Ableton live demonstration how to#
Ableton live demonstration manual#

In the previous tutorial we worked in the Ableton Effect return channels and these require us to send our sound source off to the effects section – but the looper can exist anywhere, and its feedback insert feature relies on the track routing boxes – so lets begin making our turbocharged looper feedback loop. We can reshape the harmonics which make up waveforms so we can create a noise which moves from a sawtooth to a square wave (for example) carving the frequencies inside a loop We can put effects an EQ inside the feedback path, and use them to shape the sound. Iterative changes to the sound in the loop mean we can carve the sound harmonically by listening and changing to our requirements. In this feedback effecting loop any changes the changes are iterative, this means if we sweep a filter inside the audio feedback loop that filter sweep sound will come back around as feedback and we can layer different filter sweeps onto the looping sound. If you have followed the previous tutorial you’ll remember how we used a delay effect and inserted our own effects within the feedback path in order to shape the sound. “… allows you to, for example, create Looper overdubs that continually feed back

Ableton live demonstration manual#

In the Live manual there is a small and mysterious section regarding the looper entitled “22.21.1 Feedback Routing”.

The Ableton Looper device has an effect insert which enables us to place effects within the Looper feedback path. I will show how we can take a simple Sawtooth wave like this Īnd use loop frequency carving using only an EQ to boost and reduce harmonics, and a saturator to add related harmonics to turn that simple sound into something very different. In this tutorial we’ll look at carving the frequencies within a long loop to produce unique sounds.

Ableton live demonstration how to#

In the first in this series Feedback in Ableton Live – making a “dub delay”, we learned how to activate the feedback mode of Ableton Live’s effects return channels and to use Ableton devices to shape audio in a feedback loop, it might help you to read that tutorial before this one, but it’s not essential. This is the second in a series exploring the creative power of feedback in Ableton Live. In this Ableton tutorial we’ll take a look at the Ableton Looper and how a hidden feature can enable it to become more of a creative tool for producing unique pads and effects.