Sequence Infinite Patterns With MDD_____SNAKE
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- Опубликовано: 2 авг 2024
- Making music with MIDI is a wonderful thing, and Live’s MIDI Editor gives you a ton of flexibility for creating musical parts, but sometimes you need something a little different to get fresh ideas flowing. In the realm of hardware music-making, sequencers reign supreme and they present a slightly different approach to programming patterns. We can access these kinds of tools using many of the awesome MaxForLive sequencers available. In this video, I focus on one of my personal favourites, the free MDD_____SNAKE device.
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Hi 👋🏻 my name is Tom; I’m a music maker and Ableton Certified Trainer. I help people be more creative with Ableton Live. Download instruments and effects and watch tutorial videos at elphnt.io
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Im a huge Randomiser\Arp\Sequencer fan, just downloaded this and played around and immediately realised how INSANELY strong this is. This could be put into some flashy 3rd party GUI and be sold for $$$. But the maker decided to give it out for free... one of the best M4L devices out there for sure.
100%. The hardware sequencer it's based off of costs about 600 euros.
I love your creative production on your videos. Straight to the point and your animations makes it so easy to watch through. Thank you.
Thanks for such a clear, fun and inspiring tute Tom. It's really appreciated how much effort you have made in this (and your other) vids.
Lmao now I feel dumb for never touching max for live in all my 8 years of owning Ableton. Big Cheers man holy shit
lol, ouch !!!!
Lol same here ..
I just discovered it today!!!
Haha damn dude that's like half of Ableton if I wasn't using max4live and scale highlighting then I'd prob be on Bitwig
@@montyzuma9365 Same lol
Always very clean and informative, you sir are a real gem to this community. Thanks !
Thanks, this was an excellent resource to find. I really appreciate the way you explain the functionality, and then go deeper. So I am experimenting with sending the midi to an old synth thru Ableton. Thanks!
Thank you so much for your job. I find your videos very informative and useful! Keep it up, followers are really appreciate this I promise!
Amazing and free - great demonstration - thank you
Love this. I own a Rene mk 1 and this is like having a whole bunch of them clocked together + it's way faster to set up. Using it with my Expert sleepers interface so it's sequencing virtual instruments and my modular setup.
Be nice to have a second ( or third ) set of customisable parameters to assign, but apart from that this rocks.
So good ;)
Nice! Never even looked into the max for live stuff didn’t realize how powerful it is. This is an insane video
MaxForLive is amazing. Prepare to get lost in the rabbit hole 😁 If you wanna see some seriously cool shit, check out Isotonik Studios. Their stuff is mostly paid, but its the best around by far.
Yet another reason to get max for Live!!!
I love this series! Thank you.
Thank you! Great tutorial and product. Your videos are both engaging and interesting!
Thank you Thank you Thank you - This is a revelation to me!!
Excellent inspiration to start my day. Thank you!
Man I love how you can use clips to automate On & Off buttons, I was looking for something like that !
thank you for this! i've been waiting for someone to dive more in depth to max for live devices!
If there are any other MaxForLive devices you'd like to see explore, let me know - this is an ongoing series! 🤓
man this is the best seq ever!! Thanks man, from the heart :)
Every single video of yours is well thought out and useful.
Sounds great on the hats!
You are a great teacher,thanks man
So well done!
Great!!! Just playing with it. Thanks! Cheers from Madrid.
All Maxime Dangles are fun and free !!!! Also a great artist.
Hi,
I discovered your channel two days ago and what to say... the best channel for great real tips in ableton, no doubt! Deserved compliments!
Any lesson about how to create a groove with the drum sounds like those in this video? I noticed a 522... Everything sounds really soft and round... beautiful!
Thanks.
Bro this tutorial is a godsent thank you, from the bottom of my heart
Just wow
thats an amazing tool and an amazing tutorial
thanx!
Thanks! Awesome vid!
Great device! Thanks!
ELPHNT=EXCLNT...You are a great instructor. Thanks a lot for your videos ;-)
Exactly what i was looking for
So cool - thanks for the useful video!
You videos are the best man !!
These Maxforlive videos are super inspiring! On a side note, I noticed your cool & practical Ableton Categories on the left. I'd love to see you go over your Ableton organization/workflow. Thanks again, your work is awesome!
That's definitely a good topic for a future video! In the meantime, check out some of the comments on this Instagram post of mine - instagram.com/p/B0iySgPn3i7 - for some cool ideas 🤓
This would be amazing indeed!
@@mustbescud noted 😉
@@ELPHNT Hi ELPHNT, have you gotten around to this vid idea for Ableton Browser layouts? Cheers for a great channel, delighted I 'found' you..
@@EannaButler not yet, but it's on the list... amongst many other things! 😬
nice one! snake for midi and turing machine for my tiny eurorack. megafun. [subscribed]
I'm feeling some programmatic techno coming on 😈
Great work 👍🏻👍🏻
thx for ur vids! they help so much! keep on please!!
I love the example music in these videos
Thanks for your vids. I’ve moved from Logic to Ableton and am selling off most of my Eurorack modules. Keeping the gems and using cv tools.
Nice 💪
You're the best. thank you.
I feel like an idiot having previously passed this up on the M4L site. It provides so much more utility than I had expected, and the UI is very smart and clean. V rad.
In your defence, it does look fairly complex and intimidating. I almost passed it up myself, tbh 🙃
Thank you so much for this video! I immediately downloaded it and began having so much fun with it. I have been looking for something like this. I was considering buying a hardware sequencer but your video just saved me money. This device is AMAZING!!!
Haha, nice! 😎
Great tutorial!
Great videos!
Amazing video! Inspiring
Thank you for the videos
Really interesting tutorial!
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Love your videos anytime
Yeah! I have found this a while ago but then forgot. really cool device. Also from Maxime Dangles ;)
There might be a subtle difference between using the internal quantizer and using the scale plug in with regards to random note distribution. It's clearly visible in the c minor example. Some note vales have two 'slots' while others only have one, favoring the notes with two slots over the others.
Cool idea with the clips to turn on/off - it is an issue I was facing! Solved. Thanks.
amazing
I love it ... Tnks
very good!
Awesome dawsome 🔥💥
very cool neat vid, thx
this is soooo freakin cool ty
nice synth sound
This is very nice and useful sequencer.
Only thing I could wish for is to be able to store and recall snapshots.
Thanks for sharing this.
That would definitely be a super cool feature! You can leave comments on MaxForLive.com so maybe leave one letting the developer know that's something you'd like.
Perfect!!ThX ;-)
Awesome device! It kind of reminds me... Any way of adding a tab dedicated to setting up probability/trigger conditions values on each knob (step), somehow like what we find on most Elektron devices?
FL studio's step sequencer is a beast
Hard to believe there is no other way to make sequencers stop playing normally. It's so annoying. Thanks for your creative work around!
Wow
Really informative video. Anyone know what drum rack is being used?
nice
It is an awesome tool ideed. One warning though: It seems, as if using the Sequencer glitches with Abletons Undo/Redo Option. I accidentally deleted a group of instruments and audio tracks in Session View, but when I hit "Undo", it would only undo/redo adjustments I made to the Sequencer Plug-In. Don't know if everyone has this problem
Thanks for this mate ;)
Haha! The creator himself!! 🙌🏻🎉 Thanks for such an awesome device 🙏🏻😎👌🏻🤓🎉🕺
LOVE U
Ableton without Max Live is just like: Romeo without Juliet...
This is what I was looking for, thanks!
This is *almost* exactly what i've been looking for!
Is there a device like this that can perform these same pattern variations on pre-existing midi clips? I.e. I program a melody I like, but I want to create rhythmic variations to it by having the notes play in different orders.
wow
That's great. Thanks.
Would you share that bass rack ?
It's just something I threw together for the video, but you'll find similar sounds in my ANLG Live Pack: elphnt.io/live-packs/synths-vol-1-anlg. There's a free demo that has 4 monophonic (useful for bass and lead) sounds in it, and I think those will do the trick 😉
@@ELPHNT great I will get them :) thanks sir
Looks very nice, can this work within other DAW or just with Ableton?
Sorry, just Ableton 'cause it's a MaxForLive device. Check out the hardware it's based on from MakeNoise though - www.makenoisemusic.com/modules/rene - obviously that's a little more pricey, but it'd work with anything.
Amazing and Free this is a fucking Gem
This would be great with a 303! You've got your sequence, your gates, your accents... no need to be able to understand that outdated sequence anymore
Woohoo!
Oh, good idea. I'm buying a TD-3 next week. (Sounds of angry mob approaching...) I've been watching tutorials on the hardware sequencing, and I think I get it okay, but something like this could really mess shit up. For better or worse.
this makes me miss my rene time for a mk2
oh and I would love if you could advance the sequencer by midi note so one midi note receives one step advancement and the midi pitch could be an offset just thinking out loud
nice video, can anyone tell me what synth sounds / preset this is / or link me to a guide on how to create, thanks
hey ELPHNT how did you create folders in your favorites library? seems like a great way to organize your instruments.
You have to create the folders elsewhere in The Browser, for example in the User Library or the Places section. Then you can add those folders to Collections. I personally use the User Library.
Man I have been doing this for almost 15 years and still I get overwhelmed about all the plugins and instruments and whatnot available in Live. It is almost too much.
Imagine this integrated in ableton push. It would be like a big Rene. I would pay for something like that
It been upgraded with Push comparability.
I would follow you into battle bruh.
rene
Would you be able to use cv tools to get the gate and pitch outputted to a modular ?
Yes, definitely! The CV Instrument takes in MIDI data and sends out CV + Gate, so just stick SNAKE before the CV Instrument and set it up with your modular as per usual.
This plug-in is just amazing! Is it, somehow, possible to create 32 steps seqeunce?
You can get longer sequences by using the back/fore modes.
I'm having a problem with Snake. Sometimes when I'm doing random stuff in A bleton (changing parameters, moving clips, or even pressing save) the settings on the Snake randomly change so the arp rhythm is different, but all the settings actually appear the same as before, making it impossible to change it back unless you press undo. Its incredibly frustrating having to press undo all the time to reverse whatever glitch it is. Anyone have any pointers?
Thanks again for showing us how to do stuff! I have a question though. If there's a Rene plugin... Is there a 0-Control plugin? I want to buy the hardware unit to pair with my 0-Coast, but, you know, money etc. What attracts me most to the 0-Control is the timing options. The fact that you can adjust the timing and swing on a per-step basis. Is there a software option that replicates that?
Not that I'm aware of unfortunately 😢
@@ELPHNT Well, thanks for responding. I'm good to go to purchase the hardware unit next month, so it can just wait a few more weeks. Your video on MDD Snake was good to see though - I've downloaded it and will give it a go when I get a chance.
oh nice video thanks, i love that plug ! Is there any way to record the midi part of the custom sequencer ? I didn't figure it out . I only record the note, gate and velocity... thank you
If you're talking about capturing the MIDI data it generates, the best way to do that is to set up another blank MIDI Track, then at the Input set it to receive MIDI from the Track you've put SNAKE on. Then if you record onto that new MIDI track it will record the output of whatever SNAKE generates.
@@ELPHNTthank you for the answer. OK that s what i have done in fact but maybe i did it wrong. When I record the MIDI data from the snake onto a new MIDI track, I am able to capture the notes and the velocities informations but it doesn't capture the datas from the "custom" sequencer ... mmm sorry i dont know if it's clear :/
@@pilotkidz Ah, sorry, I see what you mean. There's no simple way to record that, unfortunately - you'll need another Max For Live device that lets you record that kind of information as automation. Here's one you could try - maxforlive.com/library/device/4507/automation-recorder - it looks like it costs $1 (not too bad) and it should do the trick.
Oh ok big thanks for your help !!! i ll try that.
Thanks for the video mate, can you share that bass instrument? 👍🏻
Pleasure 👍🏻 The bass is just Operator → square wave waveform → MS2 filter with a bit of Filter Envelope applied.
@@ELPHNT thanks a lot👍🏻
Is this compatible with Live 9?
I tried this yesterday. Is there some ableton/max device that would help keep a device like this only affecting a set range of notes, like 16 drum rack pads?
There might be a Max device that could do this, but I'm not aware of one unfortunately 😥
this thing is awesome but i just encountered a bug where this plugin prevents you from hitting "undo" in ableton 10. extremely frustrating. it somehow affects undo globally.
hi great vid, could you tell me how i get that Bass synth,love that sound..thanks dude
If I remember correctly, it's just a square wave with a low filter cutoff (around 250Hz) and a short, snappy filter envelope (probably somewhere around 500ms). Probably also using one of Live's analog filter models. I'm particularly partial to the MS2 one for bass sounds.
@@ELPHNT Thank you..
anyone know of a free non-mfl alternative? Loved using the snake w/ demo but can't find anything close to it (for free) that's available just as vst
is there any lengths? for example to do a slide on a 303? is it possible to record the notes on a midi channel?
Lengths, no. Record the notes on a MIDI channel, yes. Check out this video - elphnt.io/products/ableton-live-packs/ - to see an example of how you might do that.
Where can I get this beautiful LFO? I have some ugly now.
It's the new LFO in Live 10. You might still be using the old LFO from Live 9. So just make sure you've updated to 10 I guess.
Thanks again Tom. Great video. Question: I could not get the snake shapes in Live 11 or Live 10. All other features are the same even though the layout is a bit different with MDD___SNAKE_V3.2.3. I don't think they would eliminate this most distinctive feature which it is named for. Any ideas? I will contact Ableton but they are so busy at present with Live 11.
Not sure. Might be a bug. Just FYI, this device isn't made by Ableton so they won't be able to help. You'll be better off contacting the actual developer, which you can find via the maxforlive.con page for the device: maxforlive.com/library/device/4771/mdd-snaket
@@ELPHNT Thanks for the suggestion. I posted a comment on the developer's page. The previous post mentioned the same problem.
i just threw a beatstep out my window if anyone's interested.
your kidding right
What is the synth bass you use on this?
It's just a custom patch I made for the video. You'll find similar sounds in my ANLG pack though: elphnt.io/store/anlg/