bro so many glide videos technically show you how to glide but always feel weak and like super stock, but this video finally gives me what i've been looking for, and its been like multiple years trying different techniques and never being satisfied, thanks!
Glad you found this helpful! I do have another method that isn't as in depth but works well for quick slides if you don't want as precise controls. It kinda works almost like the method in fl but slightly different. Could make a video on "the quickest method for ableton 808 slides" if that would help to. I'll often use the 2 in combination as the other way is quicker but the way on this video is more in depth
🤣 my bad..... it was literally the second video I ever recorded in my life. I wanted to thoroughly explain what I did and make a beat. I need to add chapters so that people can just skip to the information they want I think
@@skmakesbeats nah its fire bro. I literally just made my first ever drill beat to this tutorial and the thing is that when I came to watch this video I wasn't even expecting a tutorial, just a 808 guide 😂 keep up the hard work bro 💪
I also forgot top mention that you are literally one of the best Ableton RUclipsrs out there! whenever I search up tutorials, 90% of them are all FL studio so its great to have more Ableton goats like you🔥
@@dmzbeats9981 thanks! I appreciate that..... there's so many fl guys out there, and part of the reason i started making videos was to hopefully provide the same kind of help to ableton users
Glad it helped. I plan to do an updated video for ableton 12 at some point as there's a few faster ways then this that I find easier to... Although this way features the most control over the glides still
Fucking finally a definite, updated clear and concise video. I have been wasting so much time on that glide time bullshit before finding this. Liked and subbed.
Thanks.... yeah this is way better then the glide function, takes a little time to do though. If there's anything else you need help with lemme know and I can possibly make a video on it!
@@skmakesbeats i have previously tested the method you showed in this video (but like i said, the other videos i heard about the note expression method from were much worse than this). The problem was that since i suck at Ableton i was unable to judge which method is actually better. You know the good old Dunning-Kruger effect, when you know too little to be able to know what you dont know. Actually the thumbnail alone convinced me to click since there was a clear "this dude actually has an oppinion on which is better" feel with the X's over the glide time and extra notes. As a somewhat beginner this is something that bothers me about music in general. Since music is art, everybody is bought into the "nothing is correct/its preference/one is not better than the other" mantra. And i get it, but then its very hard for someone like me to know what i should spend my time on since everybody is afraid of taking a position. Yeah sure, i bet somebody could maybe disagree and make a good argument for the other method, but i appreciate that you have an oppinion and make reasonable arguments for it. Just some rambling thoughts. Im gonna let the good be shared and show this to my friend who has been struggling with the same problem.
Thanks I appreciate the share. This video was only my 2nd ever video I recorded (I have only been doing youtube for 4 months now). So the fact people find it useful really means a lot to me. I think the reason why there is so many pitch bend and glide method videos around is because the note expression tab was new for ableton 11 (which only released in 2021) so previously to that there was only the other ways. It does take a long time to do the glides in comparison to the way people do them inside FL studio, but the level of control on the note automation is amazing. I find this method works really well with a little practice......its also great for recording like long leads like westcoast synth leads.....or long strings and using it to pitch bend them melodically (think like old westcoast beats or like scott storch used to do with middle eastern style strings)
Yeah that's a fair point. This was literally the second video I've ever recorded, so I think I've learnt a fair bit since this video. If I were to make it again I think I would have the rest of the beat ready to go and just show the glides and the finish it from there. I will go back into this and add chapters today though to make it easier to navigate
@@darcsiderOps I have added chapters to make it easier to navigate..... In hindsight I could have structured this video better... It was literally the second video I ever made and was uploaded on the first day of my channel. But hopefully you got something out of it 😀
Thanks, glad you found it helpful..... This was a video that was uploaded on my first day of RUclips, it was the second video I ever recorded.... I think I've slowed down a little in my more recent ones.... Although I'm not so sure 😂
@@skmakesbeats it really helped me bro ive watched soooo many vids but came back to urs and was great cos ur actually passionate about making beats which helps ...keep going bro 100000% nuf respect from LONDON UK ✊🏾🙏🏾
Thanks...I'm glad that comes through in the videos. I do have a video on another (easier) way to do awesome glides in ableton, it doesnt give as much complete control as this way, but I use it for 90% of my glides....the YT algo never really picked up the vid so it went a little unoticed. ruclips.net/video/Exiw2qMmeXY/видео.html You can check it out here though
Hey my friend, awesome video, lot of extra tips as well! One question, how do I make the Semitone selection of the note expression go from semitone to semitone instead of cents??
@@1973asdf In live 12 you do it in the section labelled "MPE" and the automation in the clip should just snap up and down a note on the piano role depending on if your going up or down
HELLO I have ableton 11 and with the note expression i only have one bar selected and i cant seem to do a dot to dot with other notes like you could instead i have to hold alt and can only draw a messy line up.could you help ?
Hi, have you made sure that the grid is on a smaller division, for instance set your grid to 16ths or 32nds, you should then be able to place points on any section of the grid
@@skmakesbeats I tried changing it to 16ths and 32 but is doing the same thing. its only selecting one note which high lights the bar in grey and I cant glide it to the next note. so im very confused why it doesn't work. do I need to have a certain plug in ?
@@barrypeace9257 no, it's a feature built into ableton. You don't need 2 notes drawn just the one for each place you want an 808 slide and then when you click on the drawn note in note expression it just allows you to draw up and down from it. I do have an easier method for slides releasing in a video this evening 6pm BST though which might help
Hi thanks for the feedback. So basically if you go on your drum rack tracks (in the mixer view and expand it) and right click on each one you can select extract chain which will basically add that drum sample into its own drum rack on a seperate channel. if you this video from my channel (ruclips.net/video/d59-gv842TQ/видео.html) from the chapter labelled structuring you will be able to see how i do it, it happens about 10:50 in the video I am planning on adding this tip and many others as short form content to :D
Just to add a little more to that, after extracting them all i have then placed them into a gorup which i labelled as drums....by highlighting each individial one and selecting group tracks, then renaming the group to drums
I would like to know the same thing. there was a response on here last night I just didn't get to reading it all I was mad tired. what happened to those comments??
@@skmakesbeats It’s just me a guy who makes music - righting lyrics- MCing- creating content and trying being creative bro, I’m on my building process trying to do something creative you know… Thanks for asking bro
@@skmakesbeats And with that being said, I have some different characters / creators with different styles and content on going that I want to put out and why not collaborate with other creative people as well to finally get on the level of a label. P. S. I’m based in Greece, Sparta
That's cool, I would love to visit Greece one day. So much history I would love to see. If there's ever any beats you see in my videos you would be interested in using drop me a message over on Instagram
Thanks for the sub.... Hope the video helps. I actually found a different way of doing 808 glides which is a bit faster to ruclips.net/video/Exiw2qMmeXY/видео.html
What I like to do personally is have an ableton utility on every track by default with -6 gain I find this gives me enough headroom to get the kick to bang with a combination of transient shaping shaping and soft clipping and/or limiting.... if I were then to want the volume higher for a release I then use a combination of saturation, compression and limiting on the master until it hits the luf amount I'm aiming for with the dynamics I want
Working on the master channel as you suggest would you keep the utilities at -6db and take the gain from the master or turn them off? Thanks, I had the same question as the original comment.
@@Username-tw2li I don't remove any gain on my master channel, just on the individual channels to get headroom to level everything correctly without causing distortion. If you can get your mic correct the master is where you can bring the overall levels back up using things like compassion, soft clipping and limiting
I think a lot of the percs in this one if I remember right are actually sounds from splice. I do have a free drum kit dropping soon though that will have similar sounds that I have created specifically to use in my own beats
choosing the right 808 can be key, make sure it a long one. However I do have a much easier way that I discovered after this that I mainly use which you can see here ruclips.net/video/Exiw2qMmeXY/видео.html
@@hjkhhjkh3635 I believe that's murder melodies which is an effect plugin. The choir is from a plugin called heat up 3 by initial audio (the skin I use on it is green and black)
Did you switch before the note expression tab method became a thing or after? And what daw did you switch to? ....... I personally love ableton for a lot of reasons, and whilst I think glides are faster in FL I think the note expression can make more advanced ones even if it can take longer
Yeah I think people need to just find what fits they're work flow. For me personally there's things I would miss to much from ableton if I were to switch to something else. Fantastic music can be made in all modern daws........ can't say I wouldn't love a strum feature like fl has in ableton though!
No problem, and yeah I'm new though to youtube, only started this a few months ago, this was actually the 2nd video I ever made. Glad you got something out of it
Whilst there is a cook up in the video there ya a section explaining the glides I have added chapters to make it easier to navigate. The glides are at 6:04 In all honesty this could of been structured better, it was the second video I ever recorded (and that's recorded most just uploaded) so was completely new to me. But I'll take this into account for the future
Stupidly helpful! Ableton glide gang 🔥🔥🔥🔥
Thanks .... I love the note expression tab it's so sick
bro so many glide videos technically show you how to glide but always feel weak and like super stock, but this video finally gives me what i've been looking for, and its been like multiple years trying different techniques and never being satisfied, thanks!
Glad you found this helpful! I do have another method that isn't as in depth but works well for quick slides if you don't want as precise controls. It kinda works almost like the method in fl but slightly different. Could make a video on "the quickest method for ableton 808 slides" if that would help to. I'll often use the 2 in combination as the other way is quicker but the way on this video is more in depth
didn't think an 808 tutorial would turn into a "which plugins to use" video too 😂🔥
🤣 my bad..... it was literally the second video I ever recorded in my life. I wanted to thoroughly explain what I did and make a beat. I need to add chapters so that people can just skip to the information they want I think
@@skmakesbeats nah its fire bro. I literally just made my first ever drill beat to this tutorial and the thing is that when I came to watch this video I wasn't even expecting a tutorial, just a 808 guide 😂 keep up the hard work bro 💪
I also forgot top mention that you are literally one of the best Ableton RUclipsrs out there! whenever I search up tutorials, 90% of them are all FL studio so its great to have more Ableton goats like you🔥
@@dmzbeats9981 thanks! I appreciate that..... there's so many fl guys out there, and part of the reason i started making videos was to hopefully provide the same kind of help to ableton users
brother brother brother! *hugs* thanks so much for this man!!!
Thanks.... Hope it helps
Came for the 808 glide tutorial, stayed for the full track production. Kept my interest the entire time. Sick beat brotha!
Thanks I really appreciate that. This was one of my very first videos
Same here😂😂😂😂😂
Finally. The ONLY video that got me to 808 Glides. I have tried so many different ways, this one got me there. Thanks
Glad it helped. I plan to do an updated video for ableton 12 at some point as there's a few faster ways then this that I find easier to... Although this way features the most control over the glides still
Ditto
Thanks
Fucking finally a definite, updated clear and concise video. I have been wasting so much time on that glide time bullshit before finding this. Liked and subbed.
Thanks.... yeah this is way better then the glide function, takes a little time to do though. If there's anything else you need help with lemme know and I can possibly make a video on it!
@@skmakesbeats i have previously tested the method you showed in this video (but like i said, the other videos i heard about the note expression method from were much worse than this). The problem was that since i suck at Ableton i was unable to judge which method is actually better. You know the good old Dunning-Kruger effect, when you know too little to be able to know what you dont know.
Actually the thumbnail alone convinced me to click since there was a clear "this dude actually has an oppinion on which is better" feel with the X's over the glide time and extra notes. As a somewhat beginner this is something that bothers me about music in general. Since music is art, everybody is bought into the "nothing is correct/its preference/one is not better than the other" mantra. And i get it, but then its very hard for someone like me to know what i should spend my time on since everybody is afraid of taking a position. Yeah sure, i bet somebody could maybe disagree and make a good argument for the other method, but i appreciate that you have an oppinion and make reasonable arguments for it.
Just some rambling thoughts. Im gonna let the good be shared and show this to my friend who has been struggling with the same problem.
Thanks I appreciate the share. This video was only my 2nd ever video I recorded (I have only been doing youtube for 4 months now). So the fact people find it useful really means a lot to me. I think the reason why there is so many pitch bend and glide method videos around is because the note expression tab was new for ableton 11 (which only released in 2021) so previously to that there was only the other ways. It does take a long time to do the glides in comparison to the way people do them inside FL studio, but the level of control on the note automation is amazing. I find this method works really well with a little practice......its also great for recording like long leads like westcoast synth leads.....or long strings and using it to pitch bend them melodically (think like old westcoast beats or like scott storch used to do with middle eastern style strings)
u earned a new sub ty brotha
Hey... Welcome 😀
Didn’t need to watch you make a whole song just to get the glides man
Yeah that's a fair point. This was literally the second video I've ever recorded, so I think I've learnt a fair bit since this video. If I were to make it again I think I would have the rest of the beat ready to go and just show the glides and the finish it from there.
I will go back into this and add chapters today though to make it easier to navigate
@@skmakesbeats nice keep grinding bro
You could’ve simply stopped watching after the glide tutorial ended.
@@ekowcrent1246 talking about all the foreplay before the glide tutorial you banana
Not everyone is your genie dude
learned a lot from this video
thank you
Hi, glad it helped 😀
Fantastic tutorial with minimal fluff. I didn't think it would be this easy to do the glides btw
Thanks glad it helped.... There's actually a faster way that I found on this video here ruclips.net/video/Exiw2qMmeXY/видео.html
5 minutes in and i still havent heard an 808
shit, it took 6 minutes before an 808 was even mentioned
@@darcsiderOps I have added chapters to make it easier to navigate..... In hindsight I could have structured this video better... It was literally the second video I ever made and was uploaded on the first day of my channel. But hopefully you got something out of it 😀
@skmakesbeats it's definitely worth a watch, I think I just went in to it expecting something else, and thank you for your work
Your glides made me crazy > subbed ✊✌️ Never seen this technique before. Thanks for sharing this great stuff with us 👍
Thanks for the sub. I have another video on glides showing another technique which is a little faster to
ruclips.net/video/Exiw2qMmeXY/видео.html
Fire video!!!!🔥🔥🔥 Thanks for this! Love your workflow!
Appreciate it!
amazing and helpful video! beat turned out firee
Thanks
Finally somebody who does this shit on ableton. Btw fire ass beat 💯
Hey, hope the video helped
Killah!
Thanks
Fire tutorial. Somehow i make artpop but still love this stuff ❤
Thanks
crazy production sir love from india
✍✍
Thanks!
The kick 😮
My beats/mixes are so much cleaner now i think aswell
Amazing guide, thank you so much for this
Glad it was helpful!
Thank your for your service.
Thanks for watching
Nice. Thanks for sharing 👍
Thanks for watching
Thank you kind sir.
I appreciate you watching. Hope it helps
It’s crazy how effective this is vs glide on serum. I don’t understand why but ehh
As long as you can get the results your looking for in the end
Love the video, love your work, but please slow down.
Thanks, glad you found it helpful..... This was a video that was uploaded on my first day of RUclips, it was the second video I ever recorded.... I think I've slowed down a little in my more recent ones.... Although I'm not so sure 😂
BRILLIANT vid and beat making
Thanks. Crazy how well this video was received for my second ever video. Glad it's helped
@@skmakesbeats it really helped me bro ive watched soooo many vids but came back to urs and was great cos ur actually passionate about making beats which helps ...keep going bro 100000% nuf respect from LONDON UK ✊🏾🙏🏾
Thanks...I'm glad that comes through in the videos. I do have a video on another (easier) way to do awesome glides in ableton, it doesnt give as much complete control as this way, but I use it for 90% of my glides....the YT algo never really picked up the vid so it went a little unoticed.
ruclips.net/video/Exiw2qMmeXY/видео.html
You can check it out here though
@@skmakesbeats will check it out now
@@skmakesbeats can u put a link to it
Ahh..genius🔥👍🏼
Thanks hope it helped, I do have another video showing a different method as well which is a little quicker
fire BRO
fenc
Thanks ... I'm not sure what fenc means but I'll take the fire comment all day long.
Hey my friend, awesome video, lot of extra tips as well!
One question, how do I make the Semitone selection of the note expression go from semitone to semitone instead of cents??
Hello, thanks for watching.... Are you using Ableton 11 or 12? As they work slightly different. I made this video before 12 was released
@@skmakesbeats Im using Live 12 Lite!
@@skmakesbeats i can always type the value but its so annoying
@@1973asdf In live 12 you do it in the section labelled "MPE" and the automation in the clip should just snap up and down a note on the piano role depending on if your going up or down
@@skmakesbeats awesome! thanks so much for the answer my friend, love the videos!
HELLO
I have ableton 11 and with the note expression i only have one bar selected and i cant seem to do a dot to dot with other notes like you could instead i have to hold alt and can only draw a messy line up.could you help ?
Hi, have you made sure that the grid is on a smaller division, for instance set your grid to 16ths or 32nds, you should then be able to place points on any section of the grid
@@skmakesbeats I tried changing it to 16ths and 32 but is doing the same thing.
its only selecting one note which high lights the bar in grey and I cant glide it to the next note. so im very confused why it doesn't work. do I need to have a certain plug in ?
@@barrypeace9257 no, it's a feature built into ableton. You don't need 2 notes drawn just the one for each place you want an 808 slide and then when you click on the drawn note in note expression it just allows you to draw up and down from it.
I do have an easier method for slides releasing in a video this evening 6pm BST though which might help
Great video man. How did you get that drum rack view at 10:20 where all the drum rack tracks can be seen individually?
Hi thanks for the feedback. So basically if you go on your drum rack tracks (in the mixer view and expand it) and right click on each one you can select extract chain which will basically add that drum sample into its own drum rack on a seperate channel. if you this video from my channel (ruclips.net/video/d59-gv842TQ/видео.html) from the chapter labelled structuring you will be able to see how i do it, it happens about 10:50 in the video
I am planning on adding this tip and many others as short form content to :D
Just to add a little more to that, after extracting them all i have then placed them into a gorup which i labelled as drums....by highlighting each individial one and selecting group tracks, then renaming the group to drums
@@skmakesbeats makes sense. Thanks a lot man!
I would like to know the same thing. there was a response on here last night I just didn't get to reading it all I was mad tired. what happened to those comments??
Great job
Thanks
Dope Beat Bro!
Thanks!
Your handle intrigues me, can I know a little more? If you don't mind me asking are you a record label? Do you have artists etc?
@@skmakesbeats It’s just me a guy who makes music - righting lyrics- MCing- creating content and trying being creative bro, I’m on my building process trying to do something creative you know… Thanks for asking bro
@@skmakesbeats And with that being said, I have some different characters / creators with different styles and content on going that I want to put out and why not collaborate with other creative people as well to finally get on the level of a label.
P. S. I’m based in Greece, Sparta
That's cool, I would love to visit Greece one day. So much history I would love to see. If there's ever any beats you see in my videos you would be interested in using drop me a message over on Instagram
Hey Bro. Fire beat / Can you please share how can i find that bass sample dump wav?
Hey thanks......the Dump 808 is from Error the Producers 404 drum kit
thank you so much for sharing bro. you're so kind@@skmakesbeats
subscribed :)
Thanks for the sub.... Hope the video helps. I actually found a different way of doing 808 glides which is a bit faster to ruclips.net/video/Exiw2qMmeXY/видео.html
I’m having trouble gain staging my drum kicks and bass - any tips to keep them banging without loosing volume ?
What I like to do personally is have an ableton utility on every track by default with -6 gain I find this gives me enough headroom to get the kick to bang with a combination of transient shaping shaping and soft clipping and/or limiting.... if I were then to want the volume higher for a release I then use a combination of saturation, compression and limiting on the master until it hits the luf amount I'm aiming for with the dynamics I want
Working on the master channel as you suggest would you keep the utilities at -6db and take the gain from the master or turn them off? Thanks, I had the same question as the original comment.
@@Username-tw2li I don't remove any gain on my master channel, just on the individual channels to get headroom to level everything correctly without causing distortion. If you can get your mic correct the master is where you can bring the overall levels back up using things like compassion, soft clipping and limiting
man what drums did you use? the percs are sick where can I get it?
I think a lot of the percs in this one if I remember right are actually sounds from splice. I do have a free drum kit dropping soon though that will have similar sounds that I have created specifically to use in my own beats
Five videos and I still can’t figure it out did exactly same notes same note expression not even close 😔
choosing the right 808 can be key, make sure it a long one. However I do have a much easier way that I discovered after this that I mainly use which you can see here ruclips.net/video/Exiw2qMmeXY/видео.html
❤🔥❤🔥❤🔥
Thanks for watching!
what's the choir plugin big man?
The choir in this vid was from heatup3
@@skmakesbeats thanks geeza. Is it that white plug-in with the red sound wave in the middle? For some reason the name of the plug-in is blurred.
@@hjkhhjkh3635 I believe that's murder melodies which is an effect plugin. The choir is from a plugin called heat up 3 by initial audio (the skin I use on it is green and black)
@@skmakesbeats ok thank you 💪🏻
Bro i have left using ableton because of piano roll and 808 glides , still miss ableton!!
Did you switch before the note expression tab method became a thing or after? And what daw did you switch to? ....... I personally love ableton for a lot of reasons, and whilst I think glides are faster in FL I think the note expression can make more advanced ones even if it can take longer
@@skmakesbeats I switched after, im using fl happily, lot easier to create drums!!
Yeah I think people need to just find what fits they're work flow. For me personally there's things I would miss to much from ableton if I were to switch to something else. Fantastic music can be made in all modern daws........ can't say I wouldn't love a strum feature like fl has in ableton though!
@@skmakesbeats Respect & Subscribed!! Hope to see more😊😊
Thank you so much! I'm new to making videos but I have so many ideas going forward
how to make it on serum?
I don't make 808s on serum, but there are many guides on how to do this here on RUclips
I can’t find(
Mf’s are sleeping on you 😮 thanks for the guide
No problem, and yeah I'm new though to youtube, only started this a few months ago, this was actually the 2nd video I ever made. Glad you got something out of it
Dude explained nothing. It's just a cook up video.
Whilst there is a cook up in the video there ya a section explaining the glides I have added chapters to make it easier to navigate. The glides are at 6:04
In all honesty this could of been structured better, it was the second video I ever recorded (and that's recorded most just uploaded) so was completely new to me. But I'll take this into account for the future
Thanks man! I appreciate it, it's helpful. Another subscriber :)
Thanks! I really appreciate that