I didn't know you could group instruments like that and cycle through them so seamlessly. And the tip for automatically turning off the instruments when not in use is simply genius, and for someone like myself struggling with CPU on a low end macbook, it's immensely helpful! Thank you!
Joao Letelier that’s super cool to hear! For years I’ve also been trying to squeeze out the most I can out of my MacBook. I can also recommend (heartily) upgrading the main hard drive to an SSD (I even removed my DVD drive to add a second one later). This was an absolutely crazy improvement - but obviously only for macs from certain years. Thanks for letting me know it was helpful - really makes it worth making these videos! P.s. the (currently) free arrangement course might also interest you, in case you didn’t see it! WRKSHP.eu is the link 😌
This is the best Ableton tutorial I've seen. And I've seen a lot. This solves a huge problem I was having using Ableton in a live band setting.THANK YOU!
Hi Andri happy and healthy 2024...I'm trying (and failing) to drag multiple drum racks into instrument rack simultaneously. I have to do them one by one. Is there a way to drag multiple instruments to cycle through (not samples) with one drag simultaneously into my rack?
Bro I really like how you explain and your experience is gold .. can you post more of these videos ? I couldn't find another in this channel at least, only Push content, which til now I don't plan to buy. Take care!
Very grateful for the part around 22:34. The ability to turn off processing via chain selector is a game changer, and I never would have figured out the trick without this video. Thank you!
Great tutorial! :) I have a question - if I have an instrument inside my Instrument Rack that has some effects (like reverb or EQ), should I group them inside instrument rack and turn off the whole group or turn on/off each instrument/effect separately?
Hey Andri... I was trying to put together one of these racks cuz it's high time I cleaned up my workflow and your videos really inspired me to Marie Kondo my live sets . I had a question though. Say I have two instances of a VST synth in a rack. I map filter cutoff and resonance of both to Macro 1 and 2 of the rack. Is there any way of setting it up so tweaking one of them won't change the settings on the other? Say for example I want the default cutoff on Synth A to be closed and B to be open. Can it be set up in such a way that the knob shifts to the setting I last left it at rather than tweaking both simultaneously?
Tavish Music Official I have this question too. In session view, you can use dummy clips to control this but that requires a good deal of preparation. Perhaps there’s a Max for Live thing that does this?
Feedback is always nice when you produce content so I wanted to take a moment to say thank you for sharing this content. It was very well done, professional. The only thing you left out is that you have to create an Options.txt file in the preference folder of Ableton with the following, including dash for the item to appear in the menu. -EnableMapToSiblings=1 I had to Google why I could not find the Map To Siblings in my menu for I mistakenly thought maybe it was Copy Values to Siblings for it was the only item I had in my menu with the term Siblings but after about 45 minutes of trial and error I got the correct information and it worked like a Charm. I came across your tutorial trying to run different instruments out of the same VST, such as a Kontakt Instrument but using a different sound from the same Instrument or using Serum and having a certain sequence of sounds that I want to layer, playing the exact same sequence of notes but different sounds out of the same VST, layering them and building, so when song starts maybe only one instance of a sound, but after so many bars another instance of the same sequence of notes from the VST with a different additional sound playing same midi notes, adding as many sounds as I want to really layer the sounds playing that sequence of notes and I want to do this without too many tracks. I want the instances to appear in the clip section, layering the sequence clip after clip in the same track. Still not sure how to achieve this but loved what I did learn from your tutorial and want to express my gratitude.
Eric thank you so much for your warm words and taking the time to leave your detailed feedback. Indeed I forgot to include the options.txt part as (shame on me) I set it so very long ago that I had taken it for granted. The problem with RUclips videos is that it's not possible to edit them or update them very easily or clearly - which is what I do with the videos and content in my school WRKSHP.eu but I'll take this learning forward, as well as your kind encouragement. I struggled slightly to follow your explanation of the problem (which isn't a criticism, it's very hard to verbalise a lot of these things) - but there might be 2/3 angles to look at: 1) using internal MIDI channel settings of Kontakt to have different instruments respond to different channels. 2) seeing if the programme change messages in clips can be of any use in this context (they are powerful and often forgotten) 3) using an instrument rack's other options such as velocity and key-range settings, as well as the chain selector. They are much more powerful than people think. 4) for truly complex routings, you can use internal MIDI routing such as MIDI Pipe or on Mac the built in IAC driver. 5) drum racks are also a powerful place for triggering various things from one track (in combination with 4) or by bringing in multiple instrument racks to a drum rack. Hope some of that might inspire a solution or a way forward, and thanks again Eric
Hey so I know this is 6 months out, but if you still need an answer, or if anyone else is trying to do the same thing, I'm going to take a stab at solving this for you! So, from my understanding, you have a sequence of notes (melody, ARP, etc.) that, in the beginning of the song, is played by one instrument/instance of a VST. By the end of the song, it's played by multiple instruments/instances of the same or various VST(s). instead of having, say, 5 different tracks, for workflow purposes or organization purposes, you would like to have all these instances play on the same track and be triggered by different clips. So for example, one clip contains the sequence of notes with 1 instrument/instance, one clip contains the sequence of notes with 2 instruments/instances, etc. If this sounds like what you're trying to do, I have an answer for you! Step 1 - Create an instrument rack and put all instances/instruments on the rack Step 2- Open the chain section of the rack. Step 3- Instrument 1 (the first instrument to play the sequence), set the zone as 10-50. Instrument 2, the second instrument added to your sequence of notes, set the zone as 20-50. Instrument 3, 30-50; Instrument 4, 40-50; Instrument 5, 50. These numbers are arbitrary, I just used intervals of 10 so you can actually "see" the zones. Step 4 - Add in as many clips as you have instruments on the rack Step 5 - On clip 1, under the envelope section, select Instrument Rack and then underneath it, Chain Selector. Step 6 - Add in a value of "10" across the clip for clip 1. For clip 2, add in a value of 20. For clip 3, add in a value of 30, etc. That's it! So now, when you trigger clip 1, it will be playing only the first instrument off your instrument rack. When you trigger clip 2, it will be playing both instruments 1&2; clip 3 plays instruments 1,2,&3, etc. Then just add in the notes you want these instruments to play and you're all set. Hope this helps!!
@@adamschmidt1103 this is so underrated for new producers like myself this is the exact issue i was wondering about thank you so much for this explanation even a year after !
three years since then, corona and many other subjects are changing the world, live is at 11.3 and your tutorial is very usefull in autumn '23 - thank you
My pleasure, Shawn! Thanks for letting me know - but don’t feel embarrassed - there are so many little tips, tricks and hacks that once we know them we take ‘em for granted - but first we have to find them :)
So i just have one doubt, if you have several clips in this channel, launched automatically by "follow action", how do you automate the instrument change?
Good question Jaime. Just record some automation for the chain selector. This can even be just one “data point” in the automation, setting it to a constant setting. If you hold down the shift key while moving these automation points, it makes it slightly easier to move them by just a small amount. You can even use the same trick on Push to record in the chain selector position to a clip. Does that make sense?
@@AndriSoren yes! Perfectly, thanks for the reply. Also, if I may ask again, how do you set a default value for each instrument? So that when you choose it with the macro from the chain selector, it goes exactly to a specified configuration, and then from here start moving the values on live performances.
@@jamesmutan1 another good question / idea. When creating any kind of rack in Live, the moment you “save” the rack into your library, the settings of the macros at that moment are set as the default state of that rack. So if after moving a macro you later select a it and press delete (or hold delete on push and tap the macro knob) it will reset to the default setting. That said, Ableton Live sometimes behaves a little strangely in regards to macros that have been recorded into clips, though this is mostly when one is creating clips on the fly during a live performance. Using dummy clips to control the macros of other tracks / clips (ie using max4live) can also introduce some unexpected behaviour. For example live might sometimes “jump” a macro to the place it was set manually once the automation on the chain selector has run its course. I recommend testing whatever you set up to destruction before taking it live, in any case. There’s lots of amazing discussions like these within the Push Bible too, I should mention.
Hi everyone! I forgot to add that some of you may well need to activate the "map to all siblings" option in the option.txt file in order to use that time-saver. This is really simple to do - here's a video that covers that - ruclips.net/video/Xf2blyH2ddg/видео.html
@@GuidoGautsch Ah sorry! I will update the video with a little "card" that will appear while people watch - to avoid anyone else losing their marbles, hehe.
Andri Søren hi Andri. This is probably obvious to everyone, but you have to have the first instrument in the chain selected for the ‘Map to all siblings’ option to appear.
michael walsh this is a very useful pointer actually! Many things like this are easily forgotten - I didn’t cover this myself as it didn’t occur to me. Bravo!
Great video, you got a like and subscribe from me. I would like to know which knob on the push you map the chain selector to? I have an apc40 mkii, it feel like it would be a pain to have to look at the chain selector on the computer scree to make sure its enabling the instrument you want during a live performance.
Hi Aaron - Sorry for the slow response - I was too occupied launching the school! I always map the chain selector to the first macro knob (far left on Push) so that 1) it's harder to accidentally move it, as there is at least no knob to the left 2) muscle memory means I always move there to change instrument, on any rack 3) I never look at the computer screen - by keeping just 8 key macros in use for any device, I build up muscle memory and habits. I made a video about that here studio.ruclips.net/user/videoJcioRrnTszI/comments Hope that helps! Let me know!
You're the best teacher ever. I was thinking this video was for beginners and I learned a lot even if I use Ableton for many years now. Thank you so much!
You have not showed one thing: how do you change the instrument during a live gig? You keep clicking the chain knob with the mouse and cycle them until you get to the one you need? I am asking because you said at the beginnning that you do not need the mouse, neither the keyboard...?
Hello! I use Push for everything, together with my live setup called PLAYGRND (ruclips.net/video/plQ9F-0RmDw/видео.html) meaning I never need to touch the mouse or keyboard for Live performance or the vast majority of my producing.
Eye (and ear) opening. I’ve used chains for effects, but never thought to use them as instrument selectors. Thank you. Very much looking forward to the next steps.
Am I right in thinking that in order to use this technique with different instruments, you need to put *those instruments* in racks of their own in order to use map to siblings? Macro 1 of the master would then be mapped to Macro 1 of all the component instruments.
Fred Beecher that is definitely a way of doing it Fred - indeed once you get to using a variety of instruments in one rack, some gentle work-arounds are necessary. I tend to test it out on 2/3 different instruments, map them all individually, then group them, check it’s all working as I’d like it to and then start bringing in all the rest!
Just realized that the "-EnableMapToSiblings" is no longer supported in Live 11. I kept getting a Startup Error for the Options.txt file. Others no longer supported include: "-RewireMasterOff" and "-ThinningAggressiveness"
I will say this was the most useful time I spent today. You are awesome! Thank you for sharing this stuff. I have really learned a lot from this video!
Summerland Soundscapes that’s such a nice thing to read just before going to bed - send me off with a big smile :) Thanks for the kinds words, they give me energy to come back and do more!
Hi Marcus - I haven’t experienced that myself - I would bet it’s something to do with the instrument/vst you’re using - try switching it out for a standard ableton device and see if that helps?
Hi Andri! Cool tutorial! I have a question: If I right click and copy the parameters to all siblings, I don't have this option on mu Live Suite 10/ Any suggestions? Thanks!
Hello Vera! Sorry about that - do check the pinned comment here or the info text of the video - there’s one step I didn’t cover that you’ll need to follow to get the map to siblings option :)
Great tutorial. Andri is the master. I purchased his full Push2 course and now I am in love with the Push2 - and I'm only about half way through the course. Thank you so much for sharing this information in such an accessible way!
Don’t be sorry! It’s a method of having a large number of sounds at your fingertips, a little like on a physical keyboard or synth where there is a knob quickly through presets. Live doesn’t have this by default and Push’s own browser is less than ideal and almost unusable for a live performance situation. This technique helps keep us in flow, moving quickly, and avoiding menus.
Wow! Just ran across this video - AMAZING. I just subscribed. Can't wait to try this out. I already have a number of inspired ideas. Many thanks for the video... well done.
Thanks for the amazing tip to save cpu. It works smoother now. I want to map an "Arrow" Midi button from the EPiano to "next instrument". So when I press the button in a live performance, ableton will automatically select the next instrument. (In your video example: If BBass is enabled and I press the button, ableton would jump to Bit Growl Bass) How can I do so? Thanks, Greetings
Jeremy I couldn’t have answered it better myself! If you don’t need the multi instrument aspect then you can avoid using the external instrument rack. Thanks for your messages!
Thank you for uploading these tips.. Most I did, but a couple I did not know. The key question I have is regarding Push (Or indeed any other midi controller.) Have you managed to find a way of midi mapping the controller to the macros, but actually saving the cc mapping so that when you add one of those racks into a project, the midi mapping is still there? I'll be amazed and very thankful if you have.
Thanks a thousand times ! I am doing a live set, with very big instrument racks, and my CPU was suffering. The trick of putting the ON/OFF button to the chain selector is genius. Exactly what I was looking for !
Huge tutorial - there is a mr bill video where he uses a hocket technique using a compressor to mute the different sounds in a chain but this seems much more efficient! Thank you!
I am very new to Ableton Live. I will ofcourse take your word that this is useful in some way, but showing how it is in a real world situation would help. I did like the CPU saving effect and can see where that immediately is helpful. So you have instruments on different macro's between 0 and 127 do you implement them using midi. Is it mapped automatically when you record a song or are these used differently. Also if you have 2 overlaying a little say the first instrument 0 - 4 and the second 2 - 6 would the setting 2 or 3 play both overlaping sounds at the same time? I will find out by testing this later on Ableton Live so no real need to answer. I will endure to find a tutorial where this type of usage is shown practically so that I can understand how to use it effectively. Cheers for sharing...
Amazing tutorial! Do you know if there's a way to set up the instrument rack so that each chain responds to midi signals coming from different midi channels? One example would be to have your BBass only respond to midi signals from channel 1, Bit Growl Bass from channel 2 and BSeven Bass from channel 3
If you don't mind I just wanted this one to be clarified. Actually I have two midi track one with sd3 vst and another one with multiple drum rack in an instrument rack. In the 1st instrument drum rack.. Notes C#1 & D1 has chimes samples and C2 has a Tamb Loop. And in the 2nd midi track, I am using the SD3 instrument rack, where I have created multiple instances of the SD3 instrument to omit C#1, D1 & C2 for samples and loops to be triggered in the 1st Drum rack. Rest all the other midi notes will be triggered by the sd3. My question is, is this the way to do it or some other method to achieve what i wanted? Because the way I did will create multiple instances of sd3 vst (i.e 3 in my case) and this affects my cpu usage. and moreover this is for one song. Some other songs have samples and loops placed in different notes in drum rack. Earlier I used the mainstage for this where I can assign the drum pad to trigger which vst midi note needs to be played and it was working fine. But mainstage is not stable with loops. I am getting a slight delay with the playback plugin while triggering the loops. Please help me with this. Thanks.
hey andri, love your contents!!! but how do you auto-hide (cmd+opt+p) all vst instruments when loading your own custom super rack? right now, when loading a custom vst synth rack with 10x synth, they are all open and i have to manually hide them... any tips?
For me in order to turn instruments on and off with the chain selector I have to use inverse values. I use AU/VSTs as instruments. Everything work as you describe, but I have to put the top value of a blue block in the chain timeline to the Min value in the map and the bottom value of the blue block in the Max value. So if an instrument should be active between chain selector values 5-8, I enter 8 in the Min field and 5 in the Max field. That way the instruments turn on and off correctly. Beats me why. Am I doing something wrong perhaps?
Hi Andri, thanks so much for the device on/off hint, that saved me a lot of effort. I am currently creating an external Intrument selector rack where I can select all of my external gear (synth and drum computers). I also make use of the snapshot view to store each device as snapshot to be able to select via the name I gave the snapshot and each snapshot has the corresponding chain to the instrumet selected. Works well so far but I got some issues that the audio was audible in one channel from multiple synth also if only one chain for the specific synth was selected (maybe the range was to low? First synth 0-0, second synth 1-1, third synth 2 -2 ....). So with the device on/off mapping I think it should work as expected. I will check this out today. Many thanks for that!
Really useful man!... Can I ask, how would you go about organizing a full live set with, say, 12 songs... Would you do the composing process on a separate set or would you do it all on one single set? If the former, would you just drag and drop your song to your full live set?... I've tried that but it's too time consuming and I was wondering if there's a simpler way to do it... thx so much for sharing!... best regards
I have Ableton 10 Suites and there is no Map to all siblings option. A quick google has a few different methods of adding the options.txt file with the EnableMapToSibilings script but I'm apparently doing it wrong. A proper explanation here would be great as this instrument rack you are explaining is exactly what I need.
I understand the instrument chain rack, but…is there a way to do it using my already eatablished Reason rack without having to manually save every patch from the rack and bring it into Ableton? The only way I can figure is to have 60+ racks open for every custom patch. I am in a variety cover band by the way, hence the high number of patches.
Hi Andri, Thanks for your nice video and I am using Ableton Live 10 Intro. So there is no Map to all siblings, but I managed to copy them. I think Live 10 Intro version it is not available.
Great video. A lot of awesome info explained very well. One thing you could add to your videos if you haven’t started already, and that’s examples of situations that you’d use a setup just like this. I’m not really seeing why you would go to all this extent to do this when I believe there’s other ways to have those 3 instruments open to play. But, I’m somewhat new to this. Having to reach for the mouse to get to that one dial to switch instruments only to go too far and accidentally select the one you don’t want. Seems kind of finicky. But, that’s what these vids are all about. Learning Ableton. Thanks again, How to…well explained.
Hi Andri, thank you for this amazing video!! I have a question though : Can you map midi with an instrument rack so you can select one of the instruments of the midi rack with a pad of a midi controller, then an another instrument with another pad? I have a really hard time trying to do this... Thank you
Excellent tutorial. Gave me a better understanding of how to create an Instrument rack. Easy to understand. Do you have tutorials creating instrument racks for those instruments that already have chains created for example a "Organ Chimes and Dimes" to combine with other keyboard or organ instruments. Thanks
If switching through instruments and presets is your thing, Cantabile is worth looking at. It is much deeper and more customisable than Ableton for this sort of thing, and you get text feedback of which instrument / preset you have selected rather than just a chain select number. Unfortunately there is no sequencer, so it's really more oriented towards live sets and jamming.
Ah! Does it integrate with Push well? By that I mean the text feedback appears on Push’s screen somehow? Did a quick google but didn’t come up with much.
@@AndriSoren not as far as I'm aware, unless you are very proficient at hacking your Live! You can get Cantabile to switch presets / instruments via CC and then send back the names of preset and instruments via sysex. Then you program a midi controller yourself (Arduino Leo with some encoders and a display) to interface with Cantabile. If you want to integrate Ableton, you would have to route midi from Ableton to Cantabile. If your soundcard allows it, you can also route audio from cantabile back to Ableton to complete the loop, now you essentially have Cantabile as an external instrument which is totally controlled via the Arduino. I did all this over winter (the things lockdown will do to you...). Not even sure if it was worth in the end, time will tell if I keep this current setup!
@@cs7160 oh wow! That’s indeed beyond my capacity or tenacity! It’s brilliant that you’ve been able to make it work though, bravo. For now I’m hoping for eventual improvements to Live/Push/VST browsing, although those hopes are getting pretty dusty 😅 Thanks for sharing though 🙏🏻
@@AndriSoren Nice to hear. This is very "easy to follow" and useful tutorial. Btw, "Mapped to all siblings" was missing in my Ableton Standard 10.1.30 (?). Is this some kind of hidden feature?
@@robertgrabowski2265 sorry it is indeed a custom feature - which I really unfortunately forgot to mention in the video - kick myself regularly for that! Do check the video I’ve mentioned in the pinned comment and the video description - this explains how to turn it on. In Live 11 it’s now a default feature.
I have been using this technique for years now and it all went ultra smooth. But last month I created a rack with 16 drum racks and it takes like a year to load. And once I have it loaded in the project adding and moving becomes sluggish. As it ever happened to you? Is there a way to fix it ?
Hi Andri, great video! I haven’t used this feature before, despite being a long time Ableton user so thanks for the great tutorial. Question about the chain values though - you mention that you want 1 instrument per every 5 values (0-4, 5-9 etc) but is there a specific reason you chose that range? I would think its easier to map them to every 1 value so the brain remembers that each value step equals a different instrument. But maybe there is a reason you like extra headroom in case you want to adjust the fade slider (top bar you mention in the chain ranges)? Thanks!
Hey Mark, happy to have helped! I chose that range here for no particular reason > but < usually I use a range of 2 or 3 per instrument, simply because Push’s encoders are so sensitive that it’s too easy to accidentally nudge the knob while performing and accidentally change the instrument. For a production setup, 1 instrument per value is fine, although with many computers you still start to struggle if you have many tracks and many super instrument racks. What is true is that due to the manual mapping of on/off values you do ideally want to set it once and not change it later on, or generally use the same numbering logic for multiple racks. Hope that helps!
Great and super clear ! Would you think it is too heavy to make a video like « start to finish » based on one of your RUclips video performance ? From preparing setup to playing it live with push 2. Keep on going ! Newsletter subscribed, of course
is it possible to do this automaticallty for an entire scene? Let's say each scene represents a different song, and each track is a verse/chorus. So song 1 will have different instruments than song 2.
When you are performing a piece does it work better to have assigned each instrument to a single number in the chain or to a range (like the three groups of five in your example)? Push 2 shows the exact number as you turn the control and it might be easier to associate that with a particular instrument, but that may be too much fine tuning during a performance. I’m sure you will cover questions like these in your course, but as I experiment it seems like a fair amount of busy-work to change this after the fact. Thanks!
map to all siblings is not visible on my Ableton setup when doing exactly the same as your tutorial. Im running latest version of suite. Any timeframe in the course? Thanks!
Hi MAM - sorry about that - check the video description for info on map to siblings. Silly oversight on my part. I had the unexpected pleasure to travel across Europe for a project for the last three weeks (reopening Europe on Facebook etc) so everything got delayed. I am now not feeling my best, to be honest, so I’ll rest and recover, and hope to push it out as soon as I can. Thanks for the interest!
Andri Søren Opening facebook is never good for your brain. Sorry you feel that way. Take some rest and time. Editing the option txt file in Ableton is not working for me in the latest Ableton version. On launch Ableton gives a message and ignores it. For now i will just map 1 instrument and then duplicate it one by one. Not as quick but still a lot quicker. Get well soon!
I've been building racks for a while, but the way in which you've standardized these was a revelation! Really smart, well done video. Quite useful, practical information for making the most of Live.
This is great, you can also automate the chain selector too so when u change song your instrument sound is set up automatically. One thing is I can't figure out is u can't automate macro variations. So if u messe with all the dials and mess up the sound , I'm trying to find a way to get back to a default sound without manually clicking the macro variation.
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Totally worth watching, even when on ableton for 10+ years. Great way of explaining things
I didn't know you could group instruments like that and cycle through them so seamlessly. And the tip for automatically turning off the instruments when not in use is simply genius, and for someone like myself struggling with CPU on a low end macbook, it's immensely helpful! Thank you!
Joao Letelier that’s super cool to hear! For years I’ve also been trying to squeeze out the most I can out of my MacBook. I can also recommend (heartily) upgrading the main hard drive to an SSD (I even removed my DVD drive to add a second one later). This was an absolutely crazy improvement - but obviously only for macs from certain years.
Thanks for letting me know it was helpful - really makes it worth making these videos!
P.s. the (currently) free arrangement course might also interest you, in case you didn’t see it! WRKSHP.eu is the link 😌
This is the best Ableton tutorial I've seen. And I've seen a lot. This solves a huge problem I was having using Ableton in a live band setting.THANK YOU!
Greg I can’t tell you how much your words mean, really! Lovely to hear that it was helpful, and good to boot! You have my thanks in return 🙏🏻
Read my mind. Good god
Hi Andri happy and healthy 2024...I'm trying (and failing) to drag multiple drum racks into instrument rack simultaneously. I have to do them one by one. Is there a way to drag multiple instruments to cycle through (not samples) with one drag simultaneously into my rack?
Bro I really like how you explain and your experience is gold .. can you post more of these videos ? I couldn't find another in this channel at least, only Push content, which til now I don't plan to buy. Take care!
Very grateful for the part around 22:34. The ability to turn off processing via chain selector is a game changer, and I never would have figured out the trick without this video. Thank you!
Great to hear! It changed so much for me too, when I first found it.
Awesome info and tips. I really enjoyed and learned alot. Thank you!
Great tutorial! :) I have a question - if I have an instrument inside my Instrument Rack that has some effects (like reverb or EQ), should I group them inside instrument rack and turn off the whole group or turn on/off each instrument/effect separately?
Hey Andri... I was trying to put together one of these racks cuz it's high time I cleaned up my workflow and your videos really inspired me to Marie Kondo my live sets . I had a question though. Say I have two instances of a VST synth in a rack. I map filter cutoff and resonance of both to Macro 1 and 2 of the rack. Is there any way of setting it up so tweaking one of them won't change the settings on the other? Say for example I want the default cutoff on Synth A to be closed and B to be open. Can it be set up in such a way that the knob shifts to the setting I last left it at rather than tweaking both simultaneously?
Tavish Music Official I have this question too. In session view, you can use dummy clips to control this but that requires a good deal of preparation. Perhaps there’s a Max for Live thing that does this?
Aaaand here we go. Kind of: www.ableton.com/en/packs/kapture/#?item_type=free
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So many 🤯 discoveries on this video and comment section . I’m so happy I stumbled on it. Thanks for sharing this max for live trick @@captainbleep
Great video man, even for semi-pro user! thanks! :))
From INDIA 🤘👌 thanks it helps me
Feedback is always nice when you produce content so I wanted to take a moment to say thank you for sharing this content. It was very well done, professional. The only thing you left out is that you have to create an Options.txt file in the preference folder of Ableton with the following, including dash for the item to appear in the menu.
-EnableMapToSiblings=1
I had to Google why I could not find the Map To Siblings in my menu for I mistakenly thought maybe it was Copy Values to Siblings for it was the only item I had in my menu with the term Siblings but after about 45 minutes of trial and error I got the correct information and it worked like a Charm.
I came across your tutorial trying to run different instruments out of the same VST, such as a Kontakt Instrument but using a different sound from the same Instrument or using Serum and having a certain sequence of sounds that I want to layer, playing the exact same sequence of notes but different sounds out of the same VST, layering them and building, so when song starts maybe only one instance of a sound, but after so many bars another instance of the same sequence of notes from the VST with a different additional sound playing same midi notes, adding as many sounds as I want to really layer the sounds playing that sequence of notes and I want to do this without too many tracks. I want the instances to appear in the clip section, layering the sequence clip after clip in the same track.
Still not sure how to achieve this but loved what I did learn from your tutorial and want to express my gratitude.
Eric thank you so much for your warm words and taking the time to leave your detailed feedback. Indeed I forgot to include the options.txt part as (shame on me) I set it so very long ago that I had taken it for granted. The problem with RUclips videos is that it's not possible to edit them or update them very easily or clearly - which is what I do with the videos and content in my school WRKSHP.eu but I'll take this learning forward, as well as your kind encouragement.
I struggled slightly to follow your explanation of the problem (which isn't a criticism, it's very hard to verbalise a lot of these things) - but there might be 2/3 angles to look at:
1) using internal MIDI channel settings of Kontakt to have different instruments respond to different channels.
2) seeing if the programme change messages in clips can be of any use in this context (they are powerful and often forgotten)
3) using an instrument rack's other options such as velocity and key-range settings, as well as the chain selector. They are much more powerful than people think.
4) for truly complex routings, you can use internal MIDI routing such as MIDI Pipe or on Mac the built in IAC driver.
5) drum racks are also a powerful place for triggering various things from one track (in combination with 4) or by bringing in multiple instrument racks to a drum rack.
Hope some of that might inspire a solution or a way forward, and thanks again Eric
Hey so I know this is 6 months out, but if you still need an answer, or if anyone else is trying to do the same thing, I'm going to take a stab at solving this for you!
So, from my understanding, you have a sequence of notes (melody, ARP, etc.) that, in the beginning of the song, is played by one instrument/instance of a VST. By the end of the song, it's played by multiple instruments/instances of the same or various VST(s). instead of having, say, 5 different tracks, for workflow purposes or organization purposes, you would like to have all these instances play on the same track and be triggered by different clips. So for example, one clip contains the sequence of notes with 1 instrument/instance, one clip contains the sequence of notes with 2 instruments/instances, etc. If this sounds like what you're trying to do, I have an answer for you!
Step 1 - Create an instrument rack and put all instances/instruments on the rack
Step 2- Open the chain section of the rack.
Step 3- Instrument 1 (the first instrument to play the sequence), set the zone as 10-50. Instrument 2, the second instrument added to your sequence of notes, set the zone as 20-50. Instrument 3, 30-50; Instrument 4, 40-50; Instrument 5, 50. These numbers are arbitrary, I just used intervals of 10 so you can actually "see" the zones.
Step 4 - Add in as many clips as you have instruments on the rack
Step 5 - On clip 1, under the envelope section, select Instrument Rack and then underneath it, Chain Selector.
Step 6 - Add in a value of "10" across the clip for clip 1. For clip 2, add in a value of 20. For clip 3, add in a value of 30, etc.
That's it!
So now, when you trigger clip 1, it will be playing only the first instrument off your instrument rack. When you trigger clip 2, it will be playing both instruments 1&2; clip 3 plays instruments 1,2,&3, etc. Then just add in the notes you want these instruments to play and you're all set. Hope this helps!!
@@adamschmidt1103 this is so underrated for new producers like myself this is the exact issue i was wondering about thank you so much for this explanation even a year after !
three years since then, corona and many other subjects are changing the world, live is at 11.3 and your tutorial is very usefull in autumn '23 - thank you
Thank you in return my friend! Really nice to see this video keeps helping :)
I came for a few tricks, but damn son... You gave me a paragraph.... Amazing
This might be my comment of the year 😀
Thanks for spreading the knowledge
awesome. thank you. pretty embarrassed how much time I've wasted not using that "siblings" button
My pleasure, Shawn! Thanks for letting me know - but don’t feel embarrassed - there are so many little tips, tricks and hacks that once we know them we take ‘em for granted - but first we have to find them :)
So i just have one doubt, if you have several clips in this channel, launched automatically by "follow action", how do you automate the instrument change?
Good question Jaime. Just record some automation for the chain selector. This can even be just one “data point” in the automation, setting it to a constant setting. If you hold down the shift key while moving these automation points, it makes it slightly easier to move them by just a small amount. You can even use the same trick on Push to record in the chain selector position to a clip. Does that make sense?
@@AndriSoren yes! Perfectly, thanks for the reply. Also, if I may ask again, how do you set a default value for each instrument? So that when you choose it with the macro from the chain selector, it goes exactly to a specified configuration, and then from here start moving the values on live performances.
@@jamesmutan1 another good question / idea. When creating any kind of rack in Live, the moment you “save” the rack into your library, the settings of the macros at that moment are set as the default state of that rack. So if after moving a macro you later select a it and press delete (or hold delete on push and tap the macro knob) it will reset to the default setting.
That said, Ableton Live sometimes behaves a little strangely in regards to macros that have been recorded into clips, though this is mostly when one is creating clips on the fly during a live performance. Using dummy clips to control the macros of other tracks / clips (ie using max4live) can also introduce some unexpected behaviour. For example live might sometimes “jump” a macro to the place it was set manually once the automation on the chain selector has run its course.
I recommend testing whatever you set up to destruction before taking it live, in any case. There’s lots of amazing discussions like these within the Push Bible too, I should mention.
Great vid and tips thank you very much
Hi everyone! I forgot to add that some of you may well need to activate the "map to all siblings" option in the option.txt file in order to use that time-saver. This is really simple to do - here's a video that covers that - ruclips.net/video/Xf2blyH2ddg/видео.html
Thought I was going crazy until I saw this comment - thanks :D
@@GuidoGautsch Ah sorry! I will update the video with a little "card" that will appear while people watch - to avoid anyone else losing their marbles, hehe.
Andri Søren hi Andri. This is probably obvious to everyone, but you have to have the first instrument in the chain selected for the ‘Map to all siblings’ option to appear.
michael walsh this is a very useful pointer actually! Many things like this are easily forgotten - I didn’t cover this myself as it didn’t occur to me. Bravo!
Great video, you got a like and subscribe from me. I would like to know which knob on the push you map the chain selector to? I have an apc40 mkii, it feel like it would be a pain to have to look at the chain selector on the computer scree to make sure its enabling the instrument you want during a live performance.
Hi Aaron - Sorry for the slow response - I was too occupied launching the school!
I always map the chain selector to the first macro knob (far left on Push) so that
1) it's harder to accidentally move it, as there is at least no knob to the left
2) muscle memory means I always move there to change instrument, on any rack
3) I never look at the computer screen - by keeping just 8 key macros in use for any device, I build up muscle memory and habits. I made a video about that here studio.ruclips.net/user/videoJcioRrnTszI/comments
Hope that helps! Let me know!
You're the best teacher ever. I was thinking this video was for beginners and I learned a lot even if I use Ableton for many years now. Thank you so much!
Thibault thank you so very much! I’m really touched, and grateful in return.
How do you "enable" that siblings option....mine does not work....
Hi @Cary Sohl! There's a video about this here - ruclips.net/video/Xf2blyH2ddg/видео.html
You have not showed one thing: how do you change the instrument during a live gig? You keep clicking the chain knob with the mouse and cycle them until you get to the one you need? I am asking because you said at the beginnning that you do not need the mouse, neither the keyboard...?
Hello! I use Push for everything, together with my live setup called PLAYGRND (ruclips.net/video/plQ9F-0RmDw/видео.html) meaning I never need to touch the mouse or keyboard for Live performance or the vast majority of my producing.
Eye (and ear) opening. I’ve used chains for effects, but never thought to use them as instrument selectors. Thank you. Very much looking forward to the next steps.
Thanks Andri, I appreciate it
Am I right in thinking that in order to use this technique with different instruments, you need to put *those instruments* in racks of their own in order to use map to siblings? Macro 1 of the master would then be mapped to Macro 1 of all the component instruments.
Fred Beecher that is definitely a way of doing it Fred - indeed once you get to using a variety of instruments in one rack, some gentle work-arounds are necessary. I tend to test it out on 2/3 different instruments, map them all individually, then group them, check it’s all working as I’d like it to and then start bringing in all the rest!
Hey Andri! Got my first Push 2 today. So I'll be rewatching alot of your tutorials again. :) All the best.
Oh nice! Congrats man!! :)
AMAZING!!!!!! Just what I was looking for! and so well explained.... like & suscribed😉
what‘s that cursor magnifier you‘re using called?
Cursor Pro (Mac)
Just realized that the "-EnableMapToSiblings" is no longer supported in Live 11. I kept getting a Startup Error for the Options.txt file. Others no longer supported include: "-RewireMasterOff" and "-ThinningAggressiveness"
It’s now been quietly added to the contextual menu if you right-click a mapped parameter, in 11.
@@VentureNW Thanks for letting me know.
WOW...Had I known this feature exist in Ableton, I wouldn't have purchased the CR8 sampler by Waves....Thank you for the info, much appreciated....
great vid. very helpful. cheers.
I will say this was the most useful time I spent today. You are awesome! Thank you for sharing this stuff. I have really learned a lot from this video!
Summerland Soundscapes that’s such a nice thing to read just before going to bed - send me off with a big smile :)
Thanks for the kinds words, they give me energy to come back and do more!
Very helpful thanks!
Hey so when I switch through with the chain selector there is some terrible midi hang. Do you know of a way to kill that?
Hi Marcus - I haven’t experienced that myself - I would bet it’s something to do with the instrument/vst you’re using - try switching it out for a standard ableton device and see if that helps?
Thank you so much for sharing your awesome knowledge. Excellent tips for a beginner like me.
To get kind comments in return like yours makes it all worthwhile Kayden! Thank you, and good luck on your journey :)
well it is one of the best tutorial i ve seen ...Great explanation thank you very much
Music to my ears my friend! Thank you in return for the kind words
Excellent video and great info thank you sir.
GBailey my pleasure! Thanks for commenting 🙏🏻
Hi Andri! Cool tutorial! I have a question: If I right click and copy the parameters to all siblings, I don't have this option on mu Live Suite 10/ Any suggestions? Thanks!
Hello Vera! Sorry about that - do check the pinned comment here or the info text of the video - there’s one step I didn’t cover that you’ll need to follow to get the map to siblings option :)
@@AndriSoren thank you Andri!
Really awesome tutorial, Andri, answering lots of questions I always had, regarding instrument racks!
You just killed the shit bro 💚💚💚. Thx soooo much!!
🙏🏻🙂
Great tutorial. Andri is the master. I purchased his full Push2 course and now I am in love with the Push2 - and I'm only about half way through the course. Thank you so much for sharing this information in such an accessible way!
Thank you very much for the useful info. It will be nice if you can come up with how to use Omnisphere in multi output mode in the instrument rack.
@Ozzie Nugara thank you in return for your message. That’s an interesting suggestion - let me add it to the to do list!
Sorry, newbie here, but what is the point of doing all this?
Don’t be sorry! It’s a method of having a large number of sounds at your fingertips, a little like on a physical keyboard or synth where there is a knob quickly through presets. Live doesn’t have this by default and Push’s own browser is less than ideal and almost unusable for a live performance situation. This technique helps keep us in flow, moving quickly, and avoiding menus.
Brilliant! Thank you :)
Thanks a million, it helped me a lot. You are a great teacher!
My warm thanks in return! Glad it could help 🙏🏻
Wow! Just ran across this video - AMAZING. I just subscribed. Can't wait to try this out. I already have a number of inspired ideas. Many thanks for the video... well done.
Thanks for the amazing tip to save cpu. It works smoother now. I want to map an "Arrow" Midi button from the EPiano to "next instrument". So when I press the button in a live performance, ableton will automatically select the next instrument. (In your video example: If BBass is enabled and I press the button, ableton would jump to Bit Growl Bass) How can I do so? Thanks, Greetings
Very comprehensive! Great tutorial!
Thank you Gijs! Nice to see you here, and glad it was of use! 🤗
Wow! Are those the Marcos you map to your 8 Push knobs?
Absolutely! And they map to Push automatically :)
Excellent!! very useful; Thanks
My pleasure, Diego! :)
Great tutorial! Thanks for all the Tipps! Keep going on with this tutorials, tips and tricks videos.
Wow map to all siblings. Thanks
Really useful tutorial
Thanks Andre. A question: can you Chain plugin instruments (eg Kontakt) in Ableton using this method?
Ah, here you go: www.soundonsound.com/techniques/using-kontakt-ableton-live
Jeremy I couldn’t have answered it better myself! If you don’t need the multi instrument aspect then you can avoid using the external instrument rack.
Thanks for your messages!
Thank you for uploading these tips.. Most I did, but a couple I did not know. The key question I have is regarding Push (Or indeed any other midi controller.) Have you managed to find a way of midi mapping the controller to the macros, but actually saving the cc mapping so that when you add one of those racks into a project, the midi mapping is still there? I'll be amazed and very thankful if you have.
The birth of PLAYGRND?
Oh absolutely :)
Great tutorial with super tips! Ultra clean ( like the studio )
Thank you so much Andri
Thanks a thousand times ! I am doing a live set, with very big instrument racks, and my CPU was suffering. The trick of putting the ON/OFF button to the chain selector is genius. Exactly what I was looking for !
My pleasure my friend! Good luck with the set and the rest!
Huge tutorial - there is a mr bill video where he uses a hocket technique using a compressor to mute the different sounds in a chain but this seems much more efficient! Thank you!
thank you Jean-Francois! 🙏🏻
I am very new to Ableton Live. I will ofcourse take your word that this is useful in some way, but showing how it is in a real world situation would help. I did like the CPU saving effect and can see where that immediately is helpful. So you have instruments on different macro's between 0 and 127 do you implement them using midi. Is it mapped automatically when you record a song or are these used differently. Also if you have 2 overlaying a little say the first instrument 0 - 4 and the second 2 - 6 would the setting 2 or 3 play both overlaping sounds at the same time? I will find out by testing this later on Ableton Live so no real need to answer. I will endure to find a tutorial where this type of usage is shown practically so that I can understand how to use it effectively. Cheers for sharing...
Thank u ! I’ve been looking for exactly this method for cycling through instruments
Amazing tutorial! Do you know if there's a way to set up the instrument rack so that each chain responds to midi signals coming from different midi channels?
One example would be to have your BBass only respond to midi signals from channel 1, Bit Growl Bass from channel 2 and BSeven Bass from channel 3
This is just what I was looking for. Thanks for the video, really instructive and very well explained. Thanks!
Wonderful! Thanks for letting me know, and for the kind words 🙏🏻
Thank you, Sir
If you don't mind I just wanted this one to be clarified.
Actually I have two midi track one with sd3 vst and another one with multiple drum rack in an instrument rack.
In the 1st instrument drum rack..
Notes C#1 & D1 has chimes samples and C2 has a Tamb Loop.
And in the 2nd midi track, I am using the SD3 instrument rack, where I have created multiple instances of the SD3 instrument to omit C#1, D1 & C2 for samples and loops to be triggered in the 1st Drum rack.
Rest all the other midi notes will be triggered by the sd3.
My question is, is this the way to do it or some other method to achieve what i wanted?
Because the way I did will create multiple instances of sd3 vst (i.e 3 in my case) and this affects my cpu usage. and moreover this is for one song. Some other songs have samples and loops placed in different notes in drum rack.
Earlier I used the mainstage for this where I can assign the drum pad to trigger which vst midi note needs to be played and it was working fine.
But mainstage is not stable with loops. I am getting a slight delay with the playback plugin while triggering the loops.
Please help me with this.
Thanks.
truly excellent teacher. He seems to be reading my mind for each and every explanation, always satisfying my curiosity. Thank you so much
hey andri, love your contents!!! but how do you auto-hide (cmd+opt+p) all vst instruments when loading your own custom super rack? right now, when loading a custom vst synth rack with 10x synth, they are all open and i have to manually hide them... any tips?
For me in order to turn instruments on and off with the chain selector I have to use inverse values. I use AU/VSTs as instruments. Everything work as you describe, but I have to put the top value of a blue block in the chain timeline to the Min value in the map and the bottom value of the blue block in the Max value. So if an instrument should be active between chain selector values 5-8, I enter 8 in the Min field and 5 in the Max field. That way the instruments turn on and off correctly. Beats me why. Am I doing something wrong perhaps?
Lightbulb moment video. Genius and inspirational. Thank you
Hi Andri, thanks so much for the device on/off hint, that saved me a lot of effort. I am currently creating an external Intrument selector rack where I can select all of my external gear (synth and drum computers). I also make use of the snapshot view to store each device as snapshot to be able to select via the name I gave the snapshot and each snapshot has the corresponding chain to the instrumet selected. Works well so far but I got some issues that the audio was audible in one channel from multiple synth also if only one chain for the specific synth was selected (maybe the range was to low? First synth 0-0, second synth 1-1, third synth 2 -2 ....). So with the device on/off mapping I think it should work as expected. I will check this out today. Many thanks for that!
Really useful man!... Can I ask, how would you go about organizing a full live set with, say, 12 songs... Would you do the composing process on a separate set or would you do it all on one single set? If the former, would you just drag and drop your song to your full live set?... I've tried that but it's too time consuming and I was wondering if there's a simpler way to do it... thx so much for sharing!... best regards
I have Ableton 10 Suites and there is no Map to all siblings option. A quick google has a few different methods of adding the options.txt file with the EnableMapToSibilings script but I'm apparently doing it wrong. A proper explanation here would be great as this instrument rack you are explaining is exactly what I need.
Great video! great tips, well explained, THANK YOU!
Excellent video. More techniques for CPU preservation would be nice. The one you showed was great.
I understand the instrument chain rack, but…is there a way to do it using my already eatablished Reason rack without having to manually save every patch from the rack and bring it into Ableton? The only way I can figure is to have 60+ racks open for every custom patch. I am in a variety cover band by the way, hence the high number of patches.
Hi Andri, Thanks for your nice video and I am using Ableton Live 10 Intro. So there is no Map to all siblings, but I managed to copy them. I think Live 10 Intro version it is not available.
Great pro tips!
Excellent video, thank you. The CPU trick is super appreciated!
Great video. A lot of awesome info explained very well. One thing you could add to your videos if you haven’t started already, and that’s examples of situations that you’d use a setup just like this. I’m not really seeing why you would go to all this extent to do this when I believe there’s other ways to have those 3 instruments open to play. But, I’m somewhat new to this. Having to reach for the mouse to get to that one dial to switch instruments only to go too far and accidentally select the one you don’t want. Seems kind of finicky. But, that’s what these vids are all about. Learning Ableton. Thanks again, How to…well explained.
Hi Andri, thank you for this amazing video!! I have a question though :
Can you map midi with an instrument rack so you can select one of the instruments of the midi rack with a pad of a midi controller, then an another instrument with another pad?
I have a really hard time trying to do this...
Thank you
After investigating this, apparently I need to enable map to siblings in a TXT file in app data. I can't make it work. Any ideas for windows 10?
I knew of using chains, but loved the multi use macro knobs, map to siblings, and turning off devices. Any way to do this with Kontakt?
Excellent tutorial. Gave me a better understanding of how to create an Instrument rack. Easy to understand. Do you have tutorials creating instrument racks for those instruments that already have chains created for example a "Organ Chimes and Dimes" to combine with other keyboard or organ instruments. Thanks
If switching through instruments and presets is your thing, Cantabile is worth looking at. It is much deeper and more customisable than Ableton for this sort of thing, and you get text feedback of which instrument / preset you have selected rather than just a chain select number. Unfortunately there is no sequencer, so it's really more oriented towards live sets and jamming.
Ah! Does it integrate with Push well? By that I mean the text feedback appears on Push’s screen somehow? Did a quick google but didn’t come up with much.
@@AndriSoren not as far as I'm aware, unless you are very proficient at hacking your Live! You can get Cantabile to switch presets / instruments via CC and then send back the names of preset and instruments via sysex. Then you program a midi controller yourself (Arduino Leo with some encoders and a display) to interface with Cantabile. If you want to integrate Ableton, you would have to route midi from Ableton to Cantabile. If your soundcard allows it, you can also route audio from cantabile back to Ableton to complete the loop, now you essentially have Cantabile as an external instrument which is totally controlled via the Arduino. I did all this over winter (the things lockdown will do to you...). Not even sure if it was worth in the end, time will tell if I keep this current setup!
@@cs7160 oh wow! That’s indeed beyond my capacity or tenacity! It’s brilliant that you’ve been able to make it work though, bravo. For now I’m hoping for eventual improvements to Live/Push/VST browsing, although those hopes are getting pretty dusty 😅
Thanks for sharing though 🙏🏻
Salut Andri, tu était mon prof à la SAE, good to see you here !
Salut Julian! Chouette à te revoir aussi :)
Awesome tips and tricks! And well explained! Thank you for that
awesome video. I'm so new with Ableton, like maybe a week. This video was so easy to follow. Did you ever make the drum rack video? Thanks!
@Andri Søren any ideas on how to adjust chain selector using keyboard macros rather than a MIDI knob to adjust it?
Hi, I would call chain for a "sound layer". There multiple sound layers can have individual settings and be used (or played) as a new single "sound".
Definitely a way of looking at chains and using them - a good descent option Robert!
@@AndriSoren Nice to hear. This is very "easy to follow" and useful tutorial. Btw, "Mapped to all siblings" was missing in my Ableton Standard 10.1.30 (?).
Is this some kind of hidden feature?
@@robertgrabowski2265 sorry it is indeed a custom feature - which I really unfortunately forgot to mention in the video - kick myself regularly for that! Do check the video I’ve mentioned in the pinned comment and the video description - this explains how to turn it on. In Live 11 it’s now a default feature.
I have been using this technique for years now and it all went ultra smooth. But last month I created a rack with 16 drum racks and it takes like a year to load. And once I have it loaded in the project adding and moving becomes sluggish. As it ever happened to you? Is there a way to fix it ?
I have been looking for months to a CPU solution. Thank you so much! Subscribed
Hi Andri, great video! I haven’t used this feature before, despite being a long time Ableton user so thanks for the great tutorial. Question about the chain values though - you mention that you want 1 instrument per every 5 values (0-4, 5-9 etc) but is there a specific reason you chose that range? I would think its easier to map them to every 1 value so the brain remembers that each value step equals a different instrument. But maybe there is a reason you like extra headroom in case you want to adjust the fade slider (top bar you mention in the chain ranges)? Thanks!
Hey Mark, happy to have helped! I chose that range here for no particular reason > but < usually I use a range of 2 or 3 per instrument, simply because Push’s encoders are so sensitive that it’s too easy to accidentally nudge the knob while performing and accidentally change the instrument. For a production setup, 1 instrument per value is fine, although with many computers you still start to struggle if you have many tracks and many super instrument racks.
What is true is that due to the manual mapping of on/off values you do ideally want to set it once and not change it later on, or generally use the same numbering logic for multiple racks.
Hope that helps!
Awesome that all makes sense. Thanks for the reply!
@@AndriSoren was wondering the same :) Great video !!!!
Great and super clear ! Would you think it is too heavy to make a video like « start to finish » based on one of your RUclips video performance ? From preparing setup to playing it live with push 2. Keep on going ! Newsletter subscribed, of course
is it possible to do this automaticallty for an entire scene? Let's say each scene represents a different song, and each track is a verse/chorus. So song 1 will have different instruments than song 2.
Thanks buddy, guitar player here who does a solo thing and needs to be able to play some keys sounds here and there.
:)
When you are performing a piece does it work better to have assigned each instrument to a single number in the chain or to a range (like the three groups of five in your example)? Push 2 shows the exact number as you turn the control and it might be easier to associate that with a particular instrument, but that may be too much fine tuning during a performance.
I’m sure you will cover questions like these in your course, but as I experiment it seems like a fair amount of busy-work to change this after the fact. Thanks!
map to all siblings is not visible on my Ableton setup when doing exactly the same as your tutorial. Im running latest version of suite.
Any timeframe in the course? Thanks!
Hi MAM - sorry about that - check the video description for info on map to siblings. Silly oversight on my part.
I had the unexpected pleasure to travel across Europe for a project for the last three weeks (reopening Europe on Facebook etc) so everything got delayed. I am now not feeling my best, to be honest, so I’ll rest and recover, and hope to push it out as soon as I can. Thanks for the interest!
Same for me.
Andri Søren Opening facebook is never good for your brain. Sorry you feel that way. Take some rest and time.
Editing the option txt file in Ableton is not working for me in the latest Ableton version. On launch Ableton gives a message and ignores it. For now i will just map 1 instrument and then duplicate it one by one. Not as quick but still a lot quicker.
Get well soon!
I've been building racks for a while, but the way in which you've standardized these was a revelation! Really smart, well done video. Quite useful, practical information for making the most of Live.
:)
This is great, you can also automate the chain selector too so when u change song your instrument sound is set up automatically.
One thing is I can't figure out is u can't automate macro variations. So if u messe with all the dials and mess up the sound , I'm trying to find a way to get back to a default sound without manually clicking the macro variation.