Make an Awesome DAW Template With These Techniques!
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Hey friends! In this video I go through a bunch of tips and tricks for making your own music-making template, and show you how I've applied them to my own template! :)
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⏰ Timestamps:
0:00 - Intro
1:00 - What Should Be Included?
1:49 - Routing
2:54 - Groups & Busses
4:25 - Return Tracks
5:06 - Sidechain Setup
6:48 - Analysers
8:32 - Limiter
8:56 - Specific Sounds
10:01 - Shortcuts
10:57 - Additional Inclusions
12:41 - Keep it Simple
13:41 - Keep it Flexible
14:06 - Keep it Individual
15:09 - Different Templates
15:57 - Ever-changing
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Thanks Matt... I have found that I have gone back and forth from complicated to simple templates and have, since Live 12, landed on a few specifics that help my workflow better. My default template (when Live loads) is a very simple Session view that has 1 midi track @ -6db, 1 audio track @ -6db, and reverb(with a utility on it)/delay returns + a bounce in place bus, with span on the master - and that's it. This is what I like to call my idea playground. Then if I want to work it further, I can pull it into my standard Arrangement template, which is still pretty simple, but has a few more buses, including a mix bus, and more tracks that further divide up into bus sections for each. My default midi and audio tracks are all @ -6db. I also have a reference track (with a utility on it set @ -12db), a midi arrangement track for making colors, an SC trigger, a couple of BiP lanes, etc. I typically don't put anything on either of these templates master, except span. However, I have a saved rack for mixing, that I drop on my master, once I get there. Racks are so helpful! I typically do mix downs, as a second save of the project, so I can go back and fix things - so its important to save variations - I often do this and each track typically has versioning, as I am a nerd. Plus I can go back and listen again, after my ears have had a break. Finally, I have a mastering template, that I pull in my mixed bounce into and work from that. This mastering template has SmartLimit on a Pre-Master track (so its easy to turn on and off so I can triple check things on my headphones) and all of mastering chain on the master. Everything on my master is turned off when I load it, as I take an additive approach to mastering. I have kept all my complicated templates and still sometimes use one, but sometimes I wonder what I was doing, when I created that. Yes - I am constantly changing and evolving these templates. However - from the start, I like things to be really really simple, as I know what I need and all the clutter seems to slow me down, at the start. On a side note, I organize my Live projects by - Artist and then - 1. Ideas 2. InProgress 3. Working 4. Mastering 5. Completed 6. InTheWild. I keep versioning in each song's folder, so the whole folder moves from Idea to InProgress (still not a completed song) to Working (meaning its a complete song - but needs stuff or I am mixing) to Mastering to Completed to (not always) InTheWild. InTheWild is you guessed it - submitted if it is mine or back to whoever I am working with. I do not work with any labels - cause labels are bad, mmkay. When I say submitted - I have it on the streaming services earning my .1% of pennies. Not a clue why I submit them, other than for others to enjoy or hate, as it ain't about the money. I simply enjoy making music.
Awesome, this is super in depth!! Thanks so much for sharing your template ideas, I think I will definitely be taking some inspiration. :D
Thank you so much!!
An Ableton monitoring tutorial would be amazing❤
You're welcome!
Can you explain what you mean by a monitoring tutorial? :)
@@matttinklermusic Sorry I did not made myself clear. I meant a tutorial about how the diferent monitoring options (in, auto, off) affect the signal path. On virtual instruments and also when using sends and returns sometimes it gets confusing… thank you so much! You are the best!! ❤️
Oh I got you! I can definitely add this to my list of video ideas. :)
Your template is pretty similar to mine, only all my groups are sent to a premaster, no instruments are loaded up, and my processing is neutral and turned off until I need it, whether serial or parallel.
Also my master has ONLY metering plugins, that way if i resample audio its not hitting a master eq curve or limiter being double processed. but its self contained pre routing to the pre master where my limiter is.
Awesome! Thanks for sharing! :D