys (compared to other Live synths)? For me, almost every patch is like ~25%, whereas Analog,, Operator or Wavetable usually stay below 5%< occasionally making it up to 10%
It's killing me... what oscilloscope plugin is that?? anyone know?
Couldnt you do all with analog operator and wavetable,too? I dont get why so many synth? Can you show me what you can do with one you cant with another?
Towtallyy like owpra man
I can't find where do download it. Is there a link? I went to Ableton's website and couldn't find the download link.
This is neat! I hope at some point they'll invest more time and resources in making Live even more accessible towards pure editing/sound design, and by that, I mean more QoL tools/scripts that allow to save time while exporting multiple files at once, batch renaming, removing silence between many clips at once, better midi expression editing, more advanced search engine that include filters and metadata, things like that. I know it is much to ask for, but on the other hand I'd rather avoid having to invest time learning another DAW...just to save probably less time with my workflow.
Yeah i use audacuty for that shit rn, itd be lovely to have in live
software minilogue? :o
Basically!
What are you using in the background to monitor the waveform?
Inspiring!
Very nice!
I'm still on 11.2 :/ when does 11.3 drop?
Is this going to work with Ableton 10? id love to use it
Oh yeah ❤
It's awesome to have these features in a new synth. When is it released, or how can I get it? Amazing video.
You wait till Ableton releases Live 11.3
I love it!
Wow! Way to go, Ableton. Sounds interesting, Anthony. Thanks for the presets. 👍
@seed to stage, is that your tune ? where would you hide the full version ? :)
just something i made for the video. Maybe ill make it into a tune someday. I have so much EarthCry music I need to release! Trying to find the time as a new dad for it all :)
@@SeedtoStage thank you, looking forward to this one :) and congratulations :D
Isn't that just KORG_Minilogue_XD.vst? Crazy
Can I get drift without updating to 11.3?
where can i download it? i don t have it
Howcome I don't have Drift in my available downloads?
Thanks for this. It's going to be forever before I can DL and install 11.3 (I'm DL'ing Toontracks "Area 33" as well, ah......it's just too much to upgrade to fiber). But it gives me more money to buy things I'll really use! As far as "two oscillator synth" is concerned, who cares. Does it sound good? Sounds like it from your informative vid ;)
where can I find I it? I updated my Ableton and still no where to be found
( Got it I need to wait for the 11.3 update)
What is the square between the oscillator levels with the letter R in it? Is it retrigger or ring modulation?
Edit: It's retrigger
A glance in our direction would help you connect?
Nice
Awesome. I can not have enough synths. muahahah
I feel its nothing new really? You can do the same with operator or wavetable. Just a different workflow?
how you get 11.3?
It looks like an upgraded Analog.
im confused.. do i need to download the beta for 11.3? or is it available already in Suite?
beta
This is probably a weird comment to write as a random video, but this is the first video of yours I have seen in a while, and the quality seems to be on a whole new level. The mic, your tone and overall presenting style are just great.
It feels like the developers' modus operandi with this one was 'MUSICALITY', I am incredibly impressed with how musical this is. Can't wait for it to come out of beta!
Drift has so much depth and personality for how simple it is, and it's so refreshing to see a synth with opinionated / tasteful tweaks and stacking. It's so much better IMO than a typical synth that needs a ton of tweaking and automating to get it to sound ok.
Thanks for sharing!
That's the same reason I like digitone. Since it's an FM synth it can go into some pretty crazy directions, but these small decisions they make like having the detune not affect the harmonic fundamental of the sound you're creating just allows for a lot more pleasant and "safe" synthesis journey
I tried to check it out but for some reason, I don't have it still, even with automatic updates turned. By the time they add it, I will have forgotten about it already. Bad job Ableton.
Making a synth hard to sound bad is such a great idea. Makes a synth super reliable.
The whole premise of the Juno. To quote Dave Smith on synth design - “if I have two oscillators and a filter, and x amount of modulation, it’ll probably sound pretty cool”
might as well get auto tune and quantize everything perfectly too I guess?
@@smatchimo645 No, but it's possible to blow up your speakers with badly made synths.
This is almost a 1:1 software imitation of the Korg Minilogue. Wow! It sounds identical, and all the effects and logic layouts are suspiciously similar. The one thing the Minilogue doesn't have is the FM capabilities. I wouldn't be surprised if the Minilogue was their inspiration here...
Every setting sounds good - that's truly an incredible achievement. I want this on a hardware synth; and yes a MicroFreak comes close...
Dude the Microfreak is just awesome. I bought one a while back and I absolutely love it
The OG Korg Minilogue comes pretty close to this.
@@thealexxxxor and the microKorg
you'd want to look maybe to either novation peak or udo super 6
All my favorite hardware analog synthesizer tricks …. Drift does it.
The fact that this is in all editions is kinda nuts. I could totally see myself buying Intro instead of Suite when Live 12 comes out. I'm on the 11 Suite right now but I miss the constraints of Intro in a weird way.
Agreed. I might actually get to use this but I’m on Live Lite lol
I made some cool stuff on Intro, which I installed for some reason when I already owned standard. Being limited to 8 tracks helped my compositions a lot.
What I'm hoping for Ableton to do was update the Analog interface just like what they did with Electric and Collision to make it more accessible and easier to program. But having a new synth is better I guess. Drift would be nice for a Boards of Canada type of sound.
Excellent review and concise knowledge
it sounds very musical.
This seems pretty cool. Before you got to the FM possibilities, I was thinking the signal paths and parameters kind of reminded me of a Neutron.
I don’t think drift is that special, rather a basic synth
You’ll see
Sometimes that’s a good thing. The more basic, the more creative you can be.
I like the design philosophy here. It doesn't try to do everything you can imagine a synth could do, like Pigments or Omnisphere. I own those and like them, but I don't really tend to just sit down and make sounds from scratch with those. The enormous feature-sets make the UIs a bit less inviting. Drift takes a fairly simple architecture and gives you some great hardware-like stuff like free-running oscillators, a filter that doesn't try to be every filter ever conceived but sounds good and saturates beautifully, and inherent instability as a central concept rather than something grafted on at the end. So far to my ear this captures a lot about analog hardware more successfully than most emulations... and yet it's not an emulation. I like that. And sophisticated mod stuff is quickly accessible, but not in a way that clutters the UI. Very elegant.
guess it's alright but if you already have something like Diva...
They finally made a move over the old v1. 2007 analog device! This sounds like how an expensive Moog staked with extra features. This is the way to go in the digital realm.
It sounds really nice and warm. Ableton just nailed it! and it's free!! ...No paid subscription BS too.
Picking up all kinds of Kraftwerk Autobahn. And that's a good thing.
Thanks for the presets!
This synth is like if you mixed the prophet’s oscillator section with a Moog or prophet filter. The work flows are super similar in Drift compared to the real synths. The lfo modulation is one of my favorite features on this synth because it’s like a macro modulation for the LFO. 1:1 just makes so much sense
YES exactly. My OB6 is over in the corner getting nervous ;)
Was going to say the oscillators remind me of a prophet!
One filter is MS20 based, the other is a VA filter not modeled after any specific synthesizer but it's 12db
Second time I have posted this (on a different video). Reposting because I stand by my initial comments. I still refer most days to the courses Anthony makes.
"Anyone watching this, its really worth checking out the seed to stage courses. I've learnt so much, although this was after I'd spend sooo much on plug-ins that "look pretty", because let's face it, that's why I bought them! I play solo gigs with a laptop that is by no means powerful and a MIDI controller in session view. by using stock plugins (that I now know how to use), I have no cpu OR latency issues. Seriously, use your cash on learning, you won't regret it.
3rd party plugins have their place, but the marketing is disgraceful. Too many RUclipsrs advocating them, and inexperienced users ie ME, believe they will dramatically improve your skill. The thing is, you need the SKILLS to make them work, by which time, you realise you've wasted your cash, because the stock ones do the same thing!"
I can't believe I haven't seen this until now. The sounds this is producing is amazing, and its free??? Geeeeeez
I mean, you already pay for your updates, while I'm getting lifetime free updates from you know who.
@@DBTHEPLUGVoldermort?
@@Yeahrightttt Image-Line
this synth sound exactly like other synths there is nothing new here .
Great video Anthony! Super excited to dig into drift when it releases. Just curious, how did you visualize the output waveform of the synth in this video?
Does anyone know if this will be available to Live 11 standard users or will this be a Max for Live exclusive deal?
standard users 👍🏻
0:53 is this "i was only temporary" synth?
Awesome video. I just started using it last night and without knowing half of what you just showed in this video I got some great sounds out of it that were surprisingly full. I have a prophet rev2 and a moog sub37 and I can tell you this instrument sounds just as warm and analog as those instruments do. Bravo to Ableton and thank you for this great demonstration. Cheer.
I have the Prophet 08, probably my favorite synth I've ever owned. Played with Drift for 45 mins with my Push 2 and I can honestly agree with this.
Honestly, I've actually been waiting for an Ableton device like this that is super simple and authentically behaves more like a classic analog synth. It looks like it will be very intuitive to map the different controls in such a way that you can do stuff like lead synth manipulations on the fly ala Jan Hammer and Bernie Worrell.
I'm gonna have a lot of fun with this!
This Video really sells me on upgrading to 11 from 10.
Thank you for this great and literal Deep Dive.
Ableton's plugins are underrated. I get that you have to do a lot of work to make them sound great but it is all there